Well I guess everyone is doing it now, blogging that is, so why not me. My name is Kevin Kirrane by the way. I'm a journalist with the Dungarvan Leader where I write the general news, features, and of course my weekly coloumn, Viewpoint which began life last November. Hopefully, it has proved popular: I certainly enjoy writing it. For those who haven't read my column its on the web on www.dungarvanleader.com, providing a humerous look at current affairs and life in general in the West Waterford area.
But that's not what KevinsViewpoint or this blog to be exact is going to be about. Rather it will detail happenings national, local, cultural and social - cultural especially since I am writing a novel called Vermont, which I hope to have finished sometime in the middle of this year. I'm on the second draft at the moment, and have written around 65,000 words currently. I hope to complete another two to three drafts before I dare show it to anyone. Now caught in the throes of it, its easy to be over confident of its success with publishers. I've tried and failed before. This novel is certainly the best I've written, but who can tell its success. Nonetheless, even if its a failure - and I know this will sound sickeningly corny - but I will be happy, because it will be the first novel I've actually completed. Maybe the finished article will lay in its stack of 200 or so pages in a shoe box in the closet, marked failure and rejection, and while I hope that's not the case, my confidence is not completly foolhardy. In any case, let me stop meandering about, and end this, the first of what I hope will become a weekly and sometimes daily blog. Thanks for stopping by. And I'll keep you updated again soon.
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