@AuthorAlliance For me it's a pathetic need for strangers to give me compliments and (hopefully) journalists to laud my every word. Also, sycophantic fandom in the industry would be quite nice.
Apart from that I quite like the whole process of unloading the mind.
@Keidi_Keating Oddly I thought I'd given up novels but started one yesterday in earnest. I've never been to earnest or really understood where it is or what the expression means but it appears that's what happened.
5,000 n sumthin words in, it could go awry yet