LJ and writing
There was a time I stopped writing here on Livejournal more than a post a day or so. It was that I wrote a post and then waited to see if I got any responses. I found that people mostly did not read back very far on their f/list. I wanted people to read what I wrote and was giving them time to read it. That was a mistake on my part because it became a habit. It got to the point where I was not writing because I was waiting for a reply.
I don't do that any longer. I post more than one now, often many posts, and it doesn't matter to me if people read back or not. I'd like them to read back, I want them to read back, but I am not limiting myself because I am waiting for them to read what I write.
You either like to write or you don't. I like to write. If no reads, eh! Their loss, not mine.
It has taken me a long time to break that habit of posting once and not thinking about posting again until the next day; and then not posting the next day because I wasn't in the mood or lost interest in what it was I was going to post about. LOL!
It's hard to break that habit. If people are not reading then perhaps we are all on the wrong website and we (actually, the non-reader) should leave it. If someone wants to read back and see all you've written, that's good, but it's probably not going to happen too often. It seems like a waste to write, but it really is not. Sure, people will miss a lot of what you've posted, but they will read some and that is fine in the greater scheme of things. The important thing is to get into the habit of writing and sticking with it. Eventually someone will read back and they might find your old posts useful or thought-provoking or helpful or funny and it makes their day. You never know.
So post and be fruitful about it.
~Symian
I don't do that any longer. I post more than one now, often many posts, and it doesn't matter to me if people read back or not. I'd like them to read back, I want them to read back, but I am not limiting myself because I am waiting for them to read what I write.
You either like to write or you don't. I like to write. If no reads, eh! Their loss, not mine.
It has taken me a long time to break that habit of posting once and not thinking about posting again until the next day; and then not posting the next day because I wasn't in the mood or lost interest in what it was I was going to post about. LOL!
It's hard to break that habit. If people are not reading then perhaps we are all on the wrong website and we (actually, the non-reader) should leave it. If someone wants to read back and see all you've written, that's good, but it's probably not going to happen too often. It seems like a waste to write, but it really is not. Sure, people will miss a lot of what you've posted, but they will read some and that is fine in the greater scheme of things. The important thing is to get into the habit of writing and sticking with it. Eventually someone will read back and they might find your old posts useful or thought-provoking or helpful or funny and it makes their day. You never know.
So post and be fruitful about it.
~Symian