*checks off first item on ideas list*

This is a bit of a cheat, really, like adding “make list” to the top of your to-do list.  Basically, I need a place to capture my experiences when trying out various ideas, and practice my writing whilst I’m at it.  So here we are again.

This is by no means the first blog I’ve created, but I’m hoping that it has a longer shelf-life than the other attempts in the past. I’ve tried other platforms which just didn’t feel “right” for what I wanted to do (hello Tumblr), and picked ideas that sounded good at the time but quickly ran out of steam (that will be the “discovering Jazz” blog, then..).  This time around, I’m going to be making it up as I go along. For example, whenever I start off a project such as this there’s a *whole* bunch of ideas and thoughts I’m tempted to write about straight away (why am I doing this?  what is my big list?  Is there some “big picture” that all of this falls into? and many more) which will then inevitably lead me to writing and re-writing that first post for fear of doing it “wrong”.

So for now, all of that can wait. Here endeth the first post.  Publish and be dammed!