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Exactly. Writing well is hard, and you have to spend a lot of time thinking, writing, editing. 'A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it
by carlio 14y ago
Exactly. Writing well is hard, and you have to spend a lot of time thinking, writing, editing.
'A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.' - Thomas Mann
- raganwald 14y agoI don’t write because I can, I write because I can’t not write. Alas, looking at my Github projects, it seems that I underscore the problem described in the OP. I have done a lot of writing, but how good is my code, really? If I published the exact same Github projects under a pseudonym, would anyone who hasn’t read my writing care?
- jamesbritt 14y agoI don’t write because I can, I write because I can’t not write. That seems a better definition of a writer than the Thomas Mann quote. If I published the exact same Github projects under a pseudonym, would anyone who hasn’t read my writing care? You can pull a Stephen King and try it. Start rolling out new code under a new name. See what happens. I think, however, that you'd run into the problem of getting lost in a sea of code, regardless of the quality of your work.
- tomjen3 14y agoRaganwald, you are a computer philosopher more than you are a programmer. Blogs by you are always interesting, so don't worry too much about it.