Goodreads asked Stephen T. Brophy:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Stephen T. Brophy The best thing about being a writer for me, besides how cool it still sounds to tell people "I'm a writer" (though it only sounds cool if it's true), is the world-building. Immersing myself in fictional realities is a tremendous escape from the pressures and mundanities of day-to-day existence. In these worlds, I have control (well, to a point--many times I find my characters seeming to dictate what it is they want to do and I'm just a remote delivery system--like an Amazon drone pilot--for their words and actions, which is even more incredible). I don't know of any activity, short of art, which I'm just not good at or I'd be making comics, that allows you to really become immersed in a fictitious reality that can be as wildly unpredictable as our own, but on a much grander scale. Even reading someone else's fiction is not as immersive for me as writing my own. I really live inside it when the writing is flowing. When it's not, it can be a lot like being stuck in traffic. But hey, even if you're stuck in traffic, it's because you're trying to get somewhere you want or need to be.

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