On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:13:04 -0800, Chris Francy <[email protected]>  
wrote:

> One thing that has helped me is to simply practice.  A site like
> http://serverfault.com helps me do this.  I am far from perfect, but
> my boss tells me that my writing has improved over the last couple
> years.

Chris is spot on here. I recently ran a bit of analytics to figure out  
just how much writing I've done on ServerFault since I started in May  
2009. It's imprecise, but the word-count range is a staggering 104K to  
156K words. That's a novel. That's a LOT of writing, and nearly all of  
that has been explaining techical topics to other people.

Admittedly, I cheat. I've been blogging since 2004 where I've been doing  
much the same (my word count there is probably higher, but I don't have  
the tools to check it). But ServerFault is a great because you get  
prompts. People ask questions. You give the asnwer and explain and WHY it  
is the answer. The why part is important.

Greg Riedesel
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