There have been hours and hours spent trying to create the ideal idea. There have been countless false starts and half-tailed attempts. There were times where I found myself ready to give up on the thought of a blog altogether.
The past means nothing though. There's this post, at the moment, and all of the posts that are going to include it. My blog is finally here, and I'm able to start putting my writing around for that world to see.
Where do I start though? I actually have a bunch of suggestions for this website. I really could just dive directly into that. The idea doesn't feel right though. There's a tone that I wish to strike here. I wish for you, the reader, to feel as if you truly know me and might (hopefully) relate to 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 keep reading:
Who Am I?
I'd want to pretend that I'm someone special, which blogging was an excellent destiny that I'm finally fulfilling but that would be a bit on the top. I'm just a normal guy, with a super normal name (Joe).
I work a regular job that has a pretty strict social media/blogging policy, therefore i won't be talking about it much here. We have a stable relationship by using a wonderful woman. The truth is, we simply hit our first anniversary! I've been writing online in my free time for 5 years now, along with the act has surprisingly fit me such as a glove.
You wouldn't know it at first, but I prefer to talk. It doesn't matter what the subject is. Should I know about it, then I'll quickly try to make things in to a debate or perhaps a lesson. Basically If I don't understand the subject well, I morph into the consummate student: asking them questions and taking things from different angle. There's the social stuff too, but I'm more likely to want to speak about an organization move than I am about Kim K's latest selfie.
It's that looking for interaction and intellectual debate that has sort of set me up for writing (along with the modest success that I've observed in the area) but that's a story for the next section.
So, Why Writing?
You already know, I just despised writing before the age of 21. It was my least favorite course of action at school. The act was time consuming, it had been the standardized test i performed the worst on, and then there were millions of better stuff that I was thinking I was able to do with my time.
I remained competent at the very least within my abilities though. Possessing a mother and step-father who definitely are both perfectionist high school graduation English teachers will do that for you. I couldn't afford college after being made to move out though, therefore it was plenty of fast food work rather than much writing for the first few many years of my adulthood.
Then, the period that I love to call my "Great Depression" hit. My girlfriend at that time broke up with me, and started dating my roommate. I hated my take out job, and quit immediately. The bills were to arrive though, so I turned to the web for work.
I needed an excellent run as a freelance writer for a few years but writing the reduced-end stuff set me up for a pretty intense burnout. I wound up just going completely away from the grid for about per year, and it was the greatest thing for me personally and my writing.
Rather than writing for clients, I might head out on a hike by using a notebook and just jot down posts and articles of my own. They've never seen light of day (plus they won't now), mostly since they were pretty rough.
I started to develop a real style though, and learned a good deal about what I liked to create and what I'm about like a person too. At my core I'm a trainer/explainer. I want to end up being the smartest guy within the room, partially for my 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 thought about being. Furthermore, i discovered that writing was my perfect platform. Having the capacity to lay things out, some point following the other, guaranteed that I could say what I found it necessary to say.
"I Wanna Be The Top..."
Hence the passion for writing has truly been ignited in me, why wait so long to get started on a blog? There are two reasons: self-doubt about the standard of my writing, stemming from an absence of topic.
Every writer online says that you have to niche down. You must focus on one very specific thing to make your life about this. It's simply not the kind of person which i am. I want to be the best at everything that I could. Centering on one subject will be a death knell.
And So I manned up and chose to shun the "comfort zone" thought of one niche. My comfort zone is on a generic site, writing about whatever matters if you ask me or my readers at any moment.
Together with the subject problem solved, I'm not worried much about quality anymore. I'm hyper-competitive understandably. Since I actually have my wheelhouse, it is my one and only goal to dominate it. Every piece i put out will serve a defined purpose. Every new piece will likely be superior to the very last.
The past means nothing though. There's this post, at the moment, and all of the posts that are going to include it. My blog is finally here, and I'm able to start putting my writing around for that world to see.
Where do I start though? I actually have a bunch of suggestions for this website. I really could just dive directly into that. The idea doesn't feel right though. There's a tone that I wish to strike here. I wish for you, the reader, to feel as if you truly know me and might (hopefully) relate to 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 keep reading:
Who Am I?
I'd want to pretend that I'm someone special, which blogging was an excellent destiny that I'm finally fulfilling but that would be a bit on the top. I'm just a normal guy, with a super normal name (Joe).
I work a regular job that has a pretty strict social media/blogging policy, therefore i won't be talking about it much here. We have a stable relationship by using a wonderful woman. The truth is, we simply hit our first anniversary! I've been writing online in my free time for 5 years now, along with the act has surprisingly fit me such as a glove.
You wouldn't know it at first, but I prefer to talk. It doesn't matter what the subject is. Should I know about it, then I'll quickly try to make things in to a debate or perhaps a lesson. Basically If I don't understand the subject well, I morph into the consummate student: asking them questions and taking things from different angle. There's the social stuff too, but I'm more likely to want to speak about an organization move than I am about Kim K's latest selfie.
It's that looking for interaction and intellectual debate that has sort of set me up for writing (along with the modest success that I've observed in the area) but that's a story for the next section.
So, Why Writing?
You already know, I just despised writing before the age of 21. It was my least favorite course of action at school. The act was time consuming, it had been the standardized test i performed the worst on, and then there were millions of better stuff that I was thinking I was able to do with my time.
I remained competent at the very least within my abilities though. Possessing a mother and step-father who definitely are both perfectionist high school graduation English teachers will do that for you. I couldn't afford college after being made to move out though, therefore it was plenty of fast food work rather than much writing for the first few many years of my adulthood.
Then, the period that I love to call my "Great Depression" hit. My girlfriend at that time broke up with me, and started dating my roommate. I hated my take out job, and quit immediately. The bills were to arrive though, so I turned to the web for work.
I needed an excellent run as a freelance writer for a few years but writing the reduced-end stuff set me up for a pretty intense burnout. I wound up just going completely away from the grid for about per year, and it was the greatest thing for me personally and my writing.
Rather than writing for clients, I might head out on a hike by using a notebook and just jot down posts and articles of my own. They've never seen light of day (plus they won't now), mostly since they were pretty rough.
I started to develop a real style though, and learned a good deal about what I liked to create and what I'm about like a person too. At my core I'm a trainer/explainer. I want to end up being the smartest guy within the room, partially for my 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 thought about being. Furthermore, i discovered that writing was my perfect platform. Having the capacity to lay things out, some point following the other, guaranteed that I could say what I found it necessary to say.
"I Wanna Be The Top..."
Hence the passion for writing has truly been ignited in me, why wait so long to get started on a blog? There are two reasons: self-doubt about the standard of my writing, stemming from an absence of topic.
Every writer online says that you have to niche down. You must focus on one very specific thing to make your life about this. It's simply not the kind of person which i am. I want to be the best at everything that I could. Centering on one subject will be a death knell.
And So I manned up and chose to shun the "comfort zone" thought of one niche. My comfort zone is on a generic site, writing about whatever matters if you ask me or my readers at any moment.
Together with the subject problem solved, I'm not worried much about quality anymore. I'm hyper-competitive understandably. Since I actually have my wheelhouse, it is my one and only goal to dominate it. Every piece i put out will serve a defined purpose. Every new piece will likely be superior to the very last.