There have been countless hours spent trying to make the right idea. There were countless false starts and half-tailed attempts. There have been times where I was ready to give up on the notion of a blog altogether.
The last means nothing though. There's this post, at this time, and all of the posts that are going to feature it. My blog is finally here, and I'm able to start putting my writing around to the world to see.
Where do you start though? I have got a bunch of concepts for this website. I really could just dive right into that. The concept doesn't feel right though. There's a tone that I wish to strike here. I want you, your reader, to feel like you actually know me and might (hopefully) connect with me. So today is about me: who I am and why I'm carrying this out.
I promise my ego won't shine through too strongly (let's ease into this), so keep reading:
Who Am I?
I'd love to pretend that I'm someone special, and this blogging was this great destiny that I'm finally fulfilling but that will be somewhat across the top. I'm simply a normal guy, using a super normal name (Joe).
I work a regular job that has a pretty strict social media/blogging policy, thus i won't be discussing it much here. I actually have a reliable relationship by using a wonderful woman. Actually, we merely hit our first anniversary! I've been writing online within my free time for five-years now, and also the act has surprisingly fit me similar to a glove.
You wouldn't realise it at first glance, but I LOVE to talk. It doesn't matter what the subject is. If I learn about it, then I'll quickly try to make things in a debate or possibly a lesson. If I don't understand the subject well, I morph into the consummate student: asking questions and taking things from different angle. There's the social stuff too, but I'm more prone to want to talk about a business move than I am just about Kim K's latest selfie.
It's that craving for interaction and intellectual debate containing kind of set me up for writing (as well as the modest success that I've noticed in the field) but that's a narrative for the following section.
So, Why Writing?
You already know, I just despised writing before the age of 21. It was actually my least favorite action to take in class. The act was cumbersome, it was the standardized test that we performed the worst on, and then there were millions of better stuff that I assumed I was able to do with my time.
I remained competent at the very least within my abilities though. Using a mother and step-father who happen to be both perfectionist senior high school English teachers is going to do that for you. I couldn't afford college after being compelled to move out though, therefore it was plenty of junk food work rather than much writing for the first many years of my adulthood.
Then, the period that I really like to call my "Great Depression" hit. My girlfriend back then broke track of me, and started dating my roommate. I hated my take out job, and quit immediately. The bills were to arrive though, and so i turned to the net for work.
I needed a good run as being a freelance writer for a long time but writing the less-end stuff set me up for any pretty intense burnout. I ended up being just going completely from the grid for approximately each year, plus it was the greatest thing for me and my writing.
Instead of writing for clients, I would head out on a hike by using a notebook and just jot down posts and articles of my very own. They've never seen the sunshine of day (and they won't now), mostly because they were pretty rough.
I started to build up an actual style though, and learned a great deal in regards to what I liked to publish and what I'm about like a person too. At my core I'm a trainer/explainer. I wish to function as the smartest guy within the room, partially for my very own ego but mostly because I like having the answers to everyone's problems.
I finally hit my stride in 2014. I realized a person I dreamed of being. Also i saw that writing was my perfect platform. Having the capability to lay things out, some time right after the other, guaranteed that we could say things i required to say.
"I Wanna Be The Top..."
And so the passion for writing has truly been ignited in me, why wait so long to start out a blog? There are two reasons: self-doubt about the quality of my writing, stemming from not enough topic.
Every writer online says that you have to niche down. You should concentrate on one very specific thing and make your life concerning this. It's hardly the type of person i am. I would like to be the greatest at anything that I will. Focusing on one subject will be a death knell.
So I manned up and decided to shun the "comfort zone" concept of one niche. My comfort zone is on a generic site, covering whatever matters for me or my readers at virtually any moment.
With the subject problem solved, I'm not worried much about quality anymore. I'm hyper-competitive to put it mildly. Since I have got my wheelhouse, it is my one and only goal to dominate it. Every piece i put out will almost certainly serve a defined purpose. Every new piece will likely be much better than the final.
