Goodreads asked Jeffrey Frank:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Jeffrey Frank It's hard for me to answer this because I write fiction and non-fiction. But I can say that writing narrative non-fiction is the easy part--the hard part is researching and fact-checking the material, which ends up leaving me with a great historical puzzle. The writing is trying to solve the puzzle--or puzzles.
There are many great things about writing fiction--the chance to try to understand things, and the chance to use language to express ideas and emotions. That's also the worst thing about being a writer--it's so easy to screw it up!

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