Ups and downs

I guess there are many different reasons why people write blogs, maybe as many reasons as there are people doing it! I also guess that each writer has a number of aims in doing what they do and publishing it on their blog.

So why do I write here? The main reason is that I love writing, and blogging is one way of having an audience, but also practising my craft. It’s the London Marathon next week and all across the country (and maybe across the world too) people are in training for it; in a similar way I feel as if my writing here is practising and training and keeping up my creative fitness  – obviously running a marathon is a lot harder than sitting here writing, but every day I am here at my desk. Writing is the first thing I do, and it’s the last thing I do each day; when I am not at my keyboard I am writing in my head, just as those pursing some physical activity are encouraged to visualise their game, so I mentally rehearse what my characters are doing, looking at the scenes from different perspectives, over and over again.

So, I think I work hard at my writing; I enjoy it, I love it, it’s my main focus and it’s what I do, but I need perseverance and stamina. However, it does puzzle me with my blogs how some have more views and comments than others; over the last week, I don’t seem to have had the same interest from readers… I’m not as much disheartened as puzzled… what makes some things I write on a topic more popular than other things I write on the same topic?  Ups and downs, ups and downs…

Back to work, back to writing!!