you write really well!! and it's probably what you write about that elicits such effusive responses. very much of the real. somewhere someone such as myself is very much detached from.

do i then write for myself or for others? or hope that somewhere along the way it coincides by fancy?

do you write because you love writing? or because you want people to love your writing, and even if they don't will you still write? for yourself or for others to fuel that love of writing?