I read a post from Dan Q this week called You Don't Have to Blog Like Me, and I agree with every bit of it, 100 percent. There's no right way to do this, it really is just preference. His post is basically a permission slip: you don't have to tag things, keep a schedule, have a feature image, split your posts by type, or have a tidy answer ready when someone asks what your blog is even about.
That last one hit home. My blog could stretch across as many as 20 topics if I let it, but right now I mostly stick to four or five: tech and AI, home decor, movie and TV reviews, and sometimes politics. I'd like that range to eventually grow into sustainability and climate change, once I find the right angle. I'm still figuring it out, and blogging works best when it just flows the way your thoughts do.
That part about categories isn't really me taking a stand against his list, if I'm honest. Most blogging platforms hand you that stuff as part of the setup, whether you use it or not. If I built a blog completely from scratch, a plain static HTML site, I'd probably skip most of it. What I'd actually care about is making it clean, attractive, and easy to read, with the right colors doing most of the work.
You don't have to blog like me, or like Dan Q, or like anyone else whose blog you admire. None of this makes me a better writer than anyone else; it's just what sounds like me. I still poke around other blogs and swipe ideas for fun, and half the time it turns into an afternoon tinkering with HTML and CSS on my own site. That's the real hobby.
Happy blogging, and be true to yourself. It's a good kind of self-care, having a place where you can just think out loud and say it however you want.