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Day-7, Quality vs Quantity Writing

https://sahil-shubham.in/posts/day7/

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I feel life is too short to worry about the quantity and quality issue. These days, the only one factor that matters for me is - Do I want to share it with the world?. On some of my experiences , I spend a lot time thinking about it because they are interesting and I feel like sharing them with someone. And writing is my only way with most of the time.

But you are concerned about emotion, you don't care about the outcome. Even I also didn't care about the text previously, I didn't at all do editing in the initial days. But after reading a lot of good texts, I was inspired by the idea of how well the writers were conveying the emotions and that is when I started to edit.

I read it somewhere that most of the writing is ruthless editing. I feel it is akin to most of the programming is debugging!

I put some collection of resources on writing in my evernote, thought of sharing with u few days back but forgot. https://www.evernote.com/shard/s367/client/snv?noteGuid=1e4ede00-5187-55d8-ae04-7f99f23ffabe&noteKey=92985a220e9a6ffa3d68dfb0a81ca15e&sn=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.evernote.com%2Fshard%2Fs367%2Fsh%2F1e4ede00-5187-55d8-ae04-7f99f23ffabe%2F92985a220e9a6ffa3d68dfb0a81ca15e&title=Improve%2BWriting

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Also, this link is broken - https://sahil-shubham.in/posts/day7/www.paulgraham.com/talk.html?utm_source=pocket_mylist fix it

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The above article says this [about] bad writers

"about" is missing

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Do I want to share it with the world?

This is a very important question, and this leads to the quality vs quantity discussion in some way. You want to share something interesting to the world, without the hopes of someone even reading but quality shouldn't be hampered. Would you be more content about writing as much as you can or getting across the meaning as well as you can?

The quality vs quantity debate reminds me of the interview clip of Ira Glass, in which he mentions how a lot of people feel a deficit in what they create and how they want it to be.

But you are concerned about emotion

I couldn't understand this properly.

I read it somewhere that most of the writing is ruthless editing. I feel it is akin to most of the programming is debugging!

Yeah, I feel they are very similar too. Thanks for sharing the resources, also fixed the typos and broken link.

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interview clip of Ira Glass

this is nice and interesting. This reminds of Ava's blog - https://ava.substack.com/p/effort

But you are concerned about emotion I couldn't understand this properly.

I wanted to say that you will not worry about how many blogs you are producing per week, if you are concerned with the idea of delivering emotions. Sometimes, you spent a week working on something mundane. Then suppose you don't have anything exciting to write about. Then let that week go. We don't write for a living right!

Would you be more content about writing as much as you can or getting across the meaning as well as you can?

I understand your point now. Nice. This is what I do. If there is any strong emotion. I note the important points bullet wise. And I later form it as a blog. In this way, it will make sure that though you are writing a blog after a long time, you know what you felt at that time. By doing this, you can give more time for the current blog because you need not hurry to the next blog, as the emotions are documented.