Goodreads asked Stuart Aken:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Stuart Aken Living vicariously through invented characters. As a writer, I can go anywhere, in any time, as any person (including animals or even non-sentient objects). I can experience, in imagination and via empathy, every known emotion. I can commit any crime you can name, and I can perform every good deed, every form of excitement, every wonder known, and all from the safety of my seat at the desk. Of course, this form of vicarious experience is demanding and sometimes exhausting, but it is limited only by my own imagination.

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