I'm new to this game. I'm of the generation that's pretty technophobic. However, one of my students in my evening class last night recommended I set up a blog, so here I am, feeling my way into it. The trickiest thing so far has been finding a name for my blog that hasn't been used by someone else. I trawled through an extraordinary range of combinations of words and word elements to do with stories, tales, fiction, literature, writing, inspiration and so on, before coming up with Literascribe - and I like it. It suits me, it suits my aims. I love books, love to write, love to introduce other people to good literary references, so as a portmanteau word I'd definitely say it's working for its living.

I don't know how often I'll post a message. But I hope to share my enthusiasms and my woes as I live the writing life. All you aspirant writers out there will find something to identify with!

If you want to check out my published writing, look up my novel 'The Chase' on Amazon.

I'm also a teacher of writing - I'll save details of that for my next post.