This is the kind of article that makes me wish programmers studied creative writing or fine art or film making more often. I did a lot of creative writing in c

This is the kind of article that makes me wish programmers studied creative writing or fine art or film making more often. I did a lot of creative writing in college and beyond, and the spectrum for what works is exceptionally wide. Some people are paralyzed without an extremely detailed outline and keep almost everything the write, while other people fill hundreds of pages with no planning and slowly filter out the words, expecting nothing more than a few dozen usable pages. Software is usually more collaborative than writing, so it's not quite the same thing... but in the end, maybe we shouldn't be surprised when talented people end up producing great things with almost contradictory approaches, and when talented people using similar approaches often produce great results and total catastrophes. Programming is still mainly art, after all. The only thing that really matters is that you actually do it, and you finish it. There was the advice I read: "you have to write, you have to finish what you write, and you have to publish what you write."