Reasons to Write (Here)
- Doing any writing makes me a better writer by developing the skill
- Expressing my ideas and sharing them with people, which can lead to connection (with people), collaboration, insight
- Writing things out provides a means of developing ideas, possibly leading towards insights and connections (between ideas)
Inevitability
I'm feeling an inevitability in my writing here. As of writing this paragraph, it's been about three weeks since I've started writing here. It has felt so natural to write and to have things to write about, in this format and with having a public audience in mind. I've surprised myself - it's not often I begin a pursuit that feels this easy. It feels like I've been doing this forever but it's been such a short time. It doesn't feel like I will ever want to stop writing here, unless I at some point feel like I have privacy or safety concerns (which I try to be mindful of when publishing my writing).
The above statements remind me (and honestly are partially drawn from) this Slate Star Codex post (which I read before starting this blog). There are some other related lines, but mainly: "I’ve written a few hundred to a few thousand words pretty much every day for the past ten years. But as I’ve said before, this has taken exactly zero willpower. It’s more that I can’t stop even if I want to." I'm not trying to compare myself to the very impressive writing of Mr. Codex, or even say that the type of writing I'm doing here is similar to his, but I feel the same way that most of what I write here has not felt like it required willpower from me.