Another Kind of Echo

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I like to weave back and forth between fantasy writing as a genre, and the subject of writing as a whole. Of course, this is a personal blog too — I'm a person, and I'm blogging, so that only fits, right? It's my hope that in the future as I get more of my stories out and people realize they can come here for an open dialogue — as opposed to my current habit of chasing all the spambots around with a chainsaw — that I'll be able to show more exclusive bits and pieces. I don't have to worry (yet?) about exclusivity, about what I can and can't release to the viewing public, and I don't have to worry about any legal wrangling about what I want to share with anyone who wants to see it.

But the fact of the matter is that for right now, this blog is still in "echo mode" — I shout off what I want to tell to the rest of the Internet, and for the most part it flows out and fades away, lost and forgotten into the ether. I've had some very nice people willing to stop by and drop a comment or two, which of course gives me all sorts of thrills, but for now those are the exception, not the rule. If I'm in this game for the long haul, it means staying patient and waiting for things to develop organically … or not at all, maybe. Who knows?

Have you ever written anything just for the sake of writing it, without knowing who (or if anyone at all) would see it?