Goodreads asked Linda Berry:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Linda Berry Now that I’m retired, I have the luxury of writing every day. I wake up eager to get to work. I take my coffee up to my sunny office that overlooks a peaceful wooded area, and dig in. I immediately go into the “fiction” zone, a realm of true contentment and total absorption. The best thing about being a writer is spending time in a world that I create, with characters I love (whether good or bad) and where I'm in control. I love the challenge of constructing a novel in such a way that it drives the reader forward and never gets boring. On a small scale, I love the mental challenge of using just the right word to describe something, then write the perfect sentence, the perfect paragraph, the perfect scene, and build it into the perfect story. When my writing is good, it moves like a melody with a perfect rhthym.

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