The very first page

This is my very first blog. I have created this blog so that I will be motivated to write regularly. To say I am an aspiring writer would be an overstatement, but who's watching? So, this will be my own personal writing diary. If I were thirteen then I would have called it "My big book of writing!" Now that I am (a little)older I will call it "Keeping Track". Okay, so that is not the most ingenius title you have ever heard but for the time that's what it is going to be in essence- a blog to keep track of my (random and eccentric)thoughts and ocassionally to scribble down events and memories. I am hoping when I am 65 and struggling to get innovative ideas for my novels these 'memoirs' would help me get going. My blog is not intended to be literary although if I can develop the habit of writing regualarly (A habit all good writers must have), then I plan on changing the name of my blog to "Writing Away".

Here's a head's up on me.

I come from a country of six seasons. Or so it used to be. what with all the global warming and Greenhouse effect, the six seasons that have enchanted and enthralled our poets and writers for centuries have merged and mingled. In the due process, we now have a long, humid summer almost ten months long (or so it seems to me), and a very short and pleasant winter. My affinity is with winter,as I was born on the coldest night of the year, so do not trust my exagerrated horror stories about summer.

"Keeping Track" would be about the mundane things that happen in my life, so if you do not like it do not tell me I hadnt warned you.

I love reading: generally World Literature(20th century) and specifically Latin American. My favourite Latin American writer is Isabel Allende.

I am not a big fan of the classics, but my favourites include Charles Dickens and Louisa May Alcott (not sure if she's classic though). Favourite classic books are: 'Little Women' (duh), 'Pride and Prejudice' (bigger duh) and 'A Tale of Two Cities'(Didn't see that one coming , huh?).

I suppose that's all now....it was quite fun...i do make an intention to be regular in my blogs, but dont worry it wont be to bother you, but rather to get me going.

Ciao.