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One year writing on DEV

Alvaro Montoro on April 27, 2020

One year ago, I joined the DEV community. It was kind of random. I wanted to write more often and was testing other platforms too (CodePen and Medi...
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Waylon Walker •

πŸŽ‰ Congrats on 1 year! 55 published posts is solid!!

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Shannon Crabill •

That is impressive! How did you stay motivated to write and publish consistently?

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Alvaro Montoro •

To be honest, I was not too consistent. Even when it comes up to be around one article per week, sometimes I wrote 8 articles in a week, and sometimes I didn't write for a month. I'd love to do something like Chris Ferdinandi –writing a post per day–, but I don't think I'm close to that.

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Waylon Walker •

Consistency is so tough. Do you sit on any posts or just post them as fast as you write them?

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Alvaro Montoro •

I try to leave them at least overnight. Although the temptation to publish them immediately has won sometimes.

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Roelof Jan Elsinga •

Congrats on your writing anniversary! Keep up the good work going forward towards another year!

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Francis •

Congrats on your 1 year!

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Swastik Baranwal •

What an amazing record for one year!

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Ben Halpern •

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Emma Goto πŸ™ •

Wow, congrats on a whole year!

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Oleg •

Congratulations! That is inspiring :-)