Laundry blogging

[kitchen_kink]

I've figured out that most folks have moved on from Livejournal at this point, and everyone's scattered across the four winds - Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Dreamwidth. What this does for me, though, is interesting; it begins to restore this space to a place where not so many people are watching. I feel it frees me up again to write what I feel, and also to write things I know will probably be dull to others. It makes this space feel more like a journal and less like a blog - the latter being a place where I feel some responsibility to write well and with my audience in mind.

It's been too long since I've simply written whatever's in my head or whatever's going on just as a way to keep a record, and I think I just figured out that the reason for that is less that I don't have time or that other, shorter-attention-span services have taken over, nor even that I'm happier and so I write less. I think I've gotten out of the laundry-blogging habit because I've held myself to too high a standard.

Well, this little journal is probably about to go from quiet to loud but dull, so if you're still reading, thanks, and I do love comments. But I think I'll be making a shift from that being its primary purpose.

Comments

[wotw]

I'll be here reading.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[veedub.livejournal.com]

still lurking and reading; occasionally i feel moved to post something not a blog which has impressed me.

LJ is like a nice quiet reading room at a library, as opposed to google+, which is like a coffee-house with tons of conversations going on at once, or facebook, which is like TV news, only not as informative. more like TV commercials, come to think of it.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Yes. This.

[dpolicar]

The thing I've always liked about LJ's model is that it encourages lots of little conversational nooks rather than a single conversational ocean. So by all means, do your own thing! I will be reading.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. And thanks for being here.

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

Yep, that. Been meaning to figure out the setup so it posts to both Dreamwidth and LJ, but even that requires figuring out who made the transition from one to the other and is still reading, so it's been low on the priority list.

Keep writing, I'll keep reading, and do my best to toss out something worthwhile now and then myself.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I always enjoy reading you.

Hey. Want to become writing buddies again? The group format never quite worked out for me, not knowing the other members. But it might be nice just to trade stuff back and forth with one person whose opinion I respect and work I enjoy. Also, artificial deadlines ftw. What think you?

[desireearmfeldt]

Some of us still prefer LJ... :)

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

And I'm one.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I tend to post to Dreamwidth and copy here, as a back-up, but all my reading happens here. I glance at Facebook from time to time, but not regularly. So yes, I'll be reading here and delighted with whatever you choose to post.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Yay. Thanks.

[omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com]

I hope that you find something here that works for you. Laundry-blog away!

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Yee-haaaaa, laundry!

Um.

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

LJ is still where I go for journalstuffs. I'll keep reading, s'long as ya wants me to.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Thankye.

[cos]

I want everyone I know to stay on LJ.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

*Vorlon chants*
We have always been here.

I have yet to obtain an account of Dreamwidth or Twitter.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

I'm still reading!

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

I'm not leaving LJ because in many ways it's still home. It's still where a lot of people I know in real life are. Stuff.

I'm glad you're feeling free to write what you feel.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I always enjoy reading you, too.

[fanw.livejournal.com]

I'm appreciating the reduced traffic on LJ. I still prefer its length to FB, Google +, or certainly twitter, and now I can finally keep up!

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Trufax!

[sothe.livejournal.com]

I agree with you on the quiet nature of LJ being a good thing, which is why i am still here, and still writing... and of course, still reading! never met you in person, but Im glad you're back. :)

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[greendalek.livejournal.com]

Still here, still reading. LJ remains my home for substantive posts --FB is confined mostly to art business and occasional weather reports or sporting event comments. No matter the venue, I'm a longtime fan of the words 'wot you set down.

(Happier lives DO make for less-absorbing writing, don't they? --grin-- As Tolkein puts it: "Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.")

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

I do love his style. :)

[much-ado.livejournal.com]

I'm still here and reading as well, though Real Life is rapidly changing what I think I want to write about in any of the forae I traverse. I like the comment above that likens LJ to a library and FB to TV commercials; given how I've come back to using LJ for my own more introspective writings, I think the return of the higher signal-to-noise ratio here makes it worth sticking around.