Goodreads asked Richard L. Haight:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Richard L. Haight The best thing about writing is being at the very center of the flow of inspiration and it torrents through to come out on the page. I can't imagine writing from obligation or duty because really authoring a book, if done properly, is a lot of work. There are a lot of self-published authors who don't do it properly though, which is to say that they don't even edit their work. This is a sign that they weren't inspired enough to bother polishing their work. I wonder why one would bother writing something that no one else will want to read. It is so much better to write from inspiration because inspiration will see the process through to a proper, polished completion. Inspiration is not just the best thing about writing, it is the best thing in any field or endeavor.

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