The last means nothing though. There's this post, at this time, and all of the posts that are going to feature it. My blog is finally here, and I'm able to start putting my writing around to the world to see.
Where do you start though? I have got a bunch of concepts for this website. I really could just dive right into that. The concept doesn't feel right though. There's a tone that I wish to strike here. I want you, your reader, to feel like you actually know me and might (hopefully) connect with me. So today is about me: who I am and why I'm carrying this out.
I promise my ego won't shine through too strongly (let's ease into this), so keep reading:
Who Am I?
I'd love to pretend that I'm someone special, and this blogging was this great destiny that I'm finally fulfilling but that will be somewhat across the top. I'm simply a normal guy, using a super normal name (Joe).
I work a regular job that has a pretty strict social media/blogging policy, thus i won't be discussing it much here. I actually have a reliable relationship by using a wonderful woman. Actually, we merely hit our first anniversary! I've been writing online within my free time for five-years now, and also the act has surprisingly fit me similar to a glove.
You wouldn't realise it at first glance, but I LOVE to talk. It doesn't matter what the subject is. If I learn about it, then I'll quickly try to make things in a debate or possibly a lesson. If I don't understand the subject well, I morph into the consummate student: asking questions and taking things from different angle. There's the social stuff too, but I'm more prone to want to talk about a business move than I am just about Kim K's latest selfie.
It's that craving for interaction and intellectual debate containing kind of set me up for writing (as well as the modest success that I've noticed in the field) but that's a narrative for the following section.
So, Why Writing?
You already know, I just despised writing before the age of 21. It was actually my least favorite action to take in class. The act was cumbersome, it was the standardized test that we performed the worst on, and then there were millions of better stuff that I assumed I was able to do with my time.
I remained competent at the very least within my abilities though. Using a mother and step-father who happen to be both perfectionist senior high school English teachers is going to do that for you. I couldn't afford college after being compelled to move out though, therefore it was plenty of junk food work rather than much writing for the first many years of my adulthood.
Then, the period that I really like to call my "Great Depression" hit. My girlfriend back then broke track of me, and started dating my roommate. I hated my take out job, and quit immediately. The bills were to arrive though, and so i turned to the net for work.
I needed a good run as being a freelance writer for a long time but writing the less-end stuff set me up for any pretty intense burnout. I ended up being just going completely from the grid for approximately each year, plus it was the greatest thing for me and my writing.
Instead of writing for clients, I would head out on a hike by using a notebook and just jot down posts and articles of my very own. They've never seen the sunshine of day (and they won't now), mostly because they were pretty rough.
I started to build up an actual style though, and learned a great deal in regards to what I liked to publish and what I'm about like a person too. At my core I'm a trainer/explainer. I wish to function as the smartest guy within the room, partially for my very own ego but mostly because I like having the answers to everyone's problems.
I finally hit my stride in 2014. I realized a person I dreamed of being. Also i saw that writing was my perfect platform. Having the capability to lay things out, some time right after the other, guaranteed that we could say things i required to say.
"I Wanna Be The Top..."
And so the passion for writing has truly been ignited in me, why wait so long to start out a blog? There are two reasons: self-doubt about the quality of my writing, stemming from not enough topic.
Every writer online says that you have to niche down. You should concentrate on one very specific thing and make your life concerning this. It's hardly the type of person i am. I would like to be the greatest at anything that I will. Focusing on one subject will be a death knell.
So I manned up and decided to shun the "comfort zone" concept of one niche. My comfort zone is on a generic site, covering whatever matters for me or my readers at virtually any moment.
With the subject problem solved, I'm not worried much about quality anymore. I'm hyper-competitive to put it mildly. Since I have got my wheelhouse, it is my one and only goal to dominate it. Every piece i put out will almost certainly serve a defined purpose. Every new piece will likely be much better than the final.