Writing is an iterative activity. To write one thing, you write many times. Write, rewrite, revise, refine, release.

As an amateur writer without a writing routine, I think about ways to write more efficiently. I have more ideas than I am able execute. How can I use little pockets of time to produce little pieces? Dense little things, meaningful though brief, worthy perhaps of elaboration but worthy enough themselves?

Incomplete drafts are not so worth publishing as are small, complete little things. Less ambitious but complete. A piece of writing can’t succeed aspiring to be what it isn’t. Let writing be like a sketch if that is all you have time to make of your idea. Later you can return and make of it something greater. But if you try too early or too quickly to flesh it out you’ll be left with half a carcass and no good set of bones.