Write more worry less

A friend of mine recently asked me to review his blog. It was his third blog in three years. The blog itself was fine. Not amazing. Not terrible either. Just okay. But what caught my attention wasn’t the blog — it was the question he asked me.

He wanted to know how good it was.

And that question, innocent as it sounds, says a lot. It reveals a mindset. A concern for quality before consistency. A focus on how good the writing is instead of how often the writing happens.

Now, don’t get me wrong. It’s perfectly natural to want your work to be good. But if your goal is to improve as a writer—or at anything, really—then the question shouldn’t be, “Was this blog good?” It should be, “When is my next one?”

Because writing one blog per year won’t make you a better writer.

If you want to get better at something, you have to do it more often. You have to show up. You have to build the habit. Think about it like fitness. If you want to lose weight, you don’t obsess over whether your macros are perfect or whether you’re using the exact proper form for every lift. That’s what elite athletes do. You? You need to eat better and move more. Build the foundation. The results follow the habits.

Writing is no different.

Your first few blogs might not be great. They’re not supposed to be. You haven’t built the muscle yet. But as you keep writing, you’ll start to notice things—rhythms, patterns, word choices, storytelling techniques. You’ll develop an eye for it. And before long, you’ll start seeing the improvement that used to feel so far away.

Stop worrying so much about whether your writing is good. Focus on whether you’re writing enough. The quality will come. But only if the habit comes first.