Goodreads asked David Rough:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

David Rough Where do I begin? Let me count the ways. There are so many personal benefits from capturing thoughts on paper, from expressing priorities in words, from attempting to communicate deep emotions so that others catch it. I thoroughly enjoy the challenge of telling a story in a way that resonates with the hearts of others.

There is nothing more rewarding than to hear from someone that has embraced the heart of one of my books. My hope for every individual that opens one of my stories rests in my motivation to encourage the reader and place them in an atmosphere of ethical challenge that they might succeed in the right way. I love to express eternal values and biblical principles in my works, whether they are explicitly stated or more softly hidden in the qualities of the cast of my stories.

Playing with words can be downright fun or a head-scratch frustration. Sometimes the words flow like the sweet stream along a pine-lined trail in Vermont, other times they run hot like the lava cascading off the volcano, and yet, in still other moments, they stop moving like a summer drought in Nevada. Trying to optimize the flow while avoiding the desert enables true communication to happen.

For me, one of the best things about writing is to ride the flow, so that the end product says something worthwhile.

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