In the beginning was the word… and the word scored pretty poorly when used in scrabble

So, as they say, what on earth is going on?

I have to concede that I’m not entirely sure myself, but to try and give you some idea you probably ought to check out this link.

Hopefully that makes things a little clearer, and if it doesn’t, well c’est la vie as I believe they say in Yorkshire. Let’s cover some basics.

Who am I?
I am Dave Marshall, formerly a student of religion at the University of Kent in Canterbury, more recently a low level administrative assistant for Wiltshire County Council. You may think that my job sounds quite boring, you would be absolutely right. I shall endeavour to steer well clear of the subject in all future posts.

Why am I blogging?
As the link above hopefully explained this is just one small part in what should be a whole network of other blogs. Many of the people in this group (including myself) are connected by the UKC Creative Writing Society, so please anticipate a fair amount of poetry and writing of a creative nature in among these assorted blogs. I’ll endeavour to draw your eyes to as many of the best pieces as I can.

What about this blog?
When I started university I blogged on a semi-frequent basis for the best part of two years. You can view that now defunct blog here. With this new project I’m going to try and move away from those longer personal posts/rants on a wildly eclectic set of subjects, instead I’ll be aiming to stick to the stated purpose, namely poetry and creative writing. With a different aim in mind I thought it best to start an entirely new blog.

What can you expect?
Well, I’ll have to wait and see how much activity there is across the network, but I’ll certainly be aiming to blog pretty regularly for the first month or so, then we’ll see where we are. Any predictions I make about the subjects of future posts are almost always doomed to wild inaccuracy, but if this blog doesn’t contain a fair few poems, a good helping of comment and terrible spelling and grammar then I would be very surprised.

So thanks for reading, check back soon and please feel free to drop me a line if you’ve got your own blog that you’d like me to take a look at.

Until next time, this is Dave Marshall telling you to wear more hats