Goodreads asked Howard Linskey:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Howard Linskey Seeing the finished work as an actual book. Something you dreamed up in your head now exists as a thing, because you took the time and trouble to create it. That's a pretty good feeling. It's even better when that first box of books arrives from the publisher and then you finally see it on a shelf in book store for the first time. That's lovely.
There are nice lifestyle aspects to being a writer too. My commute is undemanding as it is just yards to my office. I can wear what I like, so it's T shirts instead of suits and I can work when it suits me, whether that is morning, afternoon or evening. I don't really have a boss either, just an editor and he leaves me alone for 99% of the time. Bliss.

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