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Why I Didn’t Want to Start a Blog

I wanted to be a content creator for years, but I spent more time making excuses than brainstorming ideas for content.

I’ve toyed with the idea of publishing my thoughts online for years. At different times, I considered writing fiction, articles, and essays about a wide variety of topics. For the most part, these — or paltry snippets thereof — ended up in Evernote and were promptly forgotten. Having recently gone back to read some of them, I am eternally thankful that I left most of them “in the drafts,” so to speak.

Why?

“These are terrible.”

“You think that you’re interesting enough to have a blog?”

“No one wants to hear what some knucklehead has to say about his life. Or writing. Or music. Or anything else, really.”

“You just don’t have the credentials, sweetie.”

These are the words I tortured myself with for years. I carried on with the other aspects of my life, secretly envious of the people that had found success in writing professionally. I pictured them as fearless conquerors of the published word — witty, worldly, and timely in ways that I could never be. I stopped writing altogether, except…