I’ve been writing since I was 10: poems, scribbles, stories, you name it. It wasn’t until the internet became a thing that I made my way to writing online. First, it was LiveJournal, then DarkJournal, then Blogger, and finally, my own website: jessicamcwhirt.com.

When I first started writing online, it was mostly just a publicly posted personal journal. I wrote exactly how I would in my private journal: bearing all. I still write with full-frontal honesty, but maybe a little less emo and a little more insightful.

My goals for my website are to share real stories about all things bike without hiding content behind a paywall. I’m no Bicycling Magazine, but I want my content to inspire folks to go out there and jump on a bike. Maybe ride it really fast. Maybe ride it over some rocks. But ride a bike nevertheless.

I also want to make my website self-sustaining, and honestly, to try to make some sort of living off of writing what my community and I enjoy reading about. Sure, I could freelance, but how much heart and soul is in it? I’d much rather write what YOU want to read about because if you’re here, then we already have something in common.