I finally got to put out my first blog post

I’ve been procrastinating about a lot of things in my life and at 22years I can gladly say that am honestly OVER IT! I finally got to put out my first blog post, yey!

how cool is that!

I remember thinking about this blogging thing in 2016 and I kind of tried to open a website that never got to publish a thing. In November 2017, I decided to revisit this idea, check out successful bloggers, how they make a living, how they do it and you know… where I can start.

I came across an article whose author was making up to $5,000 a month from blogging only! And this got me thinking look, I need this in my life. She published up to 58 articles each month. Yes…. That’s how you make 5,000 dollars!

As I continued to go through her articles, I realized that she had written many e-books and is a very experienced journalist who is without doubt a very good writer.

Wow! No wonder she was such a successful blogger.

I wasn’t about to sit here and act like am a very good writer or like my grammar is on point. I mean, I used to get distinctions in English in primary and high school but I can’t narrate a story in chronology, I can’t even get punctuation right. So what was I going to write about again?

Everyone has awesome stories out there.

So I was like maybe in the future, am …. when I learn how to write, I’ll be taking classes on the internet. (which for me means giving up).

But like I said, I was over procrastinating or giving up on things before giving them a try. Two days later, I was back at it. Opened a WordPress site, it’s still free but am looking to invest more in it and go premium In Shaa Allah.

As I continued to read various articles, I realized that most of the bloggers weren’t actual journalists or had had actual degrees in communication or writing or whatever it is they study to become writers. They were people who were driven by passion or naturally talented writers.

That word, “passion” is how I got to this paragraph!

I’ve read from the pros that you have to keep your writing focused on specific topics say be a fashion blogger, or write about travel. Here’s the catch though, I am passionate about a lot of things and all these things play an important role in my life and so I feel the need to write about all of them…Fashion, Beauty, Economics, Business, Islam, Health, Social justice food, Travel and Adventure, Music…etc.

Sounds like confusion…. sounds like lack of sense of direction!

Why I want to write about it all?

Like I said, all the above mentioned spheres play a very important part of my everyday life. There’s no doubt I’d love to explore and document each of them at the same time and of course share it with y’all
I’d love to diversify topics to be able to write different things yet keep it interesting at the same time. I’ve also read about how diversifying topics keeps readers interested so am clearly taking notes.
I am so random. Consider my broad, out-of-the box writing being ME!

Now that I’ve put down about 500 words, I can’t wait to do better in my next post. Feel free to tell me how I did on my first ever article or provide some tips. I could totally use your experience.

Yours truly,

Sophy.