Blogger’s Day Special: How We Got into Blogging

Ever since I was a kid, there’s been a part of me that loved writing. I remember scribbling my first poem in 4th grade. As I grew up, I realized I was way better at writing what I felt than saying it out loud. Which is kind of ironic, because I talk a lot. Like, a lot a lot. 

So, when Blogger’s Day rolled around, I thought... hey, why not write a blog about how I started blogging? And to make it more special, I decided to co-author this piece with my fellow content writer, Anandhu Mohanan. 

The Beginning 

Even though poetry had a huge chunk of my heart, I slowly found myself drawn to long-form writing in high school. That’s when I discovered blogging. I still remember creating my very first WordPress account, fully convinced I was going to become this super cool anonymous blogger. Maybe that’s why I named the website “Let Words Talk” instead of using my real name. (Yes, the name is kinda lame - I'll admit it.) 

While writing this, I actually went back and checked if the blog still exists, and guess what? It does! And I found my posts from 2016.  

*Wipes tears dramatically.* 

The Beginning Pt. 2? 

When I got to college, I decided to give this writing thing an official title.So, I chose English Literature, because why not study the very thing I was already obsessed with? 

And because I clearly couldn’t get enough, I also took up the role of Hindi magazine editor. Why? Because writing is writing. Whether it’s in English, Hindi, or emojis (kidding… kind of). 

In 2019, I dipped my toes into freelancing. Fast forward to 2025, I’m writing full-time at IOCOD, and honestly? Still geeking out over words every day.  

So, what do I love most about writing? 

Personally, it’s the freedom to be honest. To capture a moment. To feel things fully and write them down before they fade. Professionally, it’s the thrill of learning new things and making them sound good. With every blog you write, you grow - both as a writer and as a human. 

Here’s my advice to anyone thinking about writing: just start. It doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be you. 

In this AI-powered world, some might say blogging is a dying art. But I beg to differ. Sure, AI can write. But it can’t feel. That humanness? That’s the magic. And it matters. More than we realize. 

Anyway, that’s my little blogger origin story. Over to you Anandhu... 

*Hands over then pen (or the keyboard) to Anandhu* 

Funny how poets become bloggers, isn't it? 

So back to my plot, it's been two years since I started blogging. And on Bloggers Day, I feel like it’s time to look back and see how far I’ve come. I didn’t set out to be a blogger, but here I am. And I want to share how it all started, why it still matters to me, and who knows I might even inspire someone. LoL. 

Scribbling Kid despises TOC 

I used to be a doctor when it comes to handwriting, still wrote poems in childhood as a hobby, a typical poet. Won a few competitions along the way, had a sweet tooth for it. But my He is Him moment was during college. 

Around 2021, I launched an NFT project. No ChatGPT. No AI tools. I went raw. Wrote full-blown articles from scratch to explain about my small project. But yeah, whitepapers were just white papers as encryption logic flew over my head. It was all crypto jargon, but somehow, I made sense of it. My friends said it was a good read. Please don’t ask me for the link. I kept at it for a while, but engineering caught me off guard mid-semester, TOC literally took me back scribbling. And just like that, I dropped everything and locked in. Yet the habit stuck. 

I mean, we speak before we write, right? 

I’ve always consumed a lot, books, movies, music, all of it. At one point, I realized I needed to unload what I’d gained. Writing felt like a natural way for that. But here’s the thing, I couldn’t write better unless I could say it better too. So I researched a ton of speakers and orators, their style, pitch, tone, the weight of their words. 

It wasn’t about faking it till I made it. I had to make it the best of what I already think and speak. Blogging taught me to slow down and shape my thoughts. Think better, speak better, write better, it’s all connected. 

The bad thing was sometimes it took me days to write some articles, it still does :) 

Not because I don’t have the ideas, but because I care about how it reads. That’s the craft. 

Programming People Lately 

Professionally, it turns out writing has real impact. I’ve seen how I can shift people’s thinking. Even change behavior. I’m a sorcerer. 

I do enjoy editing and stuff also occasionally, after all it's all content. I figured quality content works, but we live in times when volume also speaks, and people find it hard to grasp what's new. The trick? Make things that feel familiarly new. That mix of “I didn’t know that” and “Yo that’s so relatable!” 

I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. 

I’ll be honest, competition is tight, and yeah AI will eat your work like candy. Best move? keep it real, write empathically, it's the small things that hook people's attention. 

Most folks can tell the difference between what's real and what's AI, and that line is slowly disappearing. I think I'll be fired before AGI is out, so the only way I see for me and you (if you are a writer) is through consistent writing. Don't write to rank on algorithms, write for people. The value you provide matters. 

The day we have Skynet is the day you can catch me on my farm writing poems on a rock.