I think the biggest issue presented is the idea of framing solitude as "authentic" and "external pressures" as 'fake'. This is very common nowadays. "Turn inwa

I think the biggest issue presented is the idea of framing solitude as "authentic" and "external pressures" as 'fake'. This is very common nowadays. "Turn inwards and get in touch with your authentic self. If you’re able to write something in this state, it won’t even occur to you to ask anyone whether your writing is good or not" I don't know of any person who writes and is not always aware of the quality of their own writing. Even if you write for yourself, you're still writing for an audience, even if that audience is in your head. It's always communication, imaginary or otherwise. there's no self without relationship to the other by the very definition of the term. Even the tool you use for writing, language, is a means of communicating with others by its nature. A child raised in actual solitude can't even speak, let alone has something like an 'authentic self'.