Experiments and Practice

I have been tidying up a few of my better, more current blogs and culling and killing a few of my old ones that never really got going.  I'm also thinking about creating a repository for a really old blog from 1999/2000 that's still hanging redundant and not editable,by cutting it up and republishing it into a new platform so that I will always have it (it could disappear anytime and it's been hacked to pieces by spammers). But a lot of that is to do with creating a writing legacy which is fine, but no one ever got rich playing with nostalgia I have to look forwards as well. So this is what I shall use this blog for.  It has survived but has some half decent work on it. It's not public (which is a relief) and I will continue to be private because what I would like to do is keep it on for experimental writing using the Future Learn writing examples I like as openings for possible stories. Yes, it's another one of those little practice areas - but this one could be very different. 

The idea will be to draw from the thousands of examples posted and try to develop them.  many of them won't go anywhere.  hardly any of them will be traceable back to their source such is the nature of editing. But as inspiration and ideas I can't think of a better way to practice. I'll try a few and if one gets me going i'll stick with it. Those that run out of steam will be shelved. Is this a good idea?  We shall see.