I do believe we could make DW into a workable LJ, but, as I stated in that essay I wrote for LJ Idol, we all would have to agree to leave here and start using DW exclusively, and it's clear that people don't have the desire to up and leave. Maybe they have their "Account with Permanent package of service" here, and don't want to go back to paying for a yearly account there. Or it's just loyalty to the name. There is a long history for a lot of people in being on this site.
For whatever reason, it's a lock that not everyone is willing to leave LiveJournal, and, just like the founding of the United States, it requires all of the colonies to agree to break free for this to work.
When I worked as a DJ, the bar managers and club owners were especially pained to pay me, and sometimes they not so subtly let me know it. Why? Because from their POV all I was doing was "playing music." I was a glorified jukebox, simply putting on songs. There was no understanding of how I did it, the methodology of it, the talent it took to make the night work. And that's a problem we face. While everyone writes, not everyone is a writer, and that's the distinction that can go overlooked.
The blog form is about writing, there is no doubt. And it's a great place to read other writers, to work on the craft, to hash things out in a kind of think tank. If you want to be a writer you have to write, and write a lot! People who don't want to be writers just wouldn't understand that.
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For whatever reason, it's a lock that not everyone is willing to leave LiveJournal, and, just like the founding of the United States, it requires all of the colonies to agree to break free for this to work.
When I worked as a DJ, the bar managers and club owners were especially pained to pay me, and sometimes they not so subtly let me know it. Why? Because from their POV all I was doing was "playing music." I was a glorified jukebox, simply putting on songs. There was no understanding of how I did it, the methodology of it, the talent it took to make the night work. And that's a problem we face. While everyone writes, not everyone is a writer, and that's the distinction that can go overlooked.
The blog form is about writing, there is no doubt. And it's a great place to read other writers, to work on the craft, to hash things out in a kind of think tank. If you want to be a writer you have to write, and write a lot! People who don't want to be writers just wouldn't understand that.