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FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE PRAGMATIC LIFE BLOG 2009

Inspiration for PragProWriMo

Margaret Eldridge
The Pragmatic Programmers
2 min readOct 18, 2021

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Thank you to Daniel Steinberg of Dim Sum Thinking for preserving these articles from The Pragmatic Life Blog 2009, written for PragProWriMo. You’ll find some helpful tips and inspiration for this year’s PragProWriMo among these posts.

October 2009

PragProWriMo

What to write about

The journey

Mechanics

November 2009

Getting started

Don’t edit yet

Tightening up

Don’t read this

A little Potchking is OK

One thing

Do we get weekends off?

Silencing your inner editor

A bit of color

Division of labor

Writing lessons from a beer commercial

Raising your readers

Why

Continuing

You write the songs

Sign posts

Mix it up

Show me

An occasional curve

Landmarks

It’s alive

Characters to believe in

Stop holding back

Now what

Throw it away

Serving the pie first

Chex mix

Freezing leftovers

On failure

Congratulations authors

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