Goodreads asked Chris Johnson:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Chris Johnson I enjoy writing because I get the chance to create new worlds, and tell the stories of different characters. Sometimes it can be quite therapeutic as well.

For example, one story I wrote in Twelve Strokes of Midnight was pure escapism for me. One day I asked myself, how do we know that we don't go to other worlds when we dream? That led me to asking myself, how do we know this is not a dream right now? Then I started down the track of thinking that perhaps this particular world/reality now is truly a lucid dream with some strict rules created (eg: gravity). So I started writing about a guy who had a really poor life and that in another world he was a man of great influence. Unfortunately the story did not go quite the way I wanted but I managed to work some emotions out by the end of it.

But there is one thing much better again. Writing is a form of entertainment and, being a stage entertainer myself, I enjoy the chance to entertain people with my stories.

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