It's been a while

So given that I said I would not leave this blog hanging at the wayside, I seem to be doing a pretty poor job so far. It's been a very busy couple of weeks/months and every effort I have made (or at least planned to have made) has been foiled by looming deadlines and scary enrolment choices for my next year of university study.

None of these issues have gone away, and I am still very much weighed down by essays- I have one currently on the idea of the 'rhetoric of antithesis' as applied to the Moriscos of Spain and the transplanted Irish- but I desperately feel the need to post something, ANYTHING, to keep this blog alive.

So, here we are. This post serves somewhat as a prompt to get me writing again, but also it helps me to test out some new auto-posting rules which I have applied to the blog, which should help me to get things up a lot quicker. Furthermore, I can use this opportunity to shamelessly plug/ make people aware of my new twitter account, ironically to be found by the handle ' @WriterNamedMatt '. I am likely to post spontaneously and irrelevantly on this account, as I think is the norm, and hopefully this will spur me to chase up ideas with which I can write fully formed blog pieces in the future. Feel free to follow me on there.

I do have a couple of interesting ideas I want to explore at some point. Among them are the application of quantum physics to Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (about as crazy as it sounds, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around my own train of thought before writing) and 'why the world needs ukulele' (which might be self evident, but I think someone should put it in words).

I have been doing a fair bit of work for my creative writing portfolio, in poetry and moreso in screenwriting as of late, so you may see snippets of that popping up every now and then. I'm planning to do some reviews of the resources that I use to help with my writing, whether educational websites, screenwriting software or places to find inspiration. Since I have exams coming up in the not too distant future, I may revisit some of my old revision sites and give a quick overview of those, which will hopefully be useful to anyone looking for good cramming corners.

Alright, signing off for now. Hopefully speak to you soon.