musings

I see a lot of articles and blog posts about writing and editing. Some of them speak to me more than others, but it is handy to at least skim them for something I might steal use.

One thing that strikes me, though, is that most of them run on a set of assumptions, the main one of which is that one is writing with publication in mind. I can understand why that is, but it is a bit of a fault line in my case: first and foremost I am writing for me, not for publication. A couple of people who have seen my stuff have made positive and flattering comments, and have suggested publication. That is good of them, and I really do appreciate it, but it misses my main motivation in writing which is to entertain myself. Everything else is secondary to that.