Audience

Itchy Hands got me thinking. And the below are my thoughts.

Perhaps a simple way to defuse the controversy his posting started would be for each of us (bloggers, i mean), to ask ourselves: who do you write for? Who are your audience?

When i first started writing, i wrote for the audience -- the attention whore i was, the sleepless nights figuring out what would make good reading for the people who visited my blog. Any spike in the ol' Track-o-Meter would send my pulse racing and lead to more of the same. Same old, same old. In fact, i too, once upon a time, had ideas about what a blog was and should be (looking back now, its easy to laugh at my error).

Nowadays, i really couldn't give a flying woosh who reads or doesn't read the VOI. I know the VOI is still kinda useful to the general blogging public, what with the Great Malaysian Blog List and all. But the words contained in its electronic pages are more for me now than they ever were before. Sometimes, i write for her, most times i write for myself, and every once in a while, i write something for everyone. But its mostly for me, and that's perfectly ok too, IMHO.

Try writing for yourself sometime and you'll discover that it really doesn't matter anymore whether anyone cares what you write, good or bad.