Lifetime Writing — Why I need to recommend this habit?
Welcome back to #ericmonthlywriting on Twitter and #ericmonthlywriting on LinkedIn, thanks to a friend (Kelly Peng), I have resumed my writing, and I hope we can encourage each other to continue this good habit and promote it to more people. But this time, I would like to find out why I should write and what I will write.
I am not an artist and I don’t enjoy taking photos/pictures a lot. But the idea of recording down your life is something that I want to do. No matter it’s personal or professional topics.
The origin of this blog
This blog is a continuation of my previous blogs at:
The first one was started when I was still a student at Republic Polytechnic, it was a way to connect with my “Geek” friends in the school back then (PS: all the content is removed in this blog).
The second one was created while I was studying NUS CS3216 Software Development on Evolving Platforms module, the proof is the very first blog.
In those blogs, the main content is just about what I have learnt during my study which I felt like sharing with my friends.
When I first started to blog at https://medium.com/@wgx731, it was an attempt to record down my findings/feelings during my work and life, and I am aiming to share it with the “whole” world to find like-minded people.
Here is how it looks like till today:
There is still a long way to go to reach my goal. :P
What I have gained from this blog
Even though I was not able to share my articles with the whole world, but I did find some like-minded people. The most important thing is that each time I am writing an article, I am doing self-reflection and take the time to review myself.
Writing in this way can give you a break during your fast-paced work and life:
- taking the time to sit down and stay away from your mobile phones
- recap what you have achieved so far
- think about what you should do better next
What’s next for this blog
Continue to write
As shared in the beginning, I would like to resume writing in this blog and make it a writing habit. Even though the hashtag is #ericmonthlywriting, but I don’t want to force myself to have pressure on it. Instead of spending days finding a topic, it should be a relaxing activity that naturally falls on my calendar. This will help to reduce the resistance to blogging.
Read and improve my writing
One thing I learned from the past year is that everything needs practice. Even if it’s your hobby like playing mobile/computer games, without practice, soon you will lose interest in it.
What the practice I mean here, is not you play 100 games a day or you write 1000 articles per month. It’s more of learning from the best in the field and translate into something that has a unique mark of “YOU”. Once you are the master of it, create the habit of writing is no longer a problem anymore.
Varies my writing topic
I am the father of a 3 years’ cute boy (Mario) now and my work is more towards how to enable the team to achieve more instead of individual contribution now. Instead of focusing on the programming topics only, I plan to include more topics (e.g. child education, volunteering, mentoring).
That’s it for now, let’s meet again in my next article.
