Getting off the mark is the main hurdle

As firecrackers light up the night sky, I sti by window and try to get past this hurdle.

Wanting to write has been within me for a very long time. But, what to write about? Tech? Career? Book reviews? Movie reviews? or just about anything? I do not know.

Among the uncertainities, only certainity was that "I want to write".

So, here is how it came to being...

Preparation

In the past, I tried writing on wordpress.org. Wrote some posts and then stopped. Then, in the past year, I wrote a couple technical blog posts and SAP Community portal. While I would still continue that, I may very well post more here from now on.

This idea of having a site of my own came to me yesterday as I was watching India v/s Pakistan match. India had lost 4 early wickets. Prospects were not at all looked in India's favor. But, there was still hope. I mean, Virat Kohli.

As soon as the idea of having of site came to me, I thought of developing a blog site of own with NextJS or something like that. But, then, I realized it's important to get started with writing than spending a month developing a site for it.

So, having a Wordpress site seemed easier given that I had developed a few wordpress sites in the past.

Domain and Hosting

I quickly got to work - bought domain on my name on GoDaddy. "dot in" domain costed only a few hundred rupees. I researched a little bit about best hosting site for Wordpress sites. Unfortunately, SiteGround wa not avaiable in India. So, zeroed in on BlueHost.

By this time, game of Cricket had come to a nail biting sitautation. India clinched a last ball victory. I thought I was going to have a heart attack by the end. So, the "site" had to a take a back seat.

The Site

As the domain was already bought, I had to make something with it. So, hosting was also bought this morning on BlueHost India. By afternoon, I started installing theme and customizing the site. I gave myself 1 hour. At the end of about 4 hours, finally the site was launched (2nd time, because I messed up with the site URL the first time and had to delete the whole site and redo it all from sratch).

So, finally, here we are.

Now what...

This site is a promise to myself to keep writing daily, or at least regularly. About anything and everything I read, watch and learn and do. May be, some day, someone else find these interesting or useful or both.

As the hurdle has been crossed now, I hope the remaining journey would be easier for the writer in me. As they say, without consistency, nothing else matters. Nothing!

And that's the only thing I seem to struggle with.