“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.”

Lewis Carroll — Through the Looking-Glass

Hello, readers.  I am Rachael the writer, but you can call me Rae –most people don’t, so this is new, much like my blog. I am starting this blog because that is what most Millennial writers do – write blogs with the hope that a wonderful writing agent miraculously takes notice of them (wink wink to any agent reading this). So ta da, here I am despite the fact that I am an old fashioned granny in the body of a 24-year-old. Yes I prefer my books in hardcover or paperback, and I like to speak to my friends in person rather than in the comment section of a Facebook post. However, I do enjoy the ease of e-books and I spend hours on Facebook, but mostly to procrastinate. So now, like other things, I have conceded and I’ll drink the blogging Kool-Aid.

I have been contemplating for years about writing a blog, but I could not figure out what I wanted to write about. My areas of interest are huge. I have spent the majority of my time in university flittering from major to major just because there was too much out there that I wanted to learn. I eventually settled into a BA in Literature and Gender Studies, but as these subjects are quite broad, they still did not help me narrow down my blogging topic. So, since my interests are vast and varying, I decided to dedicate my blog to the one constant in my life – my love of writing and the day to day difficulties of being an unpublished author.

I know the title of this blog would be quite confusing. For those of you who are not a fan of Lewis Carroll I’m sure you were expecting the Queen of England’s recipes for steamed cabbage. Sorry to disappoint. Books have been an intrinsic part of my life, so I had to dedicate this blog to the first poem I ever memorised, the Walrus and the Carpenter. I hope one day some dreaming writer will dedicate something to a piece of my literary work, but a girl can only dream.

A little bit about me, I am a 24-year-old Trinidadian writer who spends equal parts of her life working, day dreaming, studying and sleeping. Sometimes the four are interconnected, but that’s a topic for a different post. I am a journalist by trade, a day dreamer by profession, an avid involved reader and a career student. On the days that I manage to write down the fairy-tales dancing around in my head I call myself an author.

Writing for me has never come easy. The dreams were fluid, but the words would back up in my brain like a clogged pipe. Being dyslexic does not help, but some misspelled words never stopped anyone from writing stuff down. It certainly was not going to stop me. The real problem I have as a writer is my ferocious urge to procrastinate. Like I said, it took me years to open a WordPress account. Of course while writing this blog I contemplated taking a nap, scrolled through Facebook, actually took a nap, lost my glasses while napping and became very relieved that I did not break my glasses during my nap, watched television, had a snack, found my glasses under my bed and watched some more television. That’s a lot to do while you are procrastinating. I consider myself a professional multi-tasking procrastinator, but I do well with deadlines. Nothing is more inspiring than the last minute pressure. Writing at the last minute stops me from overthinking, so I write exactly the words that I want to say. I hope that in this blog I will be able to write everything I would like to say to you.

So, here I am, a writer, ready for you to read. I hope you enjoy.

With all my heart,

Rae Ewenheart

P.S. Stay tuned for some original poems and prose from me.