In The Beginning...

Here at least
we shall be free

- Paradise Lost, John Milton

The nature of I Wrote This For You doesn't really allow me to say much about it on the site itself.

So I believe this will be a place in which I can say things.

So I will say things.

One of the things I won't be saying is "thank you" (for your support when we launched the I Wrote This For You book) as I have gushed enough and if I continue to thank you, I believe the Oscars will fly out their orchestra and the string section will take turns jumping on my fingers and keyboard to get me to just shut the hell up.

I will say this:

Life is scary. I am scared. Petrified. I don't know what writing a 'successful book' means. Do I have to go and live in a log cabin somewhere? Do I have to move to California and drive a broken down black Porsche?

Worse, do I have to become incredibly depressed, addicted to several different substances and 'scratch the itch at the back of my head with a shotgun' at the end of it all?

I hope not.

I'd like to go on being human.

To be human is such a wonderful thing.

Every day I wake up and I try to remind myself that the light slowly creeping its way under the curtains comes from a giant ball of fire, millions of miles away and that the giant rock my bed is resting on, is spinning around that giant ball of fire.

To be human, to be here, now, is a wonderful thing.

And that is perhaps what inspires me a lot of the time; humans and the things they do. The way we love, hate, war with each other and heal.

That there are people in this world who would judge you because of the way that the particles and waves of light from the aforementioned giant ball of fire refract off your skin.

That there are people who will buy complete strangers pizza, for no other reason than they can and someone else is hungry.

That there are so many of us, all different, yet sharing common human truths.

Truly, to be human, is a wonderful thing.

Like I said, I try and spend some time each day reminding myself of that.

I am incredibly lucky to get letters from around the world saying that my life has changed someone else's or that a turn of phrase has inspired someone beyond measure.

I am incredibly grateful for that. But I do my level best to never take it to heart.

Because I never, ever want to stop being anything but human.

I will do my best to try and write here often.

Thank you.