Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Creative writing...... and so on...
So why Mad Dogs and Englishwomen?
This whole blog thing is a new venture, so please bear with me...
Where to start? Well, the name of the blog first of all I suppose. You know the saying "Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun"? Well if you didn't, you do now.
Anyway, the mid-day sun out here in Italy is something you try not to go out into much, particularly during the Summer, but being English I sometimes do... so not being a mad dog (as far as I am aware at least) that means a slight re-write of the saying...
Result: a blog with the title "Mad Dogs and Englishwomen".
The idea of madness and creativeness seems to go hand in hand for me lately. I mean, I must be mad to start up a series of creative writing projects when all I seem to do anyway is sit in front of the PC and type.... although that is work so perhaps does not count. Then again, I have been messing about with creative writing projects of one sort or another ever since I was a teenager, so maybe the idea of this blog was not such a strange one after all.
To be perfectly honest, I don't even really have a plan for what to write here. I have never been the sort of person who keeps a diary (that was my sister's thing, not mine). Perhaps if I had it might have made interesting reading, who knows? This will not be a diary anyway, because I know myself too well, and am depressingly well aware that I will never be able to keep up the kind of concentrated writing effort that is required for a proper, "tell-things-as-they-happen" sort of a diary. My style is rather more on the line of jottings, with no particular rhyme or reason. A kind of verbal sketch-pad, impressions, views, people, colours, sights..... but like a real sketch-pad they will be drawn by me, so will not necessarily be good likenesses, or even likenesses at all.
So.... we have a start.... the first page of the sketch-pad has a few squiggles and lines drawn on it. We must now turn the page to see if there is anything worth looking at on the other side....
Where to start? Well, the name of the blog first of all I suppose. You know the saying "Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun"? Well if you didn't, you do now.
Anyway, the mid-day sun out here in Italy is something you try not to go out into much, particularly during the Summer, but being English I sometimes do... so not being a mad dog (as far as I am aware at least) that means a slight re-write of the saying...
Result: a blog with the title "Mad Dogs and Englishwomen".
The idea of madness and creativeness seems to go hand in hand for me lately. I mean, I must be mad to start up a series of creative writing projects when all I seem to do anyway is sit in front of the PC and type.... although that is work so perhaps does not count. Then again, I have been messing about with creative writing projects of one sort or another ever since I was a teenager, so maybe the idea of this blog was not such a strange one after all.
To be perfectly honest, I don't even really have a plan for what to write here. I have never been the sort of person who keeps a diary (that was my sister's thing, not mine). Perhaps if I had it might have made interesting reading, who knows? This will not be a diary anyway, because I know myself too well, and am depressingly well aware that I will never be able to keep up the kind of concentrated writing effort that is required for a proper, "tell-things-as-they-happen" sort of a diary. My style is rather more on the line of jottings, with no particular rhyme or reason. A kind of verbal sketch-pad, impressions, views, people, colours, sights..... but like a real sketch-pad they will be drawn by me, so will not necessarily be good likenesses, or even likenesses at all.
So.... we have a start.... the first page of the sketch-pad has a few squiggles and lines drawn on it. We must now turn the page to see if there is anything worth looking at on the other side....
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