Wrong Room, Right Question
Well… this is awkward.
I Think I’m a Few Years Late to the Party 😅
I recently returned to writing with a simple thought:
Why do we write?
So I did what seemed perfectly logical.
I wrote my little reflection and published it in Freewriters.
There was only one tiny detail I had missed:
The Freewriters had already moved to CCC.
Apparently, I did what writers sometimes do best: I wrote first and understood the context later.
So here I am — finally in the right place.
My original thought is still sitting quietly where I left it, like a little message in a bottle waiting to be found.
Why Do I Write?
https://steemit.com/hive-161155/@ibesso/peminsight-notes-on-creativity-01-em-p
Perhaps a question can survive even when we accidentally leave it in the wrong room.
And perhaps the interesting part begins when someone else walks in.
P.S. Apparently, even a message left in the wrong room can still find someone.
@hive-107855 was the only one — apart from my faithful bots — who noticed Why Do I Write?
Someone found my little message in a bottle after all.
Thank you for picking it up.
People rarely find a message through a community unless it has a certain topic. If anyone follows you and is interested at all in what you write they find your post in the feed if followers.
Your reflection is still not clear to me. Was a test to find out how many still are interested in you after you left?
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No, it wasn’t a test. 😊
After such a long time, I simply felt like writing again. Many things have changed here, and perhaps I have changed too.
I started again with a very simple question: Why Do I Write? Maybe because I’m looking for a new answer myself.
I posted in the old Freewriters because it was the place I remembered. Only afterwards did I discover that you had all moved here.
I’ll try to explore the Steemit network again, discover what it has become, and encounter thoughts and people I don’t know yet. I’m looking for new answers — and probably new questions too.
But I have to confess something: I was hoping you would comment. I’ve always found your thoughts stimulating and constructive, even when they made me look at things from a different perspective.
So, since you’re here, let me return to the question that started all this: why do you write?
By now I write out of a habit, because I started something and as you can notice I paint more than I write. Hardly any stories I post these days (read: months). Who knows I'll give up on this platform and just keep the server running to support all users.
It’s curious: I came back because I felt the desire to write again, while you, who stayed, tell me that now you mostly write out of habit.
But perhaps you never really stopped telling stories. You simply changed language: your paintings are as beautiful as your words.
Is it writing that no longer calls you the way it used to, or is it this place that no longer gives you the same reasons to write?
This place for sure changed it is mainly focused on gaming, greed and badly written diaries. It hard for me to write stories unless I speak them.
I don't believe this place appreciates good writers,story and art.