Introduction

I'm new to HTML so I really don't know what I'm doing, but we'll give this a go. This is a place for me to air my writer's block angst and to wax lyrical on the everyday things that colour my life. 

A little about me: I'm 31 years old. I work as a writer in an office in my house (the cellar) - this makes me feel like I should be writing horror novels, but no - I write fiction (can't bring myself to call it literary fiction without sounding like a pompous idiot.) I also work as a consultant behavioural analyst with children who have autism. That means sorting out tantrums and getting my hair pulled and my arms bitten along the way. I live with my partner. He is an artist, a very good one. We don't have pets of the furry variety. We have a marine aquarium with no fish (we add them in September), but we DO have a shrimp in there - he must have come with the rock we bought. We haven't named it....yet. 

We cook lots. My partner makes a LOT of stock. He likes it - it's cathartic. I fill my days with displacement activities to prevent any actual writing. I don't know what I am going to do when Big Brother ends (should I  admit that?) I read a lot. I start books and don't finish them. I am surprised I actually like James Joyce. It pleases me to like somebody like Joyce and actually mean it when I say it. Mostly I say I like writers to make me sound cleverer than I am.

I think I'll stop here and see what happens. Did I mention I don't know anything about HTML?