Quantity Writing

Quality is often emphasized over quantity when it comes to writing. There is wisdom in thinking that the quality of your writing is vastly more important than how productive you are. But there is significance in quantity too and it shouldn't be so easily dismissed. Quality is achieved through quantity. In other words, you have to write many bad passages to come up with a few good passages. It's the honing process that makes writing a craft. Much as a sculptor starts with a large ungainly lump of material, a writer starts with a large ungainly rough draft and then methodically cuts and chips and reshapes the draft until it is a finely honed piece of art. But the quality could not have been achieved without the extraneous material to be cut away. Quantity is a pathway to quality. It is more important to your writing practice to write a certain amount of material daily or regularly than to write well occasionally. It's the quantity of practice that leads to the most promising results. Without that quantity, your success is a hit and miss scenario that doesn't afford you the ability to build on your practice methodically. Instead, you rely on chance and an occasional good fortune. By putting in the time to be a good writer, you will ultimately achieve your goal of being one consistently.