Being new to blogging, an English student and trying to write ‘correctly’.

I am new to 'serious' blogging, and actually feel quite overwhelmed for starting it up. To those of you who are already following this account, I want to make you aware that I now want to start writing regularly and re-vamp this account. So, let's start again.

I am an English Literature and Language student in my final year and throughout my academic  life I have been told that I am not good enough at writing, or as I would say, I don’t tick all of the boxes when it comes to writing – I’m not a thesaurus. This has really broken my confidence in my writing capabilities; I do feel like I’m not good enough at writing and that people won’t enjoy reading my blogs because my writing lacks coherence and flamboyance. Due to studying English at degree level, there are a lot of expectations, the main one being able to write perfectly down to a tee and of course, very well read. When actually, I chose my course because I loved to analyse and get down to the nitty gritty parts of the literature and the language we use everyday. This might all sound cringey to you, but it is the honest truth – my course has prevented me from starting up a serious blog/ sharing my own ideas online.

Now that it is my final year, I have decided that I won’t let my academic life and pressures stop me from writing and joining the blogging community. I want to write and share my thoughts on society today, whether I write about life, beauty, thoughts and memories – it is an escapism and enjoyment, so why not.

Hopefully, I haven’t bored you with my thoughts and feelings, but I feel for my first post I should write about overcoming the pressures of the academic world. After my work placement year and travelling for two months, I have realised that I shouldn’t let anything hold me back; I should accomplish the things in life I have said I have wanted to be or do for a long time, so here is one of them.

Here’s to the start of many more blogs to come.