I think this term is the best way to describe what I’m doing here.

A decade ago, blogging was a much bigger thing. But even before social media took over, I was only really interested in the kind of blogs I now call real-time biography blogs.

I remember one guy in particular who wrote about losing weight and getting fit from his personal perspective. At some point, he realized that his true passion wasn’t fitness—or even writing. It was baking. I kid you not: the guy went from blogging about weight loss to baking his own croissants. Later, he announced that baking had taken up so much of his life that he no longer had time to write. A few weeks after that, his site disappeared.

The strange part is, I was super in to it. Reading his posts became a daily highlight for me. I checked his multiple times a day for new posts, re-read old entries just for fun, and even picked up solid workout advice that I used in my own routine.

Baking isn’t really my thing. I don’t like croissants. But I still read his posts about his newfound baking passion. They were fun. They were exciting. Every update felt like catching up with a friend.

His website originally had one of those generic marketing-style names—I’ve forgotten exactly what it was. But it had nothing to do with croissants or baking in general. It simply happened. His blog evolved. In real time. Just like life does.

Those are the kinds of blogs I find the most interesting. You see the same thing on YouTube with vlogs: people just recording their lives as they unfold. And if it’s done honestly and openly, the story can develop in directions nobody could predict.

That’s what I want to create here—and with my online persona in general.

My ultimate goal is to become a “real” author, which for me means making a living by writing and selling my stories. How I’ll get there is still unclear. I might even take some strange detours while figuring it out. Who knows—maybe I’ll end up writing about baking croissants one day. I doubt it, but that’s the nature of real-time biography blogging: nobody knows where it’s going. Not even the blogger.

I mean it. Seriously. Just don’t.

I’m not going to link to the site, nor am I going to name it. Yesterday, I spent some time reading about how to improve my blog. The blogosphere has shrunk massively since I last looked into finding readers, writing better posts, and related topics. Still, there are so-called experts out there claiming to know how it’s done. A blogging expert I am not, so I dug into a dozen or so articles, ready to learn something new.

But instead of finding enlightenment, I got hit with pop-ups. Every single article I opened came with the same intrusive ad asking me to sign up for a mailing list. By the eighth time I had to click “close,” I was so irritated that I abandoned the rest of the articles I had already opened in background tabs.

I couldn’t even tell you what the site was offering in exchange for my email. Was it an e-book? A newsletter? “10 secrets to building an audience on Twitter no one talks about”? It could have been a free Bitcoin, and I wouldn’t have noticed—because the pop-up was so distracting that it made me start to irrationally dislike the person behind the site.

We all want an audience. We all want people to join our mailing lists. But here’s the thing: nobody who hates you will ever sign up.

The internet has changed. Everyone is on social media now. And on social media, you follow people you like and block people you don’t. Reading a blog isn’t any different. Information is everywhere—thousands of versions on thousands of sites on the same topic. Why should I choose your blog to read? Only because I like you and not the thousand others writing about the same topic.

Treat your blog like a welcoming home, and people will stay. They’ll get to know you—and maybe even start to like you.

But if the very first impression of your site is an unwanted pop-up, most visitors will walk away and never give you another chance. Is that worth it getting a handful of mailing list sign-ups. I don’t think so!

To drive the point home, look at this:

Does that look like a successful club you’d want to be a fan of?

I finally got my mailing list set up, which means I now have some extra time to spend on other things. I’ve decided that blogging will be my main focus for the moment, and daily blogging feels like the right approach.

I’m not an expert, and I barely have any readers here. So I’ve looked at what the so-called experts say who seem to have readers. And almost all of them advise: Don’t blog daily.

Their advice is to publish one big article a week—something like a massive 2,000-word authority post. But I think that’s bad advice. Hear me out:

About ten years ago, I started watching YouTube. I had gotten rid of my TV and was working online, so at some point I inevitably stumbled across YouTube. One of the first creators I started following was Casey Neistat.

Everyone knows him now, but when I first watched his vlogs, he probably had just 5% of the audience he has today. It’s hard to explain exactly why I kept watching, but one of the things that hooked me was his commitment to posting a new video every single day.

Back then, I knew nothing about video production, and I was amazed that one person could produce something of that quality within 24 hours. Even more impressive, he managed to do it for more than a year—without missing a single upload. It was crazy.

These days, Casey doesn’t vlog daily anymore. And honestly, I stopped watching him soon after he ended his daily vlog. Out of curiosity, I checked his channel again while writing this post: he now has over 12 million subscribers but uploads only about once a month. If I hadn’t looked him up, I would have forgotten he even existed.

And that’s exactly why I believe daily writing is the right move—at least for someone like me, who’s documenting an online project in real time.

• If someone stumbles across my blog, they’ll know it’s worth checking in regularly, because there will always be something new.
• Readers get to see my author journey unfold as it happens—raw and in real time.
• Writing daily forces me to sit down and hammer out words, keeping me in a creative mindset while also improving my English.
• People won’t forget about me. Just like I forgot Casey existed when he stopped showing up daily, readers will forget me too if I only post occasionally.

Sure, I won’t build a traditional “authority blog” with long mega posts. But that’s not my goal anyway. My goal is to find readers for my books, grow an audience along the way, and stay in the creative flow for as long as I live—hopefully for many decades to come.

Daily writing (or daily vlogging) has worked for nearly everyone I’ve followed over the years. So why not do the same myself?

When you’re famous, you can get away with breaking the rules.

I’ve read a fair bit about “how to blog” recently—those posts by internet marketers who hand out basic advice that most people with half a braincell can come up with instinctively. Then I thought about the blogs I actually enjoy reading, and I realized that the bloggers I follow pretty much ignore all the so-called rules.

Take Seth Godin, for example: Seth’s Blog
He’s in the marketing niche himself, but his blog completely disregards the most common advice like:

• Use descriptive headline formulas like “How to…,” “I made $5,117.63 in 4 weeks—here’s how,” or “7 tricks experts recommend (number 6 will surprise you).”
• Write long posts of 2,000+ words.
• Publish one “authority post” a week instead of short daily opinion pieces.
• Optimize everything for SEO.
• Focus on specific long-tail keywords.
• …and so on.

Seth Godin does none of that. In fact, he does the opposite: he writes every day, his posts are usually short, his headlines are often cryptic until you read the article, and there’s little evidence of SEO or keyword-specific writing anywhere.

Of course, he has a huge reputation and a loyal following built over decades of hard work. He can afford to do it “the wrong way”.

But here’s the question I keep coming back to: if he’s supposedly doing it wrong, why do I prefer reading his posts over the latest 2,000-word “authority” article from some self-proclaimed SEO expert?

Almost all the bloggers I read write primarily because they want to. Sure, they’ll cover trending topics when they’re relevant, but it never feels like they’re chasing keywords or thinking about covering niches. Their writing comes across as genuine—like they simply want to share an idea or opinion.

That kind of writing may not win over Google, but it wins over readers like me.

So shouldn’t I write the same way?

In the end, the reader is always the judge. But I’m fairly certain of this: I could happily keep writing for decades in Seth Godin’s style, while I’d probably burn out and lose interest in less than a year trying to follow the advice of the so-called blogging experts.