How to Write a Blog Post- from a Real Life Blogger

This is me. I blog. I am a blogger, kind of.

I’m sure someone out there is wondering what it’s like to be a real blogger. We might seem unapproachable because of our celebrity like standing in the community, but I wanted to pull back the curtain and reveal what it’s really like.

The first step for being a blogger is to make content. That’s what this post is all about. It’s a post about what it’s like to make a blog post.

Anyway.

Here’s how I generally go about writing:

This is me staring at my computer…

And this is what I’m looking at…

Then I type a bunch of stuff.

Then I read all the stuff I wrote and realize it has nothing to do with whatever I was initially writing about.

So I delete most of it.

And we’re back to square one.  This happens pretty frequently because I write in a style that’s more or less stream of consciousness. Which essentially means I don’t plan ahead very well.

Sometimes I don’t want to erase an entire post just because it turns out to not have anything to do with the title. In that case I’ll just change the title.

Side note: I know a lot of you are probably wondering why I don’t write the post AND THEN come up with a title. I acknowledge your confusion.

So anyhow, if I like the post, but don’t like the title…I’ll change the title.

Like so.

The next step is to edit and re-edit my post- which is no longer called Best Blog Post Ever, but is instead called SPACE and Other Shit- until I hate it.

Oddly enough the original title of THIS post was Why I’m Starting a Patreon, but I changed it because, well I’m not starting a Patreon, and the post ended up being about writing a blog post. See, this is the kind of behind the scenes scoops you can expect from a Burrito Bowl blog.

Moving on.

Once I’m four to five hours into a post and convinced its complete garbage I go through some form of this charade…

Once I complete at least one cycle of throwing everything to the ground and getting coffee, I’m ready to give it one last read through to make any final edits.

Then I’ll have Mrs. Burrito Bowl take a look. It’s usually around this time that she asks why I spent the last six hours working on a post about space when I’m running a financial blog.

When I feel like I may have just wasted a bunch of time I like to look up my lifetime earnings to hours spent on the blog ratio.

And that makes me feel better because even if I HAD written a post that stayed on topic I still wouldn’t have earned any money, because I haven’t bothered to monetize the blog.

With a newfound confidence that we’re on the right path, Mrs. Burrito Bowl adds a few commas and tells me it’s real good.

Finally, it’s ready to post. Anytime I publish an article it automatically posts to Twitter and my Facebook page. Once on Facebook Mrs. Burrito Bowl and my mother are always sure to ‘like’ it.

Like so.

The one exception is if I swear in the article. Then only Mrs. Burrito Bowl will ‘like’ it.

Awesome.

It’s not all incredibly depressing, though. Sometimes an article will really go viral, like when my post on How to Become a Millionaire got six reactions and even a share.

So that’s what it’s like to be a blogger.

Here’s a few articles that really are pretty fun if you don’t expect them to be about finance:

You Might Not Exist- Simulation Theory

Forever Will Happen and Why It’s Incredibly Upsetting

Seven Heroic Ways to Avoid Playing Google’s Nefarious SEO Game