Goodreads asked Lucy Blue:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Lucy Blue I go back and forth between two things. One is the act of writing itself, particularly when I first start a story. For example, this week I've just started writing a new novel, and before I put pen to paper, I knew who the protagonists were and had a good idea how they would meet and what problems they would face. But once I started writing the first scene, I discovered all kinds of stuff about them and the story that hadn't occurred to me beforehand. It's another richer, more intimate version of the same joy of discovery I feel reading a great book someone else has written, that feeling that you're finding a whole new world.
The other "best thing" is hearing about someone else's experience of reading something I've written, particularly if they've enjoyed it. The idea that I've been able to take someone else out of their life and into a world I made up makes me crazy happy.

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