Today I am going to writing for writing's sake. What does that mean? Well I find that I often stop myself from writing because I don't think that I have anything interesting to write or what I am going to write isn't important.
I think that audience has a lot to do with my motivation to write. In the past much of my writing has been done for an audience. Mostly that was blogging. There is something different about writing for an audience.
Much of my writing in the recent past has been for myself. Things like journal entries or writing that I don't intend to show anyone else. There is something private but also something a bit dead about writing for yourself. Or maybe it is better to say that there is something a bit more "alive" about writing for others.
Speaking about writing for others I think it is important that I am writing this inside the Blogger.com editing window rather then writing it in a text document and then pasting like I normally do when writing for myself.
For me there is something about being in that editing window ready to post after you are done. There is a certain kind of immediacy to it that really isn't there when writing in a document that you can simply save and close at any time.
Also I tend to write these days in text documents that are stored on Dropbox so that I can edit there on multiple devices and also that they aren't really locked into once service. A text document can be saved almost anywhere and edited by almost anything as compared to something like a Google Sheet that while still able to be edited in any web browser and able to be exported and worked on elsewhere really resides and lives inside Google servers for the most part.
Well this wraps it up for this post. I need to go do the dishes. I don't think that I will worry too much about the length of these posts as they really are writing for writing sake but also I often find that having 3 children (with one more on the way!) makes it so that your time really isn't yours but that's OK with me.
