Should You Start Your Own Blog ?
It may not be the trendiest platform on the internet today, but Blogger is still simple, reliable, and accessible. You don’t always need the newest platform or the most complicated tools to create something meaningful. Sometimes, an old tool is still a good tool.
If you’ve ever thought about starting your own website or blog, you can begin without being a professional writer, artist, or developer. I’m not a professional artist either. I’m self-taught, and I create art as a hobby because I enjoy being creative.
Start With Your Own Work
If you want to build a public website, one important thing to understand early is copyright.
When you are starting out, you will probably draw from references you find in multiple places, especially on social media and across the internet. That is completely normal. When I was beginning, I also learned by drawing from other people's work.
But there is an important difference between using something as a reference and fully reproducing someone else's artwork. You can take inspiration from other artists and learn from their work, but try to develop your own artwork rather than creating an exact copy.
This is especially important when you are building a public platform. You may come across illustrations, vector images, photographs, fonts, or other creative assets that look freely available on social media, but they may actually belong to someone else or be licensed through another service. Before using them on your website, check whether you have the necessary permission or licence.
Even giving credit does not automatically mean you have permission to use someone else's copyrighted work. Credit is important when it is required, but licensing and permission are separate matters. I’m not saying this to discourage you from learning from references; I’m saying it because understanding this early can help you avoid problems later.
It took me time too. I spent about five years learning before I started making my own original work. Without that journey, I probably wouldn't have started this page.
For example, Mr. Crocos' old profile image was one of the first artworks I made a long time ago, but it was based on another artist's work. When I was beginning, I also learned by drawing from other people's work. However, that is the only artwork on my whole page that directly resembles someone else's work, and I gave the original artist credit in my first post on this page.
One day, you will eventually become more confident in creating your own original artworks. Until then, keep practising, keep learning, and use references as a way to understand and develop your skills. But when you are starting a website or building a public platform, be more careful about what you publish and whether the references or assets you use are copyrighted or properly licensed.
Why risk putting your platform in a difficult position by posting someone else's work when you can gradually build something of your own?
Your first work doesn't have to be perfect or completely original in style. What matters is that you keep learning until your own ideas, experiences, and creativity begin to take shape.
Copyright exists to respect the original ideas and creative work of artists. Understanding that doesn't have to make creativity frightening. It simply helps us create while respecting the people whose work helped us learn along the way.
Why I Chose Blogger
The basic platform is free, and you can connect a custom domain if you want your website to have its own name. I only pay for the domain, which costs very little compared with what we might spend on streaming services over a year.
You don’t need to understand complicated hosting systems or build everything from scratch.
Blogger is easy to begin with. It’s an old platform, but it still has a fairly reasonable modern touch. Other website-building and hosting platforms can become complicated and expensive. Even though I changed this blog extensively with the help of AI coding, every idea and design decision came from me. I don’t think you can easily create the same kind of personal experience on many other platforms, especially as a beginner.
Blogger is quite user-friendly when you’re starting out, although it can become overwhelming once you begin touching the code. Even with AI helping you, coding is still a completely different world.
I only know the very basics of coding, but with AI, I was able to build useful tools and games for The ArtyeTown and transform an old Blogger theme into something much closer to my own custom design, with the user interface I wanted. But it took me about six months to get here.
You Don’t Have to Rush
One thing I appreciate about having a blog is that I can create at my own pace.
Social media Vs Website
Social media often encourages you to please the algorithm by posting regularly, even when you’re burned out. There can also be a fear that if you stop posting, your account will lose momentum. Yes, social media algorithms can be crazy sometimes.
The people who consistently create under that kind of pressure are genuinely good at working under pressure. But for me, creativity stops feeling creative when I’m pressured. I create my best work when I have the freedom to take my time and create without pressure.
With a blog or personal website, you have freedom. Older posts can continue to be discovered through search long after you publish them, as long as they remain indexed and relevant to what people are looking for. That gives your work a longer life.
Building Your Community Takes Time
Sometimes people may discover something you created months or even years after you published it.
So don’t measure the value of your work only by how many people support you. It’s easy to feel underwhelmed or start thinking that your art isn’t good enough when you don’t receive much support. But if your art on social media or your website doesn’t get much support, it doesn’t necessarily mean people don’t like it or that your skills aren’t good enough.
Sometimes, your work simply didn’t reach enough people. There are many reasons something may not get seen, and not all of them have anything to do with the quality of the work itself.
Keep creating because the work matters to you. Give people time to discover it. And remember that a quiet response today doesn’t necessarily tell you what your work may mean to someone who finds it tomorrow.
I don’t have a huge audience either, but I can see visitors from different parts of the world. It has been a slow process, and I’ve gradually learned to enjoy that journey.
Maybe the audience will come someday.
Maybe it will take years.
The important thing is that you created something that didn’t exist before.
That itself is worth something.
Quality Over Quantity
When I create artwork, I would rather choose quality over quantity.
I could keep drawing every day, but I need time between pieces. If I constantly rush from one artwork to the next, I might run out of ideas or burn myself out.
Creativity needs room for rest, curiosity, experimentation, and simply enjoying what you are doing.
One more reason I leave a gap between each artwork is to spend some time with what I’ve created—to feel it, appreciate it, and absorb its beauty for a few days. That quiet time helps me find a sense of contentment and fulfilment in my work.
Creativity doesn’t have to become a race.
So, Should You Start?
Everything I used to build my site was free. You can do something similar with the resources available to you. What matters most is being willing to learn, experiment, make mistakes, and keep improving.
There is, however, an important difference between building a website and building an audience. A website gives your work a home, but it doesn’t guarantee that people will find it. Search visibility depends on how search engines crawl, index, and display websites, and this can vary considerably from one site to another. Just as with social media, there is no guaranteed formula for gaining an audience.
So if you feel you have something meaningful or unique to share but don’t yet have a place to present it, I hope this gives you an idea of where you could begin. You don’t have to wait until everything is perfect. Start with what you have, learn as you go, and gradually make the space your own.
It’s an open idea, not a promise of success. The tools can be free, but creating something meaningful still takes time, patience, and persistence.
Your work deserves a place to be seen, even if you’re still finding your way.
Blogger is free, and platforms like Gumroad and Buy Me a Coffee allow you to set up your shop and support options without paying upfront. You can start with what you have and build from there.
I think the new generation should give blogging a try.
Not everyone needs to create content in the same way. Some people may simply want a quiet corner of the internet where they can write, draw, experiment, and share ideas.
A blog can be that place.
And maybe, that is enough.
Update: 28 September 2026
Blogger received a new feature today, which shows that Google is still investing in and improving the platform. That’s encouraging if you’re considering starting a blog here.
—Godwin Issac
Happy creating... π¨✍️
