I’m a writer. But as my wife so humorously reminds me as a form of motivation, I’m a writer who never writes—that is, in my free time, anyway (I’m also a writer by trade in the marketing world, which is probably why I hardly ever find time for personal projects.).
So, what does a writer who never writes do with a blog? Well, you could do what I’ve done, which is:
- Work for more than an hour to find a domain name you want that no one else has chosen.
- Finally register and pay for said domain name once you find it, even though you’re not completely happy with what you had to settle on.
- Create a Gmail account to use publicly on the site that complements the domain name.
- Spend hours customizing the look of the site, such as the font color, background image, blog theme, etc.
- Find yourself at a loss for what to say first and spend more than a week going through old humor essays you’ve written to find ones to post.
- Get distracted editing said essays during the selection process and forget you were, instead, supposed to be going through them for the purpose of posting them on your blog.
- After a time, forget you have a blog (a condition further complicated by the fact that you have all domain registration and expiration info sent to the complementary Gmail account, which you’ve also forgotten you have and, thus, never check).
- Remember—two years later—that you have a blog and check to see if it’s still up.
- Forget your domain name and try to sign in on the back end, instead.
- Forget the back-end login info.
- Create a new blog with a more appropriate (and more easily acquired) domain name and hope not to repeat steps three through 10.
- Create an about page for the site, which is more than you can say you did for the last one.
Simple enough, right?
The Procrastinating Writer 