Why Write?
Sometimes I wonder at the futility of writing. It isn't as if I stand to gain much from maintaining a blog or writing stories for the online world. Tomorrow if I am dead gone my blog too will die a quiet death. No one will pay Go Daddy and Daddy will give the tag line- oops this site does not exist or something along the same lines.
I know along with my body my words too will go up in flames. I'm no Salman Rushdie nor a Stephan King. I just an average woman writing mediocre crap. There is gonna be no one saying - hey what ever happened to whats her name with that swing or some shit like that site?
No one asks after online phantoms, such is the virtual world and it makes me kinda depressed. My value here is nothing and my words carry no weight. Morbid, depressing thoughts with much truth in them. I feel blue when my mind meanders in that direction and there is no feel good answer here but dull acceptance.
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Deepti Lamba on May 12, 2008 09:43 PM 
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Dee:
We write because it is cathartic to express our ideas in tangible form, whether or not they will be read an appreciated. Hence, the enduring tradition of the diary. The fact that someone may read and enjoy what we write, when we fling our words into the public domain, is gravy.
It should go without saying -- but you obviously need a reality check -- you crap isn't so mediocre.
Cheers,
MBJ
Posted by: Mark | May 13, 2008 01:00 PM
I hope you aren't going to give up writing.
I gave up trying to build a following or trying to write daily. I just write when I can now, so it's really slowed down.
But I still use it to vent and to keep in touch with other bloggers.
I know you love to write your stories. Wouldn't you miss it?
Posted by: SteveS | May 14, 2008 11:30 AM
Take a chill pill!!
You should write for the pleasure of writing...not for someone else.
Like a man who walked from China to India - for no particular reason....there is a great pleasure in doing things for no particular reason. Just love what u r doing.
Posted by: Abhi | May 14, 2008 04:50 PM
I know my writing aint so bad and I'm trying my best to convince myself that not all of us can make money from what we are good at and be glad for my health and teeth but damn it does someone need a ghost writer?!;)
Thanks for encouraging me, means a lot and y'all know it;)
Posted by: Dee | May 14, 2008 06:40 PM