Will

I wouldn't say writing is hard, but it does take time and more work than you'd expect.

It takes finesse and patience. Actually, both pratices do. However, drawing takes more in knowing how light, shading, etc works and how that interacts with objects, and a lot of spacial reasoning. Where as writing you need to be able to bring out emotions and evoke what a drawing does, with words. Neither craft can be really compared to the other as they as very different mind spaces.