Get ready to write your first blog post with me — no overthinking allowed.

This is Day 4 of the 7-Day Get Started Blogging Challenge, where you’ll write and publish your very first blog post — even if it’s messy.

If you’ve been wondering:

• “How do I write my first blog post?”
• “What should my first blog post be about?”
• “What if it’s not good enough?”

You’re not alone. You’re in the right place.

Most beginner bloggers don’t fail because they can’t write.

They quit and never publish their first blog post because they’re trying to write something perfect.

Today, that changes since your first blog post isn’t for traffic — it’s for momentum as you’ll discover!

In this lesson, I’ll walk you through exactly how to write your first blog post step by step inside WordPress — and show you how to stop overthinking every sentence so you actually hit publish!

We’ll cover:

✔ How to structure a blog post
✔ What your first post should be about
✔ Where to get ideas for your blog post
✔ Creating A Thumbnail & Adding Images
✔ How to write faster
✔ When to just hit publish

By the end of this, you will have a published blog post live on your website. If you want to become a blogger, this is the day your blog becomes real.

You’re not planning anymore. You’re not brainstorming. You’re publishing.

Now we build it out 👇

🎥 WATCH and Learn.

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Watch me walk through this entire process step-by-step below:

Watch The Video:

(& keep reading to follow along below…)

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Write Your First Blog Post With Me (No Overthinking Allowed)

Here is the video transcript:

 Today in this video, I’m going to teach you how to write your very first blog post with me, no overthinking aloud. And then next I’m going to teach you how to get people to actually read it.

“Most people never publish because they try to write the perfect post. Today, we’re not doing that.”

Most people never hit publish because they’re trying to write the perfect post, but today we’re not doing that. I want messy, imperfect, and I want published.

“I want messy. I want imperfect. I want published.”

Why? Because perfection is the enemy of done. Done is better than perfect. You can always come back. You can improve your blog posts and update it. You can’t improve something that you haven’t written or actually published and put out there. You don’t even know if people are reading it, if anyone cares, if there’s anything to update or even be worried about yet. If you’re new around here. Welcome to day four of my Get Started blogging challenge, where I’m showing you in one week by the end of these videos how to set up a real blog and have your first post published. Actually, after today, we’ll have your first post published. Even if you’re starting at zero don’t you worry we all had to start somewhere, but if you’re starting with this video, you might want to check out the ones that I made before this below this video. All of those videos in case you missed them are in the description below, as well as on my website, born to blog club.com, and I’ve put a entire checklist you can download to make sure that you’re going along with all these assignments of checking them all.

In a prior video, I showed you how to actually set up your website and your blog. In this video, I’m going to show you how to write your very first blog post. Let’s dive into actually writing your very first blog post and what goes into that. So I want you to open up a tab in your computer and follow along with me.

I’m using GoDaddy and WordPress. They’re managed WordPress hosting. That’s how I build my websites, host my websites, publish my blog posts. There’s a link to all that below this video, so you can go and set that up.

Choose a Simple Topic for Your First Blog Post

Okay, so before we dive into actually writing your first blog post, I know you’re probably thinking, Brandi, what do I actually write about?

Well, don’t you worry. I’ve got a whole list of ideas for you…

Your first blog post does not need to be groundbreaking.

In fact, it shouldn’t be.

Some beginner-friendly first blog post ideas:

• An introduction post (your story)
• A “Why I Started This Blog” post
• Frequently asked questions
• A resource roundup
• Goals or intentions for your blog
• Behind-The-Scenes
• A simple list-style post (tips, quotes, ideas, advice, resources) related to your niche

If you’re stuck, ask yourself:

What would help someone understand what this blog is about?

That’s enough for post number one.

If it’s your first blog, I would highly suggest something like your introduction or your story, something that would later probably turn into an about me page.

If you want more structured help, read my full guide on How To Write A Blog Post (Step by Step)

Remember:
Your first post is for momentum — not traffic.

So I’ve got a whole blog post full of ideas for your first blog post, where you can deep dive and learn more about them.

I’ve even got a blog post about how to write your very first blog post.

You can follow along with that in the checklist I told you about…

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but there are a lot of steps to writing a blog post, including…

• Choose A Topic
• Research
• Outline Your Post
• Write the Intro
• Write the body
• add visuals
• add links
• wrtie conclusion
• edit / proof read
• optimize for seo
• Publish and promote

👉 “If you want a full deep-dive tutorial, read my complete guide: How To Write A Blog Post (Step by Step)”

We’re not going to dive into all of this and get you overwhelmed In this video. I’m going to simply show you how to get your blog post published, out there into the world and how to do it step by step.

