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For practice. To me, writing is a craft, just like heart surgery. When you don’t do it for long, your skills get a bit rusty.
For catharsis. Much of my writing puts emotions and thoughts into words. It calms me afterwards.
For sharing. Some blog posts are meant to guide, direct, help, inspire or support readers from my own experiences and insights.
For feedback. A few blog posts are intended to get back responses and suggestions from viewers, on a range of issues.
For networking. I’ve met some nice people through my blog (and tweets). The relationships built this way are sometimes lasting – and deep.
For spotlighting. When I meet or hear about someone or something so inspiring or exciting that I’d love to tell others about it, I blog.
With that said, I don’t really expect blogging to make me famous, get me a fan base or following, or generate engagement and impassioned debate with a huge crowd.
Indeed, I moderate all comments (and delete or edit some) because I don’t subscribe to the theory that “your blog belongs to your audience”, and also won’t let an issue that’s peripheral to my interest consume space or waste my time in arguing over. In this respect, I model my friend and mentor Seth Godin.
How about you? Why do you blog?
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I read George Orwell’s essay (http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw) and every reason I came up with after that, were somewhere derived from these four.
I mostly blog with an aim to Share my learnings and Reach out new people. But it’s also a creative compulsion and I blog simply because I enjoy writing.
I blog to express myself and pen down thoughts which I want to share. And since readers appreciate what I write, I am pushed to write more. Another reason is that writing somethings needs you to be creative and involves used of “bheja”.
I blog for all the points you mention. Also, when you simply are who you are and are unafraid to show this in your blogs, you inspire genuine connection – within yourself and with others. I feel awed and grateful that through blogging my existence can reach out to touch the pulse of life that connects all of us. From the foot of Mount Fuji, Japan, thanks for your post, Dr. Mani.
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