Goodreads asked Kristin Butcher:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Kristin Butcher There are a lot of rewards to being a writer. Firstly, it is a creative outlet. It gives me a way to vent my imagination. Ideas are always showing up and moving into my brain. Writing helps me to clear space and keep them at manageable levels. Secondly, I am addicted to story. It's why I read, and also why I write. It's one thing to see a story in your mind; the challenge is to move that story from the images in my head to words on paper so that others can experience it too. Finally, writing is an adrenaline rush -- the feeling you get when you travel to exotic places, flip through a picture album, fall in love, or win a lottery. Writing allows me to experience all life's thrills, fears, hopes, and terrors for the first time -- over and over again.

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