Generic Titles and Fair-trade Bananas

Hello readers!   Or at least “Hello?   Anybody there?”

This is my first blog and, outside the people who I’ve told to read this and those who have to read it anyway (you know who you are), I’m predicting that no one will be currently reading this.   By that logic there is no point in introducing myself because generally the people reading this will know, to a large extent, who I am.   Besides, it’s always being bandied about to show and not tell in my Creative Writing seminars (wink, wink!).   However, for the benefit 0f those who have no idea who I am, probably the masses of fans I’ll have amassed through the future life of this blog, my name is Luke Saunders, I’m in my 3rd year of University at Royal Holloway and I’m writing this because it’s part of my degree.   As I have hinted to earlier, I am reading English and Creative Writing, which is just as interesting, but definitely harder than it sounds!   I love poetry and writing stories particularly, so if you start to see my language becoming too flowery and totally bizarre analogies popping out of nowhere then you’ll know why.   I’ll be updating this blog at least once every week, on a… hmm… let’s say Monday because everyone loves to hear someone complain on a Monday.

To be honest, I’m never before been too interested in blogs.   I think they’re slightly pretentious and generally downbeat.   More than that, I don’t really see the point of them.   In my opinion nothing I’m going to write may be completely different to something thousands on the people on the net have already written.   More than that, they’re sometimes on the long side.   I don’t think I can honestly, outside my degree, be bothered reading reams and reams of someone else’s anecdotes and I’m guessing you probably will feel similarly.   This isn’t a sly dig at anyone in particular: I’m really just saying: “Scintillating, but short anyone?”

I think the best blog I’ve ever read was the one done by my housemate last year. His link is www.tttppp123.blogspot.com if you’re interested.   As you may well have noticed, his site isn’t much of a blog at all as there’s not much writing and loads of games he’s nabbed from the Worldwide Web.   I think if I did that in this blog I might seriously fail, but it’s fun. So, I’ll try to keep things amusing, if talking about my life and opinions can be at all!

My vast experience in past blogging leads me to a surprising conclusion: A good blog should have is an ability to stir debate, despite being able to hide it under the mist of everyday experience.   One example of this is could be as follows: I was shopping on Tuesday, and bought some bananas. However, they were charcoal black and Rolls Royce expensive. I was tempted to ditch them for some others, but they weren’t fair-trade.   One of the best things about this is that you don’t really even need to have an opinion to state one on the web, you can just put something that seems controversial down and let the people commenting do the work!  Having said this, that’s probably not my style. But still, it’d be great if we could interact a bit. Let’s say, I’ll make this stimulating, if you give me comments back right?

On that note, what do you think makes a good blog?   And more importantly, do you buy fair-trade?   You should.   If you have any opinions please use the comments box.   That means do it now!

God bless until next week guys.

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