Hi! This is quite exciting! I am writing my first post and not knowing what to write about yet. But it feels exciting, though I don't know why.
I haven't read all the "start-up" guides yet. I started reading them, but I got quite bored, but i did set an appointment with myself when to read them again. However, from what I read, the "start-up" articles had a common ending: "Steeming" isn't just about earning money (maybe it isn't!), it IS about having fun, meeting new friends (though I don't know how to, yet), and again, having fun. The end.
Okay, so it is about having fun. What does that even mean?
In school I didn't like writing essays very much. They were tiresome! Especially when the teacher told my classmates and I to write an essay that would fill both sides of an intermediate pad (an 8 x 11 sized sheet) on such and such a subject. So I would write, grudgingly at first, but as I kept writing, thinking, writing again, I started to stop thinking about the teacher's requirement to write for MY GRADE, and started thinking about what my teacher will learn or think about from my essay. I started thinking about the impact my essay would have on the person reading it. That is when I started to have fun. And essays weren't such a chore anymore!
That is when I start to have fun in writing. I am not a natural at writing. But I start to like it when I think about people. Will they enjoy what I am writing about? Will they learn something that would be of help to them? Then I get motivated to write something enjoyable and worth the reading.
Well, not all I wrote in my school days were quite enjoyable, to say the least. But as I continue to write, I continue to learn HOW to write. And that learning never stops. I make mistakes. But I realized those errors shouldn't stop me from writing or take away the joy which writing gives me.
High five, first timers! If you are reading this. Let us learn to have fun in writing. It is simple and doesn't bite back.
Enjoy!!
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Note: That is a picture i pulled of Google to illustrate what an intermediate pad is.
