Recounting My 15-Month-Old Journey as a Technical Writer

Charmaine Chui
Geek Culture
Published in
3 min readFeb 28, 2022

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📅 Saturday, 27th February — Publishing Article № 50 on Medium 👏

50 — That was the stated total number of articles I had written on Medium to date on last Saturday following the submission of yet another technical article.

Illustration by Author | A screenshot of my ‘stories’ page

While I was initially overtaken by feelings of disbelief, this was soon overtaken by the 𝓔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝓷 𝑶𝒇 𝓐𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 since I have at last reached my milestone set over a year ago in 2020 🏆

While 50 articles does not seem exceptionally impressive, on a personal level however taking the bold step to venture into regular online journalling has invoked an amalgamation of emotions paired with profound sentiments for myself as an individual✍️ In fact, embarking on this long (and ongoing) journey has unexpectedly granted me an abundance of short/long-term fulfilment and instilled a firm mindset of consistently striving to be a better version of myself each day

My 3 Greatest Gains from Writing —

Among the countless benefits which many other Medium writers have explicitly stated, the following 3 aspects are my personal take on which had resonated with me the most.

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Charmaine Chui
Geek Culture

👩‍💻 Data Analyst. Web & Software Developer. Technical Writer✍ | Trying to make the 🌐 better with baby steps👣 [ 📍SG ] LinkedIn@https://tinyurl.com/45kf4pc3