Hi, I am Caleb. I do words and this blog. I will be spending the next few weeks with you, pondering and reflecting on my coursework and how I am getting on with it. So get ready for the continuous weeks of my stressy messy way I will stumble into the second year of my university life.

I will ask a question to you to begin, why do you read, listen or watch a piece of media?

The answer for me (And do comment below, as I want to know your reasons) is because I find it to be the most effective way of telling a story. I am obsessed with stories. I always have been. These can be stories told by Edgar Allan Poe, a priest, a teacher or random stranger. Everyone has a story.

I come from a creative background; I am a poet. So, stories and the idea of the reader being present in my work as I construct it has been crucial to the way I formulate a piece of content, whether that be a poem or a news story.  This is where you come into the mix. I have never blogged before and to be serious, I don’t know what a blog reader expects and perhaps doing this technical writing module can provide that clarity.

Previously during my journalism modules, I was told split my brain into parts and assign the parts to the types of writing that are required of me.  The main purpose of this method was it allow me to flip a switch and allow me to focus intently on the purpose of writing.

Normally I would break it up as such:

1. Creative
2. Academic
3. Journalistic

I wonder how blogging will fit into all of this will be a mixture of journalistic and creative or will it be a separate new part of my brain.

I suppose this is the fun we are going to have along the way. This blog will insight into my head for the next coming semester, and I will be touching along many topics in my study to add further reflections I feel worthy of comment. So, whether it be a new poem I encounter in English Lit or an issue in contemporary journalism I think we will be in for a journey.

I encourage your added reflections along the way, of course. This module will offer me an interesting new way of writing. Hopefully, at least, let’s be positive!

Caleb