There has been hours and hours spent trying to make the ideal idea. We have seen countless false starts and half-tailed attempts. There have been times where I had been ready to give up on the concept of a blog altogether.
The past means nothing though. There's this post, today, and all of the posts that are going to include it. My blog is finally here, and I'm willing to start putting my writing out there for your world to see.
Where should i start though? I have a ton of concepts for this blog. I could possibly just dive directly into that. The theory doesn't feel right though. There's a tone that I want to strike here. I really want you, the reader, to feel like you really know me and might (hopefully) relate with me. So today is about me: who I am just and why I'm achieving this.
I promise my ego won't shine through too strongly (let's ease into this), so read on:
Who Am I?
I'd prefer to pretend that I'm someone special, and that blogging was this brilliant destiny that I'm finally fulfilling but that will be somewhat on the top. I'm just a normal guy, by using a super normal name (Joe).
I work a normal job that features a pretty strict social websites/blogging policy, thus i won't be talking about it much here. I have got a stable relationship with a wonderful woman. In reality, we simply hit our first anniversary! I've been writing online inside my extra time for 5yrs now, and the act has surprisingly fit me like a glove.
You wouldn't know it at first, but I LOVE to talk. It doesn't matter what the subject is. Basically If I find out about it, then I'll quickly try to make things in a debate or even a lesson. If I don't are aware of the subject well, I morph to the consummate student: asking them questions and taking things from different angle. There's the social stuff too, but I'm very likely to want to discuss a company move than I am about Kim K's latest selfie.
It's that craving for interaction and intellectual debate that has type of set me up for writing (and the modest success that I've observed in the area) but that's a story for the next section.
So, Why Writing?
You know, I just despised writing before age of 21. It was my least favorite move to make in class. The act was time-consuming, it had been the standardized test that we performed the worst on, and then there were a million better stuff that I was thinking I really could do with my time.
I remained competent at a minimum in my abilities though. Using a mother and step-father who happen to be both perfectionist high school English teachers will do that for you. I couldn't afford college after being compelled to move out though, so it was a great deal of fast food work rather than much writing for the first several years of my adulthood.
Then, the period that I like to call my "Great Depression" hit. My girlfriend back then broke track of me, and started dating my roommate. I hated my fastfood 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 low-end stuff set me up for the pretty intense burnout. I ended up just going completely off the grid for roughly each year, and it also was the greatest thing in my opinion and my writing.
As an alternative to writing for clients, I might step out on a hike with a notebook and only jot down posts and articles of my very own. They've never seen the lighting of day (and they won't now), mostly because they were pretty rough.
I began to produce an actual style though, and learned a good deal in regards to what I liked to create and what I'm about being a person also. At my core I'm a trainer/explainer. I wish to become 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. Furthermore, i found that writing was my perfect platform. Being able to lay things out, one point after the other, guaranteed that we could say the things i found it necessary to say.
"I Wanna Be The Very Best..."
Hence the love for writing has truly been ignited in me, why wait such a long time to get started on your blog? There are 2 reasons: self-doubt about the caliber of my writing, stemming from too little topic.
Every writer online says that you have to niche down. You must center on one very specific thing to make your life about this. It's hardly the kind of person which i am. I wish to be the ideal at everything that I could. Working on one subject might be a death knell.
Therefore I manned up and made a decision to shun the "comfort zone" notion of one niche. My comfort zone is located on a generic site, covering whatever matters to 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 say the least. Given that I actually have my wheelhouse, it can be my one and only goal to dominate it. Every piece i put out will almost certainly serve a defined purpose. Every new piece is going to be better than the last.
The past means nothing though. There's this post, today, and all of the posts that are going to include it. My blog is finally here, and I'm willing to start putting my writing out there for your world to see.
Where should i start though? I have a ton of concepts for this blog. I could possibly just dive directly into that. The theory doesn't feel right though. There's a tone that I want to strike here. I really want you, the reader, to feel like you really know me and might (hopefully) relate with me. So today is about me: who I am just and why I'm achieving this.
I promise my ego won't shine through too strongly (let's ease into this), so read on:
Who Am I?
I'd prefer to pretend that I'm someone special, and that blogging was this brilliant destiny that I'm finally fulfilling but that will be somewhat on the top. I'm just a normal guy, by using a super normal name (Joe).
I work a normal job that features a pretty strict social websites/blogging policy, thus i won't be talking about it much here. I have got a stable relationship with a wonderful woman. In reality, we simply hit our first anniversary! I've been writing online inside my extra time for 5yrs now, and the act has surprisingly fit me like a glove.
You wouldn't know it at first, but I LOVE to talk. It doesn't matter what the subject is. Basically If I find out about it, then I'll quickly try to make things in a debate or even a lesson. If I don't are aware of the subject well, I morph to the consummate student: asking them questions and taking things from different angle. There's the social stuff too, but I'm very likely to want to discuss a company move than I am about Kim K's latest selfie.
It's that craving for interaction and intellectual debate that has type of set me up for writing (and the modest success that I've observed in the area) but that's a story for the next section.
So, Why Writing?
You know, I just despised writing before age of 21. It was my least favorite move to make in class. The act was time-consuming, it had been the standardized test that we performed the worst on, and then there were a million better stuff that I was thinking I really could do with my time.
I remained competent at a minimum in my abilities though. Using a mother and step-father who happen to be both perfectionist high school English teachers will do that for you. I couldn't afford college after being compelled to move out though, so it was a great deal of fast food work rather than much writing for the first several years of my adulthood.
Then, the period that I like to call my "Great Depression" hit. My girlfriend back then broke track of me, and started dating my roommate. I hated my fastfood 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 low-end stuff set me up for the pretty intense burnout. I ended up just going completely off the grid for roughly each year, and it also was the greatest thing in my opinion and my writing.
As an alternative to writing for clients, I might step out on a hike with a notebook and only jot down posts and articles of my very own. They've never seen the lighting of day (and they won't now), mostly because they were pretty rough.
I began to produce an actual style though, and learned a good deal in regards to what I liked to create and what I'm about being a person also. At my core I'm a trainer/explainer. I wish to become 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. Furthermore, i found that writing was my perfect platform. Being able to lay things out, one point after the other, guaranteed that we could say the things i found it necessary to say.
"I Wanna Be The Very Best..."
Hence the love for writing has truly been ignited in me, why wait such a long time to get started on your blog? There are 2 reasons: self-doubt about the caliber of my writing, stemming from too little topic.
Every writer online says that you have to niche down. You must center on one very specific thing to make your life about this. It's hardly the kind of person which i am. I wish to be the ideal at everything that I could. Working on one subject might be a death knell.
Therefore I manned up and made a decision to shun the "comfort zone" notion of one niche. My comfort zone is located on a generic site, covering whatever matters to 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 say the least. Given that I actually have my wheelhouse, it can be my one and only goal to dominate it. Every piece i put out will almost certainly serve a defined purpose. Every new piece is going to be better than the last.