Welcome To The New Blog

It's bank holiday Monday, the first day of May, Beltane (if you're into Celtic stuff). And I am suffering with hayfever. I was supposed to be meeting a new friend for coffee in the city, and then going to the gym before it closed at 4pm but instead I am surrounded by tissues under a blanket. Not even the cats want to sit with me, because I keep sneezing and they can't stay comfortable. Feeling rotten like this isn't fun, but it has been a bit of a blessing in disguise.

I've finally finished the project I've been working on: this website. I've been needing a fresh start for a while when it comes to blogging. I wanted to include more about my life as it is now, rather than just focusing on creative writing. Partly because I am doing lot's of cool and interesting things which I would like to share, but also because I have struggled to write anything substantial since I finished my last draft of a screenplay called 'Atlas' in July 2020.

This does not bode well for me because I'm hopefully starting a PhD in September where I'll be writing a novel. But that's where the blog comes in. I'm doing so many cool things that will compliment the PhD, and I also what to share my PhD journey from the start. So starting fresh will hopefully help me in the same way that the old website did back then when I was writing all the time. It's also been liberating feeling like I'll be shedding my old projects which I've outgrown now. I think that was a huge part of my problem, that I was obsessed with 'Atlas' from the beginning and it still feels completely unfinished, but I'm not the person now as I was when I wrote the first few drafts. I was dealing with deep feelings of chronic loneliness and all the pain and confusion that comes with feeling like life is going wrong and you don't know how to get your shit together. I'm not in that place anymore, I've never been less lonely. I've got a plethora of friends who I talk to regularly, and I have been on a journey of getting my shit together for the last three years - and will continue to do so.

So I want a new writing project to focus on, one that will help me process all the confusing thoughts and big feelings I've got in my current place in life. I want to continue working on my poetry, and get crackin' with my PhD as soon as possible. I've got a meeting with a potential supervisor on Thursday this week, so I'm already making headway with that.

So without further ado, I am going to do some planning for future posts. I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes. Don't tread on the flowers, F x