Good day all!...

Well, here we go!, the first of  my new blogs. I sincerely hope you may find some of the seemly
 never ending pros, that I tend to write, somewhat interesting!..I shall endeavour to make them so..


SO!...YOU WANT TO BE A JOURNALIST?....

You love writing yes?, You may even think that its an easy way to make a living!, oh boy!! are you in for a shock!.

Writing is a fantastic job!. You can watch as the very depths of your thoughts materialise on the page before you. its like painting, only with words. The blank page is your canvas, and your keystrokes your brushes. From your fingers mighty adventures can come to live!, heroes arise, and bad guys fall over hugh waterfalls!. Far away lands, which you may never have actually visited, can become the playground for your alter ego. Yes!, writing can be a marvellous escape from the tendentious lives we tend to lead now days..

However!..when you're a journalist, and when you have an irate editor bawling down the phone at you, bills stacked up on your desk, and  children always demanding new shoes, cd's, and never-ending MacDonalds!!, then suddenly, that blank page in front of you!, the square flickering computer screen, with no words on it!, takes on a whole new, and frighting persona!!..Yes!..its happened to you finally!..you have "writers block. the curse of many a fine writer in the past, and now the curse of a not so good one!..The hours on the clock above your desk seem to whizz round!,  .  Only two more hours and you have to do the school car run!..Beads of sweat run down your forehead as you try desperately to think of that catchy opening phase, that brilliant "hook" for the new article that you promised your editor for last week!,,,

Your mind runs through countless subjects that you could cover. You dismiss each in turn, too fanciful, too overdone already, etc. the list goes on. time ticks endlessly by, and still that screen is blank!...aggggghhh!..

finally!, at 2.40pm, with just ten minutes of work time left before the drive to pick up little billy or shara, it happens!..That perfect subject shoots into your head!. You write the title down...then its off to the school to pick up the kids..Upon returning to your desk, you resume where you left off. You stare at the title....and its gone!, that great idea about the subject of this bit of work has vanished from your mind!. The title stares out at you from the still-flickering screen, mocking you slightly. It is then that one of life's great mysteries happens to you. You struggle to write that all-important first line, and suddenly!..the whole article appears in your minds eye!..the words just flow through your fingers, into the keyboard, and onto the screen!

Before you know what's happened, the work is done!. You write that final paragraph with a flourish.As you press the "send" button, to dispatch your written masterpiece to the editor, via email, you reflect on just how easy that was....NOT!!!

 That, my friends is just a glimpse of how a journalist life is, still keen?...then I guess you are a journalist in the making after all ...

MINDLESS DESTRUCTION......

I am nearly in tears as I read a small article on the SKY news. ISIS rebels have, yet again, planted mines and explosives, amongst yet another great relic of ancient civilisation. Will the totally worthless and unbelievable wanton destruction of priceless antiquities never end? Why oh why cant our UN, or some other world body, place armed troops around such gems of world history?, to guard and secure them for future generations to both enjoy, and learn from!....shame on us all for the loss!....

AND SO!....

Thais the end of this, my first rambling of a blog! I hope you found at least some of it mildly entertaining!..until next time..goodbye!..and god bless!...
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