This here, what you’re reading right now, is my first blog.

I don’t have much of a history of writing on the internet before I started Many Welps. As I said this weekend, I used to write for a now defunct comic book review site in 2014. That was my first experience writing on the internet, using WordPress, and publishing something I wrote to a wider audience. I wouldn’t classify it as blogging but it was quite fun. I was surprised they kept letting me write for them, honestly. They weren’t paying me, of course, but the free comics were enough for me. Before that, writing was something I only did for school/college, not something I did in my free time.

This wasn’t my first idea for a blog. No,I wanted to be a book blogger! The more I looked into it, the less enthusiastic I was about the idea. It kind of sounded like I was about to turn one of my hobbies into a chore. And you know what? It’s good thing I didn’t! I’ve written about a few books here and, it’s fine every once in a while, but not nearly as fun as I thought it would be.

Then I discovered there were people out there who wrote blogs about video games and I thought, hey I play video games, I could do that. You don’t even have to finish them to write about them!

The Newbie Blogger Initiative arrived at the perfect time, right as I was still very excited to start a gaming blog. I found a great community of bloggers who supported one another through that event and discovered more blogs than I could ever catch up with. I’m not sure this blog would have survived very long without that.

I am notorious for picking up and dropping hobbies on a whim, but this one has stuck for a decade now. Every year that passes, I am amazed that I’m still writing here. Though, I can’t really imagine walking away from this site, changing the name, or moving to another platform. It’s cozy, familiar, and it’s always here when I’m ready to write again. It’s nice to have my own little space on the internet.

Over the years this blog has taught me two things: Writing is fun and I don’t have time for two blogs!