Goodreads asked Ellyn Bache:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Ellyn Bache There have been so many good things about being a writer that I hardly know where to start. In the early years when my children were young, I would get up early and write in longhand for half an hour or so, usually on a project I'd never be able to get to once the household woke up. It was lovely to have the sense of accomplishment that brought -- and it brought me my first freelance sales, too.
Later, I was amazed -- and still am -- that people I didn't know would listen to me -- that they'd read my fiction, comment on it, let me become part of their world.
Writing is a very interior business. For me it's been a way to work through issues that trouble me, have the fun of playing with language, and -- to my surprise -- overcome what was once a crippling shyness. Over the years, gradually, I learned to speak to reading groups and (even scarier) other writers. I still treasure above all my time alone at my desk, rummaging through the stories in my head -- but I'm grateful, too, that writing has been a way to live the interior life and also live out in the world.

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