Why this name and header?

Why did I choose to use the tarot card of the fool and a Constable painting for my first blog post?
I am an artist among other things.  I have decided to start writing and seeing how it goes making my way as a writer.  They say that the more you have lived, the more you can bring to your writing.  Well, I have had a life.  I have history and so the jury is still out on whether I shall be a good, bad or indifferent writer.  Write?  Yes!  Good?  Who knows?

I think anyone who loves to write and who looks at breaking into this mysterious field can be a little like the fool in the tarot cards.  This beginning of a journey where these  blog posts and information y on writing, can make you feel like if you do make the effort, you could very well be optimistically walking off the end of a cliff!  Shall I fall or will I succeed?  I think this is the same for every budding writer, or artist of any sort, no matter what the age. Anyone putting your heart felt work out there, has to go through it.  

As an artist who has been around, I can tell you, it is always the luck of the draw.  You can be a great artist but because you can't keep still or you can't sell yourself well enough, or for whatever reason you fail.  , I can feel like you cannot get traction enough to make a living at your passion no matter how many books are written on doing what you love and having the money follow!

I am starting this website and blog for anyone who has always secretly harboured a desire to write something however for whatever reason never got around to it.  Well, I am going to get around to it!  I will be the fool rambling along byways and backwaters, over hill and dale just like that wonderful painter John Constable.  His paintings, brilliantly executed were not just for wealthy patrons.  He  still painted scenes of everyday life, everyday people and yes, he did more than pastures and cows even though that is likely what he will be mainly remembered by!

My blog will be my muisings, my ramblings and my views speckled with my discoveries in writing along with how the diet is going and what the summary of the latest book is or how to change the size of a cover on an e-novel.  Who knows?  Only one way to find out what is next, is to travel down this path with me.  Perhaps it will just give you a few ideas for thoughts, or maybe you too will get inspired to go on a fast or write a novel.  And yes, I have written more than one novel.  A few in progress and one undergoing a second edit when it comes from an editor!  All this will be to follow in these blogs.  Eventually I will journey into e-publishing and perhaps contests.  I hope you enjoy and feel free to leave comments or suggestions!