Goodreads asked Sigrid Brown:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Sigrid Brown I do use details from my own life in my fiction, so one of the greatest things about writing is getting to revisit and, in a way, live over again times from my past. Reliving the happy and exciting times is pure joy, even when they were sweetly painful at the time (I'm talking mostly about all-consuming relationships and maybe some hangovers here). Reliving the heavier times is, of course, heavier. But it's a relief to be able to view those emotions and details with some distance, and an even greater relief to turn them into a piece of art I can see objectively--often that's an incredibly helpful way to take at least some of the sting out of a memory.

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