Id say “A” :) because nothing bad is happening they’re just waiting for the lottery
I would say A) festering. process of elimination can exclude b and d. So between a and c, a works best.
I think that the easiest one for me to do is publishing because it makes me excited to see people read it. The hardest is prewriting. It takes a lot of time when I could just write it edit it and publish then be done. One way I think would make this easier is to just skip prewriting and to just write.