Goodreads asked Kate O'Donnell:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Kate O'Donnell That you get to adjust your own thumb screws or select your own rack? I love being a writer. I read something to the effect that if a man - i.e. person - has planted a tree, written a book and created a child, he has lived a complete life. I've done all three and I find it true. Actually, I write because I cannot not write. Unlike many writers, I never thought of writing until I was an at home mom with two sons and an addiction to reading. It was then that I read a really, really abysmal book, thought, 'I can do better than that!" and did.
What I like most about being a writer is that rare feeling when everything just flows and I think, "Damn, I'm Good!," and I am.

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