Let’s get started.

I have wanted to be able to call myself a ‘writer’ for a long time, and there has been one thing standing in my way. Me. 
I have found myself pondering ideas, sitting and planning things, not putting words onto paper through fear of it not sounding perfect. Fear of things not being as good as they could be and mostly fear of sounding stupid. I have a shelf full note books, writing books etc and they all stand there (even now) mostly empty of content.

I decided that I needed to build my confidence a little and meet some like minded people and so, I enrolled on to a 6 week creative writing course. I learnt that almost everyone who wants to/or does write experiences the ‘fear’ and that it was all about learning to put this aside and just go with it. 
During the course I wrote a few pieces, which I may share on here, and I realised that the first draft is just that, a first draft. Not the final piece. I learnt the importance of cutting myself some slack and that I shouldn’t be comparing myself to others all the time.

And so, I am setting myself the goal to write in those empty books, to spend more time writing instead of planning and to have fun with it. Because if it’s not fun then really, what’s the point?