Noticing Newbies

Hello everyone.

I've just joined the site and it seems polite to introduce myself. The username Pepys seemed apt because I've written a daily journal my whole life, and I've also a passion for reading other people's published journals and letters. Not only do they provide a tantalising glimpse into people's lives, but they also provide invaluable source material for writers like me who set some of their fiction in the past.

I write purely for pleasure, but I'm lazy, unfocused and undisciplined. I also have a grasshopper mind, so I'm always abandoning projects half way through. I'm easily bored; new ideas, plots and characters are always so much more alluring than one's stale old familiars.

I'm getting a bit long in the tooth now, so it's time to knuckle down and actually write a whole full length novel. After decades of false starts, my sole aim and ambition as a writer is to be able to say 'I finally finished one!'

Nice to meet you all,

Pepys