You get to work from home, in your pyjamas all day if you feel like it.
Summer Secrets
Spending hours a day in your imagination is exhausting, but wonderful.
Writing is like therapy, helping you understand how the world works, and how you work. And it's free.
If you have children, you get to be mum again by the time they come home from school.
You might be asked to fly in a helicopter with Harrison Ford. Yes, that actually happened.
It's possible to make a difference, if not in the world, at least in people's lives, which is humbling and wonderful.
Those bad boyfriends in your past? Oh, revenge is a beautiful thing.
The excitement of seeing someone reading your book may be the greatest legal rush known to man.
You might get advance copies of books by authors you have adored by years. And sometimes, those authors will become friends.
If you are a writer, it's probably the only way you are able to process emotions - you may not have a choice but to take a chance