I've always said that my favorite aspect of online political writing is how interactive and collaborative it is with one's readers: that has always been, and always will be, crucial in so many ways to what I do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.
On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.
For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and engaged with the society in which I live. Both my writing and my drawing are invariably mixed up with politics, whether I want them to be or not.
I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.
Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.
I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.