And then tomorrow, in the next video, I’m going to show you the SEO part of it and how to get people to actually find you and read your blog post.

Let’s head over to Johnny’s website, our cat…

how to write a blog post

• Opening WordPress editor
• Writing headline
• Adding headings
• Writing paragraphs
• Adding image
• Hitting publish
• Viewing live post

If Johnny wanted to write a blog post, which I showed you the back end of this website. Not this one, but the one that we built in yesterday’s video. This is the backend of your WordPress dashboard. Once you have your website set up, you can go back here and you can go to either new and post that’s on the top, or you can go over to your little sidebar.

This is your menus, and you can go to see these are all your posts that’ll be under here. You can add posts, you can set up categories, tags, and this is all stuff that you’re going to do later. We don’t want to do that right now. If you were going to do a new post in here, you could also go up here to add post, but this shows you all your blog posts and you can go to your published blog post or you can go to your draft blog post.

But this is the back end of your posts, and when I say posts, I just want to make sure that you know exactly what I’m talking about. So if you were on the front end of your website and you were on your blog, then you’re going to see your blog post. And so Johnny has a blog post about the never ending list of things he likes to chew.

He’s also got all the cat holidays that he posted about, and then he has all his essentials and must have. And he also made an announcement about the fact that he started his first Kitty cat YouTube channel. And his very first post was actually about meeting him, Johnny the Cat dog. And so he wrote a blog post just about intro, his introduction and, and about him.

And so you can go and check out Johnny’s blog Cattitude, chaos and learn more about him, but his blog is his, what he’s talking about. So I put these on the homepage too. If you go to his homepage, I have his little blog post right here, and then you can go read more. But let’s say that he wants to write a new blog post.

He can go hit new post, or again, if he was on the back end of his website, he could go to post add post or add post back here. Let’s say he’s got his new blog post ready, to go. He wants to write a blog post. What is he going to want to write about? Let’s think I told you all the ideas that he could come up with.

I always think of something like cat quotes. So let’s just say he wants to write a blog post about kitty cat quotes. My favorite Cat quotes. So this is his title and they call this like your H one header. And there’s all kinds of other little details that you’re going to get into later on, later videos. But I just want you to understand the basics of writing a blog post step by step.

Okay? The first thing you gotta have is title for it. And this could be something that you’re going to change later on, but you just want to, I always put a title in here and I like to save my draft. I’ll go in here, and then the next thing that I might want to do is add some headings, or I might say something like, this is a list of all my favorite kitty cat quotes, and I’ll just.

I hit my little tab down, return enter button, and then here I can start adding in. A space if I want to put a spacer, so I just hit the little, it says type the slash button to choose a block, and it’ll let you choose a block that way. Or if you get your cursor around, it’ll give you a little add tab and you can add in headings and different things.

Or you could hit browse all. Another way that you can get to that is up here with this little plus button. It’ll say Block inserter, and then that’s going to give you the same little blocks that this will. So I might want to put a space in here. Just to have some space and I can decide how big or wide I want the space to be.

They that. I’m going to put my favorite cat quotes in here and I’m going to get a list of all my favorite cat quotes. We’re just going to say funny cat quotes. Cute cat quotes. Other cat quotes. I would want these to actually be the little headers. Instead of these being paragraphs, I’m going to make these headings and I don’t want them to be H one headings.

I want them to be H two. And that’s where I would change this. So the H one heading is more of like your header up here, and then you’re going to have H twos and H threes and H fours, and, that’s another video. Now you’ve got your headers. I like to put a little bit more formatting in here. So you’ve got funny cat quotes, and then you can go down here and you can say quote, it actually will just tab over for me.

So quote one, quote two, quote three, and it made a list for me. So the way that I did that is I just hit this dash button and then I hit the space tab and it made that for me. Also, if I wanted to make a list, I could just highlight the words, do it this way, and I could say list, and so I can also move those up and down and I can copy, if I just want to copy those, I could copy the whole thing and hit duplicate, or I can tab down and see them and then I can copy them that way.

I can copy duplicate, like I said, copy, but I would copy is what I would do. I’d hit copy and then paste, and then if you know how to use the tabs on your keyboard, the command keys, you can do that too. That’s usually what I do, but I’m trying to show you with your mouse, but you need to learn shorthand and short keys so that you can understand this more. So now I’ve got my list of cat quotes that I want to put out there.

Need Some Ideas…

Let’s say, you know, you need some ideas. I always love to go to Pinterest for ideas and get all the different various ideas. So let’s say that you want to look up cat quotes. You could go over here and just say cat quotes, and then you’ll actually see if you looked in here.

