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Goodreads asked Nancy Freund:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Nancy Freund My answer is cheating. This is both impossible to answer and the easiest thing in the world to answer. Neither and both. It is and it isn't. The best thing about being a writer is that every single day, anything can happen. On the page, you can go any direction you want. You can make two mild-mannered, timid people go nuts, rip off their clothes and leap around in a public fountain singing, if you feel like it. Obviously, that might not fit your story, but if you decide that very scene IS essential to your story, you can revise accordingly, until it fits. You have a modicum of control, on every page, and at the same time, you have a sense that we writers, we human beings, are NOT in control at all. Why would I want two timid people to leap around in a fountain, anyway? I don't know -- but suddenly, I just do. The universe is not mine to understand. I accept that.
That's the answer to the actual BEING a writer part. But living life in the big world as a writer is wonderful in the same way. I've only been a published writer for a few years, and I honestly can't count the number of amazing, fascinating conversations and experiences I've had with people I've encountered (new friends and old), as a direct result of my writing. Stuff that's seriously blown me away. I would love to be more articulate about this magic now, but I think when something's truly overwhelming, it remains elusive and un-pindownable. That's what I love most about being a writer... how it can (often!) be so awesome that I become terrible at it. Like a novice all over again, every day, with a whole bright, beautiful future ahead, if I'm lucky.

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