Sometimes life is hard. Ok, a lot of the time life is hard and it can feel like it's just one thing after the other. Specifically, it's felt like one bad thing after another for the past 8 years.
But something I have come to realise - and it has taken a while - is that I have a really good set of friends. Really, I have more than one set and they don't always go well hand in hand. I hark back to being ill a lot and I'm sure it's annoying, but that time taught me who my real friends were.
This is a round about way of telling you how I got to number 5 - start writing again. I'm not the world's greatest writer; I'll never be published or win any prizes. However, writing is important to me and it's something that got me though some tough times.
Things have been crap for a whole lot of reasons over the past year or so and maybe it's something I'll write about. But the reason it's number 5 on my list is because a good friend asked me a few weeks ago "when did you last write something?" and I couldn't answer.
So I'm writing again. But I'm going back the way because number 22 is write the unwritten half of my dissertation and there are some changes I want to make as I go along. Refine it if you like. It's been 6 years and there are some aspects of it which I was uncomfortable with at the time - more so aspects of creative non fiction which I had shirked. And I'm not shirking them anymore.
This one's for me.
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