Introducing me (again!)

Hey guys, (or the one person that happens to stumble across my blog, because let’s face it, no one's actually reading this), my name is Ziona, (we’ll save the did-your-parents-hate-you name jokes for later-shall we?); and after months upon months of contradicting, reasoning and arguing with myself, I’ve finally decided to start up a blog. For most, it’s probably not a huge deal, writing a few things and posting them online where somebody may or may not read them; but for me it’s a mammoth step, for reasons I’ll come to later.

Twice  before, I’ve attempted to start-up a blog online, but for personal reasons that I’m not going to bore you with, it just didn’t happen. But this time it’ll be different. I’ve promised myself, absolutely sworn, that this time, I will fully try to keep up with posting regularly without getting discouraged, bored or convincing myself that I’m too busy, which I’m not of course, as when I’m not procrastinating my homework, I can be found snapchatting, swimming or watching Pretty Little Liars.

 As to what exactly I’ll write about, I have absolutely no idea-yet.
Now, I know exactly what you’re thinking; “How can you start up a blog without knowing what you’ll write about?” and trust me, this very thought is what kept me from maintaining a blog in the first place. But, I’m a strong believer that if an individual truly enjoys writing; piecing together words, phrases and sentences to express their thoughts and emotions, they shouldn’t need to have a specific reason to do so, and this is exactly why I’ve convinced myself that I should start, now more than ever. It’s like a person that enjoys a particular activity, say your typical football fanatic, being discouraged from playing the sport and pursuing their passion just because they won’t eventually become a world-famous football player. It’s the same concept!

Even some of the greatest authors of the century weren’t exactly the most prestige or well-off to start with. Take the legendary J.K Rowling for instance. She began her career writing off a little type-writer in a cafe in Edinburgh, and now she’s the world-renowned creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, one of the most popular book and film franchises in history. She’s a true inspiration. I’ve even started to read the series, something I’ve been waiting to do for ages, but only got round to it recently. I’m starting with the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, because I’m awkward like that. Also I may or may not have found the book at a bus stop yesterday.  

One of the things that originally really me to writing so early on, (I sound about fifty right now guys, I’m actually only fifteen) and literature on a whole, was the sheer fact that you don’t need to be a qualified, Harvard-graduate in order to do it. Anybody, anywhere at any point in time can put pen to paper (or keyboard to erm, computer of course) and express themselves. There’s freedom in that I think, pure, liberating freedom. It’s actually quite amazing how a few right words formulated together can totally encapsulate a whole other world when read in the right mindset!

I’m not exactly sure what exactly I expect as the outcome of this blog, no surprise there! Maybe it’ll persuade me into taking this writing thing even further in the near future, what the “even further” bit is yet, I haven’t quite worked out. Maybe it’ll get my creative juices flowing again, and I’ll get back the confidence I once had in my writing, or maybe it’ll simple just be something to fill my spare time with. Like I said before, I’m not expecting an awful lot of people to read my blog posts at all, but if at any point the one person reading a post of mine has any questions, comment or ideas, please feel free to comment! It would be deeply appreciated. And I’m sorry if this post isn’t up to pro-blogger standard or whatever, but I am just starting out (again), so like they say, watch this space!!!!!!

xo, Ziona <3P.S. Blogger is actually really hard to use, what does traffic source mean? :p