Another year, another new years resolution or two to shortly fall by the wayside...
Like updating your blog on a more regular basis, for example.
As anyone who looks at this blog can attest (although if there were any to begin with, I'd be amazed if there still are now, what with the tumble weeds and mothballs which no doubt appear on the screen when you visit), I've been on a bit of an unpredicted posting hiatus. A combination of factors have contributed to this stagnation; namely a lack of time, a common affliction of, well, the entire human population (so no real excuse there), and good, old-fashioned writers block. Empty brain equals empty pages. Well, creatively empty anyway...There's a lot of other bits and pieces drifting about up there...basic arithmetic, my home address, random facts about alpacas, etc.
Anyway, the point is, I return to my blog with a hopeful, but more cautious, commitment to updating it. But seeing as I've just pondered the "empty brain, empty page" quandary, what this really means is that in future when I try to write and think, "Damn, the well is dry! Dry as a parrots tongue!" (parrots and most other birds don't salivate, thus, dry tongues--behold, ladies and gentlemen, one of the aforementioned random facts, though not about alpacas in this particular instance), I will endeavour to post something explaining that this is what's going on, and that I haven't just woken up one morning and thought "I'm running away to Mongolia! My blog? Screw it! Leave them guessing!" That's the plan anyway. The explanatory post, that is, not the Mongolia bit. Not that that plan is without merit...
So after much ado and rambling (hey, it's in the title of the blog, you can't say you weren't forewarned), I shall post a new story directly after this; dust off the cobwebs and, hopefully, enjoy!
Well blogging, we meet at last. I’ve had mixed feelings about the practice of blogging since I first heard of it and thought “Really? That’s the name you’re sticking with?” But it has finally reached a point where I think, well why not? Now I’ve never kept a blog, and I don’t actually know that much about them despite being part of “that generation” that should apparently have a manual of some sort in their brain for all basic computer programs and functions, in which case I don’t know if there’s some sort of formula to blog posts or some kind of blog management etiquette, but I’m sure I’ll figure things out. I only mention it so that if there are accidentally 20 posts in a row of the same thing or something you’ll be forewarned of the experimentation and learning period in progress.
So, the theoretical point of this blog is to be somewhere for me to post things that I write. And I do mean ‘things’ because I tend to write short snippets of fiction, though sometimes there are short stories and such too. I suspect most of my posts will come from an intriguing book I have which is called ‘642 Things To Write About’. It’s simply a collection of short (anywhere from a couple of sentences to just a word) starter phrases designed to get you thinking and writing. For instance, “The greatness of sandwiches” or, “Go to a café and closely watch two people interact. Then write a scene about to people in a café” or “Create an imaginary friend (human or not)” (I have high hopes for a hedgehog being involved in this one), and so forth. As you can see, they’re diverse, so posts on here could be pretty random. Just the way we like it I say. I imagine there will also be some first-person posts from me, who can say? But when things come from “the book” I’ll use the prompt as the post heading and then my writing about it as the body of the post (I say confidently, like I’ve already mastered my heading/post functions).
I’m not sure yet how often I will post something because I’m not sure yet how this blog and I will feel about one another, but I will try to post with reasonable frequency because, really, it’s just stagnating and taking up space in the ether otherwise. That being said, welcome to my blog invisible people!
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