It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.
You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.
One tends to write beyond what's needed.
At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.
Writing has to support itself.
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.