The Best Time to Start a Blog

I’m 11 days into my goal of blogging every day for a month, and I’ll admit it’s been challenging. If anything, it is proving to me that writing and publishing is a muscle — one I’ve let atrophy.

And then there are people like Brent Simmons, who celebrated 20 years of his blog inessential a few days ago.

It‘s tempting to think that The Thing of my career has been NetNewsWire. And that’s kinda true. But the thing I’ve done the longest, love the most, and am most proud of is this blog.

I’m not sure what my “Thing” will be in 20 years, but I hope to look back on my writing as something I am proud of. I started this blog a number of years ago, and I’ve had a lot of fits & spurts with it. I endeavor to write regularly, and maybe getting a solid month in will be the beginning of a writing habit.

All I know is I agree fully with Brent’s parting wisdom:

Old proverb: “The best time to start a blog is 20 years ago. The second-best time is today.” :)