Goodreads asked Philip Dodd:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Philip Dodd One of the best things about being a writer is being able to create your own world on the page. That gives you an extra dimension to inhabit and explore. In the first chapters of my book, Angel War, I gave myself the task of creating the angel kingdoms and the angels who inhabit them, and in the later chapters, the dragon kingdoms, ruled by the Dragon on his Citadel throne. It was not an easy task I set myself, but it was an interesting, enjoyable one, to say the least. One of the best things about writing poems is being able to preserve memories on the page. In my poem, 1914-2014, for example, I was able to preserve my memories of my grandfather and how he fought in and survived the Battle of the Somme in the First World War. Those who have read it were moved by it and it was published in my local newspaper, the Liverpool Echo. Preserving memories in verse or prose is much more satisfying than looking at old photographs, I think. The best thing about being a writer is the pleasure and satisfaction that comes from being creative. To create is a wonderful thing.

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