Goodreads asked Malcolm Ivey:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Malcolm Ivey The loneliness, the uncertainty, the insecurity, pouring your soul onto the page only to have it casually ignored.... :) Nah, the small rewards: finding the perfect word, discovering some killer scene or twist, inventing quirky and original characters... The big rewards: finishing, polishing, presenting... In my first novel, Consider the Dragonfly, I wrote that few feelings rival the exhilaration of being released from prison after serving multiple years. Finishing a manuscript definitely makes the short list.

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