Q: Why are you creating this blog? What brings you to spend your good (and notably sparse) money on this? Don’t you realize there’s no one out there reading it?
A: Yes, I know it’s not very likely there is anyone out there reading Bored Now?, but that’s okay. Although readers would be great, I’m creating this blog for myself.
Q: What do you mean by that?
A: Several things, really. Most importantly, I want to be in the habit of writing something coherent every day. When I worked in corporate communications positions, I did that; even if I wasn’t writing personally rewarding poetry or what have you, I was putting coherent sentences together into paragraphs. My writing got sharper over the years, and I don’t want to lose that. The blog is also an online journal of the things I am thinking and doing, and it’s very handy for helping me remember URLs I want to go back to.
Q: But don’t you need readers?
A: It takes a reader to complete the cycle of communication; otherwise the writing is the opposite of useful. Readers are also the way a writer gets feedback about the quality of his or her work, and I miss the feedback. So yes, I probably do need readers, but I can make do without for a while. It’s a blog in search of an audience, although it’s better than most of the other dreck out there.
Q: So you’re writing Bored Now? for the self-discipline, until these mythical readers arrive?
A: Yes.
