Why I Started Blogging

This is a Beyond the Books writing prompt.

I think I’ve started blogging 5 or 6 times throughout my life. I truly started back when LiveJournal was a big thing. What was that? 2000? 2001? Then, I discovered WordPress.com and stayed there for a little while. After I saw all the cool plug-ins for WordPress self-hosted and realized how creative I could be with it, I finally set up my own standalone blog, but I never had a real focus. It was always just my own ramblings.

As much as I loved expres...