I watched this video of Seth Godin yesterday, talking about rules he lives by. One of them is to blog every day, not because you will garner millions of pageviews or loyal followers, but because that’s how you develop your voice. You blog because you blog, not because you are doing whatever it takes to bump your stats.
It echoes Neil Gaiman in his commencement speech Make Good Art. You make art because it’s what you have to do to exist, rather than a project for the sake of a project that needs to go online and be promoted and be noticed and be shared until you catch a break.
Both videos have cut through a lot of my recent vacillating about blogging and making art in general.
So, here I am. Writing just for today. And making art.
