A new project?!

Okay, I was going to wait until January to start this, and it may not start properly until then, but I'm creating the blog now while I think on.

The purpose of this blog is first and foremost as a place to develop my abilities as a writer: What this means is that I shall be updating regularly with little snippets of original poetry, or short fiction that my mind creates, with the intention of, from January, updating with a piece of original writing a day!

Now, don't fret, I'm not going to let this distract from my responsibilities from the Three Guys site at all (Which by the way, is currently on hold until we get around to refilming the footage for our big 30th articleversay!)

So, to get the ball rolling, here are a few choice offerings from my notepad that I'd like to share with you.
First, some haiku:

Massive astroturf.
Field of battle and sporting.
Slippery when wet.

Oxfam ensure life.
Three pounds a month they ask for.
Sponsor a child please.

And then a short poem created as part of a defamiliarisation exercise where we were given, as a class, a variety of items and told to relate them to a person we know, so here's what I came up with:

My brother is a bucket,
Wider at the top than at the bottom,
And holds a great many things.

As solid as steel
But never as cold,
And holds a great many things.

Sometimes, he's like a sandwhich,
Brown or white on the outside,
And holds a great many things.

Perhaps he might be a briefcase;
Official, and hinged at the base,
And holds a great many things.

Though he's definitely more of a box,
With many sides and uses,
And holds a great many things.

My brother is a Father,
With a wife and sons kept close.
He holds a great many things.

So that'll do you for now. I'll hopefully whack up a bit of short fiction by the end of the day, see what my mind comes up with, but it's only now that I realise that, with all this time I'm dedicating to writing, I could just direct it on writing my actual novel I'm working on, but more on that another time.

This is Mr Craiggy, signing out for now!