Got to start some where…so why not begin with a cliche.  To be honest I don’t know where my ramblings will lead to and for the first time I am glad not to know. I have been planning and acting on those plans for many years with many expectations along the way.  Amazing journeys in themselves but not always working out to plan, which is a good thing isn’t it?  I think so at least.  Well I do now;  “Weren’t meant to be”, “all for the best”…blah blah… yep wise old sayings are wise for a reason.

But if I was to really think about my real motivation to start this blog is this…about a year or so ago I sat at a presentation by Eela Devani from Bloomsbury Publishing who said something along the lines that the first 1 million words you write are crap.  I’m not quoting her that’s just how my brain registered that piece of nugget.  Although she isn’t the first to say this, it was the first time I had heard it quantified.  Numbers stick and a million is a nice number that stuck.  So here I go….. 188 (public) words down.