This document provides advice and encouragement for writing online through email lists, forums, blogs, and social media. It addresses common excuses people make for not writing, such as not having enough time or expertise, and argues that writing can help improve one's skills while also helping others. The document urges readers to start small, such as by making forum posts or blogging about books, and to regularly contribute in order to get better at writing and to help save others' time through shared knowledge.

1. Can Write Geeks

2. Do You Write?

3. Email and Mailing Lists

4. Documentation

5. Forums

6. Blog

7. Twitter

8. How to Write Show up

9. How to Write Write words

10. (optional) Review

11. Invalid Excuses My template isn't finished

12. Invalid Excuses I don't know enough

13. Invalid Excuses I'll get flamed

14. Nobody will read it

15. Invalid Excuses I don't write (English) well enough

16. Invalid Excuses I don't have time

17. Why To Write save yourself time next time

18. save someone else time

19. Why To Write get better at writing

20. Begin! forum posts

21. mailing list discussion

22. a blog

23. Start Blogging write about a book, or an event

24. document a code snippet, include links

25. How to Write Show up. And keep showing up.

26. What are you waiting for?