Goodreads asked Jason J. Marchi:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Jason J. Marchi The best thing inside me about being a writer is the satisfaction that comes from getting all my thoughts about different subjects into concrete form. Thoughts written down . . . that's very satisfying and truly makes me feel alive -- especially when I forget about what I've written and go back to it months, years, decades later and say, "Wow, that's pretty good! Who wrote that? I don't remember writing that but there it is!" For others finding purpose in life might come in another form: passion for painting, or sculpting, or playing a musical instrument, or composing a song, or dancing, or singing, or building electronic or mechanical machines, or making ill people well again, etc, etc.

On the outside or ME, the best thing about being a writer is inspiring others. It's seeing all the work required to make good writing GOOD finally come home to roost when you meet a reader who has fallen in love with your work. The reader might only love ONE story of the dozens or hundreds you've written and published, but such acceptance of that one story is an amazing feeling for the writer. The reader is touched and in love. And you, the writer of that story, fall in love with your own story again because someone else now loves it too. Now two people are happy were before it was only one who was happy -- and maybe no one was happy. What I mean by this, I'll forget about a story I wrote years ago that someone I know read. Out the blue one day that person will recall your story and repeat how much he or she loved it. That will awaken my own thoughts about that story -- a story that I'd forgotten about -- and then I'll be happy that that reader has never forgotten about that story. Now, two people are happy because of one story. That's a winner in my book.

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