Back to Blogging

It's been a while but it's about time I got back to blogging! Having moved to London last September I've been so preoccupied with all that comes with a move that I've been neglecting this here blog and the magazine I began last year (BLANKexpression) badly. Now's the time to get back on track, so here I am. With the BAFTA's on in the background I'm working on my homework for the evening course I've just started at LSJ, a creative writing course. I'm loving it so far - after just one lesson - and it's really inspiring me to get writing again. One of the things I've always struggled with is knowing where to start but the writing exercises we've been given so far are getting my creatuve juices flowing. In fact, I've found it quite incredible how easy it's been to write doing these exercises. They're just simple things like writing non-stop for 10 minutes without really thinking about what you're going to write, which sounded impossible to me but which I found actually quite liberating. It's really made me realise that a lot of the problems I've had with writing have been in worrying too much about what I'm writing and how it sounds and in letting that stop me from just writing. Because if writing is what you want to do, you just have to do it!