Goodreads asked R. Dean Johnson:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

R. Dean Johnson You get to write stories you would like to read. When those stories are good enough--as in an editor publishing the work--you get to then share those stories and see how people react. It's really edifying when an audience laughs at the part you meant to be funny when you were alone at your desk writing that scene, or when someone posts a response to your writing online to say how a story or essay affected them.

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