Goodreads asked Eleanor Lerman:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Eleanor Lerman To start with, writing is not a choice; it's something you've got to be driven to do because most of the time you don't get a lot of reward. You don't get published much more than you do; you get rejected a lot (a whole lot!) and you spend a lot of time all by yourself with no one to help you figure out what to do or how to do it.But that's also the best part: you're on your own. You write about what interests you, what pleases you to spend time on. You just have to be doing it because you want to and you need to. First and foremost, you have to write for yourself.

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