- The Category might be a clue, but I write these for my work audience, which is basically a silo, and thereby geographically limited.
- Some of the stuff won’t make sense if you don’t live here, or work here.
- I mean, nothing I can do about it I suppose.
- Weird trying to cultivate a blog audience based on something readers can’t really be a part of.
- Consider it a weird social observation experiment on your part.
- For the record, I work at a community college in Oklahoma that has about 2400 employees.
- Ish.
- Depends on how you’re doing the math.
- Anyway, there’s some context for you in case you needed it.
- I’m going to keep posting them anyway, because it’s writing and it’s writing meant for sharing.
- The sharing’s the thing.
- I’m working on a writing project with the aim of … publishing it in some form or another.
- And I’ve had this recurring conversation with a friend who thinks that the act of doing the thing should be enough, that I should not beat myself up if it doesn’t get published.
- But writing, to me, and especially that project, is not meant to be kept in a notebook and filed away in a box in a closet when the notebook’s full.
- I barely remember writing those things.
- The point of creating a story is to share it, to hopefully have it make an impact on a reader, or at least give unto them a fond memory of having read it.
- Don’t get me wrong, there’s also the external validation of the thing.
- It feels good to know someone read something you wrote and they had a positive experience doing so.
- It validates the time you spent making the thing in someway.
- It fulfills an author’s need in some way.
- I wonder, are we not supposed to say that?
- That in addition to wanting to tell a story, there are selfish reasons for doing so?
- That need to know that something you created matters? Or mattered?
- I’m sure the reasons people write are as myriad as the people who write them.
- But I wonder if that’s not true of all writers.
- That human need to not be inconsequential.
- Didn’t mean to write these today.
- I just noticed that some of the stuff on the other list I threw up (heh) earlier has little context if you don’t live here.
- Thanks for stopping by.
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