The objective of this research is to find out the difficulties that were experienced by tenth-grade students in learning to write and the factors that influence students' difficulties in writing. This research uses a quantitative descriptive research method. The subjects of this research were the tenth-grade students of MA Ash-Shalihin. The researchers used a questionnaire to collect data, with a total of 22 students as respondents. The research results showed that based on the questionnaire on students' difficulties in writing, the most dominant difficulties faced by students are writing anxiety (23.1%), lack of motivation (14.6%), content problems (13.1%), mechanical problems (12.3%), problem organization (10.8%), lack of self-confidence (10.8%), grammatical problems (10%), and the lowest is sentence structure problems (5.4%). The most influential factors faced by students in writing are inadequate time (35.3%), lack of practice (27.5%), lack of learners’ motivation (19.6%), the nature of the writing process (13.7%), and the lowest is teacher’s feedback (3.9%). The findings of this study are expected to contribute to supporting the teaching of writing.