The Rebirth!

Okay, so I'll hold my hands up and admit that I haven't bee the most frequent blogger on the internet.  You've probably gathered that since I started this blog 3 years ago and have a minimum amount of posts. But all of that is set to change, I hope.

Originally this blog was place for me to keep my coursework while I worked my way through a journalism and fiction course. A course I passed with flying colours. Although I don't know what 'flying colours' is actually a reference to, I still did it. How's that for determination?

After completing my course I found myself working as a community journalist with NewsFour, a community newspaper based in Dublin 4. I had no idea what to expect, little experience and just my initiative to work from. Thankfully it turned out to be one of the best employment experiences I've had. The task of going into the community, sourcing stories, meeting people and researching was just the challenge I was looking for and I would like to think that I did myself proud and satisfied the expectations of the people I wrote about. But now that that is done I am cut adrift in the wilderness of freelance journalism. A lonesome voice upon a sea of ink, crashing headlong into the treacherous rocks of popular grammar.

I'm out of a job basically.

So I return to this blog with some experience under my belt and a gut hanging over my belt.

To read back over some of the early stuff I have written on here can make me cringe. Some of the grammar is off, some of the spelling is bad and some of the viewpoints make me come across as a hardline nut job. But in the end it's all down to experience and I'll be damned if I'm going to remove any of those articles, plus I don't know how. So that's that taken care of.

I would hope you see this a reintroduction to the blog and if I put as much effort into this as I put into my news articles then hopefully all will be fine.

I will vent, I will probably swear, I most likely make numerous mistakes and bang my head against the wall several times in frustration. But I will maintain at least one blog post a week, minimum. That I can promise.

So without further ado I would like to welcome one and all (probably more like one but when you say 'one and all' it sounds so grand, doesn't it?) to the return of 'Where Do I Start?'

Now, where do I start?

:)