The Purpose of Writing

Andy Weissman

That’s one of the great things about songwriting; it’s not an intellectual experience. One might have to apply the brain here and there, but basically it’s capturing moments

- Keith Richards

The first blog post I ever wrote, in 2006, was simply listing the poem Resemblance, by David Ferry:

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I started then, using one of the original pieces of read/write software - Blogger, code originally written in 1999, acquired by Google in 2003, rarely updated since then, but still used by me in 2023.

My writing has slowed down when I approached it as an intellectual exercise. Yet, maybe it's not dissimilar to songwriting - capturing moments. Let's see.

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