I keep saying I'm tired of politics, and then I get sucked back in. Maybe I'm just tired of writing about politics. I noticed a friend's site is getting actual random readers, and I wondered why mine doesn't. Then I remembered a few things:

1. I never started this blog with the intention of picking up any readers at all, I started it to motivate me to write.
2. I never really spend much time, effort, or thought on what I write here, and hardly ever do any research to back up my claims, which are things I need to do if I want lots of people to read this blog. But I don't, so it doesn't matter. Scott seems to really put a lot of time and thought in to his posts, and I congratulate him for his burgeoning success. It's just not my goal.
3. This leads me to a logical fallacy in my plan. If I'm not trying to write as well as I can (and I realize most of my writing on here is crap compared to the quality with which I write offline), then what's the point of having a blog as an encouragement to get me to write more? If I want to write more serious, quality prose, then I need to do it, and stop making excuses. Having a bunch of random political rants has not in any way helped my writing style or ability.

What does this mean for this blog? Probably nothing, but at least I can no longer use the excuse that I've written on my blog to keep me from writing more offline. I honestly feel that when I write prose, my style is pretty darn good. All my teachers have certainly thought so. Is it good enough to make a living at writing? Not alone. I still need content, and that's always my problem. I can never think of any stories I really want to tell. Now that I'm going to be starting grad school, I will have even less time to write. On the other hand, I've often found in my life that the less slack-off time I have, the more I make use my slack-off time to be productive.