Having skirted round the issue of blogdom for long enough, I have decided not merely to put my toe in the water but go for the full immersion. In a few weeks time when I have managed to negotiate my way around all the possible options (without hopefully too much help from my teenagers) I intend to be shouting 'Come on in - the water's lovely!'
As a scriptwriter for the past eight years, I am used to redrafting everything to the nth degree and passing it to script readers for evaluation before sending my work out into the big wide world. Therefore I pledge to be spontaneous and that each blog will not take 6 months to hone and polish and be subject to Aristotle's 5 Act structure (or was that Archimedes' Principle?)
Not that such attention to detail has ever lead to any recognition or uptake of my work although I have been shortlisted on several occasions. I can hear you cynical ones out there crying, 'Surely that's because your work isn't up to much?' and 'Desist, Madam!' And sure enough after yet another round of rejection letters (or even worse when people don't have the manners to respond at all) I could start to believe it myself were it not for my cussed Yorkshire grit which makes me even more determined 'to show the b*****s.'
That said, this is the accepted lot of the writers and I am merely one of a vast army who sit at their laptops for years on end with fingers ground down to their elbows. The die of circumstance and opportunity are loaded against us and the selection of a script is after all very subjective affair; so I hold onto the favourable comments and encouragement received from those experienced people whose judgement I trust.
With the dawn of digital media, it eventually dawned upon me that I no longer needed to consign yet another Herculean labour to RIP on the bookshelf or to use as a door stop. I could take a cue from the abuser-generated culture and make my own work! And hopefully find an audience - and aspire to be quality generated. This blog will follow this writer in the quest to find an audience for her work, the evolution and metamorphosis of a spoken word website and all the distractions that she encounters.
