What do you love most about writing?

What do you love most about writing?

Russell Celyn Jones (Published writer. Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MA Programme at Birkbeck College (University of London).) gives expert video advice on: What drives you to write?; When did you first know you were a writer?; What do you love most about writing? and more...

What I love most about writing is the solitude. It is the one thing that most people avoid in life. And writing is not a natural act. But it becomes the strongest part of the day. When you are on your own. When you start thinking about what you wrote yesterday, and how you are going to extend and improve it. And you are alone with this, usually a computer screen, building a world that you have complete control over, which is the opposite to life.