Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.
I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.
I use a method approach to all my sitcom work.
A terrific exercise is to take a paragraph of someone's writing who has a really strong style, and using their structure, substitute your own words for theirs, and see how they achieved their effects.
I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.