What Audience?

I have been writing daily (weekday) entries on this blog now for a couple of weeks, trying to stick to a routine and add something (anything) each day. I’ve not announced this to anyone and I don’t actively promote this blog anywhere and so it is unlikely that anyone I know realizes that I am doing this. If they did know, I think I would probably be asked questions such as ‘Why?’ and ‘Who are you writing for?’. They are not bad questions, and, in essence, they can be summed up by the title of this post: ‘What Audience?’. This could mean who is the audience (intended or otherwise) or it could be meant perhaps disparagingly as a comment that there is actually no audience. At the moment, the latter statement is pretty much true, although I was surprised that the two entries I wrote about running WERE picked up by people out there.

When I consider the question, my own answer is that there is NO intended audience and I really care little about whether there will ever be one. When I used to write on this blog I think I had an idea that I might have some interesting things to communicate and that there might actually be people out there who would appreciate them. Now, whilst I acknowledge that this MIGHT be true, that is not my driver. Basically, I just want to write, and making a decision to try to add something regularly to this blog is simply a way of forcing myself to sit down each day for 15-20 minutes, tap away at the keyboard, and write. If it turns out that I write something interesting then all the better.

So my audience is myself. I am now quite happy adding to this blog just for 1) the writing discipline that it is helping to build and 2) as a way of pulling together random threads in my head. If you are reading this blog then great, if you are enjoying reading it or finding it interesting then double great. I am enjoying writing it and building the site generally.