Hi, my name is Nadia Agyeiwaa Atiemo but here, I prefer to go by DiaVidReader for no reason I can think about at the moment. Just feels right I guess. I’m relatively young in my twenties and female and that’s that for now. I reckon I’ll be sharing more about my life with you guys down the road but for now, let’s keep a few things a mystery shall we? Like my domain name says, I hate writing poetry and that is so wrong because I don’t hate writing poetry, I hate all forms of writing. Period. The domain was the only one available so I grabbed it with haste although it doesn’t quite capture how much I hate writing with every fiber of my being and yet here I am typing word after word after word after word. I know you’re all now wondering what business I have creating a blog and I’m sorry but like that book I read a few years ago with a hanging cliffhanger the size of Texas and the writer nowhere to be found except on Goodreads with no other works and even fewer updates, this is something we’ll wonder about for the rest of our lives because my very satisfactory answer is “beats me”. Not to worry, however, that although hating writing is my passion, it is also the only way to let out all this creativity swarming in and swimming in my head which sometimes is expelled out in the forms of exceptionally bad poetry that I will unleash if you guys are good. If you have the bad luck of stumbling onto this blog, I hope I don’t creep you out too much that you don’t like my content. I will not bore you any longer. Have Fun.

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You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

• Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
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The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

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• Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
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