Goodreads asked S.C. Skillman:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

S.C. Skillman The joy of creating characters and taking them through a story, building up a world for them and seeing how they respond to the challenges I set them. When characters take on a life of their own in a novel, it's very exciting, though of course there are difficulties to be faced when characters take over in unexpected ways! I also love writing dialogue. It's very thrilling, too, to read your own work and discover messages coming through from the subconscious, in the way characters behave and speak, and in the tone of the narrative. It is a very dynamic process, writing fiction; there is enormous potential for self-knowledge as well as for great emotional and psychological vulnerability especially when you first start to seek feedback from others. To write fiction, and keep on doing it for many years, you need to have a compulsion to write. This can be a source of great joy and also a source of anguish and despair.

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