Writing

[purejuice]

This place is feeling really stagnant. The only comments I'm getting are on the train wreck posts. I have de-friended at least one ghoul in the past for such behavior.

Still, I didn't start this for the jollies. I did it for the daily writing. Whether or not anybody reads it.

Maybe I should start writing again. What a concept.

Comments

[villagecharm.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way - I'm worried that folks (at least non-Russian folks, and regrettably I don't understand Cyrillic) are departing LJ for warmer online climes. At the same time, though, the discipline of writing something every day, even if it is a trivial comment on my day or a quote from a favorite author, has really helped. And, ultimately, I like the attitude of the Syrian Christian poet who in the fifth or sixth century went to live in a cave. When his brother asked him what was the point of writing poetry with no audience, the poet said, "God is my audience."

[niyabinghi.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm still here and reading, and will try to comment more. (many people have been posting similar posts... including me, lol!)

[aliceinfinland.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're still here and documenting. I do mean to come back; it's not FB but work that is eating my creativity and energy to self-therapize. Though I do have some FB and twitter activity, more than here.

I would love to see you collect your essays on fashion, hierarchy, even genocide - the commentary on public life, basically - in a slim Barthes Mythologies-type volume. The inset picture style is very Barthian.

[epilady.livejournal.com]

That's me, as well. I'm just swamped with work. I think of FB and LJ as completely different environments and use them very differently. Right now, I have (barely) time to read other people's LJs, but no real time to write in my own, or usually to reply.

[garrity.livejournal.com]

A gift for you, to remind you that you are not at all alone in your thoughts on labor: see the vid embedded here.

http://khyron.livejournal.com/389188.html

[veleda.livejournal.com]

ya LJ has been really hurt by FB.

Write Write Write.

[mussare.livejournal.com]

I'm here, just takes me ages lately to get through posts (stroke being the fun that it is) and ye olde speak n spell is not so reliable for getting my words into text. Am reading though.

[the-macnab.livejournal.com]

Stagnant is the right word for it, yes. The diversity of posters in my daily friends list seems to have fallen quite a bit in recent months. There are about a dozen who still post regularly, but out of a friends list of 75+.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

It's just dead lately and not getting any better. I think everyone departed en masse for Facebook.

[minniethemoocha.livejournal.com]

Facebook is not a substitute. LJ is for people who don't have anyone looking over their shoulder during the day and/or who have a machine at home.

[belladona.livejournal.com]

I still read! I'm just not posting much these days and commenting even less because I'm busy with preparing for my move.