Fortunately, having copy edited on the order of 400,000 pages of scholarly and scientific text has not made me stop enjoying reading scholarly and scientific writing. That would just be dismal. And writing GURPS books does not take away my enjoyment of playing and GMing. Now that I think of it, in fact, one of the things that makes both game writing and GMing fun is that it's such a good excuse to do research on unfamiliar topics.