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Wow this is great advice thank you. By all means, if time permits please keep going. As as an aside, I've always suffered from a lack of "intrinsic" motivation

• ohjeez 13y ago
  Okay, I'll go on for a little longer. One thing to keep in mind is your goal in writing. There are people who want to write (or at least to have-written-something), and they don't care if the manuscript languishes in a drawer. There are folks who want to be published: to see their byline on a page. And there are people who want to earn money (ideally a living) from their writing. All of these are fine goals. None is better than another. But you will find that writers in one category look down on those in another. Those of us who earn a living from our wordcrafting sometimes can sneer at those who would write for free, for instance. Don't let this bother you. But _do_ pay attention to what your goals are... or how they develop. (This is something you may learn about yourself as you do your "writing just for me" process.) Because your goals, naturally, shape the manner in which you guide your own writing and related skills. That is, if you'd like to earn a bit of money from writing eventually, then you have to think in terms of getting attention from editors (cough like me), and marketing, and writing about topics that someone might pay for. If you only want to be a better writer because it'll help you become a better programmer (because it never hurts to communicate better!) that's a different set of choices.