I'm new to the blogging world and it took me about 6 months of thinking and planning before I finally dove in. My biggest suggestion is to write about what you love, be willing to accept not everyone else will love what you love and learn as much as you can from bloggers you follow. I'm a visual learner so even though I tried to learn everything first it took me actually diving in and starting to play with blogger layouts and all the ways to link up to other social media before I really figured things out. I finally hired someone to create a look for my blog…I'd say if you have the time to learn html programming so you can format things the way you want.