Twenty Great Things about Being a Writer

 

 

1. I get to be exactly who I want to be.  
2. I get to invent lots of worlds. 
3. I have a lot of friends in my writing world.
4. Book events are fun. 
5. Watching TV, going to the cinema or theatre and reading fiction count as work.
6. Even listening to gossip at the pub feeds the hunger for stories.  
7. It’s perfectly okay that I go clothes shopping and come back with books.
8. Who needs lots of fancy clothes, anyway, if you're a writer?  
9. All the time I spend writing just makes me a better writer.
10. We change as writers all the time - you never know what's coming next.  
11. I’m in incredibly good company: Shakespeare, Dickens, Maeve Binchy. 
12. And of course Michael Morpurgo, Philip Pullman  and Jacqueline Wilson.   
13. I work from home. Remind me: what’s a rush hour?
14. And when I do venture out I find lots of stories. Journeys on busses are particularly good.  
15. Everything is interesting and tells me a story. 
16. We frame a series of events into a story.  
17. I earn money while I’m on holiday. 
18. I still earn money from work I did years ago.   
19. I don’t mind being snowed in.
20. I enjoy writing so much I even write when I'm on holiday.