Goodreads asked Sacha Jones:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Sacha Jones I've been a lot of other things, I am late to try my luck at a career in creative writing. So far the advantage of 'being a writer' (I was probably always a writer) as far as I can tell (been published for three and a half weeks) is the excitement of the journey, from the first sentence to signing the contract, to launching the book, signing copies and beyond. It is meeting new and interesting people. It is not having to fix my hair for work. But most of all, it is getting to create every day. Not being confined to imposed parameters for speech and behaviour. Of course my first book is a memoir, so their were some constraints, but I am also working on a fable for adults that is about a family of birds. That is entirely make believe. If you can make a living in make believe, do, I say. Do.

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