Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do with conscious control or manipulation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we control what we want to write about.
When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.