What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.
One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
'Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.
Writing is agony. I hate it.
In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness.
I immerse myself in everything I write; I feel what my characters do. I suffer with them. I cry as I type, sometimes to the point that I can't see the screen.
Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.
When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.
I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.