I like writing. I got good grades in school for writing assignments, but I don't view my writing as particularly "good". It's a tool. I try to communicate as best I can. I consider my writing a success when you don't notice whether it's good or bad at all, rather you concentrate on what I'm trying to say.

I don't think it's difficult to write something that's technically (grammatically) good. It's like programming a computer, except sloppier. Human language and machine language have a lot in common; if I hadn't become a programmer I may very well have become a linguist.