Gotta Get out more to get better pictures.
I think that I have to figure out my relationship to sitting down every day and writing and my desire to occasionally have someone read it. I think that I have a heaping portion of dissonance concerning my relationship with the small number of my readers. I hope that people read what I have to say, but I cringe when I think of getting comments back. Reading comments is a spectrum kind of thing. When I read my Wednesday favorites (JMG and Aurelian) I am impressed by their patience with questions and statements that are, at best, poorly thought out. But there are gems in the comments as well. So my reticence for having people comment really has no rational basis.
I do also think that frequency of posting might have something to do with this kind of thing. I enjoy sitting down every day and telling the world to get off my lawn. But maybe that isn’t the way to approach the idea of publishing my thoughts. My buddy M goes a completely different way, he manages to sit down and write whole books and then self-publish something every year or so. I can’t say as this way appeals to me, but I think I will ponder it for a while.
I will keep using my place at Dreamwidth for the day to day mental meandering. I’ll probably keep backing things up over at Blogger because Google might be around in ten years. I have watched too many small-time ISP’s and service providers go belly up to not worry about this. I hope for the best for Dreamwidth, but hopes have been dashed in the past.
I have to ponder the Substack thing. I think that Substack is the preferred vehicle for the PMC and the poseurs. Oh granted, there is some quality over there, but a whole bunch of the time it seems to be a place where market-share of readership can best exploited, and to tell you the truth, I am kinda sick of the over-commercialization of just about anything.
I do think that I need to spend more time and more discipline trying to come up with serious pieces. I think that the diary-style format that I have used in the past at Blogger and Dreamwidth is good for my mental health, it isn’t exactly a storehouse for what I consider wisdom. Maybe I will ponder only using my freebie account at Substack to publish longer pieces that I have spent more time on.
One way or another, I am going to keep writing, one way or another I will figure out my relationship with commenters and what are my expectations.
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