I like to write, but I have no ideas. Fluther gives me writing practice by asking questions. I get to think about things and I get to write out my thinking. That’s why I write so much. So for me fluther is kind of like a writing class with free assignments. The assignments tend to be a bit more interesting than the average writing assignment one might find randomly on the internet. Also there’s a built in audience of people who will read…oh… maybe one quarter of what I write. Maybe the first sentence of each post. It doesn’t really matter to me. I like to write to see what I think.
@gailcalled believes in editing things, but in order to do that, you’d have to take your writing seriously, which I don’t. How seriously can I take it if I give it away for free? Anyone who was serious would make people pay to read what they have to say—like writing a blog or something like that.
It might be good for me if fluther died. Then I might have to try to get serious. Not that I have any idea how to do that. In any case, it sounds too much like work. Practice is more fun than work because it doesn’t matter how people respond to it. If it’s work, then people have to like it, and if you want people to like what you write, it changes how you write. You lose your insouciance. Hmmm. Do I have any insouciance? Would I have any if I tried?