I meant to comment on this the other day, but it was late when I read it and then I forgot.
Writing in isolation and the need to connect to a larger community is one of the major reason I joined LJ. This was were the discussion of craft and the business were happening. This is where my friends were and a way I could keep in touch with people scattered all over the country and the globe.
Plus, on LJ I could exert some control over who saw what I wrote. I'll come back to that last point.
I'm fascinated by people, how they live day to day, how they cope in good times and bad, what their core beliefs are and just the day to day thoughts that pop into their heads. You or someone else might think what you've written is boring, but there is almost aways some nugget of insight to the writer as a person contained in any entry. Whether that is good or bad is another question.
Everyone is the hero of his or her own story. I've always felt they have the right to tell it in their own way.
Back to that point about control. I keep my friends list fairly small. I limit it to people that I know personally in some way, that have been recommended to me by one of my friends or that I'm fairly sure I can trust, because I know who they are.
But I lock the majority of my posts because of my ex-husband. He's stalked me online for years and found ways of working in references to blogger posts in his communications with me that let me know he was watching me. So I moved to LJ where I can lock him out of my life.
It's not that what I post is deep or intensely private, just that I don't want him in my life. I know that I'm not the only person locks things for that reason, so you shouldn't hesitate to comment on any of my posts if you feel you have something to say. I'd guess the same is true of almost any post you're allowed to see, but definitely with mine.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2008-05-11 11:36 pm (UTC)Writing in isolation and the need to connect to a larger community is one of the major reason I joined LJ. This was were the discussion of craft and the business were happening. This is where my friends were and a way I could keep in touch with people scattered all over the country and the globe.
Plus, on LJ I could exert some control over who saw what I wrote. I'll come back to that last point.
I'm fascinated by people, how they live day to day, how they cope in good times and bad, what their core beliefs are and just the day to day thoughts that pop into their heads. You or someone else might think what you've written is boring, but there is almost aways some nugget of insight to the writer as a person contained in any entry. Whether that is good or bad is another question.
Everyone is the hero of his or her own story. I've always felt they have the right to tell it in their own way.
Back to that point about control. I keep my friends list fairly small. I limit it to people that I know personally in some way, that have been recommended to me by one of my friends or that I'm fairly sure I can trust, because I know who they are.
But I lock the majority of my posts because of my ex-husband. He's stalked me online for years and found ways of working in references to blogger posts in his communications with me that let me know he was watching me. So I moved to LJ where I can lock him out of my life.
It's not that what I post is deep or intensely private, just that I don't want him in my life. I know that I'm not the only person locks things for that reason, so you shouldn't hesitate to comment on any of my posts if you feel you have something to say. I'd guess the same is true of almost any post you're allowed to see, but definitely with mine.