Mastery, Chemistry, Discipline, Community - today goodbye to Productivity

In writing, as in everything else, it is easier to know that "something" feels wrong, or flawed, or misstated than to know what that "something" could be. 

Is it worth any effort to revise it? Or should you just throw out the whole kit and kaboodle? Make a few changes around the edges? Leave it as it is, and hope no one notices? Or, rework it all? 

Will anyone care, or even notice, except you? And, if only you care, is that enough reason to make an effort? If so, how much effort and how many hours is the overhaul worth?

My answer, in the case of our Four Factors of Success in Writing, was to change "Productivity" to "Discipline".

If you have not already fallen asleep, you can read the short version of how that came about. 

First, I was, finally able to internalize that success in writing is, if you'll pardon the adverbs, entirely and emphatically different than success in publishing. Ask Emily Dickinson.

Second, I came to realize that my confusion resulted in part from latching onto external signals. Name a successful writer? Why, J K Rowling. She makes gazillions. 

Third, among groups of writers, the most animated -- and endless --  discussions are more often about how and where to get published; and less extensively about the writing itself. Not always, and not in every setting, but often. 

Even students in writing workshops often confuse the kind-of sort-of wanting to write well with the really-really wanting to be published.

Nothing the matter with getting published as a number one priority. I'd like to be on all the bestseller lists too. 

But, Getting Published would be a separate blog.

Someday,