Comparing Creative Writing with Software Development
Creative Writing and Software Development have some similarities. As an author of fiction and non-fiction, large amounts of text are created. As software engineers we create huge amounts of text. How does both compare?
Writing literature - fiction or non-fiction, can result huge amounts of text, and the author of these lines enjoys reading them very much. But the raw text produced in software engineering exceeds this manyfold. Recently I talked with an acquaintance of mine, who is writing novels and essays since over 50 years. He asked me what I was doing, and I said I am doing software development.
