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[jack]

Do you like reading your own writing?

My LJ or newsgroup comments always seem a bit pointless. My diary LJ entries show fairly well what I was doing at the time. Emails I sent generally turn out to be nice enough, but I was never as polite as I thought I was in official emails, and in social chatty emails the contact was nice but the content not as urgent as we thought at the time :)

In essays I generally find I may have been interesting, but wasn't putting over a thought as coherently as I might, more writing a connected series of things.

But in fiction or witterings of any sort, I always find myself much more entertained than anyone else ever seemed, as if I were narcissisticly my own favourite author.

See this post about a dangerous stellar radiation source. No-one else commented at all, but *I* thought I brought it off very well :)

Comments

[pavanne.livejournal.com]

I enjoy reading my own LJ; that's most of the reason why I write it. (Also for practical reasons like finding out 'so when did I last give blood?' or 'When did I last take holiday?' which I can never remember).

The advantage of reading back later is that over time it disinclines one from huge melodrama posts, which are embarrassing to read back. (It doesn't entirely prevent these, for what is the use of a diary which doesn't try to capture just a little of the passion of the moment?). It's also slightly revealing - it scares me how certain themes (particularly money) recur in my LJ with what seems to me disproportionate frequency.

So no, I don't think you're being overly narcissistic at all, though people who don't understand the whole blog/ diary thing are entitled to their own opinions.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. I have chosen to cut out all melodrama, just because it never goes well, a one-line (often private) summary does just as well in retrospect. I don't always enjoy reading, though it's always interesting to know.

Anything recurring often is a good hint :)

Enjoying it is good, if you can manage it. And it's helped IMMENSELY to place dates, of course.

(I didn't really feel *very* narcissistic, but had to self-efface a little, or I'd just be posting "mwahaha" :))