The other day I received a paypal gift from an old h2g2 friend with a note saying “With thanks for the beauty of your writing”.
And well … huh? When I told him that I didn’t think my writing was anything special, that I’m just “talking” and putting the words down he replied with this…
I’m not sure what it is about your writing, but I find it no chore to read. It’s invisible writing, if you know what I mean. It doesn’t call attention to itself by either ostentation or awkward sentence structure or grammatical sloppiness. It cleanly and efficiently gets your thoughts across. And your thoughts are interesting, so that’s good.
Anyhow, I wanted to share this, not to boast about my “beautiful writing” or fish for compliments, but to show that you never know who is reading your blog and what they are getting out of your posts, or how much they are enjoying them. Especially as it seems a lot of people read blogs without ever leaving a comment and so often it may seem like we are writing in a void. So I am also reminded to leave comments more often myself.
What’s your reading to commenting ratio?
Most of you know how rich I have been in gifts these past couple of years since I got sick. Gifts of all sorts – friendship, money, presents, visits, and especially patience & understanding – and of course a lot of this sort of generosity usually can’t be paid back in kind. But you can pay it forward.
