The start of Under a Blue Pen (Again)

Hello there, my name is George...

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HELLO THERE

There we are, apparently you have to shout to be heard on the internet.

Let me start again.

Hello there my name is George Alex Davies and if you follow this blog in chronological order you have in store many (as yet unwritten [but surely soon-to-be-written]) fantastic adventures and interesting stories. If you are a time-traveller I will try and accommodate you with an index page but do be warned that if you travel to before August 2013 you won't find any stories at all because I won't have published them yet. In fact, I'll only just be writing the message you're reading now.

Here's a picture. Pictures break up
text and make pages more
interesting to look at. It has little to
do with the post itself.

In the style of Dickens* I will be making each story a serial (not a cereal) consisting of 2 or more parts (or just one if I'm lazy or the story doesn't deserve an overly-suspensful cliff-hanger). Of course, the impatient time-travellers amongst you can just jump forward to read the rest of the story - and, let's face it, all time-travellers are at least a little impatient, and skipping to the end of a serial is just the kind of thing I can picture you doing.

Now this one could be a little more
appropriate. I used to eat Maryland
cookies when writing. They're tasty.

However, as of yet (mid-2013) time-travel hasn't yet been, shall we say, perfected, I will be maintaining a steady schedule of uploading stories (or parts of stories) so that the rest of you, who have to plod tediously through time in the right order, presumably at a rate roughly equivalent to 1 minute/minute (or 1 day/day if to be less precise), will have something to look forward to!

Here we go! Much more appropriate!
Here's my cat Mirstone in my
motorcycle jacket. Just 'chillin' as
the cats say these days.

Though this may change when I go back to school - yes, it may have been a bit foolish to start this blog in the holidays as I have no idea the tole AS' will take on me - I am intending on uploading a story every Saturday at an exact arbitrary time. Let's say 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

If this time doesn't agree with you (which I'm sure it won't), then follow my page on Facebook, and my thingy on Twitter - links will be available somewhen**, just search for 'under a blue pen', it's very original***. I will put the link up there at 5 when the story is uploaded, at 10 the same day, at mid-day on Sunday and then various times throughout the week when I think people will be most interested.

If none of those times agree with you - you fussy bugger - then get a time machine and read my stories from a non-linear, non-subjective point of view. The stories won't make any sense, but that's what the index is for.

Sum me up in a sentence.

If you can't get a time-machine then you can:

1. Scroll to the bottom of a page where a little heading saying 'Followers' hangs above a little button which says 'Join this site'. You can do it with a google account (i.e. Gmail), a Yahoo account or Twitter and you'll have your own little icon when commenting on stories and I'll gaze upon your requests more favourably. I think you'll get email updates but I'm not entirely sure. It's just a fun thing to do. DO IT.
2. If you don't want to do that - and, frankly, I don't know why you wouldn't because, frankly, my website/blog is fabulous - then there is a box on the right-hand-side of the page where you can enter your email address. That way, you get a lovely little email telling you that I've written a story and that you should go and read it HINTIDY-HINT.
3. Follow me on Google+. I never use it, but just do it. 
4. Oh yeah, almost forgot, right at the bottom there's a little contact box where you can send me a message - I have no idea how it works but go ahead - I'd love to find out!
5. SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM. CLICK 'SHARE THIS ON FACEBOOK', THEN CLICK 'TWEET THIS'. SCROLL TO THE TOP. CLICK THE DROP-DOWN ON THE BLOGGER-BAR WHICH SAYS 'MORE'. CLICK 'SHARE WITH FACEBOOK' THEN CLICK 'SHARE WITH TWITTER'.  That's right, spam your friends for me, be a darling and save me half the effort, social networking is such a chore on your own.

Well that just about wraps it up... OH NO WAIT. There are also some lovely java-animated coy fish for you to play with at the bottom once you've finished reading the stories and plastering them across your social networks. They're very pretty to look at (though do send me a message if I should change their colours) and if you click in the water you can drop them some food. They appreciate that greatly.

Ah! Here's me trying to remember
what Silents are. I can't, so I just put
these little tallies on my arms.
Very confusing.
Oh no! Now you're judging me by
my appearance! Stop! Forget you saw
this and read my stories with a clean
mind.

You can also translate this into other languages thanks to my glamourous assistant, Google Translate, but I assume you already have if you're reading this and from a non-English-speaking country. Do send this to your foreign grandma, I recon she'd love these stories. Especially if she's Italian, my stories would sound great in Italian.

So yeah, there's the promo out of the way, now go and enjoy my gorgeous website! If you're reading this in mid-August 2013 (and you aren't a time-traveller) then you can await my first story - 'Cliffhanger' - the first part of which will be coming out on a Saturday most convenient to me!

Have fun kids!

*shakes fist like an old man*

TRY NOT TO BREAK ANYTHING!

*I say 'in the style of Dickens' as if it were chosen for that reason. I'm actually giving you a false impression there. A serial story mean that I can write a story in one day and it'll be my fill for 2-3 weeks, saving precious time when I'm at college. Sorry to shatter your image that I am in any way cultured or artsy, but it's best you know the truth now then be horrified at my literary laziness later.
** Yes, I come from the Isle of Wight. 'Somewhen' is a real word to me and the more you call me out for using it the more I will include it in my writing. It's not that bad - you'll get used to it somewhen.
*** For Clarkey. I was trying to find a way of getting 'off of' in this post-script somehow but I can't think of one for now.