User blog comment:Krayfish/A New Audience/@comment-1763826-20120324154300/@comment-1763826-20120401024133

Wow... I just got finished with the busiest week of the semester... Finals week has less things to get done than this past week. Okay so...

The main thing about writing for yourself is that you don't get paid to write for yourself. Writing for yourself will not get you any attention or followers of any kind. Writing for yourself means you don't even consider for a second writing something or anything with the sole purpose of giving someone else something to read (much like I offered to write this page for you all). Writing for yourself is in no way an artform, because art is a form of self-expression; the very concept of it implies that you do intend to show someone else, that's where the idea of expression comes from.

It's noble to make the attempt to avoid sacrificing what you want to write for what others want to read; but I will argue to you that writing only for yourself and ignoring what others want you to write is just as bad. What do you think of an artist, or any performer that ignores everything that his or her fanbase wants in favor of doing what he or she wants?

As a Creative Writing Major, I am writing for somebody; but not just somebody, everybody: including myself. I DO, I absloutely DO want to write something that people want; but that doesn't mean that I have stopped writing because it's something I want to do.