If you are having fun writing it, you must be doing something wrong . . .

Isn't that the Tao of the suffering artiste?

Longeye gave me So Much Grief, I think I've earned a fun book.

And while I think you can write a good book even though you're pulling every sentence out through your nose -- for instance, I think Longeye is a good book -- I don't think Crunchy Goodness in a book is directly related to Suffering.