Do I care if no one ever reads/buys my work and/or thinks it’s terrible? I might care….a bit. But it won’t stop me from writing. I have very rarely shown my work to anyone, ever, so how much different could it be? One of the people I used as a character in a story I wrote forever ago is gone, and I have only shown a few people my writing in 20 years. I think I would like people to like what I write, or to find it interesting, discover a new perspective, that sort of thing, but if they don’t love it, that will be ok. It’s not ready yet, so who knows! I think I have been dwelling on the fact that none of my writing is “Ready” yet and as I was compiling my handwritten pages into files and my typed pages into online files, it was funny to see how much I have written over the years. SO, sometime in the next 12 months I am going to publish…..something. I have some ideas; there are a few things that could be made ready sooner, so those may be first. Maybe something I write for NaNoWriMo will edge them out and that is ok too.
Really, in the long run, this is all just for fun, and to get the stories out of my head. I am also learning a lot and there is something to be said for that. Some people play softball or golf, I write.