The ??s:
What advice do you have for writers?
Never give up. Don’t write for the people and don’t write what you think they want to read. Write for yourself and write from your heart. Somebody will want to read it no matter what you write about.

What does writing mean to you?
To me, writing is an escape. Things aren’t going so super great in my life at this moment and when I write I live my world. It’s not about me anymore it’s about the people in the story. Most of the time I pour myself into a character. I solve my own problems on paper. Writing is probably tied with reading for me, second only to dancing (my passion).

http://soojinl10.kiswrites.org/2008/03/29/after-1-month-of-blogging/

Scarily similar Ideas, guess all teen bloggers, or beginning bloggers share similar dilemmas

For writing, just write as Mr. R says. Readership will eventually come, and if you want comments, you should go around random people’s blogs and start commenting on theirs first.

For good example, consider my friend Dabin’s blog http://dabinl10.kiswrites.org

She added her clustrmap only a week ago and it’s already filling up with dots. It was because she was very active in the blogosphere.

And to keep the readership, make your posts interesting. Consider, “Why should my readers read about this?” “Who are my readers? What would they want to read?”

That reflects to all kinds of writing

And to me, writing is a way to persuade and make mutual connections between people. I recently wrote tons of practice AP essays, and those were all about defending my point and using sentence styles to keep the reader reading. Same for blogging, good posts make people moved.

Writing can make friends and allies, as well as it can kill enemies.

“You can turn the city upside down if you want to
but it won’t keep you dry.
You can turn the city upside down,
like an umbrella but it won’t keep you dry.

When you wrap yourself in a highway strip,
don’t expect any warmth from it.
All it is is cold cement…”

Leila: You’re alive and that’s more than most people will ever realize in their own lives. Credit yourself for that. Others have given up, happy to baste in the juice of “you should” and “don’t question it, it’s inconvenient”. I love the fact that you haven’t given in to that. Real living and real beauty comes from the conflict that arises from our desire for perfection and our awareness that we will never get there. (And a lot of other things that I don’t pretend to understand.)

Question, ponder, challenge, live. We’ll all be better for it. Thanks to Mr. R for recognizing that undefinable energy you exude.

Your ideas and thinking will influence more people than you realize.

Keep pondering,

BF

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I write because it is everything to me. Nothing could take it’s place. Absolutely nothing.

Not music, not reading.

Nearly nothing I “write”, on the novel front, is posted and only I read it for months and months. I’m not bothered about other people reading it before I am ready — it’s like my child. -has a strange and almost OCD take on writing-

… it’s the lack of sleep, I swear.

And it’s true. We read and write not because we can, or feel the sudden urge to scribble a few thoughts onto paper, but because we must.

It is hard, because most people are not like that. I guess we have to figure out a way to reach the people that do enjoy reading but are not chronic writers.