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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

[robhu.livejournal.com]

I enjoy your posts.

[mair_in_grenderich]

I suppose if you succeed in writing things down how you meant them to be, you *ought* to enjoy your own posts - they should perfectly match your sense of humour, etc, etc.

In the same way, I have a suspicion that most of my LJ icons entertain me far more than anyone else.

One or two of the things you have written I *really* liked (and have commented on at the time) ... but I don't know if they're the ones you specially like or not.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

I love my own writing. I could read my own bloig / old diaries for ages.

Amusingly I was reading an old discussion on toothywiki once, and was about to add my opinion when I realised the next person had beautifully, clearly and wryly made exactly the points I was about to make. Gosh, thought I, only to be even more amazed to get to the end and find out it was written by me a year or two previously.

So yes, I love my own writing even when I don't know it is my writing.

That's not to say your writing isn't good though!

[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.

[chess]

I like reading my own writing.