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Yes, you should write that first post!

Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard on March 11, 2020

Dear reader who has not started writing yet, I want to encourage you to start writing your first post and see where it leads you. In fact I have...
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ThΓ©o D. • Edited

Hey, thanks for your article, I wrote my first article just after reading yours:

My First Year of Programming

Thanks for the boost :)

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Karine BAUCH

Hey I did it! Here is my article:

Python is everywhere!

Thanks for encouraging me πŸ˜‹

Karine.

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Aashir Khan • Edited

Thanks alot, I'm glad you liked my content and it's a really kind of you that you featured my content in one of your post and it's all about taking the first step.

I would love to add that DEV is amazing platform with lots of active readers + authors.
The new user sign-ups rate are very high, People are loving the content because they love to read the honest stories and writings. When a person starts writing, he writes honest and naturally(like talking) if he gets a good response he will then proceed and now he don't need motivation from a single post or comment, he/she have the whole community rooting for him, it's just about taking the first step and it's our(authors) work to make them do it.

Lots of ❀️ and Motivation πŸ’ͺ from my side to all the authors on DEV

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Emma Goto πŸ™

Yes!! At the beginning of this year I totally had no confidence when it comes to blogging but the more you do it the easier it gets - you just gotta power through the first couple of posts, and don't have too many expectations on how well it will do.

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

Exactly, it's just people who haven't started yet think you and I had everything figured out when we started which is... wrong :)

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Ellie S.

I've been reading and following folks on DEV for over a year, but still haven't written a single post. I'm not sure I have anything worthy to say yet, since I am still learning. Your encouraging post makes me want to try though!

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

We are all still learning!
What would have been useful to younger Elie S. one year ago to know?
write about this

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MedLabs

after a year reading posts on dev.to
here is my #firstpost dev.to/medlabs/learn-how-to-code-b...
thank's to you
Hope it's not that bad :)
Merci Jean-Michel

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

Congrats @medlabs ! That's a good piece of advice that you give here!
I do the same, I start with a project that works and try to break it in multiple ways to understand how everything work together.

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Paula Sarqui • Edited

After a tumultous summer and a few edits, I got my first post!

Thank you!

Twisted Copper Pair

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Tiffany Rossi

DEV has been the most friendly platform I've ever seen. I wrote my first two posts recently. When I joined, I thought "one day I'll be a programmer and I'll be able to write inspiring posts". But #shecoded was going on, and I thought "well, maybe I can write about the programmer I wanna be and my journey through that". I wrote my first post under #shecoded. I got followers and likes, nobody seemed to care that I'm not technical yet. That encouraged me to write my second one, I even got some comments! I'm thinking of keeping a one text a week routine. DEV is a powerful tool to keep me engaged in my learning path.

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

Congrats! If my readers want to follow you, have a look at this

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

Nota Bene:

To write this article, I have stolen ideas from a great episode from the Ladybug Podcast, so consider listening to it after you have written your first post :)

ladybug.dev/blogging-101

github.com/ladybug-podcast/ladybug...

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Arif Iqbal
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VΓ­ctor H. Torres
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Rayjens Code

Yehey my first post. thanks a lot :)

dev.to/rayjencode/the-2-career-pat...

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Lara Durrant

Thanks for the nicely timed and informative post! Hope it encourages more people to write!

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

wow

congrats! I left a small comment there

I hope others follow your example :)

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Mohamed Hassan

I just wrote mien a day ago. So proud of myself :)

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

Congrats, so for you the challenge is to write the second one :)