Here at last

I've come late to blogging. The party started years ago and I've been the shy girl in the corner, watching, reading, following, but never quite daring to say anything.

So, I have decided that things have got to change.

My plan is that this blog is a place to deposit ideas, musings, theories, rants and other detritus from the process of writing my PhD over the coming year and will hopefully continue beyond. One of it's primary roles is a strategy for breaking through writer's block; the idea being that when I'm writing on a website that practically no-one reads, with no restrictions of academic convention or rigourous use of evidence that somehow I'll be able to actually write.

This seems to be going well so far. I have written this post in about 1 minutes 30 seconds. Believe me, if this was an academic article I would have been sweating for about 3 hours by now. Perhaps I could just keep a blog for a year, print it out and submit that, instead of the enormous soup of complexity I am about to start cooking.