You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I write, I tend to read it out loud to myself after. I'm a very uncomfortable reader, so it creates a distance between the text and me - it is a new way to see it.
When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'
Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.
It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.