A slightly peculiar introduction...

I like writing, and I'm supposedly building a career on my ability to construct coherent sentences and form a narrative with a few short words. It seems a natural progression to write a blog, and everybody seems to be at it. From my musical idols, through witty and scathing reviews of TV programmes, to the over-sharing and pretentious blogs of my acquaintances, writing a blog has become the accepted method of validating your existence either as a writer, or just as a tech-savvy and interesting person.

I've flirted with blogs many times, setting up more than one account to write film reviews, political comment or just personal anecdotes, and have always had good feedback on my writing. However, I tend to lose interest after a few weeks and the blog goes unused for a few months before I remember it exists and finally delete all evidence. Friends constantly tell me to keep up with the writing as a means to cultivate a rolling online portfolio, and this is seemingly now an accepted route to a job in the media industry. My problem is that I can't seem to conjure up the enthusiasm to maintain a regular blog. I can Twitter 'til the cows come home, and constantly update Facebook, but as ridiculous as it sounds I feel like there is too much pressure with a full-form blog. It's silly really, I don't have many issues with wittering on for ages on a given subject, and I always excelled at uni (and now in evening college) on writing extended articles and essays, but with a public audience I have a tendency to clam up and over-think what I am writing (I'm doing it now, analysing every word).

Saying all that, I'm going to give it another try. This time I'll try not to let it fall by the wayside, and will endeavour to regularly update this thing with reviews, rants, or whatever springs to mind at the time. I have a shiny new MacBook Pro, which should provide a little extra encouragement to sit down and type things out. And yes, I'm fully prepare to eat my words in a couple of months time...