T.R. North

I've been writing since high school, but I only recently began testing the waters of traditional publication.

Wow, this is an interesting one!

It really depends on what, exactly, I'm writing--non-fiction is so much different from writing fiction that it's difficult to give one answer to suit both. I think with non-fiction, the biggest thrill I've gotten is from readers saying that I got them just as excited about the topic as I am, or that I've managed to reignite an interest in something they thought they didn't care about or weren't good at. With fiction, there's the potential to create entirely new worlds and new ways of being that you can then immerse a reader in, if you've done it right.

In both cases, though, you spend a lot of time trying to work out how to get something exactly the way it should be, and it's enormously satisfying to feel like you've finally got it.