Seconding Mr. Mechanical here: start a Blogger blog, pick a default template, and write one post.
THEN go back and make it look nicer.
Blogger pretty much rules? It’s customizable enough without being overwhelming, and yeah they can look kinda samey but who cares? Give it a nice header image eventually and you’re good.
that’s the one I was running, maybe one day I will go back to it but it’s a neat project anyway, and I had a lot of fun doing it.