Everything that has a beginning...

Hello! This is the first post on my brand new blog. A trial run really, to help me work out various particulars. Over the next several years I'll be posting fairly frequently, if not regularly, and it would really help to start getting it right right from the start.

There are two issues, one of which being the practical technological fiddling involved. See that picture? I have no idea how that will properly appear. I'd quite like it to a be a coveresque image. I'd like to say that it depicts my thoughts, but I hadn't realised that when I added it, so that would be disingenuous... I can apparently do this, this and this. And this thing, most likely for comic effect.

Right. Perhaps my technique will improve over time. The second issue is how to avoid presenting myself as fatally unlikable. I can appear to be a god-awful arrogant git, and the challenge of trying to dodge around this without surrendering my position of confidence is reflected in the title of the blog. In person I think I've become quite adept at cloaking my flaws in affable friendliness, but as evidenced by other writings, not so in text.

Don't get me wrong. I don't care in the slightest what you think, aha-ha... I just mean that, as stated elsewhere, even in the likely event of a miniscule readership, I will be certainly looking back on the posts in this blog. And if I don't like what I see I will be sad and bitter. And nobody wants that.

I get this when writing longer things, fiction or non. I have grown to loathe my handwriting so much I can never even draft in it, only take notes. In semi-literate scrawl is not how I want to read things, and it undervalues any previous work in my eyes. This is slightly off topic.

So, the best way I can think to prove that I am nice is to claim that I am.

Hello reader, be you me or another. Welcome to the beginning of a big heap of stuff, which I hope you enjoy. I'm trying to be nice.