Goodreads asked Mitchell Stokely:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Mitchell Stokely The best part of being a writer is being able to explore the fantastic worlds pictured in your mind and to build the relationships you have always dreamed of having. Writing allows you to create the kind of vivid drama you cannot find elsewhere in books, and to disappear in a time and place of your own making. How many of us dream about magical places, or events, or people we would love to see, meet, or be? Beyond all that there is the excitement of new ideas on the page. I also think the isolation and loneliness and self referential aspects of writing are not for everyone. I'm very much a nerd and introvert. If I could be alone in a cabin on a mountain I would be fine. Sad but true. I think being a writer has to encompass that strange personality flaw in some form. If you in it for fame or attention, you will fail. You have to love, not just the writing, but being alone and enjoy watching what swims around in your imagination every day.

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