It’s strange to be starting a new blog. It’s not the first, so perhaps I should get this one right and persevere with it, rather than adding a few posts, leaving it to lie fallow, and then forgetting about it.
The past ones have been a mixed bag:
- Runningpiers.blogspot.com – the first blog I set up, mainly to write about running, but then drifted into topics as diverse as porridge and pop music
- Medium – within which I uploaded my two “playing with my food” photo blogs, and a couple of other experiments
- Vocal – which is just a story I wrote, that was going to be a whole series, but not really a blog
I do also write blogs for work, and most of those are published. No byline though.
But then in the second year of my Creative Writing MA (with the Open University) the course materials suggested creating a blog, and none of those past ones seemed to be the right starting point. So here I am – and here you are!
I’m not sure how much attention this is going to get paid in the short term… I currently have:
- A full time job
- A second voluntary role as a board member for a professional body
- A funeral to arrange and an estate to wind up
- Running to do (two marathons next year hopefully)
- A scrappy first draft of a book to edit
- An MA in Creative Writing to complete
So it might be sporadic at best.
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