If you are interested in starting a blog -- and especially if you don't consider yourself a writer -- you will find that your first post (and even several more after that) are very difficult to write. You fret. What to say? How to say it? Is it important? What if it sounds stupid? What if I don't like what I write after I post it? (The last one is easy to answer: delete it. Most blogging software allows you to delete a post, and it certainly allows you to edit as often as you want.) As for the other questions, well, those are harder to answer.
You see, while I can tell you in technical terms what a blog is, it's much harder to tell you what a blog is in personal terms. Because a blog can be anything you want it to be, it can seem overwhelming to pick just one thing. See if this helps. Imagine you are a reporter and your editor gives you assignment after assignment. Each time, no matter what the topic, you invariably need to have an "angle". What's your angle? If you can answer that you can define your blog because your blog will be your angle -- the way you see the "story", the way you see your environment. Of course, you can have several angles, but they're all still yours.
So, ask yourself, if you had a blog, what would be your angle? What's the lens through which you view the world?
See also:
1. What is a Blog? Part I
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