3rd Time Lucky

Photo by Maurine Kintu

This is the third time I am starting this blog! I will start with this, ironically, previous post.

I have read other people's blogs and commented on many for a long while but I haven't really felt the need to start one of my own. So why start a blog now? Well, I enjoy writing and sounding out ideas that are otherwise simply chaos in my mind. I haven't really had it in me to write a straight book but perhaps a blog would be good practice for me to work toward fulfilling that goal someday. One can dream can't one?

I opened the blog account in 2008 but I am only starting to use it now. That is some serious procrastinating! Let me see how long I will manage to maintain this.

Book by Louisa Le Marchand

A very good friend of mine Louisa Le Marchand published a book of poems Whispers in The Mists of Time and it really inspired me to collate my ideas and attempt to write something to completion. I have tried before but the most I ever did was 5 chapters and the plot run out or I got bored; perhaps both I don't remember which! Other attempts have stalled at chapter 3 or even 1! Its hard to keep oneself interested in narrating one's own thoughts for someone else to comprehend. Sad I know but this is the problem with wanting to do too many things. Being a musician, that takes up about 70% of my brain at the best of times and at odd times it goes to an all time high of 110%; in such times even eating is a nuisance because I am a slave to music and nothing else. When I have been excited about writing I haven't been able to sustain it long enough to go the whole hog except I have managed some scripts. Perhaps by blogging I will harness my writing and learn to revive a plot once I stall.

I will write about my involvement with and enjoyment of the arts including music of course, cinema, dance, African and Middle Eastern art and culture, new innovations in the field etc; basically my artistic interests.  I will discuss a lot of artists that I admire who never get recognised if only to vent my frustration. Hopefully it won't be too self-indulgent but blogs by their very nature are pretty much self-indulgent so I can hardly escape that or be blamed for it.

So see you back here soon and perhaps you may find something interesting to read. Please don't hesitate to comment, I relish criticism. Feel free to share.