A blog is born

Well, to celebrate reaching 50,000 words of my debut novel, I decided to create a blog where I plan to give some insights into the process I'm following and how I'm getting along. I don't know how often I'll post on here, but I hope it will be reasonably regularly. However, life often gets in the way of plans, so we'll just have to wait and see.
I got the idea for starting a blog from reading the blogs of two other writers, both of whom have written novels set in the same period that I am writing about: Richard Denning and Nicola Griffith. If you are interested in the writing process, or Anglo-Saxon Britain, I recommend both those blogs.
I'm not sure exactly what I plan to write on this blog. It will probably just be musings and ramblings when I get stuck writing the novel, but I may find other interesting things to talk about, or perhaps I'll ask questions about the historical elements of the story I'm writing. After all, I'm no historian. Come to that, I suppose it could be said that I'm no writer either, as I am yet to complete my first novel.
Normally, at this point in a blog I think writers would mention all the short stories they have had published and the prizes they have won. The truth of the matter is that I've always loved stories and writing, but I've never really taken it seriously before now.
Well, actually it was a few years ago that I started. Back in 2001, I think, I was watching a documentary about Bamburgh Castle and the Anglo-Saxon graves that archaeologists had discovered nearby and something was kindled inside me. They talked about the Kingdom of Bernicia, which I'd never heard of before, and described a time of history that I knew very little about. But as soon as the documentary was over, I sat down and started to write, having no idea what the story would be.
Over the next couple of years I did a lot of research, buying books and maps, and reading all manner of websites, and the story I had started began to take shape. I mapped out a synopsis that followed a couple of fictional characters through real historical events, starting in 633 AD.
A few years later, I had written about 25,000 words, but I'd started working longer hours and singing with my band was taking up a lot of my spare time, not to mention family life, so the novel got parked, but never forgotten. From time to time I would go back to it in my mind and revisit the characters and the events, thinking of the synopsis and where I could take it.
And then, last year I got given a Kindle ebook reader for my birthday and I got to thinking about how I could perhaps self-publish. It couldn't be that hard, right? Well, the main difficulty would be not having a finished book to publish, I thought. So, this September I printed out what I had already written, read it all through and liked what I read. I decided to set myself the goal of writing 3,000 words a week until I had my first draft completed (I read that Stephen King does 3,000 a day, but he's a full-time writer and I bet his band isn't as good as Rock Dog!). I'm not quite on track with that goal, but I am writing each week and I've doubled the number of words I had back in September, so things are going well.
Part of me now feels like this blog has been a waste of good writing time, but it is a lot easier to write this than to worry about what early Anglo-Saxon buckets were made of, or what guillemot eggs look like.
If you read this, and are at all interested, feel free to post a comment, and I promise I'll answer.
I wonder what I'll post about next... I've never written a blog before either, so this should be fun!