How much of your real life/ self you share in your writing?

How much of your real life do you share with your readers? Do you feel comfortable sharing your views on your blog?

When I started writing a blog, I was quite reluctant to share my name. Unfortunately, I’m terrible at coming up with an alias and nothing felt more comfortable to me than my own name. So, I decided to blog under my own name.

To be honest, I did not know what a blog is when I started writing in 2013. I thought it was just a place for people to write news articles. It took me a while to figure out that one can literally write about everything and anything on one’s own blog. That’s when I started writing boring essays and started writing about the stuff that goes on in my fantasy world aka my brain.

It was a little while longer before I was comfortable to share the stuff that was going on in my life, particularly the stuff I don’t have anyone to talk to about. That’s when I discovered I have an audience – a small group of people that’s actually interested in reading about what I’m going through and willing to sympathize. To this date, I think I’ve share pretty much everything about life, except my address and other identification like passport and driver’s license, which will probably be something I’ll definitely keep private.

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