Quantity is a route to quality, not its opposite

There’s a school of advice that claims good writing is the result of endless, painstaking, comprehensive rewrites that iterate toward perfection, but I’ve learned much more about craft writing and publishing nine novels than I ever would have rewriting my first novel nine times.

Quality versus quantity is a false dichotomy. Quantity is a route to quality. Not the route. There is no the route when it comes to making good art or software or podcasts or sourdough. There is probably someone out there who would learn more from rewriting their first…