I go to all pins, not my pins, but you could see cat quotes funny, cat quotes love, cat quotes funny humor, um, and you can see all the different ones that they’re showing on Pinterest. You can also go to chat GPT and ask for cat quotes or blog posts, ideas, or to help you write your blog post cat quotes.

Here are some great cat quotes from Funny to Thoughtful, and it gave me a whole list of cat quotes that I could put in my blog post. So even if you got some cat quotes from over here, which if you’re going to do this, you need to format this a little bit different. But let’s just say you want to do some cat quotes.

You could say these funny and cute and thoughtful cat quotes. So if you went in here, you could copy this and add these in. If you wanted to just paste these in here. And so the way that I do that is I just click, I right click on my mouse and I’ll hit paste. You have to know basic functions of how to use your computer.

I could go in here and then I’d want to make these titles and that would be like a H two. And so same. This is exactly how I would create a blog post, especially even if I didn’t know about the topic or whatever I was going to do.

But if you’re going to go to something like chat GPT or get quotes and ideas. All I’m doing is just making these headings in here.

So let’s just say, then I’m like, okay, well I want to, you know, go down here and put my spacer in here. So I’m going to go down here and I’m going to put my spacers.

And sometimes I’ll even put like lines in here to make it look a little cuter and all I’m doing is just looking for the separator. And then it can be default, it can be wide lines. Sometimes I’ll put dots in there. It just depends. And then say that you want to make this look a little bit better. I’m going to take this part out that I was making, so I’m doing is highlighting this and I can either hit the delete key or I can go in here and just hit delete. So now I’ve got these little cat quotes. I’ll, clean up the spacing. And then, um, I might, I’ll, this is, you know, my introduction up here, just so you know, may not say introduction, but, and if you wonder what that was that just, um, corrected that for me is Grammarly. So I know somebody’s going to ask me that, but it’s just a little plugin that I put on my dashboard and sign into.

>> all the plugins that I love to use on my websites and install.

This would be say your introduction, but you might not say it’s your introduction, but that’s your introduction.

Then you got your funny cat quotes. And then another thing I like to do, and this is getting a little bit more advanced, but you’re welcome. I will do a table of contents. So I’ll look to see if this theme has one. It does look like WordPress has a basic table of contents, and so what this does is it pulls all the headings that’s in the blog post itself and it just will look cute.

And so if you save this, you can see what it’ll look like over on this other page. So you can say, okay, well I want to see if what my blog post looks like right now. Then you go over to generate the preview and it’ll take just a second, and then it’s going to come up here and you can see, oh, okay, well this is what it’s going to look like, but you know, maybe I want to put some space right here.

I noticed that, and I can see this is all spaced out nice. I’ve got all my little spacings in here, but probably need a conclusion or whatever. But this is giving you an idea of Okay, well this, this is good, but maybe we should add something else in here. So then I would go over and, um, maybe add an image in here. But first I want to add a little space to this.

Add Images (into the blog post)

Your blog post should include:

• At least one image inside the post
• A featured image (your blog thumbnail)

You can use:

• Canva (for featured images)
• Pexels or Pixabay (for free stock images)

Don’t overthink branding right now.

You can always redesign later.

And so let’s say we want to add an image. I’m going to put an extra little spacer in there, but I’m going to go to either, I can again add an image from here and look up image. And just check select image, and then you can upload an image, go to your media library or import from a URL.

I’m going to go up here, I’m going to say add image. I’m going to open my media library. And I don’t have any images right now that actually I do, I do. I have cat images. So say we want to put, you know, Johnny’s face in here, which I would probably want to, you know, choose something else. I could put Johnny in here if I wanted and add him, which.

I would want to add probably something like quotes. And let’s say that I did the same thing, and I’m going to go back in here. Maybe I don’t have any images yet, but I want to go to stock photos and I could say, okay, let me go look up a cat animal control animal shelter. Let’s see there, there’s a cat. Okay, so let’s say that we want to choose this cat and put this cat in our blog post.

So. We can add this cat in here. And then same thing, so you can add your little images in here.

This is like my introduction and then this is like my table of contents, which this table of contents is not essential. It’s just something that’s I like to put in sometimes, and it depends on the blog post, but this is my funny, cute, and that again, this is pulling all of these headings and if you change the heading, say that you made this heading an H three header. If you go back up here, what you’ll see is that it changed these and it moved it over. So an H three is going to move the heading over, and the more that you blog, the more that you’ll start to see that.

So let’s just change that back. If I want to undo something, I’ll hit undo. And again, if you want to save your changes, I like to hit save draft. Once you get this done. You don’t want to just keep refreshing your blog all the time. I mean, you do want to refresh your blog, but you don’t want to just keep hitting, republish, republish.

