So I did that thing that I said I wouldn’t do, and failed to carry on the blog I started in November. Despite alarms, email reminders and notifications. Swiping across is just too easy.

Discipline is tough. I’m not using this as an excuse – I should know better by now – but simply as a fact. We’re human. We get distracted (Facebook, friends, TV, shiny things), we get lazy and sometimes we get demotivated. But there are some things we can do to change. I’ve chosen to go down the forceful route. I know that I hate to let people down. So what do I do? I make promises to people and follow through on them. This is risky, because of course I could break these promises (I’m a master at flaking out – just ask anyone), but more often than not I like to think ��it has the desired effect.

Ahem. This blog excepted, of course.

So why am I bothering to write this down? Partially because, as it turns out, not writing my thoughts down onto a blog so a bunch of strangers can read about my life creates a backlog of said thoughts. The madness is overflowing. The quirks are multiplying. My fingers are typing so quickly right now I’m not sure which way is up, but I feel good about it (my profuse apologies to those of you who have persevered thus far and are reading this gibberish).

That is part of the reason. The other part is that I want to make a commitment to you, the reader. And hopefully, I’ll admit, to new readers I’ll pick up along the way.

You probably know this, but I’m a writer. Aside from my job, being a wife and mother and general living I write. I enjoy it. It helps with that overflowing madness I was talking about. I have characters inside my head from dreams, visions, imagination, all talking to me and trying to get out, to live in other people’s minds (now that I think about it they’re more viruses than people, but hey). Before you click to another page, this is NOT a plug for my existing works (you can read about them yourself on the relevant page if you like, but I’m not talking about them here). Instead I want to propose something.

What if I wrote a book you could read for free?

What if it was a chapter at a time?

What if you could review it as you went along?

Turns out you can. You may have heard of it, but I hadn’t – there is a site called Wattpad that allows writers to do all of these things at the same time. Readers can get an account, subscribe to authors/genres they like, and receive alerts whenever their chosen authors add a new section. Isn’t that amazing?! I mean, not that amazing I suppose, but still. I was impressed.

So I have this story. The plan is almost finished, but I want to try it on this site. Keep your eyes peeled; I may well put up the first excerpt up here too. Until then, if you’re not reading anything, go to Amazon Kindle and download something by someone you have never heard of before. Go on. Try it. It might be awesome.