I've been thinking a lot about the blog this week. It's partly because last week, people seemed horrified that I put in the blog about showed unfinished work to my writing group and I wonder if that's the response I want to generate with my blog, but it's also because I'm wondering why I actually write it sometimes. When I first started doing this blog, it was at the behest of Neil Jackson. "Get a blog," said Jacko, "and advertise yourself." So I did, and it's been good fun and useful – when ...