By me and for me?

More times than I really want to admit I've noted that the Boidem has eight readers, each of whom I pretty obviously know personally. My Hebrew blog that deals with education and the internet probably has at least a couple of handfuls more, and my static website has (at least in the past) garnered passable viewing. Still, my readership is very limited, and it might make more sense to simply call it quits rather than to invest a bit of money and a bit more time into moving everything to my own domain.

All this pretty much suggests that I don't feel overly uncomfortable writing for myself, though I have to admit that while reading a twenty year old book of essays by Ursula LeGuin I had the uncomfortable feeling that she was writing about me when she wrote:

Without a reader there’s no story. No matter how well written, if it isn’t read it doesn’t exist as a story. The reader makes it happen just as much as the writer does. Writers are likely to ignore this fact, perhaps because they resent it. (The Wave in the Mind, p. 205)

I definitely understand what she wrote, and of course I don't complain if people do read what I write, but I guess that I've been doing this for so long already that the lack of a readership simply doesn't faze me.

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