My first blog post...

I've decided to write a blog. This is a new and pretty exciting thing for me. I know that everyone does it nowadays, so it's nothing radical or different; it's unlikely that someone is going to stumble across this on some Internet site and decide that I've got something to say that the world needs to hear. I'm probably not going to make a difference to that many peoples lives, but if just one person reads this and gets something from my (sometimes sorry) life experiences then I guess I will have made a difference to that one person, and that's ok. I'm not looking to be the next gloop.
Why do people decide to write a blog?? For me, my inspiration came from a jojo moyes book I've just read - 'The One Plus One'. It's pretty hard to condense 516 pages In to a few sentences, but I'll try. Jessica Rae Thomas is the story's heroine. She is in a dire financial situation and with two children to bring up and bills to pay, even her two jobs are not sufficient. It doesnt help that tanzie, her youngest is a maths prodigy, who has been offered a 90% discount on the fees for a private school where she will be encouraged to pursue with her maths; a stark contrast to the comprehensive she currently attends, where she is branded a weirdo, with her homemade, tacky clothes and her glasses. Jess's one chance to find the remaining money for her daughter is to enter her in to a maths competition. There's just one problem...it's all the way up in Aberdeen, and jess literally has no money to spare. Fate, and perhaps karma intervenes when she bumps in to her arrogant employer and puts him in to a taxi after he spends a night drinking heavily in the pub where she works. Ed drops an envelope stuffed with £500, and in desperation jess takes the money as a down payment for the school she wants her daughter to attend. Tanzie is given the chance to earn a 90% scholarship discount to the school. She just has to get both her kids, herself and the family dog up to Aberdeen for the maths competition, and she hasn't a penny left for the travel there. Without any car insurance, jess decides recklessly that her only option is to set off in her ex's car that has been rusting in the garage. It isn't long before they are stopped by the police. Upper and working classes collide once more when Ed comes to their rescue. He knows that Jess made sure he got home safely that night from the pub, but he has no idea that she took his lost cash. Feeling that he owes her and seeing how desperate her situation is, he offers to drive them all to Aberdeen the next morning.
I am really aware that this is turning in to a rather lengthy book review. I want this blog to be a mixture of everything that interests me,  so I WILL be talking about books I've read but that wasn't the plan here.
To try to cut a long story short, they eventually get to Aberdeen but the test doesn't go to plan as Tanzie loses her glasses. They return home despondent and miserable, ready to accept that things will always be hard for the Rae-Thomas's. On top of everything else, Ed has discovered Jess' deception and has left. While they were away, Tanzie's adopted son Nicky formed an unexpected bond with him; confiding in him about boys that have been bullying him on the estate and at school. Ed really helps him and on his advice and in an attempt to 'find his people' and fit in, Nicky starts to write a blog. It becomes a form of therapy as he comes out of his shell and tells his story for the world to read. Hundreds of people decide to donate money to help them and they all learn that there are kind people in the world and there is light at the end of the tunnel!! They receive a phone call inviting Tanzie to take a re-test so she gets another chance at the scholarship.
The story has a happy ending which I won't reveal (even though I've practically re-written the book here, I've gone on so much!!) I loved the book and i think i gave it 4 or maybe even 5 stars on Good reads, but my main inspiration came from Nicky. The blog he wrote really, REALLY helped him and transformed him from a shy, awkward teenager-being bullied by 'the cool kids', to someone who felt he finally belonged in the world and had found people with similar interests and ideas.
I don't know what I want or expect from this. Is there a right or wrong way to write as blog. I think its meant to be more bullet pointy, with photos and links interspersed, and I'm sure some of my blog posts will turn out like that but I also love to write and so I know that some of my posts will be longer bodies of text, so whoever is out there reading-hope that's ok. It might alienate some people!! Feel free to tell me what you all think.
That's it for this post, here's to my new blog. I hope it interests some of you and some people will identify with the stuff I have been through and done. Happy reading!!