Hi all. My name's Zac Langridge.
You may know me in real life and have met me in person, or you may know me from my two Youtube channels (links here and here). Or you may not know me at all, and have simply stumbled across this blog purely by chance.

Frankly it's about time I created a blog like this. I've always loved reading, and have made my way through many books over the years. My bookshelf is practically full, as I love stories - be it those on paper or onscreen. Writing has always been one of my greatest strengths, and I've always loved being creative and unique with my work. From what I remember, in my primary and intermediate schools, my writing was always about characters being put into bizarre and outlandish (often intense) scenarios. One particular story I remember fondly is one where my character was forced to run from his home (due to an unexplained gunfight going on in his street), and runs far away into the woods where he falls into a deep pit, and has to crawl through a narrow tunnel to the surface - nearly getting stuck and suffocating as he does. It was pretty absurd, looking back at it.
As the years have gone by though, and I've moved into high-school, my writing has become less narrative/action driven and more personal/emotional. I feel that this was largely driven by my feelings and emotional reactions to events going on around me, and around the world at the time. It changed me as a person, and I feel that my writing really matured as a went through high-school. It became more meaningful, and much of it was based around emotions - me attempting to put my sonic experiences and indescribable feelings inside my brain into tangible, readable words that people could understand. I would often write about ideas that appealed to me personally, things that made my brain light up like a Christmas tree, and create ideas with the fluidity of liquid and (hopefully) the absence of writers block and procrastination (the worst things ever for someone who loves writing!).

For the first three years of high-school, I was a member of a writing club, which was the best in-school activity I joined outside of classes. Not only was the atmosphere positive, inspiring and encouraging, but it really pushed me to continue writing and follow my passion alongside my fellow members. When the 2016 writing club booklet was released, and I'd only written one piece throughout the whole year (terrible, I know!), I swore to myself that I'd write more. And with that, I poured my effort into becoming as inspired as possible, and writing as many pieces for the booklets in the following two years. My portfolio ballooned to seven pieces of writing in 2017, and five in 2018.
At the end of 2018, the wonderful teacher who headed up the club retired, and a new writing club was never established. However, despite this, I still continued to write as if I was writing for that club. I tried to keep my writing as personal and polished as possible, as if it was still going to be published in a booklet at the end of the year for everybody to see. Throughout 2019, I've managed to start writing numerous pieces - some of them I completed, some of them are still unfinished as of writing this, and some of the pieces were unfinished ones from the previous year that I decided to revisit. It was very therapeutic to do so, however I had no place to publish my work. I had a growing portfolio of work that was building up, unread by nobody but myself. And as the year went on, I knew I wanted to publish it somewhere online for people to see.

So, after months of procrastination, I finally made this blog. I'm writing this intro on the 26th of October, 2019. In a few weeks time I will be sitting my exams for Level 2 NCEA, and then after that it will be Christmas, and then the beginning of a new decade. Then my final year of high-school. Then the unknown.
My goal is to continue writing throughout my life, and eventually write a novel. However that goal won't realize itself. This blog will be there for me to persuade me to continue writing, and to encourage me to keep going, no matter what. If my writing remains unpublished and hidden away on my computer, there will be no pressure for me to continue. However, if someone happens to see my work, and possibly even decides to follow my blog, then that feeling of awareness and expectancy from another person will give me another reason to keep persisting with my goal.

Hopefully this intro wasn't too pretentious! Thanks for reading, and I hope you find my writing interesting, entertaining or enlightening in some way.