Goodreads asked Paul J. Fleming:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Paul J. Fleming There are a few answers to this one, however the main one is that it allows me the freedom to cater for the ever increasing demands of my two daughters as they progress through Preschool and Secondary School. It allows me to be there for them as needs dictate and support them as much as I am physically able.

Another answer is tied in with that first one, in the fact that it allows me to dictate my working hours and pattern. I can come and go as I please, I can write or not. I DO set myself deadlines and schedules, for not to do so would lead to chaos and lethargy, but these are flexible targets which are self imposed and allow me to jump into 'that universe' when my mind sets about it and try to notate the adventures which occur within it.

I think also I must add that it is a nice distraction from reality at times. Bear in mind that I have a wonderful family and love every bit of each one of them, but it's the external everyday pressures that impinge upon your consciousness that can build up and up and up. Some people sit and watch TV avidly. Some play computer games or console games. Others read books...... whatever your poison, mine is imagining these adventures either in the 23rd Century or other settings and genres which I have not yet gone near putting on paper.

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