My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.
In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing.
I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.