Nicolas Cole argues that writers improve faster by isolating specific skills like voice, pacing, or structure and practicing them separately, rather than hoping large projects will improve everything at once.
Lately, I've been really obsessed with this idea of isolating individual writing skills and then coming up with exercises to practice just that individual skill, opposed to what I've done for years, which is just think, "Oh, I want to write this new project," and "Oh, if I just create this big project, then I will get better at being a writer." I think that works earlier in your career because any progress is progress, but the more proficiency you build, the more that you have to isolate individual skills and then repeatedly practice just that skill.
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