I’m not a prolific writer, but one day I’ll be ok with that.

Get comfortable with the idea of going easy on yourself.

My relationship with ‘content’ has revolved around writing or editing it — in some form or another—since around 2006. But at the time, I had no aspiration to be someone who blogs, or otherwise ‘broadcasts’ their thoughts to an online audience.

I just did marketing. Then I went home and didn’t write anything.

Then I just did digital marketing. Then I went home and didn’t write anything.

And that was fine.

Wind on to early 2016, and one day I decided to try and build my own site. Building the first iteration in under a day, I added a ‘Blog’ section (and a ‘Freelancing’ section) to the nav menu, and there we are; I was suddenly a blogger.

I’d thought about writing my own blog for so long; tending to some kind of online ‘corner’ of my own where I could get some words out of my head and into the digital ether.

I’d fired the starting gun. 🏃🏻‍♀️

“Oh yeah, so now I have to write I guess?”

I did a bit of writing on and off for my site, and slowly, slowly this began to expand out into the occasional guest article here and there.