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title: "Writing Articles Is Hard!"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/10/writing-articles-is-hard.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/10/writing-articles-is-hard.html"
published: "2003-05-10T14:07:00"
updated: "2003-05-10T14:07:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I'm currently in the process of trying to write an article to be posted on my blog. Its on a bigger scale than the others I already have posted before, and I must admint it's a bigger task than I imagined. One of the…"
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# Writing Articles Is Hard!

By Roy Osherove May 10, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 10, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

I'm currently in the process of trying to write an article to be posted on my blog. Its on a bigger scale than the others I already have posted before, and I must admint it's a bigger task than I imagined. One of the things I am confronted with is explaining basic concepts in a way that someone who does not know them already can learn and understand them . It's pretty darn hard putting myself in that place, since writing about things that seem trivial to me makes me keep skipping stuff, and then having to go back and add it.

I salute those who write these things. I never knew it's such a pain. I would gladly like to read any advice you may have on the subject and how to approach this in a more structured manner. Any tips,tricks or otherwise - I promise to listen!

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/