When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.