What appears on the page comes out of your experience, and no-one is going to see it in quite the same way - so, that being so, you're already doing something in a thoroughly individual and idiosyncratic way anyway.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.
The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear.
What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.
Don't get me wrong, some of the mis-informed articles I have read over the last few weeks have been incredibly frustrating, but for my part I fully appreciate the opportunity I have been given and want to grasp it firmly.
If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.
Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.
I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.