Why do I write here?

Clare said, "I worry about you posting stuff too quickly. It makes sense to you, but you only see the meaning you intend. You don't realise that other people would often read a quite different meaning into it. You could get into trouble that way."

Of course she is right. Yesterday's post "A Perfect Day" is a case in point. It was originally ambiguous - and I had to add a whole extra paragraph at the end to disambiguate what I really intended. After she had chided me.

In general I write to understand better what I'm thinking, and to finally dump the thoughts which whirl incessantly in my head - as text - so that I can move on. And then I came across Paul Graham's October 24 essay where he sees considerably more virtue in writing than just that: Writes and Write-Nots.