Some people blog for themselves.

Some do it for an audience.

Others get orgasmic with huge attention.

So, who is your target audience? You? Your family? The outside world, total strangers. Anybody but the people you know?

Having a clear answer to this affects the way you write. Therefore, it is good to think first. Whom are you writing for?

Many people had started blogging only to close it down later because their writings are discovered by their employers, colleagues and loved ones.

A blog is like your life. You have to be careful how you live it so that in future, you have no regrets about it. In real life, some things maybe easily forgotten after a few months or years. But a blog is a written archive that may stay permanently to haunt you. You do not want to be running for the Prime Minister’s office or CEO of the conglomerate only to be held back by a teenage confession of yours revealed in your blog 20 years ago, do you?

Now that you have asked :

Why do you need to blog?

Who is your target audience?

We will go on to Where to begin in the coming article.

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