Jackie wrote:

But one *does* have an audience: one's self. And while picturing things in one's head is indeed easy, it's also ephemeral and, unless scribbled down, forgotten. The advantage to writing, even if no one else ever sees it, is that you get to read your thought pictures as well as think them and this engages more of the brain. Writing makes the transient imaginings real, nails them down. Yes, writing is hard work, but it can also become a compulsion, an activity difficult to tear yourself away from.

That's pretty much my own view. Though I love to entertain myself seeing or writing stories in my head as I go about my normal life, my chief hobby is writing fanfic and original stories for an imaginary audience which includes myself.. I've only recently re-embarked on writing B7 stories in any serious way, and though I enjoy them, I'm by no means sure my efforts come up to the standard of some of the fic I've read in zines and on-line. But I hope I'm improving. If you don't entertain yourself on some level, how can you hope to entertain others?

Mel

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