The Little Bear Dog Blog

‘Just write about what you love.’

This is my first blog so I’ve no idea what I’m doing if I’m honest. I love writing but as my day job bites ever bigger chunks out of my life and my would-be novel sits neglected on my hard drive, I need some kind of workout for my rapidly withering writing muscle.

Bemoaning the fact that my creative writing night class had been cancelled due to low numbers, my other half suggested a blog. “What the hell have I got to blog about?” I snapped ungratefully. The idea of writing about my life seemed ridiculous – who on earth (literally) would bother to read it? Day 43 – Worked late, walked dog, had dinner, fell asleep on the sofa, didn’t get to the gym (again) Tune in next time for the next thrilling instalment…

“I thought the idea was to find an excuse to write” he said matter-of-factly, “so it really doesn’t matter if anybody actually reads it, does it?”

Bloody good point. “Just write about something you love,” he added.

Now I love a lot of things: People; food; books; music; long walks in the woods, tea and toast in bed to name but a few, but top of the list has to be animals. Put me in a room full of people; add a furry friend and I’ll want to meet the four legged one first. Plus, chances are theirs will be the only name I’ll remember too.

So, working on the advice of ‘write about something you love’, the blog’s about one of my favourite subjects – my dog. Now this isn’t an ode to the perfect canine – although I hold a deep seated desire that this is what it will become one day. No sadly, I don’t have the perfect pooch and he certainly doesn’t have the perfect adoptive mum in me, so the blog will be about how we’re muddling through the process of getting to know each other – warts and all.

Knowing me, it will probably meander a little here and there, but as my plan is only vague anyway, I’m happy with that. Blogdom here I am…