Build A Daily Writing Ritual
If you want to write with style, you must formulate your thoughts completely before putting them on paper. This allows your mind to focus not on what to write but on how to write, thereby delivering stylistic excellence. This approach naturally means producing fewer works, but with greater quality. The primary focus remains on delivering substance.
However, when you want to crystallize your thoughts, you need to write extensively because your thinking is scattered and requires organization. That's why people who write daily often appear sharper, possess greater clarity, and are more articulate than their peers. The bulk of their thinking has been done on blank pages. The daily writing ritual forces them to take a fragment of thought and explain it without confusion. In the process, they encounter their own ideas and the reasons behind cultivating them.
I am a prolific writer—or so I like to think. I write historical ebooks, fiction short stories and novels, financial newsletters and posts, and essays on various thoughts. I strongly believed that one must never post essays of inferior quality; there's enough clutter on the internet without adding to it. I still agree with this principle, but when it comes to maintaining a blog, I beg to differ.
It's far easier to sustain a daily writing ritual if you have a blog. You gain a sense of sharing your ideas with the world, and when you look back on those essays, they remind you of everything you went through. All the essays on my blog are essentially thoughts I first captured in notes, then expanded upon later. I deliberately keep them free of fluff. I write as if explaining to a friend. When you remove the pressure of delivering polished quality, you naturally start generating more ideas.
You must let ideas flow through your mind. Let them come—these are the thoughts you need to resolve. You must grow comfortable seeing your ideas manifest on paper, translating them into words. I guarantee they will not only grant you additional clarity but will also trouble you far less. Say you're navigating a difficult phase of life and write about it in one essay. The next time, you'll examine the same phase through a different lens, another perspective, and delve deeper than before.
That is the ultimate purpose of writing, and precisely why you must maintain a blog. Cultivate a writing ritual. Identify the thoughts racing through your head and address them one by one. Quality doesn't matter in every context. You need quantity first to resolve all those thoughts. Eventually, you'll realize you've achieved greater clarity and become more articulate.
And isn't that what they call peace?