ElbOnline: The Beginning

Well, I promised myself that I would start a blog someday, and today apparently, is THE day!

It's late on a Tuesday night, and I have probably drunk more cheap white wine than was good for me, but what the heck - it's made me stop procrastinating, and start blogging! At least I can still type coherently. At the moment.

So why start a blog?

For the same reason as many folk do, I guess - I am a frustrated writer, without the confidence to hit the publishers with my manuscripts. I have submitted several pieces to various magazines, but to date, nobody has picked up on the fact that I am THE NEXT BIG THING. Big - yep. Thing? I guess so, but as for the rest? Who knows?

I post on a fan site for an actor - maybe I'll tell you about it later, but not now - and I have had favourable reactions to my various postings, including my favourite piece entitled "Elbmow's Oddysey", a humourous account of the trip I made to Glasgow in January of this year. My usual style is with tongue firmly placed in cheek, as my philosophy on life is that it is too damned short to be miserable! Carpe Diem: seize the day! Or in other words, take the p*** out of anything and everything!

Okay then - I should abandon my pursuit of literary stardom for the meantime, as even Ernest Hemingway needed his beauty sleep. Fat lot of good it did him...............

Tomorrow is another day!