A thing that I learned

Writing a children's book, and writing in general, is much harder than I thought. I, like my students, have always assumed that the goods will just flow forth when the time is right and BAM! Henceforth a book. It is not so. Writing is a process. Duh.
This might be one of the reasons that I enjoy blogging- I don't have to think about what I write or revise it at all. I vomit it out onto the Internet and people read it or they don't and that is that. Going back to what I write is terribly painful. Reading your work means hating it. Almost immediately I hate it all and want to start over, or worse, quit, burn it, and go drink a beer.