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Hah, I think my approach sides more with her than with you. I blog mostly to work things out in my own brain, and rewrite only when it helps me clarify the idea

Hah, I think my approach sides more with her than with you. I blog mostly to work things out in my own brain, and rewrite only when it helps me clarify the ideas for myself. I explicitly refuse to have comments on my blog, so I certainly am not a poster-child for interacting meaningfully--or at all-with my audience. But I do agree that rewriting does serve your audience. http://braythwayt.com/2015/01/16/write-for-yourself-rewrite-for-others.html http://braythwayt.com/2015/01/16/write-for-yourself-rewrite-...

striking 11y ago
Besides catharsis, I think interacting with people is a great blogging motivator. I appreciate your inclusion of the two Louis C.K. videos (I've seen them before, love 'em :) Your blog post was far more effective at showing the differences between writing and editing, which is definitely far more nuanced than "fuck quality control." I agreed with her to a degree, and I definitely agree with you. Looking at the reddit thread of your article, though, you're incorrect about not interacting with your audience. You absolutely did that. And suddenly, once you linked your article, I have become part of your audience. And you're interacting with me. (Good work.) I don't advocate editing just to serve some imagined audience, either. You are your own audience, like it or not. And if your text is unclean, your thoughts incomprehensible, then what use is your blog post, even to yourself? Well-written blogs are far more useful than stream of consciousness ones. I took far more out of your blog post than from the OP. I agree that "giving zero fucks is totally fine", as OP mentions, but polished posts are many times more useful.