Whenever I think it's just too difficult to be a writer...

...I need to re-read this article:

Christy Nolan: Unable to talk, walk or use his hands, he was confined to a wheelchair– but his intellect was unimpaired. He wrote by using a special keyboard; to help him type, his mother often held his head in her cupped hands while he painstakingly picked out each word, letter by letter, with the aid of a rod, or "unicorn stick," attached to a headband which allowed him slowly to tap out words on a typewriter...