I love spreading my thoughts over the globe and see what happens. It helps both others and me. The readers learn something new and inspire, I put my past experience in order.
I have a WordPress blog but I rarely write something. One day I realized that WordPress makes me sick and that is why I procrastinate when there is an opportunity to create a cool post.
My point is if writing is simple and pleasant, you will write more.
And sooner or later obtain a writing habit. Naturally!
That is why I mostly write in my Telegram channel. Telegram is easy to use and quick as hell (sweet native technologies 
).
Medium and Teletype are good alternatives too.
So if you are struggling to begin your blogging career try not to think about creating a serious super-customizable blog with email-capture banners, tons of meta tags, open graph images for all social networks, cross-posting features etc - all that massive amount of features that WordPress gives you. Try with a simpler tool. It can bring you much further 