Goodreads asked Michele Tracy Berger:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Michele Tracy Berger Writing (the actual practice of it) is solitary. It means you’re in your head a lot. Many times, you’ll want to hang with friends, check Facebook, or doing anything besides write, especially something that will deliver instant gratification which writing doesn’t often do. It takes time to develop the capacity to gather the ideas, try a few out, reject some, try more on and keep going. You have to face self-doubt, inner and outer critics. It is also hard getting rejected, even though all writers face that and continue to face that process even after being successfully published. The rewards are many: you are able to communicate an idea that people value and love—and think about it, writing is about making black marks on the page, yet we learn about the human condition through writing. It feels like magic sometimes. I love stories, storytelling, novels and most forms of the written word, so being able to engage in something I love has intrinsic rewards.

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