The Ringtail

Well, as Jim Anchower would have it, “It’s been a long time since I rapped at ya”. I’ve been moving across to a new job and closing down my business over the last couple of months or so, and I’ve had some time to reflect on what I have and have not got time to do. I’ve decided that writing is one of the things I will make time to do, and this blog is one place I intend to do just that. I’m entering NaNoWriMo this year so I need somewhere to flex my pen as I prepare for the off. It’s a philosophical tract about zombies, since you ask.

But what to write about?

I’ve been putting off writing here as my posts have been rather fishing based of late, and I didn’t have anything I wanted to say about that. For some reason I was worried about putting people off if they turned up to read of my heroic struggle against the piscine inhabitants of the Milton Keynes General Area, only to find me rambling on and on about text editors (again). I also didn’t want to put anyone off who is really, really into text editors, but couldn’t care less what float and weights I used to land that unremarkable fish that I forgot to take a photo of a week ago last saturday. In reality, most of what I write is appealing to a niche audience of about one, and I only ever re-read when the post hits my aggregator and I do a last sanity check for typos anyway.

So here’s the plan. I will write every day, I will post it here, and I will write about whatever takes my fancy. I’m not going to imagine I have an audience, or that I should be trying to cultivate one. I would like people to read what I write, of course, but I think that will only happen when I write about what I want to, not while I’m trying to guess what other people might want to read. Mostly it’ll be fishing, noisy music, mac geek, zombies, photos and work – please let me know if any of it is interesting.

To paraphrase the mighty David St Hubbins, I hope you enjoy my new direction(s).

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