What even is this, anyway?

 Right then, here goes - something, I guess. 

I never did know how to start these things. 

In my late-teens and (on two occasions) very early 20s I sporadically wrote about music on my one-man-band of a music blog https://anothergenericmusicblog.blogspot.com/ - it's still up & live, adding to the infinite amount pages on the web that gather dust. It's of its time in every aspect, but none more so than how the internet used to be.

I told myself - and others - that I did this with the primary objective of it looking good on my UCAS application as I looked to fulfil my desire of reading Journalism at University and subsequently writing for / owning a music publication of sorts. Long story short, I started a journalism course in September of 2016 at Bournemouth University. I lasted all of 6 weeks before dropping out. Since then I've never really written on a regular basis - the odd article here and there, what I was required to do for my subsequent English Literature degree and endless ramblings in my notes app. But my main outlet was Twitter, I was chronic when it came to output - I felt my voice had to be heard at all costs; a constant social commentary. Thanks to the naivity of youth I didn't care what people thought. This creative side of things slowly diminished as voices I came to recognise on the platform moved on and I simply stopped posting. It was a shame, (though others may disagree) but I had lost an outlet. 

I'm rambling quite a lot right now - but this is the first piece of creative content in a long-ish form outside of a cover letter for a job application I've done in years. 

So why am I doing this? My life has changed immeasurably in the last few years and for the better in almost every aspect. But I just wish I was as creative as I had been in my youth. I had an outlet through my cassette project I ran for two and half years, howling tapes - but in the end that became less creative and more transactional. Since packing that in i've stepped onto the corporate ladder and my career and relationship have taken the forefront. I guess what i'm trying to do is rebalance things. Have more of a creative outlet, even if no one reads it. 

I'll likely try and document media I consume, any sort of ramblings about my day / life / society. I have a long standing desire to write a novel (how original, I know) and I hope that this is the first step into fulfilling that ambition. For myself. 

I'm not going to be promoting this anywhere but if you have stubbled across it through a link in bio i'm sorry to disappoint you with a lack of foot content, or whatever you freaks are in to.