This seems a negative way to start my new blog, but I haven’t had a fantastic experience of them so far. This is, in fact, my third attempt at a blog, and I am hoping it will work this time. Some of my friends have amazing blogs and I admire them deeply, but up to now it hasn’t worked for me.
So why haven’t my previous blogs worked?
1. My journal. I have been writing this by hand for the last 11 years and no blog could ever replace it. To devote time to a blog has in the past seemed almost like betraying an old friend – in this case, my journal.
2. Eclecticism. I am a very eclectic person – it would be impossible for me to write one blog that encompasses everything I do and everything I am interested in. Certain things, like my job, never even make it into my handwritten journal.
The solution to these problems is, I feel, to specialise. I do not want my blog to rival my journal, and I know I cannot write about everything (largely because I suspect there are very few people out there who combine my interests). Therefore I am choosing one interest, Jacobitism, and writing a blog on that.
So why Jacobitism? Firstly, I think the web is woefully inadequate on the subject. Secondly, it is a subject that embraces a lot of other issues – political philosophy and theology, for example. And it is something I spend quite a lot of time thinking about.
