So, it has taken me only one month's worth of neglect to confirm that blogging is not my thing.
Any further posts should be a rarity indeed.
I simply don't tend to be a spontaneous writer, at least, not to an audience beyond email. But that's because writing is an external(ized) form of thinking, and I am not a spontaneous thinker. (I can be a *quick* thinker, but those two attributes are not the same.) I like to playfully mull and edit and fiddle and so forth before I reveal my enshrined thoughts, largely because I am not sure what I think about something until I've thought it through thoroughly.
Plus I care more about myself as a reader than I do about others. I have no real concern over writing for more than just a few people whom I know personally. I don't know how my preferences stack up against those of a typical writer (as such); perhaps writers in general are self serving. I have no confident idea of how often or deeply other writers are concerned with the br
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