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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanLoon that I am, I have another character sheet to write. Will the boy never learn? It seems not. Ah well, a little lolloping around for me, and then back to the keyboard.
So today is the day after the solstice. Nights are drawing in, now. Soon be winter. The day is what, 90 seconds shorter than yesterday, and tomorrow it will be a certifiable 3 minutes. My my. Start laying in the provisions now, kids.
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ashenkat has just written a long entry on how she sees Live Journal, and has quite evidently put a great deal of thought into it; what LJ means, the reader's and writer's responsibility (or lack thereof), and whether people are obliged to read everything their friends write. It's an interesting perspective, but not, I think one I share (though no less valid for that, of course).
I know why I write in LJ. I always wanted to keep a diary or journal, but frankly couldn't be bothered in the days of pen and ink and little books with brass buckles. Writing with a pen is dismally boring, and I have great respect and admiration for people who use one for more than a signature or cheque.
Why do I write?
I write for me.
I write because I like to write.
I am vaguely flattered that some people like to read my musings (and sometimes irrationally bothered as to why someone should 'de-friend' me when Ireally don't know that person from Adam as a physical entity). Beyond that, however, I write for myself primarily and if my friends are peering over my shoulder as I write, then welcome you are, too. That's fine: I Peer over yours, though not all the time. I can't pretend to read everything my friends write - although I read some of you more than others, and I do read everyone some of the time. Just not all of the time. I doubt anyone reads everything I write. I certainly don't. I just pin my demons to the page where they lose a lot (not all) of their power. If I write something not for public consumption, I rarely write it here, or if I do, I decide who has access. (Generally I mark stuff private when it's about people at work. Heh.)
Why do you write?
So today is the day after the solstice. Nights are drawing in, now. Soon be winter. The day is what, 90 seconds shorter than yesterday, and tomorrow it will be a certifiable 3 minutes. My my. Start laying in the provisions now, kids.
ashenkat has just written a long entry on how she sees Live Journal, and has quite evidently put a great deal of thought into it; what LJ means, the reader's and writer's responsibility (or lack thereof), and whether people are obliged to read everything their friends write. It's an interesting perspective, but not, I think one I share (though no less valid for that, of course). I know why I write in LJ. I always wanted to keep a diary or journal, but frankly couldn't be bothered in the days of pen and ink and little books with brass buckles. Writing with a pen is dismally boring, and I have great respect and admiration for people who use one for more than a signature or cheque.
Why do I write?
I write for me.
I write because I like to write.
I am vaguely flattered that some people like to read my musings (and sometimes irrationally bothered as to why someone should 'de-friend' me when Ireally don't know that person from Adam as a physical entity). Beyond that, however, I write for myself primarily and if my friends are peering over my shoulder as I write, then welcome you are, too. That's fine: I Peer over yours, though not all the time. I can't pretend to read everything my friends write - although I read some of you more than others, and I do read everyone some of the time. Just not all of the time. I doubt anyone reads everything I write. I certainly don't. I just pin my demons to the page where they lose a lot (not all) of their power. If I write something not for public consumption, I rarely write it here, or if I do, I decide who has access. (Generally I mark stuff private when it's about people at work. Heh.)
Why do you write?