Many and few words

Last week I took a few days off from writing. I used the time I’d normally have and read a variety of posts that were saved in my Reeder app.

One article stuck out to me. Because of the way I use that app I cannot find it now. But the gist of it was writing fewer words gives you the opportunity to make a greater impression with your thoughts.

I’ve been pondering that. I have a desire to maintain a writing streak, and I’m wondering if the signal versus noise ratio is hitting more on the signal side of things.

Surely I’ve been writing some noise. Last month was over 32,000 words on this blog. Since I haven’t said it before I’ll say it here, my point with this blog is to be a first draft sort of place. Some of my posts have a lot more effort put into them, and take much more time. Others are generally the first thing I’ve thought that I choose to ship.

The point of my writing here is to have a tool for exercising my ways of thinking, and hopefully to benefit others in reading my exercises.

I love to write, and in previous years I wrote over a thousand words each day. It’s a fun habit to build. But that means not everything will be as polished as you’d prefer.

So the dilemma in front of me is to find a point of effectiveness vs practice. If I decide every word needs to be perfect I’ll write less words. Maybe that’s a good thing. But I don’t want to lose this habit. I like it too much.

I could write more in my journal and never publish those thoughts, and maybe I should. But that’s not what I want to do at this time.

And so you, dear reader, get to follow my ponderings on this topic. Thanks for reading.