Last year, 2024 was a year of adventure. This year I’ve been trying to find a new theme to follow, and landed that 2025 will be my year of writing. Hence, this blog, this post.

Why Writing?

My fascination with writing was first picked when reading Artemis Fowl, as a kid. In the book he mentions that all his idols kept a diary, and therefore he would start his own. Personally I don’t have the same world-domination-level ambitions as Mr. Fowl but the passage did give me pause to think about the effects of daily regular writing. Since then I’ve dabbled with journaling, diary-keeping, and some attempts at technical writing at my previous job, none of which were published externally.

Why Now?

During December, my brother and I held an Advent Blog challenge for ourselves, to catch up with each other, long-form but regular. The results were surpringly positive and we’ve both since decided to continue writing; expect more to be published on this blog going forward.

I’m also at the moment looking for new employment and I think a time of idle dallying is the best time to start new side-projects. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep this up once I’ve got an employment situation set up as well.

As for a strategy - I’m still experimenting. I’d love to continue finishing up my travel writing and I’ll be back-dating and publishing some old posts and writings from different fora on this page as well.