Ryan Frawley
1 min readMar 31, 2020

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Thanks for sharing what works for you, but…man, I couldn’t agree less.

I mean, what you’re saying is probably true for Medium, where quantity has a quality of its own. But fiction? Do you think Ulysses would have been better if Joyce wrote it in six months? Was Flaubert just wasting his time when he sometimes took a week to write a single page of Madame Bovary?

I’m not trying to jump down your throat. Your process is your business, and if it works for you, keep doing it. But I think what you’re proposing is a recipe for substandard literature. Great art takes time, both to create and absorb. And we need great art more than we need the endless churn of half-baked content.

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Ryan Frawley
Ryan Frawley

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Novelist. Essayist. Former entomologist. Now a full-time writer exploring travel, art, philosophy, psychology, and science. www.ryanfrawley.com

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