EPTBecause I would have been gaming for the last couple of years at this point, I was drawn to gaming websites early on and since I am from Germany there were only a couple of good ones at that time. Somewhere around 2006 I was browsing international gaming sites and posting self-written news articles to one of the sites I used more frequently and I kinda got hooked to see my writing posted on a shiny website for everyone to see. This was the time, when I published my first videogame reviews, which were called „userreviews“ on this site and could be written by practically anybody who had an account. This process of being „creative“ in a field where I had some expertise was oddly satisfying. But being in my late teens a lot of other things demanded my attention at this point.
But still, in these years the idea sparked to start writing a blog. My very own blog. Problem was I have always been kind of an elitist, so I never wanted to have one of these websites with these crazy suffixes like .com.xx (in my case .de.ki or whatever it used to be) and only the beginners had these lame addresses and that would have been below my level, right? Paying for webspace as a teenager with little pocket money was not an option neither, so the idea of having a personal blog had to be delayed.
Fast forward 10+ years.
Today I am the proud owner of a website, which revolves around SC2 / CS:GO community news, my personal experiences of being bad at SC2 and some rare opinion pieces. On the one hand I enjoy writing stuff in a field where I have at least some background knowledge. On the other hand I mostly put out content that sums up finished events or tournaments, which are not much more than information pieces.
Because I don’t really market my website to anyone, I don’t get much traffic and thus don’t get critiqued very often - or even if somebody I know reads some of the articles, they don’t really understand what it's all about. And as long as the articles and pieces don’t really hold up to my own standards, which they don’t, marketing them seems pretentious.
To give you guys a perspective on sheer numbers, 46 articles have been published since August last year - some smaller pieces (maybe 1-2 paragraphs) some bigger articles (up to a 1000 words). All articles were written in German and I am toying with the idea of switching to English for at least some of them. What I really struggle with is writing consistently or do essential research for upcoming articles which take more effort then just recapping past tournaments. If anybody has some tips and tricks on how to keep it consistent, I glad to hear about them.
