Celebrating ONE YEAR at Coil: an interview with myself
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One-year celebrations are always something special no matter what you celebrate: your baby's first year, first year of marriage, first year of friendship at social media sites... That's why today it is an important day to me because i am celebrating my first year here at Coil! **:)**
Since the very beginning, just a year ago when i joined Coil, i decided to be consistent, to be honest and mainly, write not to please others but to express myself about the things i like and share my thoughts with the world: i write because i like to write and let others know what i think and what i like.
I was thinking the best(or the right) way to write this post today and at the end, i realized that the best way i could do that is to interview myself to let my friends, followers, enemies and haters know me better. **:o**
So, dear readers, here you have. In the followng interview we will see the very experienced journalist “ME” interviewing “MYSELF” ...the reason: “MYSELF” is celebrating his first year at Coil and “ME” wants to know more about this blogger. Without further delays...
The Interview!!!
**ME**:
First of all, tell us a bit about you: who are you, where you come from?
MYSELF:
My full name is Deyner López Fernández and i live in Cuba. I was born in June 4th, 1984 in the eastern part of Cuba in a small country town. My mother is an Agricultural Engineer and my father was a Dentist.
I studied all my life with just one idea in my mind: no matter what profession i was going to choose, it would have to be linked to the computer world, so here i am: after 18 years of hard studies i graduated from University with the title of “Computer Engineer” and now i am an IT guy working as Network and Systems Administrator for a Real State company here in my native Cuba and working remotely as Forum Administrator for an UK company(by the way this month i am celebrating too my first year discovering that company!!!)
I am happily married with a beautiful cuban lady and i am father of almost two: i have one little baby of almost 2 years and another is on his way out next July. My family is everything to me. I consider myself a devoted father because of a bad experience i had when i was 15 years old: i lost my father in a car accident, too early in my life. He does not know how necessary he would has been in my life, i only enjoy 15 years of his loving cares and presence. He went away too early. That´s maybe the cause i am so loving and careful with my son.
**ME:**
How did you find Coil?
**MYSELF:**
I was mainly a bounty hunter in my earlier days at the cryptocurrency world. I discovered a platform called Cent which is like a blogging platform plus social media site and where you can write posts and people can “seed” that post by donating small amounts of ETH(Ethereum)...Then i wonder myself if there was on the Internet another site like Cent where you write and you get paid in cryptocurrency. I was trying to reach to some other social media sites asking people and making deep Google searches about this matter when suddenly one search result hit my laptop screen: it was Coil website in Google search results!
I took a look at the website and i found the concept of web monetization quite interesting so i decided to give a try to Coil and opened my own blog in their platform and here i am after 365 days!
**ME:**
You are a native spanish speaker, why did you choose to write your articles in english?
**MYSELF:**
Nice question dude! Yes i am a native spanish speaker but i choose to write my articles in english because two reasons: as i checked the blogging platform inside Coil i was aware that the vast majority of people interacting one way or another with the website came from english speaking countries, or at least they interacted in that language: most serious articles were written in english so i thought there was a chance to get more exposure for my writings if i wrote my articles in that language. The second reason was that i always wanted to improve my english level a bit and writing was, i thought(and i still thinking), one of the best ways to do that.
**ME:**
I can see you have several articles written by now. Could you share some statistical data about your blogging journey inside Coil?
MYSELF:
Yes, of course. Spending time at Coil has been an awesome journey for me. Through 365 days since i found this awesome platform i´ve written about 60 articles with more than 500 upvotes total. I have 78 followers till now and since i started recently to try to measure the traffic delivered to my blog posts using this technique i have had more than 1000 unique visitors reaching one way or another my articles in the blogging platform.
The article with most upvotes(22) since the beginning is “First photographs ever taken from Jerusalem” and my first 6 articles were a basic copy/paste from the originals i wrote at Cent (still original content from me **:)** )
I spent about 6-8 hours writing an article. I use Picfont Editor to design and edit header images and Capsulink services to create shortlinks for my articles when i shared them on social media. I have articles with more than 2500 words even!
My preferences when writing? History, stories behind vintage photographs, Cuban funny and historical facts, cryptocurrency and investment world...it is a personal blog after all!
**ME:**
60 articles, wow! Do you have one prefered article among all those articles you wrote? Which is that article and why?
**MYSELF:**
Yes i have a prefered one. Each article is a complete journey for me as a blogger and each one has a special meaning but Working dad...cool dad: the maddness behind it* is the prefered one. That article was written to honor the event of the birth of my first child and to let the people know the process of being a cool dad while being a working one...It is really difficult, especially for new parents, to find some balance between two activities but we must find it some how.
**ME:**
What is the “CBC”? Positive or negative experiences?
**MYSELF:**
CBC stands for “Content Builders Club”. It is a private Telegram group created by the amazing Ken Melendez where some Coil creators gather together to share ideas, discuss interesting topics, let other people know about your latest articles or interesting links or resources to become a better blogger and why not, even a better person. It is a small group and we are proud to be part of such amazing community.
CBC has been like a family house for me, full of brothers, sisters and even uncle Srdan. **:)**
That Telegram group is an incredible source of positive vibes. While we have some arguing as any good family have for sure, we are a very close group, supportive, where members are always ready to help.
There have been some misconceptions about the main goal and purpose of this group: while some people think this is only a group to share the link to our latest articles to get upvotes, the thing is this group have been here to help each others to know us better and to support each others. We do not ask for upvotes or free promotion: we just want to have some place to gather together to express ourselves regarding Coil ecosystem and our personal writing work inside the platform and give opinions on how to improve it to make it better.
It is to easy to criticize something when you have not been there, involved and commited or when you have been there, but you have not achieved the result you expected for. We have not kings or queens: we have members!!
**ME:**
What does Coil mean right now for your life? How do you see your future inside the platform?
**MYSELF:**
Coil means many things right now in my life: it is a place to express myself in more than a couple of characters as a writer or blogger, a place to unleash my creativity, to improve my knowledge of english language and to find good friends and learn from them there is more in our lifes than those things we can see with our own eyes.
I imagine myself in a near future as a regular blogger inside the platform with many, many followers interested in the content i provide. I will continue writing for sure. **:)**
**ME:**
Finally, do you have some advices for newcomers?..any final words you want to express to your readers?
**MYSELF:**
Yes. For newcomers i only want to tell them that writing good content it is not always an easy task, even writing content!. If you start fast and feel like in the middle of the path things start to get slower...take a break, and start again!
For my readers: thanks for being here for me, for read my content. You can expect many more articles, fun facts and incredible stories. Just keep following me and if you want to support creators you can get a Coil subscription which is a small fee which will help us to bring you more quality content! Thank you all!!
**ME:**
Thank you very much!
**MYSELF:**
Thanks to you for allowing me reach the community and express myself celebrating this important day, this important milestone! This is my first interview you know?...in my whole life! I hope I have done everything well. **:)**