Proper Motivation: Why Write a Book?

Reblogged from M.E. Kinkade: I was browsing a freelancer forum to find editing gigs, when I stumbled upon this post (name and site withheld to protect the guilty): "I have written a novel and it came around 36,000 words. To get published, a novel should have 60,000 words atleast and I fell short of words. [...]