If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.
Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.
My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.