Speed vs. Quality

[sarillia]

Another post inspired by a conversation over on fandomsecrets

How much do you think your writing speed influences the quality of your writing?

It seems to be general knowledge that if you write too quickly then quality will suffer. I haven't really noticed that in my own writing. If I push myself, I can write 4,000 words in an hour and it's not the mess that people picture when I tell them that. I fix typos, I go back and replace sentences I don't like, I do all the things I do when I'm writing just 1,000 words in an hour (a pace that feels very slow to me). I'm just more focused and I do it more quickly.

Have you noticed a difference in what you produce at different speeds?

Comments

[ayumidah]

I'm usually a pretty slow writer, because the amount of time I CAN spend writing varies day by day. Which makes me feel bad sometimes because I have a friend who brags she can write 5000 in a night, when it sometimes takes me a week to manage that much. Then sometimes my really plot-extensive stories will take months to a year to finish, but my friends will read and then go "...Ok, that wait was totally worth it" so it helps a little. I don't think there's much difference when I CAN write faster, however. Like you said, I go back and fix what needs it, and it still seems to be the usual amount of errors when I write slower, haha.