The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.
“I make no bones about it, I'm a product of my upbringing and of the time I was brought up, so I'm not going to pretend not to be.”
“There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.”