Why Blog?

The Rule: Blogging is a Boondoggle

Few people have read my blog, and those who have probably don't check on it every day to gander at Travis' new insights. I write as if I have an audience, and I might not have any whatsoever- well at least a mortal audience with flesh and blood. So am I wasting my time, since hardly anyone reads this? Not at all. Blogging is more than busywork. It's a documentation of my soul's inner workings, and an evolution, I hope, to the quality of my writing.

Sure maybe down the line I pick up an audience, but for now I write for the sake of writing.

Then why is it in a blog, a public one at that? This implies my desire to be read. That is true. But whenever a post is published it is a sample of a bigger dream I have: to actually be published in print. Now, then is this a narcissistic hope? I don't think so. The desire to be published is the desire to be heard and this is need to be loved. Eventually, I want to write full time all the time, and this stems from another desire, the desire to create.

Eventually as a blog grows in readership, so does the author's public presence.

So blogging appeases many of the writer's desire:

1. To be heard.

2. To consistently practice their writing.

3. Self-Promotion

4. Share one's knowledge and insight for other's edification

Most of the time, the reader's lives are not changed on blogs, just the writer's, if the writer lets it.