Writing a blog is a personal choice and peoples motivation varies. Most like myself, often site an enjoyment of writing as a primary factor. It could therefore be argued that for a purist blogger, who was not in anyway driven by matters of ego, would not care if their blog remained unread. However, many of us also write as a means to communicate our passion for something. Therefore an audience, comments and feedback are important.

I recently condensed all my online writing into one site, simply to make it more manageable. I like to write fairly regularly but sometime this can be quite difficult in itself. We all have lives and real world commitments. There can also be periods when our subject of choice does not present anything immediate to write about. Then of course, there is the dreaded writer's block, where you know that you have an erudite, insightful and pithy post just bursting to come out but the fingers and keyboard says "no".

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