Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read
Much of what we read about writing every day really means “writing in your journal” every day. Equating “writing every day” with “publishing every day” is, I believe, a big mistake. While writing every day certainly can improve our writing in lots of ways, not everything that gets written needs to, or even should, be published. Taking time to write, edit, and polish work, then publishing it when it’s ready is a much more effective strategy for producing pieces that people will want to read than is dashing something off and hitting the publish button just for the sake of saying, “Yes, I write every day.”
