After two – or maybe it is three – previous attempts to get my personal blog sorted out, I am now about to go live & start loading up material. So, what is the big idea?

As you will see from my biographical details, for my day job I already publish a couple of blogs – including one that publishes other people's poetry & prose. This blog – which you can access via either www.wordsandvision.com or www.charles-christian.com – is my own personal blog to highlight my writing (the 'words' bit), my photography and digital haiga (the 'vision' bit) and my live literature/spoken word performance activities.

If you click on the main category headings, you will see a set of sub categories (verse poetry, prose poetry etc) encompassing the different genre I'm currently working in. The 'stuff you need to know' category is for all that stuff that doesn't fit into one of those neat categories – and includes general info about the blog, news, events plus a full biog of yours sincerely. And, 'the Digital Slow Lane' – which is also this blog's subtitle – is designed to hold an ongoing series of semi-autobiographical, mini-monologues (or prose narratives) about me – and life – and me – as I've finally come out of the closet and recognised my inner geek.

I do hope all that makes sense – and that you enjoy visiting this blog as much as I think I'm going to enjoy writing and developing it.

...Charles Christian