Overcoming Fear in Writing: A Personal Journey to Becoming an Accomplished Author
From a fear-writing person (since childhood) to an accomplished author and top technical writer in software testing: a transformative journey.
This article deviates quite a bit from my usual topics: Test Automation and Continuous Testing. I think it’s still related. Below is from Rework, a best-selling software development book.
The authors explained that quite clearly and used the word “crucial”. In this article, I share my personal journey of overcoming the fear-writing.
A few months ago, I flew back to my hometown and shared a 2.5-month time with my parents. Nearly every morning, I woke up early and wrote something on my MacBook. This daily routine of mine surprised my parents greatly, despite their awareness of my previous book publications. From their memory, Zhimin was a boy deeply afraid of writing.
Indeed, I consistently received poor academic results on writing-related exams. The feeling of “I suck at writing” accompanied me since primary school in China, all the…
