How long can I sustain this?
How long can I continue to write and put those thoughts out into the world?
Will I run out of useful ideas? Should I ration out my words? Should I post once a day? Once a week? Only when I feel like it?
Time will tell.
Is there value in sitting down to write, knowing that I’m not just writing for myself but writing with the expectation that others will read what I’ve written?
I think that the answer is ‘yes’.
Writing something that you know someone else may read forces you to think more deeply. It forces you to choose your words more carefully. You consider. You process. You ask more questions because writing for an audience causes you to think about how the things you write will come across to that audience. Writing for an audience forces you to think about things like sentence structure and your choice of words. You rewrite. You read what you’ve written. You rewrite again. Change a word here. Cut a word there. Repeat this process again and again and you being to notice patterns in your writing. Themes begin to emerge. You begin to notice habitual ways of thinking, and you’re creating a historical record of your thought processes that you can look back on later and hopefully learn from.
Put the words out into the world and then walk away. Fly away little words. Fly away and be free.
Let’s see where these words lead to next.