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It s that time of the year when everyone decides its time to update their blog. Why do we wait until new years day? A fresh year, a fresh start? Always ends up being more like a new year a new annual post about how this time your really really going to keep a blog running regularly. Its also when we fool ourselves with new year resolutions. Promises that, like most other promises, are forgotten about within the first couple of weeks. Now that I've just ridiculed everyone's new year resolution and false blogging commitments guess what I'm going to do next? Yep, I'm going to say those immortal words " This year I will blog more". My reason behind it is I want to try and write more, and by that I mean more fiction writing. I enjoy script writing, and it is always exciting to see a script being filmed but fiction writing is a whole different game. Its a more solitary process and the feedback from it is less obvious to see but at the same time it can be more rewarding. I've written and filmed a full length feature film so now its time for the next personal challenge, a novel. Like most people I have an idea and I suppose like more other people I know who write I have made a start on one. Now all I need to do is finish it! A lot easier said than done!I have always struggled to call myself a writer though by definition I am one. A writer is someone who writes, everyone is a writer in that sense. But I think by being able to complete a novel and have other folk read it, hopefully after paying me money for it, then I think I'd be happy to stand up tall, with my book in hand (though these days its more likely to be a Kindle), hold my head up high and say " I am a Writer". We'll see. I might write a classic novel that will go down in the annals of history as a classic to rival H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" or I might end up with a novel which is about as thought provoking as "See Spot Run" Who knows. At least I'm going to give it a try.Well, that's all for now so speak to you later, and have fun!