Nicolas Cole argues writers should publish frequently instead of chasing one perfect work. He points to Mozart, Beethoven, and Leonardo da Vinci, who created thousands of pieces with only a few becoming masterpieces. Volume wins.
The right way to write is often. There is no point in sitting down and overthinking every single word or every single thing that you're trying to say. Volume wins. Everything is more successful with more volume. A faulty belief that a lot of writers have is they sit back and they go, "Well, no, I want the one book that I write to be my magnum opus," and that's not a real thing. It really is not that serious. You would be so much better off hitting publish more often. If you look at some of the greatest creative producers ever— Mozart, Beethoven, Leonardo da Vinci— all of them produced hundreds, thousands, thousands upon thousands of pieces of work. They created these masterpieces through volume. They didn't say, "Oh, I'm only gonna create one thing and then it's gonna be this perfect creation." No, they created a ton and then we just happened to love 10 out of the 1,000 things that they created.
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