on blogging

So I have had a livejournal account for quite a while now - but I don't feel that I have a journal at all. I allow myself to write freely from time to time, but how do you remove the audience? And is the goal even to remove the audience. After all, if I were just writing for myself, then obviously a blog isn't the appropriate place. Sharing, feedback, and divergent ideas are all aspects of blogging. But somewhere in the last few years livejournal seemed to have become a requirement in the circle of people I know. And instead of a place for interesting and intriguing writing, it has become instead a daily account of when and where people do anything and everything. Don't get me wrong, I'm interested in what is going on in some of these people's lives - but quite frankly I don't want to know what the majority of you had for breakfast, or at what time it exited your body.

And when almost anyone and everyone that you come in contact with in any social way are all connected via one network - no longer for an appreciation for one's writings, but rather an extension of socializing - there will be drama. And sometimes it feels that to avoid drama is to avoid writing. And that wasn't the intent of blogging when I first started.

So I've considered for a while actually starting another blog and not really mentioning it to many people (or possibly nobody at all) and instead just write - and if people drift in that's great. If not, that will be great too. The plan can come later, but for nowI just want to be able to get some thoughts out.