Always scribble, scribble, scribble...

Do you want to be a journalist?Do you just feel creative and love to write? Do you want to sleep with Alan Sharkey for money?
If the answer to any of the above is yes, then look no further.Huzzah!

I was pondering (i like the word) about how many people on VR want to write/be journalists/do something literary for the hell of it. And its really quite a lot for one website. A lot of these people are incredibly talented and would make great writers in the future.

So, how about we set up a news/current affairs/entertainment blog which will give us all experience in meeting deadlines, researching and actually doing something related to what you want to do in the future.
And the more professional we make it, i.e. imposing deadlines, fielding out less desirable topics etc, the less chance there is of it bombing like the Abyss which had great talent but relied on one person posting.
It would require a lot of commitment and discipline because I'm a real hardass but for those who are too busy to be regular writers can always write guest essays on a topic which you feel is important and interesting.
There could also be a little sporadic comic section for the artists amongst us.

So...who is interested and who knows how to set up a blog?


Any suggestions for name are also welcome.

I quite like the title of this thread for it, but it may be a little too long.

See, I reckon it should be separate from VR in order to encourage people to really keep the blog afloat, whereas with VR, you can get sidetracked super easily.Plus, I think it'd be cool to give someone a link to an article you wrote and published on a group blog.


*Actually, Claire, thats a great idea.I'm down* for that too if you think it'll work.

*I don't really speak like that in real life.I can't even pull off 'innit', let alone being 'down' for anything.I'm actually 'up' for that too.Dawg.

As the soliciting question suggests, I'm quite up for this, even if no-one else is. Sticking to deadlines would help me in real life, where I am awful at keeping to them - I am always late for everything.

Getting into a routine would keep my mind ticking over as well as helping me with my problems - at least, the ones not related to your face.

Yeah, that's right, your face.

Might be better actually, then we can show off to people that we're ace writers with our own paper and they won't see all our embarrassing VR stuff...still think it'd be a good column idea tho.

Can someone with insight into blogs help us with the techy side of this? I've looked at blogspot and there's something called groupblog but I dunno if it'd allow us to post with our own IDs on the same page or what...

Errr...Oh...wouldn't be very fair on you, man, I already feel guilty enough for you paying for and maintaining VR nevermind having something else here...unless I've misinterpreted.

I'm going to stop hijacking Denesha's thread now.

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