Why write a blog?

Since the dawn of Blogging I’ve always been a bit cynical about why people have blogs. Although I’m a fan of diary writing, I always felt that by having an online diary, in the form of a blog, it was somehow self indulged in a narcissistic “Look how smart and interesting and witty I am” kind of way. The truth of the matter is, I never thought that anyone would be interested in what I had to say.

In a masochist twist to my personality however, I’ve always been a writer. Unbeknown to the vast majority of mankind, I have already completed not one but two novels for teenagers, numerous articles and reviews of music and travel destinations and four short-stories. But up until very recently they have remained locked away somewhere under my bed next to a stack of old bank statements and P45s.

After recently spending eight months in East Africa, I’ve returned to the UK a changed person – a person who is determined to dust off my manuscripts and share my writing with other people. And so, for the first time in, well, forever, I actually need to find out if people are interested in what I have to say.

And so with this blog I intend to unleash upon the world a regular dose of my musical musings as a good way of improving my writing style and hopefully to promote some of the lesser known talents of the musical world.

With trepidation I post this, my first ever solo blog. I just hope, with crossed fingers and a blink of the eye, that someone, somewhere, will enjoy what I have to say.

Big love til next time,

Charlotte (a blogger!)