Commentary: Hard vs. Easy
Dear reader(s), I’m fond of the expression “Once you’re 90% of the way done, there’s only the other 90%.” This is because, as a writer, I must be bad at math in order for the cosmic balance to be maintained, for the same reason that Ryan Reynolds must secretly have something wrong with him, I don’t know. Maybe he likes bread-and-butter pickles. Something. It’s also because, as it turns out, doing things is harder than you’d think. What kinds of things? Most of them, as it turns out. However! There is also a cosmic balance in the difficulty of things, in that for every hard thing, there must also be a corresponding easy thing. However! This is less helpful than you might think. I’ve come up with some examples: Hard: Getting out of bed early in…
