Quantity & Quality

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
Ray Bradbury

You can say I stumbled upon this quote, when I was looking for some quote to include in my essay, just to make sound more professional. This quote will be out of boundaries of my essay, but it certainly made me stood up and got me thinking.
I was doomed, according this to Ray Bradbury. For not writing much, I was doomed. I personally think that I am still doom, albeit not as doomed as before, even though I have made a concerted effort to increase my frequency of writing, via blogging here of course.

But with this Mr Ray Bradbury, I give my agreement. With quantity, one will produce quality. In my shallow thinking, I interpret this as practicing. One needs to practice writing, when you want to write good, or at least, readable. Practice hard, and diligently. Just like any other art, sports or anything at all. Practicing plays a very important role to achieve quality work or skillfulness.

I had that same thought, when I started this blog. Apart of having the need to tame down my thinking, I had wanted to improve on my writing. I chose to blog since I find writing such a hassle these days, especially in the age of personal laptops ownership. I lost tracked of that for while, after a not bad of a start end of last year. That glitch only lasted almost half a year, thankfully. Hopefully, I am now on the right track again, and after this, no glitches from me personally, if I can help it.

I may not be a fair judge, but from the looks of it, it is a little easier to write now, to say things that are in my mind, to string up sentences and make up stories. After all, with my total postings for this month only has exceeded the total postings of earlier months of this year, doesn't that show something? And hey, this blog has a follower now, as much as it may be out of loyalty for friend.

Yes sir, I will continue to write, as long as I can. This is an avenue for free practice. The downside is there are no checkers, teachers to guide. Who cares though as we focus on practice, practice, and practice. Who knows one day, I will find enough materials and words and grammar knowledge and fluidity and courage to start and finish a short story, what with November knocking soon.