I really like this post. However, one of the reasons I love writing fiction so much is that it feels like such a _different_ way to express myself creatively th

I really like this post. However, one of the reasons I love writing fiction so much is that it feels like such a _different_ way to express myself creatively than programming. Both use my brain, but in totally different ways, almost like exercising different muscles. I think you can find similarities of the kind listed in this post within pretty much any two activities if you look for them. But overall the differences are what make writing and coding so well-suited and _fun_ to experience in one brain in my opinion. In the end, both coding and writing are a way for me to vent my creativity and bring the worlds and ideas in my head into something tangible. That is their primary similarity. I do believe programming and writing fiction are two sides of the same coin. But they feel largely orthogonal to each other in my experience of them. (After I wrote the last sentence I wasn't sure I was using the term "orthogonal" correctly, as I see that in the plain English sense of the term it seems to mean entirely independent... When what I am trying to express is rather that they _are_ related and _not_ entirely independent. As my experience or knowledge of coding changes, so does my experience of writing, in the sense that they retain the consistent right angle or relationship to each other despite otherwise feeling very different.)