Why am I creating a blog?

Well, I had been thinking about doing it for a long time but with so many out there I wasn't sure what I could bring to the table, if anything.

Then I had a meeting with a journalist and he told me, at this stage it doesn't matter who reads your work because if there is nothing to read then what's the point?

I am about to graduate from my journalism and creative writing course and start living in the real world. I want to do my masters and eventually my PHD so I can go on to teach at university but I know, if I don't get out of education now then I will probably be here for the rest of my life. I can always go back to a masters once I have had a taste of the world of work. It will probably make my future academic work better too.

As for what am I going to write about? Well, I will avoid using the tired old oyster cliché for that. There are so many things that interest me about the world and the people in it that I will never run out of things to write about and however many people read my thoughts and share them, I hope it is worthwhile to them as well as me.

But encase you want to know, here is a preliminary list of topics that obsess me:

• Education
• Gender issues
• Fangirl/boy topics (Marvel movies, comics, BBC series, LOTR to name a few)
• History
• Documentaries
• Politics (from all angles)
• Newspapers and current events
• The Arts
• Poetry
• Literature
• Rock/metal music (Particularly ‘Disturbed’)

I will be posting an issue of the day followed by a poetry/prose reading that has caught my eye and I will end the day with a rant about the fangirl/boy issue that has caught the attention of that obsessive corner of the internet I live in, this week.

I am graduating soon and starting my own adventure, this blog will be a big part of that journey and I hope that at least some intrepid explorers of the World Wide Web will join me.