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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
The people who are writing online and the people in my genre of creative non-fiction exert a great deal more freedom that journalists are allowed to exert in their day-to-day work.
Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.
Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.
If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.
I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.
Ideally, really ideally, you want to get to a place where you can have creative control over the material you do - choices, at least, anyway. And you want your choice of script and role. But do you really want your life to revolve around trying to maintain your privacy?
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