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Goodreads asked Till Noever:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Till Noever That's one of those open questions...
You can tell any damn story you want and say whatever pleases you and get whatever you need to get out of your system out of your system.
The best thing about doing it in novel form is that you can spin a yarn without having to adhere to constraints—like you'll find in screenplays, for example—on length, structure and genre or genre mix.
Also, you can get to know interesting people; that being your characters, who are, of course, only in your head; but that makes them even more interesting.

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