Things Change

Right, so I am moving.

Not very far, in fact for those that care, you can - from now on - find me here: http://theonlythingiknowanythingabout.blogspot.co.uk/

There are several reasons for this move, and the primary one (which I will argue otherwise, but unfortunately happens to be true) is that whilst this Google account is hooked up to my old email address, my newer, better, considerably more used Google account is hooked up to a new email address. This basically means that because I'm usually logged into YouTube with my new Google account, there's this very mildly annoying issue of logging in and out and in and out on the (now increasingly rare) occasions I actually write a blog post. So reason #1 = sheer, unadulterated laziness.

The second, more intellectual, reason, is that I just feel like I've kind of outgrown this blog. I was fifteen/sixteen and an expert procrastinator (that's probably spelt wrong) when I started this blog, and now - whilst still an expert procrastinator - I'm going to try and channel my procrastination into something that is - at least on some level - productive. Reading back some of the posts on this blog, they're often childish, silly, unedited and spouting opinions that have changed quite significantly since I wrote them. I feel (and hope) I am more mature and less pointlessly angry than many of the posts on this blog make me seem (stop laughing, Roz).

That being the case, my new blog is actually going to have a point to it, however loose that point may be. The original idea was to keep track of all the books I read and films I watched over the course of a year - from my nineteenth birthday to my twentieth, more specifically. Initially I just thought this would be a fun experiment - would I actually keep it up? What would my taste reveal if condensed into one frame? If I log my current opinions, will they have changed in a year's time? Would I actually publicly admit to reading/watching some of the crap I'm guilty of? But then I also realised that it could be beneficial to my future - professional writers are always telling aspiring writers to read as widely and non-judgementally as possible, so why not keep a log of what I do and don't like about other's writing? I've been reading a lot of professional publisher's blogs recently, and the more I read, the more I realise how important it is to have at the very least a rudimentary knowledge of the industry if you wish to be in it. The same applies to film - I certainly watch more films than I read books, my spectrum of knowledge regarding film is a hell of a lot more extensive than it is for books, and - frankly - I go through films like underwear, whereas my rate of reading has (ironically) slowed to a crawl since beginning an English Literature degree.

See, this was meant to be a quickie post, and somehow it's now like 500 words of waffle. This is what I'm trying to avoid. Anyway, the basics are: I'm moving to a different, hopefully more mature blog, which will be starting at the end of June (my nineteenth birthday).

I hope, if you're reading this, that you'll read that :) Thanks xxx