There comes a time when your life is just overwhelmed by clutter. It becomes so choked, that you cannot move without wanting to sweep an arm over the detritus to clear it all away. Call it what you want, a blank slate, a clean sheet or clutter free. A week ago, this blog had just over 800 posts. Most of them were utter dross, added for the sheer sake of adding them. They provided no actual substance and was just a reflection of the vapidness of my life over the last decade.
So I’ve just spent the last two hours removing all traces. I spared no mercy on the situation either. If it looked crap, off to the trash folder it went. I am now down to 77 posts. I hope to add more than this over time clearly. Now I’ve done this I feel like flexing my arm over other areas of my life. I seem to be looking at everything and questioning whether there’s a way I can pare things down a bit. Perhaps this is a new challenge, or perhaps it’s a stalling tactic, I don’t know. Regardless of what I want to call it, I think I’m going to tidy up the junk. The utensils draw had better watch out, as I think it’s the next victim on my list.
A note for returning visitors (I say returning, hopefully you’re being re-directed here from emchi.co.uk). I do apologise for the need to re-register. I have however, enabled OpenID, and if you give me a few more days I’m trying to find out if I can put other registration methods on here (i.e. if you’ve got a Google or Yahoo profile). I hope you found the site OK.
So I’ve held firm on my threat of moving. You’ll probably find over the next few days that those of you coming to emchi.co.uk/blog are turning up at emmachittenden.com. Welcome to old friends and those who I have yet to make acquaintance with.
I’ve also decided to try and take action on my plans to change direction in life. Clearly in order to do this, I actually need to do something about it. So this is my new platform. My main aim on here is to review books that I read. Given that I’m an avid reader, I’d like this to become a book club of sorts. So to all you readers who’ve come here because of something I’ve written about a book or an author you like, please add your comments and start / join a discussion.
The second goal of my site, is to keep a diary of my attempts to write my first novel, and subsequently get it published. There maybe a few editorials along the way. Ultimately I’d like to use this site as a note book, to provide me with the inspiration needed to get going.
For the old posts that I’ve migrated from emchi.co.uk, well a lot of them are going in the bin. I really have written some utter dross in the last ten years and I’d like to have a reasonably fresh start. I say reasonably, as there’s nothing quite like a notebook with a few used up pages in it, it makes it feel like you’ve achieved something, no matter how small.
After I don’t know how many years I finally have full mobile access to my blog. I’m hoping this means I’ll blog more, who knows eh? Anyway happy new year to you all.
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