‘Keeping’ is the term employed for those who write blogs. They keep them in the way diaries are ‘kept’, for mainly private and personal reasons. They are kept close to the chest and not given out at arms length. A book is written and offered more at arm’s length.
On the one hand a blog is more public than a diary however, the readership is only marginally larger than what a diary attracts. This is what my ‘traffic’ records testify most days of the week.
I keep a blog to cultivate my thoughts but they are not honed in the way a broader publication requires. ‘Publication’ requires filters, editorial control and an overview. Publication exposes the writing to a harsher light. The writing needs to survive the scrutiny of more critical readers.
The blog writer is an amateur writer and cannot accept a ‘writer’ status.
I will never be ‘publication ready’ as I have run out of time to grow there.
Open and closed options
I would like to have had the patience and focus to write a book, write and illustrate children’s books as Norman Lindsay was able to do. And others.
Instead, with the blog writing I have only cultivated my thinking from which I can better grow sculpture.
It doesn’t really matter what I think, or anybody thinks and even ‘time’, which had previously been the most reliable examiner is not having the best century.
We only do the things we do because we fail to pause long enough to ask ourselves why we do them.