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"Just do it."

That sounds familiar...

There's no substitute for repetitiveness and habit.

Feedback is important, but also valuable. It can be hard to get good feedback for free.

I've found that just slapping stuff up there is important, as long as I keep doing it, and make sure that whatever I "slap up" is of the best quality possible.

Every few weeks, I stop what I'm doing, and spend a day or so, writing up an entry about something. My usual read length is under fifteen minutes, but I have a couple of prolix entries.

You can see what I write here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/ and here: https://medium.com/chrismarshallny

I'm not a widely-read author, but everything I do; whether coding or writing, is done as if I were publishing to the masses.

Establishes good habits.

I also find that writing in the vernacular seems to be received well. But that's just me. YMMV.



I am an avid book reader and developer. I write book reviews and also try to write good documentation as a means to improve my writing.

The only problem is finding someone or a group to receive good feedback.




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