You don’t want to do that again, I have plugins that help with all of that down below this video.

Another thing that we’re probably going to want to put in here, now that we’ve added our Ooh, added our images, a conclusion, however you structure your blog post, you might want to give them a little final thought.

I’ll say final thoughts, or you could say conclusion. Again, I would make this a little header. I have a little something that I kind of keep and reuse. And if I go over to my blog itself on the homepage and go to like one of my other little blogs that I made, just see if I added it to the bottom of this here.

I put, don’t miss a thing. Follow @CattitudeChaos via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest. Also, don’t forget to subscribe on YouTube and most importantly, sign up to receive our email newsletter. Put that in the blog post. And that’s more of a, don’t miss a thing. It’s not necessarily something I would do the conclusion, you have to think if you were going to write a real essay or something really structured.

I’m showing you that, yeah, you would have an introduction and then you would have your cat quotes and your images to make it more fun, and then you would go down and say, if you enjoyed these, leave a comment below with your favorite. And then I say, don’t miss a thing. So obviously you’re going to want to write more than just this, but once you kind of get this, then you’ll save your draft and you can go over and you can look at what your blog post is going to look like.

Once your draft is actually saved. You’re going to want to see the updated version of the changes that you made before you actually publish this post. So you would go in here and you’d say, okay, my favorite cat quotes, and you can see your table of contents. And then our introduction is kind of small, but this is our introduction.

And then final thoughts and conclusion. Don’t miss a thing. And actually if you want to get really wild, go over to chat GPT and say, write me an introduction for this as a blog and a conclusion. I didn’t even spell that right, but they’ll figure it out. In here, they’re writing an introduction for me, and I wouldn’t just literally copy and paste this.

I would read it. I don’t even know what it says, but let’s just say that we want to use it as our introduction. We’ll go over here and we’ll just. Put this in here as our introduction.

Same thing with this conclusion, and we’re just going to go over here and put this down here as our final thoughts. And I don’t think they probably put that in here, so I’ll just, I want people to leave a comment.

And have activity on my blog post. And again, I’ll save this draft. And then there’s so much more that you can do with your blog post, and I’m going to show you in an upcoming video tomorrow, like how to do SEO. I made a list of them again, you can read, but you want to optimize this for SEO and all kinds of other little things.

This blog, when you set it up, at least with GoDaddy and WordPress. Has a focus key phrase that you can put in here and your titles and meta description later on, that will make more sense. It’s not even important right now, at least for getting this done, because I don’t want you look at all the other options and think, oh, there’s so many other things to choose from over here…

Add a Simple Featured Image

Every blog post should have a featured image (like a thumbnail).

You can using tools like:

• Canva (to create featured images)
• Pexels or Pixabay (for free stock images)

Keep it simple:

• Large readable text
• Clear topic
• Clean background

You can always improve it later.

you’re going to see that you can add a featured image to your blog post. And if you’re looking for images for your blog, I’ve got a blog post about that too. But you can look at, um, places like Pexels is one. You can go in here and you can find all kinds of photos and videos and all kinds of other stuff to use on your blog, and some of it requires an attribution and some doesn’t, and there’s a lot of free ones. And then there’s other websites and some of these that require licenses. Pixabay, you can go in here and get all kinds of free images. And then another place that I love to go Canva, this is where I would get a blog post featured image and put one together.

So I call it like your blog thumbnail. So I just search for blog post featured image and Canva has a bunch of them, and there’s certain sizes and dimensions and all of that, but just worry about posting your blog. So this one I can customize, I can put in here. I might just put this fashion one because it looks like I can customize it pretty easy.

So you can see I’m just clicking in here. I’m going to go in here and say cat quotes. And then I’m actually going to need to change this back one to cat quotes. This is just creating a little thumbnail in Canva. And I could change this little image in here and put a different image in. Uh, I could go over here and say cats and just try to find a cat.

Okay. And put the cat in here and you can put your website in here and all the other fun stuff. So customize this. So you could make this little thumbnail over here in Canva, and then you can download that and put this on your blog. So that’s what I would do. I would just download this and hit download, and then I would go over here and if I wanted to upload this cute little image that I got, I would totally change a bunch of things about it before I uploaded it, and that has to do with SEO and what we’re going to talk about in the next video. But for this purpose, we’re going to go back over to our blog post, and right now there’s no image up here, as you can tell, and that is going to show up over here on the blog itself.

And so we’re going to go in here. We want to make sure that we upload the image that we just created. So we just go over here and hit upload files. And then once it’s uploaded, we’re going to hit set featured image, and you’re going to see the little image over on the side.

