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I did something that I think was similar for a while, and really loved how it looked/worked. But for me there's no look or way of organizing or being gaudy or minimalist that compensates for my needing to know my mind's jigglings converted to words hung out to be potentially espied lead to similar jigglings in others', so I gave up on it.
I don't need agreement/consensus, just a recurring sense of being briefly on the same conceptual page as another or others, no matter how briefly. Sans that, posts quickly seem like stray plastic grocery bags quivering tattered ugly in trees, bushes, and corners where wind gusts conjure miniature cyclonic leaf & co. displays....
you know, you write very well Inquiry. Good to see that. Anywhere.
As for me, I sort of melded my mind from 8 years old (or so) on forward to not only write often, but w/o audience, as (as mentioned (somewhere) on here) that the Web was not around when I began to fill Three Subject notebooks (Mead!). So I suppose the ilk and juice and gist of the writing (and what I derive from it all) is there for me with or without knowledge or assumption of someone having read it. Or not read it, in this case.
There's a ring and show and shine to writing online, though. People can (not always) have input to the words, as valu(able) or valu(less) as they could be, and at least have the undeniable stance of "here's what I say - good or bad - but upper-hand is yours on the surface, because I (meaning they, the reader) is reading YOU (meaning the writer)" regardless of the response they have.
But then another nuance spits in my, your, anyone's lane: that of "to be read, not to be read" and consolidating a response from others, or lack thereof, and in the formidable mind of *becoming* one who writes, constant "return" or feedback will do near nothing to (self)enable one to JUST write. A lot of what gets put online (and elsewhere) today is that of "chopped up", outer-influenced writing tones. Having a mind and approach to writing that entails being in the Quiet Offline will let one dial-in to sincere narratives, consistent dialogues (though, not always dialogue in spoken-word fiction with characters, but the dialogue of thought, in a sense), and just more candid forms of self-expression or self indulgence or whatever.
People can choose their poison, but I find more fulfillment and just satiation with whatever I write (when I do, I am still far less frequent than pre-2022) when it's just me.
so it is