Tommy Collison

Does he mean a writer of fictional books or a writer who’s not real..? :D

Like all kids, I’ve gone through more career changes then changes of socks. First it was a train driver, then astronaut, then teacher, then TV actor, then stage actor, then blogging consultant.

As I’ve grown up (unsure whether to use ‘matured’ there too, because of the (albeit possibly fictional) shocked and verbal disagreements I may attain) the diversity of the innumerable vocations has decreased, yet the uncertainty has stayed constant.

For a while though, since about the start of this year, I’ve known that my vocation should be linked in some way to this blog, or blogging in general, or websites and the internet, if we’re broad. Having said that, there are few jobs out there that don’t involve the internet in some form or other, and that’s only going to increase once I wrap up my education.

It would be a wee bit silly, like, to keep this personal blog going, and take up something thoroughly offline like, I don’t know… fishing, because I’ve only ever fished once and on that occasion I found out that I was too compassionate with the damn thing because I let him get away. On that note, what’s the most hilariously offline job you can think of? No prizes because we’re too broke, but try have some fun :)

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Getting back to the post title (oh how I ramble..), everyone seems to think I’d make a great fictional writer. Whether that means I’m better off not existing or that my verbal ramblings are pleasing to a small minority of the world’s population; I’m not 100% sure. I like to believe the latter :)

I know I could never be the next Eoin Colfer, or Stephen King, or Jane Austen, because I can’t write fiction. Everyone talks about how you gotta know your character’s favourite food and what’d be in their pockets on a normal day and know all their dreams and hopes and fears.. That’s too much connection for me! I can’t bear to be around my characters for so long, telling them how to react and what to say and everything.

I much prefer fact. I wouldn’t mind writing someone’s (or my own) autobiography. Like, I love writing (this is post #725 on TrustTommy, I’d want to love it! :P) but don’t make me invent stuff because I’m not sure I know people well enough to invent intricate details about them!