And then if you hit save draft, once that’s done, you can view your preview of how it’s going to look on tablet, mobile, but I just want to preview this, and you can always go back and change this.

What If My First Blog Post Isn’t Good?

It won’t be.

And that’s okay.

You will:

• Improve your writing
• Learn formatting tricks
• Understand SEO better
• Update old posts later

That’s the beauty of blogging.

Unlike YouTube videos, you can always go back and edit a blog post.

So publish it.

Then improve it later.

And once my blog posts and things are live, I like to go look at them on my phone and other places so that I can tell what it looks like and if I need to change anything. Because you can always go back and update or blog posts, which is the beauty of blogging. And not vlogging and making YouTube videos because I can’t change this video, but I can go back and change my blog post.

So now I can see my little headers up there and I’ve got all my images in here, so I’m go back over to my blog post and I’m just going to want to publish it. So now we’re going to hit publish.

So I’m going to hit publish my blog post. We’re going to publish this and see what it looks like on the blog itself. So we’re going to go over to Johnny’s blog. We’re going to refresh his blog and we’re going to see what his new blog post looks like.

“Your first post isn’t for traffic — it’s for momentum.”

Stop Overthinking and Hit Publish (Even If It’s Messy)

This is the part most people never do.

They:

• Rewrite the intro 14 times
• Change the title repeatedly
• Worry no one will read it
• Think it’s not good enough

This is where most people freeze.

You’ll think:

• I should add more.
• I should fix that sentence.
• I should research more.
• I should tweak the images.

No. here’s the truth:

Perfection is the enemy of done.

You cannot improve a blog post that doesn’t exist.

Your first blog post is not about perfection.

It’s NOT for traffic, it’s for momentum!
It’s about proof.

Proof that you are now a blogger.

Done is better than perfect.

So I don’t want you to think, oh, this is not perfect, or There’s so many things I could have added, or Those images aren’t cute.

You need to post first and then go look at it and say, okay, I need to tweak this, or something doesn’t look right and you can’t do that if you haven’t hit published yet.

The hardest part for most people is hitting publish. Yes, there’s coming up with ideas and figuring out how to get traffic to your blog, but I’ve shown you in the last video how to set up your blog and your website. This video is actually how to write the blog post and hit publish on your very first post. No matter how good or bad it is. Now we have something to actually go back and look at and say, Hmm, what could I change about this?

✅ Today’s Action Step

Before you move on to Day 5:

✅ Publish your first blog post:

• Even if it’s short
• Even if it’s messy
• Even if it’s simple
• A little awkward
• Even if you’re unsure
• NOT Perfect!

Momentum beats perfection.

“Publish your first post today — even if it’s not perfect.”

Perfection is the enemy of done, and you should have already published it. But if you haven’t, then rewind this video, watch it again.

Once it’s live, come back and tell me in the comments:
What was your first blog post about?

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🧠 BEFORE YOU GO

Continue the 7-Day Get Started Blogging Challenge

This is day four of my seven day get started blogging challenge where I’m teaching you how to start a blog and publish your very first blog posts live in one week. And so if you missed any of those or the checklist that I talked about, that walks you through everything and you can check it all off, you can download that.

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Watch The Full 7 Day Get Started Challenge:

• Day 1 – What Blogging Really Is (& Why Most Bloggers Quit)
• Day 2 – What To Blog About (How To Choose A Profitable Blog Niche)
• Day 3 – How To Build Your Blog Website (WordPress Beginner Tutorial)
• Day 4 – How To Write Your First Blog Post
• Day 5 – How to SEO Your Blog Post
• Day 6 – How to Get Your First 100 Blog Readers
• Day 7 – How To Make Money Blogging

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You can watch the full playlist and get the checklist here:
Grab the 7-Day Start Blogging Checklist

“Tomorrow I’ll show you how people find your blog on Google.”

Tomorrow I’m actually going to show you how to get people to read your blog because they’re going to be able to find your blog on the internet, on Google through SEO, optimizing your blog posts, this whole list of things I told you that there’s more to your blog post than what we just did.

If you haven’t already:

• Subscribe on YouTube
• Watch the full playlist
• Grab the 7-Day Blogging Checklist

👉 “Next: how to get people to actually read your blog post.”

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Related Reads You Might Also Like…

• Ideas For Writing Your First Blog Post | Blogging For Beginners
• Stop Overthinking & Start Blogging: Write With NO Expectations & HIT PUBLISH
• How To Write A Blog Post (Step by Step)

#BloggingForBeginners #HowToWriteABlogPost #StartABlog #BornToBlogClub

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