In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked
because writing is a good skill to have professionally.
also, you have the itch, so why care if people read?
I was an honors English student. I am a good writer. But I don’t write for myself, I write to communicate with people.