1st post!

Hello!

I'm Kavya, I’m 23 and I'm a writer. 

At least I pretend to be a writer. I definitely intend to be one. Just as soon as I finish the novel that has no end.

I have an MA in Creative Writing (Swansea University) that I finished in October last year, and handing in my dissertation ended the glorious days of hunching over the laptop, fingers flying over the keys, with no consciousness of day or night – living on Bramley apple pies and conducting conversations with the voices in my head. I moved to London, became annoyingly lucid, and got a job that has very little to do with writing. 

So I no longer have even a pseudo-excuse to call myself a writer.

This blog is supposed to help me with that. See, right after I submitted my dissertation, my muse decided to take some vacation-time and I, thinking the poor guy deserved a break, let him. (Yes, my muse is most definitely male – on good days he looks a bit like Gerard Butler actually) My magnanimity was grossly exploited and I haven't seen hide nor hair of Gerard since.

I need my muse back, and I have hatched a clever plan to lure him away from the temptation of piña coladas, beach volleyball and (I have a sneaking suspicion) another woman. Here are a few things I have learnt about my muse over the years:

1. He is essentially a lazy creature (where that six pack came from is beyond me);

2. One way to get him off his...uh... backside and get to work, is a deadline, but

3. The self-imposed kind doesn’t work.

This blog is my plan. One entry – minimum 500 words – per week. I don’t know if I will ever finish my endless novel, but a tiny blog entry every now and then will at least keep my creative juices flowing – possibly even entice Gerard back into my life – and I figure the idea of a potential readership will keep me from conveniently forgetting/ignoring my deadlines this time around.

And what am I going to be writing about? Well, everything! Anything! The challenge I have extended to myself is that the next entry’s title must begin with the letter ‘A’, the one after that ‘B’ and so on. So that’s twenty-six posts sorted – I’ll just have to wait and see if I last that long.

Wish me luck!