6 Lessons Learned After 6 Years of Blogging

I started blogging in 2014 with no real idea as to what I was doing and with very little control of the English language. But, I was a programmer, I built a blog engine to compete with WordPress (I lost), and I wanted to test it out. The result was a blog about writing code. At least that was the initial intent. It has morphed various times throughout the years along with my interests and skills.

After writing almost 1000+ articles (and countless more ‘drafts’ that will never see the light of day), here are 6 lessons that I can share about the process for anyone looking to begin their own writing journey. Because it really is a journey paved with many challenge, dragons and forks in the road. And it helps to take a wooden sword.

6. You have to learn to write

I went back and read my first 3 articles in the hopes that I could get a few notable points on my writing. And it didn’t take long before I realized that writing isn’t a magically gifted skill that we attain at birth. At least not to me.

For one, my content was much shorter than it is today. Hundreds of words shorter, in some cases thousands. Thoughts were left incomplete and some sentences had nothing to do with the main topic. All things that I missed during that phase of my writing career.