I keep thinking about the students I've had whe see narrative design and writing as the thing for people who can't draw, program, compose, etc. This is how much we have devalued writing as a creative skill. This is also how you do a disservice to yourself as a writer.
Writing is an art that takes tons of training and practice to learn well and develop speed for, just like drawing or composing. I forget this sometimes until I sit down with someone who does not have the near decade of practice I do and realize that everything I find trivial or second nature is non-obvious.
Writing of any kind is as close to the metal of ideas as you can get. It is the assembly language of art. This makes it incredibly powerful because of how much control it offers. But also incredibly difficult for the same reasons. When you are at the level of debating over using a synonym for something because English hates repeated words or using the same word over because nothing else gets the idea across as well, that is the nature of writing. Language is your pallet and you need to want to explore it and be surprised by its implications.