Why do I even bother? Why do I take the trouble to sit down and write, of all things!, knowing fully well that what I articulate will probably not be as ground-breaking or as eloquent or even as sensible as I would like it to be? What do I get out of it? What do I want out of it? What drives me? What drives writers in general?

Update: Penmanship and me.

Elsewhere:

Short screeds, self syndicated--...wherein I hack into English, and get booted by the wordadmin. The problem I have with amateur link-and-run journalism is that it is long on linking but short on investigation, thereby weakening a key foundational checks-and-balance [...]