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Re:Show HN: Lessons Learned from Writing Every Day for a Year on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:21PM (#21458827)
Yes! You can't improve if you keep your writings to yourself :) Let the world help you.
sorry for the late reply :) I write here: https://200wordsaday.com/writers/BasileSamel
Re:Show HN: Takeaways from Nonfiction Books on Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:28AM (#21212490)
Co-maker here, ask us anything :)
Re:Toward an Art of Software Development (essay) on Sunday December 16, 2018 @12:18PM (#18693957)
If I ever manage to finish it :P So many volumes
Re:Writing a book in public on Thursday December 13, 2018 @03:21AM (#18670714)
Search feature coming up this week hopefully!
Re:Writing a book in public on Thursday December 13, 2018 @03:19AM (#18670701)
Thank you for taking the time to write this! I need more time to consider your points. One thing I am sure of though, is that this is a writing community, not a list of publications like the ones you can find on Medium. Empowering the writers matters more to me. The content is important obviously, but what I really want is for them to just write. Anything. And be seen/heard.
Re:Writing a book in public on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @11:57PM (#18669935)
Thank you! Don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have any suggestion or improvement point to share. I would love to hear them!
Re:Writing a book in public on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @11:56PM (#18669928)
Yes the private posts will be a thing very soon: https://trello.com/c/s0Hho8LS/30-later-an-user-should-be-abl...
Re:Writing a book in public on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @11:50PM (#18669906)
This is not a problem at all! Your writings belong to you. Always.
Re:Writing a book in public on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @10:08AM (#18664505)
This is nice Gunjan. Post your words in our community, we love to read those! Originally 200wordsaday is still about writing short articles daily. Writing a book is a personal goal of mine. The members have many different goals: just get better at writing, releasing their ideas for the world to read etc.
Re:Writing a book in public on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @09:41AM (#18664250)
200 is still so hard for many people. I talked to users who tried the website and couldn't do more than a 1-day streak, they all say the same: I can't get into the habit / too much work / didn't plan it blablabla And I think this is the case for 80% people on earth. And I'm talking about english native speakers, non-native are even less likely to reach 200 words per day.

Anywasy, thanks for sharing your experience! I appreciate it.

Re:Writing a book in public on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @09:36AM (#18664204)
Yes you are right. But isn't it nice as well to digress a bit sometimes :)? Still, a goal feature would be nice.
Re:Writing a book in public on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @09:33AM (#18664182)
This is becoming my life work :D I work full-time on it!

I'm using Symfony 4 (PHP) and some basic JQuery. Nothing fancy but it allows me to ship faster as I'm starting to know it well. Here is an article I wrote detailing my stack: https://medium.com/@basilesamel/how-i-am-building-my-minimum...

Re:Writing a book in public on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @07:31AM (#18663326)
This description fascinates me because of the iterative development analogy. Way up in my reading list, thanks again!
Re:Writing a book in public on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @07:26AM (#18663304)
Some people PMed me about it. I think we are going to tag our posts with #publicbook and those will be drafts that will probably be integrated into our books.
Re:Writing a book in public on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @07:24AM (#18663290)
This is intriguing. It reminds me of 750words.com as well. I think what I really want to show with the 200 words objective is that it is reachable by anyone. 1600 words per day is way too much for a regular worker who just started writing.
Re:Writing a book in public on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @07:17AM (#18663246)
You are 100% right. The website is 3 weeks old and the "book editing" feature is not released yet.
Re:Writing a book in public on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @07:15AM (#18663243)
Thank you! I'm trying to improve it daily so if you have any suggestion I would love to hear it.
Re:Writing a book in public on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @07:05AM (#18663186)
This is awesome! Love those advices. I will consider them carefully while I'm doing this. Thank you so much!

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