I never thought that writing could be so hard; even webpages are easier to write - ones this simple, anyway. However, stories prove more of a challenge.

Just over a year and a half ago, I had never completed a book beyond the first couple of chapters. So getting as far as a complete first draft was rather a surprise, especially as I was writing at the same time as completing my Standard Grades (GCSE equivalent) and Highers (AS equivalent) as well as trying to finally complete a sequel to film that had been dragging on for four years.

Writing is easy compared to the next stage, editing, seeing as I have now spent almost twice as long editing than writing, and I am nowhere near to completion. Secondly, editing, when it has dragged on for this long, seems to take all the joy out of writing. Unlike editing for a film, where you shape the film into final order, editing for writing is like taking your masterpiece and squashing and shredding and adding. At least with writing you can conjure up a scene with ink and paper; with film you struggle out again with camera in hand.

There is something magical about each medium, one result created in privacy, one created between a whole group of people working together - it is impossible to fully compare the two. Or say which I prefer, though, as I am studying Film and not Literature, I think it is perhaps easier to tell ...