Writing everyday makes you pay more attention to your thoughts.

Taking photos everyday makes you pay more attention to your surroundings.

Writing and taking photos makes you more aware of your thoughts and surroundings.

These are good things to be more aware of.

Writing and taking photos is good.

Quilibrium

Writing code makes very aware of your flaws.  Write code. 😆 

That aside, good point.  I've noticed something similar.  I spend a lot of time writing (usually responses to people about /quilibrium), and then an obscene amount of time going back and editing what I wrote to be more clear about what I meant to say.