[HN Gopher] How I motivate myself to write ___________________________________________________________________ How I motivate myself to write Author : gregdoesit Score : 7 points Date : 2021-10-29 07:02 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (blog.pragmaticengineer.com) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.pragmaticengineer.com) | richardatlarge wrote: | Write regularly yes, but quantity does not lead inherently to | quality. You have to hold a higher and then higher standard for | what's good | eatonphil wrote: | My experience and techniques have been remarkably similar, albeit | on a smaller scale than Gergely. A few years ago I decided to | start writing one post per month on any subject within | tech/software development. I've missed that goal a couple of | times but my average since then has still been ~1.4 posts per | month. | | I write about whatever is interesting to me and most often that's | exploring topics in tech that were a mystery to me before like | compilers, databases, etc. Like Gergely I keep an ever growing | list of projects or topics that seem interesting to tackle at | some point. | | One book I'd recommend most to folks writing in tech (whether | it's technical or not) is On Writing Well, which teaches you the | same kinds of things Gergely uses Hemingway Editor for. That is, | to be concise and precise. | | I think the biggest benefit to writing consistently is that you | improve as a writer and that you get to explore interesting | topics. Some people say tech blogging is great for getting jobs | but in my experience, of all the things that helped me get work, | my blog didn't contribute much. But I'm just one data point. I | say this so that you don't get discouraged if you don't suddenly | unlock emails from hiring managers because you start writing | more. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-10-30 23:00 UTC)