Who needs updates?

This blog does, that’s who. It occurs to me that since i last “wrote”, I have attended two fairly major swing events, celebrated my birthday, joined a second knitting circle, joined forces with our local swing dance non-profit group, and watched my favorite time of spring arrive and then begin to sneak away into summer.

I wish I knew who I was writing this for. Writing anything without a target audience is a little bit like mindless data entry. You’re not entirely sure who it’s benefiting, why you’re bothering, and whether it’s worth the effort you’re putting into it. Is anyone benefiting from these words? Am I?

Even if no one but me reads this, I need to have some goal in mind when I write - a greater purpose than simply committing words to the screen and sending them forth into the aether. When I first started this iteration of B.A., the goal was to have a place to talk about my knitting, my writing, my reading and my gaming. (Oh, and my dancing. I do that from time to time, don’t I?) I’m still doing all of these things (with the exception of the writing, which is plodding along at the slow rate of a few words a millennium), but I’m not sure who doesn’t already know me cares much about them. For that matter, I’m not sure how many of the people I know care about them.

The eternal struggle: is there really a reason for me to have a blog when everyone and their grandmother has one? Shouldn’t I just call it quits and devote myself to finishing the novels? Am I being a defeatist? Is there any worth to be gleamed from these words? How many rhetorical questions can I ask in this paragraph, anyways?