So I Started A Blog - Christy Yao

Yup, I did.

I’ve wanted to start one ever since I was little, but especially in 2016 when I started university. I purchased christyyao.com back then but couldn’t figure out WordPress (it’s really hard!). There have been a few versions of christyyao.com but each one was too complicated, incomplete, and abandoned.

I bit the bullet and re-watched all the WordPress tutorials on Youtube again a few weeks ago and created this – a simple personal blog website. It’s good for now, and I’m happy with it 🙂

WordPress Tutorials I Watched

Why Start a Blog?

It’s an extension of my journal, which I’ve written in religiously for over a year. One that I can share with people and hopefully help them in any way. I want to share experiences I’ve had, lessons I’ve learned, exciting things I’ve found, to help YOU!

Am I Good At Writing?

Haha no! I haven’t had a single writing course since high school. My mom likes to laugh at how poor my writing and speaking is, in which I reply with “yup but at least this poor writer got a 6 on IBHL English and A in Honors Shakespeare ;)” But to be honest, I only took those courses and worked hard because my older sister did and, well, she’s an English and History major now. Whereas I’ve only read engineering PPT slides and memes in university, but perhaps that’s why I’m starting a blog instead of a Humanities degree.

Do I Like Writing?

Oh yes. I may not be good at it, but I sure do love it. You don’t have to be good at something to love it. I’ve loved writing poems, essays, journals since forever. But I’m much better in STEM so I pursued that instead, and put writing on the back burner. I hope to improve writing as I pump out blog posts here and receive feedback from you.

What Will I Be Sharing?

Anything that I am interested in, but some examples topics could be:

Travel
Interesting people
Stoicism
Books
Lifestyle
etc…

Read more about me here: http://christyyao.com/about/

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