I agree strongly with one aspect of what you are saying but offer a counter to it as well. Writing consistently is very important to being a good writer but knowing when to publish and only doing so when you have content worth publishing is the key.
It is important to keep yourself writing on a schedule but feeling compelled to publish everything you write or feeling like you always need to generate 'content' doesn't help anyone. As you say it causes the writer to focus on quantity over quality thus losing much of the personal value of writing and, for lack of a better word, pollutes you output with lower quality content thus losing the 'social' or 'branding' value of writing.
For someone intending to make writing into their profession, this is probably true, but for your average developer, it's probably more than enough to simply write whenever there is something worthwhile to write about.
Just an article or two is already a good bit of effort, and if it's about a topic that can't be googled in 5 minutes, there will probably be a good bit of writing, deleting and re-writing involved.
Combine that with other writing tasks that just come with the field, like writing documentation, and you'll already be doing a solid amount of writing practice, certainly more than many other professions.
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I agree strongly with one aspect of what you are saying but offer a counter to it as well. Writing consistently is very important to being a good writer but knowing when to publish and only doing so when you have content worth publishing is the key.
It is important to keep yourself writing on a schedule but feeling compelled to publish everything you write or feeling like you always need to generate 'content' doesn't help anyone. As you say it causes the writer to focus on quantity over quality thus losing much of the personal value of writing and, for lack of a better word, pollutes you output with lower quality content thus losing the 'social' or 'branding' value of writing.
For someone intending to make writing into their profession, this is probably true, but for your average developer, it's probably more than enough to simply write whenever there is something worthwhile to write about.
Just an article or two is already a good bit of effort, and if it's about a topic that can't be googled in 5 minutes, there will probably be a good bit of writing, deleting and re-writing involved.
Combine that with other writing tasks that just come with the field, like writing documentation, and you'll already be doing a solid amount of writing practice, certainly more than many other professions.