# The start of a writing journey
Good day, fellow reader. And I say fellow because we have something in common: we are both voracious readers. It's a separate tale of how that turned into writing for me.
My name is Marcelo Zárate. I'm an Argentine father, spouse, and developer. I'm interested in a variety of languages and technologies. I'm always excited to discover anything new.
A few days ago I heard at a seminar that the *"What for"* in our daily planner should take precedence over the *"Why"* So I'm going to try to put this thought into practice right now.
There are mainly 3 reasons that I started this journey *(What for?)*
# Putting my capacity to be consistent to the test 📝
Working on a non-dev job, I managed to make at least one useful commit per week for the last year. That was a real challenge but proved myself I could be consistent. Going to try the same for writing (1 article per week should do).
# Learning 👨🏫
Being a teacher for kids in the past taught me one valuable lesson:
> If you want to be certain you know something, go ahead and teach it.
You can confirm you knew the subject. You can also learn by attempting to prepare a class on a topic you thought you already knew about.
# Improve my English 🗽
Being a non-native English speaker, I found it almost natural to read technical stuff in English. Writing seems to be a different level of difficulty, but I'm confident it will help me step up and reach a larger audience.
*It's not easy, because writing requires research, planning, confidence, and a magic spark.*
Are you planning on writing too? You can do it! Start your own blog now with [Hashnode](https://hashnode.com/@marcelozarate/joinme)
I really took time researching all the options, and I found Hashnode to be a solid platform. Shoutout to @[Sandeep Panda](@sandeep)!
See you around!
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