They say that if you want to be a writer then the important thing is to keep writing. And I’m certainly not going to disagree with them.
But I’ve been a bad writer recently and other than the witterings on this site I haven’t written anything for some considerable time. My last published works were two articles on perl.com almost a year ago. I seem to have spent most of the last year writing code rather than words.
So last night I decided to force myself to write something substantial. I spent a couple of hours working on a new article. And it all seemed to go very well. I’d forgotten how much fun it was to write. I got almost a thousand words written in that time. The article isn’t finished, but I hope to complete it by the end of the weekend, at which point I’ll put it on the web somewhere and post a link to it.
The best thing is that I’ve got ideas for a couple more articles too. So it looks like I’ll be spending quite a lot of the next couple of weeks writing. By the end of the month I’ll be complaining that I don’t spend enough time coding :)
You should try taking an MBA; I’ve written about 20,000 words in the last week!I am cheating though, and using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 to dictate the words in. It’s a surprisingly good product, even on my crappy old laptop where I have to set the slider right down from accuracy to speed.Those dictation products used to be utter pap, but this one’s a winner. It does a pretty good job of getting the grammar variations right as well, like “there, their, they’re”. Definitely worth a go, especially if you are prone to RSI like me.