Furthermore….

From Kerry Clare’s interview with Rebecca Rosenblum:

I: In your own life, what circumstances entirely unrelated to writing have made you a better writer?

RR: I think having a job helps so much. Just to be in the world for me is really important, which is what I didn’t like about freelancing.

Of course, freelancing is a job; it’s just one of those jobs that lets you crawl into a corner and ignore the world outside your own imagination. Which is precisely the problem.