How to Start Writing Blog Posts: What My First Raw Post Taught Me
It is an incredible world of possibilities. Incredible, and yet completely real, a world where everything is possible. I started with this sentence on purpose. I want you to keep it in mind every day and at every moment, because it’s the reason I finally decided to learn how to start writing blog posts on my own, without leaning on AI for every sentence.
A quiet day at the print shop
Today at work it wasn’t very busy, even though it’s the season of the book fair in my city. I’m a technologist at a printing house, and I’m lucky to work next to what I’d call a treasure chest of knowledge: all the books in our archive. It’s also a great perk to be among the first to read a book before it goes to print, because I’m the one who checks the proofs. I always at least glance at the foreword.
I’m very grateful that I can borrow any book I want, whenever I want. Today I didn’t even have to carry one home. I had enough breathing room to start reading at work. It’s not exactly something to brag about when you have no work, but clients are a little late with their preparations, and in the office we call it the calm before the storm.
Ultralearning and the urge to write
So I picked up Ultralearning by Scott H. Young. I didn’t read the whole book, of course, but even the beginning, which I managed to read today, pushed me to start writing more often.
Until now, all my reading had turned into notes that I gave to AI to translate into English and put in order. Today I decided to ease off the AI a little and let myself relearn what I used to do easily in high school. Over the years, the pen on paper got rusty, and we all know what happens to talent when you don’t practise it.
This is my first stripped-down text, and it’s only the beginning of what’s coming. It was also one of the things I wrote on my own Done List:
- I mastered brilliant skills for writing blog posts and articles.
- Many newspapers contacted me to write an article about my Done List Method.
Writing while the cake cools
Right now I’m writing non-stop while the cake I made today cools in the fridge. Later I’ll add whipped cream and colourful sprinkles for my two beauties. I’m using this gap instead of scrolling TikTok or wasting time on things that add nothing, let alone help me improve my writing or design new planners.
How to start writing blog posts: practise every day
If you’re one of those people who say, “I’d love to sing, but I’m bad at it, I don’t have the voice,” believe me, you can. Practise every day. If you’re one of those who say, “I don’t know how to write,” start writing every day, and you’ll see the change.
Think of a father who was away for a few months, for the army or for work. When he comes back, he notices a change in his child, who went from two words in a sentence to six sentences in a row. Every change gets noticed. We might not notice our own, because we work on it every hour and every day. But believe me, the look of pleasant surprise on other people’s faces is incredible.
My simple way to start writing blog posts
This is not a professional method, just what I did today:
- Write it down first. I put “I mastered brilliant skills for writing blog posts” on my Done List before it was true.
- Use the small gaps. I wrote while the cake was cooling instead of scrolling.
- Write in your own words. Rough and imperfect is fine. You can polish later.
- Read to learn. Ultralearning gave me the push to begin.
- Repeat tomorrow. One post is a start. Daily practice is what changes the writing.
Look from the goal, not toward it
Keep pushing and don’t give up. What you want, you can have. And remember: look from the goal. Imagine yourself in that goal every day. Feel it and listen to every detail, every texture, every sensation.
Make your own Done List. You don’t need to buy a planner. You can write it in your phone or on a plain piece of paper (although if you like the feel of paper, my Done List Planner from the Signature Collection was made for exactly this): everything you want to be and have, in the past tense, as if it has already happened. While you write, think from the goal and imagine you’re already enjoying every moment of it. Don’t think about the means. Think from the end.
If you want to go deeper into this idea, read my post on living from the end. It was inspired by Neville Goddard, and I explain how his ideas connect with my method in Done List, Neville Goddard and manifestation.
Where my first Done List took me
I started all this because I used to be like many of you: overloaded and stressed. I wrote down that I had read 10 books. I really did read those ten, and then more, and they brought me here.
Along the way I:
- built my website on my own
- relearned the tools I use to design my planners
- improved my professional knowledge of how files are prepared for print
If I hadn’t written it down, maybe I wouldn’t be here. Maybe I wouldn’t know how to build a website from scratch, and maybe I wouldn’t be writing this blog. But I am here, and I’m enjoying every minute of writing it.
And yes, a year of persistence has brought my first organic views online, not only to the home page but also to blog posts and products. I’m grateful to my first Done List, which I didn’t even know would become a real Done List.
What I’m reading next
Back to Ultralearning: I haven’t finished it, but it seems very interesting, and I’ll certainly read it to the end over the next week. In parallel, I’m also reading The Power of Awareness by Neville Goddard. I’ll write a review of each book if they impress me as much as the previous ones, which you can find in my Calm Book Corner.
One more time
Be persistent. Be unstoppable, no matter what anyone says. You are the creator of your reality, and no one can stop you from becoming everything you want to be.
And remember the first sentence of this post: it is an incredible world of possibilities.
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