Who will read it?...
By definition responsibility is a particular burden of obligation upon one who is responsible. A child is a responsibility to its parents, a president is responsible for making critical decisions for his or her nation and we as writers are responsible for the quality of the work that others will read.
In Tony Blair's autobiography he states that before he met his pupil master Derry Irvine, he had only passed exams. He didn't have a clue how to think, analyze and dissect a problem from its birth. As referenced in his autobiography, Derry Irvine taught Tony Blair how to produce his best work and at the same time be personally responsible for his work.
I think most people have produced work that they wouldn't endorse if they had to. Work that you never anticipated would get any recognition, thus being the reason why you didn't pour your heart into it. With the exception of writers or individuals with literature backgrounds, when are most people required to be responsible for their work? When will an outside force hold them accountable for the words that they produce?
Personal responsibility goes beyond the compositional platform. Are we not charged as human beings to act civilized and uphold the law? When producing a literary body of work we should demonstrate within that document, similar if not identical qualities that we do throughout our life. Every moment of our existence we are on a stage, we must carry over that same mind frame to the pen and pad.
I'm going to stick out like the proverbial sore thumb
"Proverbial" is an adjective describing or asserting more evidence to something already evident. A proverbial dog with a bone is someone or something that leaves nothing untouched. Every corner or exposed area is attended to.
In relation to Tony Blair's autobiography, the proverbial dog was his pupil master Derry Irvine. She was an archeologist/anatomist sort of speak when it came to dissecting and uncovering vulnerable areas within his writing.
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