Publication

Not all or even most of my writings need be read by eyes other than my own. In my notes are several stories and drafts that for a reason the public eye will never know. Writing is a medium of creation and, like all media of creation, has various purposes, the only one universal to all media being to express thought in a tangible, permanent form.

When I write I do it for different, oft-overlapping purposes — to organise my ideas, to record my mundane activities and musings, to please myself, and to practice writing itself. I have it that my writings created for the latter two purposes remain private, but often publish those created for the former two. The reason is simple — my individual writings serve, to me, different purposes.

The thought that unpublished works are wasted works bothers me often; but then I remind myself that I can always write more and publish whatever of that I feel is worthy of publication.