I feel kind of guilty about the fact that I created this blog days ago, yet I’ve yet to post anything. Is this some kind of internet crime? Like when you create a web page with awesome and totally free computer games with big ‘COMING SOON! CLASSIC GAMES LIKE COMMANDER KEEN AND JILL OF THE JUNGLE AND CHIP’S CHALLENGE!’ and then not add anything to it – and a year later quietly delete the entire web site? BECAUSE THAT IS SO FULL OF FAIL. Since it is unlikely anyone has found my blog yet, or found it particularly interesting (it was basically a blank page) I will jump up and down on any feelings of vague guilt I may have.

The fact is, starting something and not finishing it is one of my great writing sins. From my ‘novel’, that I started at a week short of thirteen years of age, which is now sitting around almost finished but without a climax or conclusion – (because, in my opinion at least, the entire thing is ridiculous and stunningly plotless, despite its strange ability to lure people into reading it) – to the myriad of short stories and book-beginnings that I have sitting around my house. You see, I am great at coming up with ideas. Ideas plague me night and day. I have a journal full of ideas and plots that have never been written, but that I made be able to make something out of some day. But putting to paper something that meets my personal vision, and maintaining it even when the initial enthusiasm wears off, that’s something I have trouble with. You want an example? Well, I’m in an internet cafe right now, but all the same I’m sure I have some old unfinished something sitting on my USB key. Let me see. Ah, here’s one. That was written at least a year ago, and while it started out interestingly, and developed a bit further, I ran out of plot. Details, details, I need to spin some details.  My problems with finishing fic even extend to my somewhat embarrassing writing hobby – Doctor Who and Harry Potter fanfiction. I know what people think of that stuff, but I’m addicted. Most of it is tosh, but when you find the good stuff, it’s so refreshing and original that most published fiction is dull beside it. I do my best to write the refreshing stuff, but I am one of the most cursed of fanfic authors – the irregular and infrequent updater.

I’ll try to do better with this blog. But it’s best to bear my track record in mind, all the same.