Why I Started A Blog

Part of me thinks this blog post is a little overdue, but another part of me says that there is no better time to write about this than during my 31 Days Of Blogging Challenge.

I started thinking about starting a blog just months into my new job as a social media and influencer marketing coordinator. For days on end, I was analyzing influencer’s Instagram, and evaluating their blogs to see if they would be a good fit for a collaboration with the company. During that time, I saw hundreds of Instagram profiles and personal blogs. I read a lot of blog posts too. They ranged from the vulnerable to what you should buy at the upcoming Nordstrom sale, but they all pulled at my desire to write.

Before landing this job, when I was still in college, I wrote long-form essays and informative pieces for the school newspaper weekly – sometimes daily depending on which combination of English and Communication classes I was taking. Then, even before stepping on a college campus, when I was in high school, I was again writing for classes and the newspaper. Writing had become natural for me. Writer and journalist became a part of my identity. Yet, that all ceased when I graduated and got a job.

Sure, as a digital marketer you write, but you write 280 or less character tweets, or Facebook posts about the same thing for the fifth time in a row that week. Do you see where I am getting?

Don’t get me wrong! I love my job as a digital marketer, but the writing I do for my job is different from what I had done for the eight years leading up to it.

I missed writing long form essays. I missed writing informative pieces published in the newspaper. I missed writing poems. I miss writing short stories. I missed writing blogs for my past internships. Being confronted with blogger’s websites day after day showed me this and ultimately guided me what I needed to do…I needed to reconnect with Hannah the writer.

In December 2018, I started looking into blogging platforms, web hosting services, and brainstorming what I would call my platform. I also thought about how I would set myself apart from all the other thousands of bloggers on the internet. For those who know me well, you know that I am very passionate about self-care, especially after my month-long self-care challenge, so I ultimately decided to go with a self-care and lifestyle blog, which you see now.

Since starting this blog in January, launched in February, I have been able to get back to my roots, express my creativity through topics that interest me, develop new skills, and talk to you, my readers, about my story, my passions, and so much more. In the coming years, I will continue to use this platform to explore and hold on to a piece of myself. No doubt this platform will refocus. Maybe it will even morph into something else, but that’s because I know that I will too. After all, this blog is a direct representation of me.