Try to write every day. Try not to miss a day. Notice when you have a streak going. Don't break the streak.
Markus brought this to my attention.
I'm going to try the streak trick to see if that gets me bootstrapped.
I'll know that Markus is on a streak when I see his work in the "within a day" slot in recent changes. I'll encourage this by adding him to New Friends to Watch.
GitHub encourages coding streaks by noting them in the activity section of their profile pages. It says my longest streak was 5 days. Really? Only five days? github