Anyone reading this won’t know me from Adam. I’m the one wearing a small fig leaf. Adam is completely naked.
The fig leaf is my avatar - a lovely word, look it up in a dictionary.
It’s like the shy actor who, when he dons his costume, can perform in public.
Some facts:
My son started writing a blog and being a complete pain in the arse, I nagged him into letting me do a guest blog. I had heard of blogging but had never read one and I didn’t want to be left out. That was 28th February 2007.
By the 10th of April he had had enough of the cuckoo in his nest and he very kindly set me up with my own blog.
My first appeared on the 16th of April and I’ve posted something everyday since.
A blog can be used to vent, relieve and assess [and loads of other things as well, but I’m trying to finish this before lunch!].
The angst ridden teenager who writes in her padlocked pink diary about her latest crush and would actually like her secret lover to find it, read it and be overwhelmed with a reciprocating passion:
The bereaved who cry themselves to sleep every night and need a ‘screaming tree’:
The young mum bored out of her mind by the mundane tasks that are essential: All these are out there and loads more; usually protected by an avatar. You can write about anything.
I hadn’t written for 35 years, other than pleading letters to the bank manager, since my thesis for my post-graduate teaching qualification.
I have re-discovered that writing is fun. Help ...............
To see the rest of this article pop over and see Quasi Fictional. There are a lot of interesting people over there - it's definitely worth a visit.
Then you can come back here and blow up my 'bomb' [if so inclined, of course] to aid my ascension to blogging heaven.
