If you were ever interviewed on television in Britain, everyone knows you have to say "Hello Mum!" in the UK. An equally good option would be to show off in the background with some kind of waving, sarcastic T-shirt or sign when a correspondent is talking to the studio, guaranteeing yourself 15 seconds of fame without the Reality TV auditions.
All over the world, you can cop out on the beginning of any fictional story you want to write with your country's version of "Once upon a time". However, I am so relieved to have checked the archives of a few blogs I read more than casually, to find that some first posts have stated "test" (ironically or seriously), or "Hi!"/"Hello World", "All about me" which makes you sound like a prize tosser or some other random wibble that they hope gets buried under three years of really great writing.
"In the Beginning" has apparently been done.
So, I believe that it's very hard to achieve a good start in many things - whether it's life in general, work, your particular brand of favourite cult TV or film (Even George Lucas started just after the middle) and certainly in this 21st century medium that an internet blog represents. Like life and work, once you're over that first day, it hopefully gets better as you over time. Maybe I should apply to be Jerry Springer's final thought writer with a line like that...
The name's Kenneth Henry by the way, and this is the blog that should have been created for my holiday last year. Why didn't it happen?
Read on...(yes, that's it, hook 'em!)...
All over the world, you can cop out on the beginning of any fictional story you want to write with your country's version of "Once upon a time". However, I am so relieved to have checked the archives of a few blogs I read more than casually, to find that some first posts have stated "test" (ironically or seriously), or "Hi!"/"Hello World", "All about me" which makes you sound like a prize tosser or some other random wibble that they hope gets buried under three years of really great writing.
"In the Beginning" has apparently been done.
So, I believe that it's very hard to achieve a good start in many things - whether it's life in general, work, your particular brand of favourite cult TV or film (Even George Lucas started just after the middle) and certainly in this 21st century medium that an internet blog represents. Like life and work, once you're over that first day, it hopefully gets better as you over time. Maybe I should apply to be Jerry Springer's final thought writer with a line like that...
The name's Kenneth Henry by the way, and this is the blog that should have been created for my holiday last year. Why didn't it happen?
Read on...(yes, that's it, hook 'em!)...
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