I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.
Being isolated and on-location can be helpful in terms of being completely dedicated to the work, but somebody like me can also be dangerous in terms of this intense sort of void that you kind of potentially fall into.
I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.
I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.
I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.
I love collaborating with people, but I also really love working by myself.
I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.
Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
I really do work in solitude.
For me, I prefer to work on my own. I feel like I can tap into a more genuine place, and I feel like my best stuff comes from writing on my own in my own zone.