Goodreads asked Elizabeth C. Mock:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Elizabeth C. Mock Watching a story emerge like a sculpture. I can't see its form at first, and it feels like it'll never be what's in my head. Then slowly, oh so slowly, it takes shape. Until, after so much work, I can suddenly see it. There it is. The story exists outside my head.

I love when I'm drafting or revising and something takes me by surprise, a sentence which suddenly casts a character or a beat in a light I'd never seen before.

I love that I'm able to use symbols and sounds, which you understand, to create something that didn't exist before. That's magic.

flag