If you wish to develop as a writer, you will have to also develop as a person.
I would suggest that you will need to develop a moral standpoint, which will probably also entail a political standpoint.
I am not saying that that should be a left wing opinion, a right wing opinion, or even my own personal preference, an anarchist opinion.
The important thing is the understanding that you should have a platform, a moral or political platform from which you can look at the world, and hopefully to understand it, which will need a certain amount of compassion and empathy, whereby you can look at someone who has ideas that are completely foreign, to your own, and yet perhaps understand why they have them, what the factors were in their background, that cause them to have those ideas, perhaps to understand that you yourself, brought up in slightly different circumstances, may have had exactly those ideas.
So that is the basis from which you can look at the world without necessarily being judgmental, but simply trying to understand it.
A little exercise that you can do for yourself is make three columns on a page, and in the first column, I want you to write down two or three shows that are successful and well liked, and but you personally do not like them or respond to them.
You're not a fan.
Okay?
It's very easy to write negatives about a show that everybody admits stinks, but there's got to be shows out there that your friends don't understand why you don't like them, and people don't know why you haven't watched them, but so you make the list of shows that are liked by many people, by friends of mine, that you don't like.
Try to find in that first column, okay?
