Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone else to describe it for you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I never co-write. I've tried it before, and I just can't do it.
Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.
Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
There is a method to the madness of James Patterson's success. Co-writing with him is a terrific learning experience, particularly in the art of crafting a perfect thriller. The collaboration also gives me an opportunity to access a wider global audience.
I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.