{"id":294,"date":"2021-08-15T16:12:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T23:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2021-08-17T08:20:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T15:20:40","slug":"quality-over-quantity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Quality over Quantity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past few months, in an effort to advance my art site<\/a><\/span> and writing site<\/a><\/span>, I keep setting goals for myself around the number of writing and art posts I will publish each month. When I define these goals, meeting them seems relatively easy — mostly because I still have old story\/poem pieces, plus some old hand-drawn art — that I can scan, clean up, and publish. But there are several challenges in meeting these goals:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. Art vs Writing<\/strong> – Spending time with my writings reduces the time available for me to spend with my art, and vice versa<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Old vs New<\/strong> – Posting old stuff is interesting, but it doesn\u2019t fulfill my need to be creative<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Value<\/strong> – Much of the stuff still unpublished is that way for a reason — because it isn\u2019t necessarily that great<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. Quality<\/strong> – Framing goals in terms of \u2018number of posts\u2019 puts too much emphasis on quantity, and too little emphasis on quality<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      As such, I think I will now view things differently:<\/span><\/p>\n