Blogging’s Motivations

So I have decided to start this blog.  I am going to remain faithful to this decision.  It was recommended to me by a person in the publishing field.  Is that what I want to do?  Publish?  Sure, who wouldn’t. But I guess, as she said, I have a writers soul likely and I need to write.  I like how she put that.  That means a lot to me. I also feel I have a lot to say.

But I have been thinking about Blogs.  Are they really just a form of self-indulgence?  I would say likely yes which is why I have hesitated for so long to embark on creative non-fiction writing.  My intelligent side would say to me, why would anyone be interested what you have to say?  I don’t know, but why not?  I liked that book, This Time I Dance.  I liked her premise and courage. I recommend it for reading.

So if blogging is self-indulgent, should one embark on such a journey?  Why not, I say.  I guess though, there can be a fine line between self-absorption and information dissemination.   I am hoping to be more of the latter, but with personal life/experience as my foundation.