Hello 'New' World.

At various points in my life so far I've considered writing a blog. At first this was because I loved writing short stories, often about a stuffed tiger toy I owned. These were imaginatively entitled 'Tiger's Travels'. Yes, I was cute, once. These were fun, simple stories that I thought would be cool to share with people. But bearing in mind this was back in the days of primary school, when we had very little computer access, and even less experience with word processing or internet publishing, and it is understandable that I didn't really get into blogging at this young age. Instead I wrote these and other short stories down in a little notebook given to me by one of my great-aunts- until I lost it :'(

Next was the 'Myspace stage', somewhere between the ages of 6-10, where I would collate all of the funny pictures or YouTube videos that I had stumbled across when using my local libraries' computers. I had collected some hilarious videos, let me assure you; but with the passage of time- and the forgetting of login details- that wonderful fore-runner of modern humour websites was lost for good. Shame.

In Secondary School,  from time to time, we were told that writing blogs was a good way to build up our personal writing skills as they were essentially a diary that we would be sharing with the public, giving us some sense of good-manners and propriety in the process. I was too busy reading, or playing football during this period to pay much attention to this suggestion, so this one kind of passed me by, but I trust my literary skills did not suffer; too much, at least.

The first written blogging I tried was in the later years of Secondary School and in the early part of Sixth Form. However, with my workload, this faded into nonexistence just as its predecessors had done. I wrote some short little commentaries on literary pieces, something that interested and still interests me greatly, but I found my peers were more interested in celebrity affairs (yes, that word has dual meaning), football teams or the latest run-and-gun first person shooter games, which at that point I didn't particularly feel like writing about.

I'm now at University, and it has dawned on me that a great way of building up a portfolio of writing for future use or at least giving me a way to practice writing in my downtime is to start a blog, and hopefully stick with it this time! I can't promise that I'll write often, and I can't give a catch-all statement as to what my content might be about, but I love linguistics, literature, music, science, some video games, internet shenanigans and a bit of dry humour every now and then. If any of those things interest you, feel free to keep an eye out.

M