Writing

Why write?
Why does everyone bother to write?

Is it the old keeping a diary thing?

Does it help keep you sane?

I guess in the olden days women (and men I suppose) who didn't have a friend or an outlet for
creativity might have chosen to keep a diary or write novels.

I used to write letters. I was fifteen when I started seeking out pen pals.

I also collected labels of wine companies. I used to write to companies around the world
and request copies of labels from their products. Just an excuse to write letters really.
I had to save up for the cost of the paper, envelopes and stamps.

I still have a collection of some of those labels. Somewhere.
I wonder if I could sell them on Ebay?

How many blogs are there out there on the internet?

"The man in the spa".

Good title for a blog I reckon.

Two of us were at a work conference and we went to the spa at the resort and there was a married
couple using the spa. He had a full time job with an aviation company but he had a blog.
He wrote about "medical" topics.
"You don't need to know about a topic. You don't need to know how to write." Very earnestly.
"You sign up with x company and pay $20 and you keep all the money you earn from commissions.
And you get your templates from y website and post everyday."

I still can't work out how he made money out of this but he was definitely trying to sign us  up.

Since I work for a company who copywrite this encounter was fairly amusing.
The phrase "the man in the spa" came up regularly in our planning meetings over the next two days.

Now I am writing a blog.
About nothing, just musing "on paper" I would have said in the not quite so olden days.