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Let’s start with a confession: I cheated a bit. I originally said I would start from scratch. Find a platform, sign in, and just start writing. Clean and simple. Turns out, that was harder than I thought. Not because writing is hard (although, yes, that too)—but because choosing where to write became its own full-blown project. You’d think that in 2025, starting a blog would be as easy as opening a fresh notebook. And in theory, it is. There are a dozen platforms that proudly promise “Just sign in and start writing!” But the moment I clicked around, it was like being caught in a very polite maze of upsells and account creation loops. The Great Platform Spiral of 2025 I started with WordPress.org, because, well, it’s WordPress—it’s what Serious Bloggers use, right? Wrong. Or at least, not wrong, but… complicated. With WordPress.org, you don’t just start writing. You start…

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It’s April 1st. The one day a year when absurdity gets a free pass. A perfect day to start a blog—with no name, no niche, no domain, and no grand plan. And here I am, doing just that. This isn’t the first time I’ve started a blog. Far from it. I’ve been down this road before. In fact, if blog-starting was an Olympic sport, I’d at least be a semi-finalist. I’ve had multiple attempts in the past. Each time I’ve kicked things off with the same energy: obsessing over the perfect blog name, the cleverest tagline, the most visually stunning layout. I’ve spent hours browsing fonts, color palettes, domain name availability—anything and everything except writing. And every single time, after building what could only be described as a beautiful online empty house, I just… didn’t move in. No posts. No consistency. No niche. Just digital tumbleweeds blowing across unused WordPress…

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