How to [NOT] write your own blog. Part 1
Now I see that I was not bad at writing from the very beginning. There are letters to my grandpa and grandma which I’ve wrote in the age of 6–7. There is a “book” I was working on in that age. Also wrote a science fiction story about space travel (to Mars!) full of nerdy-geeky details, like orbital dynamics in the 5th grade of school. And it was a big story — about 4 A4 sheets if hand-written cursive. Other’s stories was about 1–3/2 of sheet from the exercise book.
After school I was in a college and after it — university. And finally got a PC with dial-up modem. And games. Diablo II, Warcraft 3, Morrowind, S.T.A.L.K.E.R… A LOT OF GAMES. But at some point just playing games became not so fun.
Modifying games — adding new items or behaviors — that was the thing that was very interesting for me.
I started to learn 3D-editors: 3DS Max, Modo, Houdiny, Blender. At some point of time I was thinking about career of 3D artist. I traveled to 3D Event in Moscow (while I was in Minsk) twice. I did some talks at local CG Event.
Also I was learning programming at the same time. It was like sin/cos functions — while I was tired of CG I enjoyed programming. Then I became tired of programming and moved vertexes in Blender all days long.
At that time I always was in some kind of community and there always was a process of knowledge sharing — mostly on forums. But later I started to write articles about things I’ve learnt.
Somehow my tutorials was published in “Компьютерная газета” — it was a weekly newspaper in Belarus dedicated to news in IT (an actual PAPER newspaper!)
Royalty from published texts was a pleasant addition for pocket money, so I’ve expanded area of my materials — I started to do reviews of computer hardware. I had a friend in local PC store so he helped me with items for reviews.
There was a good relationship with editors in the newspaper, so I’ve visited a lot of conferences and press-releases and other computer-related events in Belarus at that time…
But time goes by. I’ve finished university, got a full time job as software developer. My income at times more than average local people has. I’ve stopped writing for the newspaper, I’ve stopped blogging.
But now, a couple of years later, I feel like I have to hit keyboard and join letters not only in form of programming code, but in texts for humans.
To be continued…
P.S. and sorry for my English :3
