> How does one 'deliberately practice' writing? See Venkatesh Rao's Quora answer: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-tips-for-advanced-writers/answer/Venkates

> How does one 'deliberately practice' writing? See Venkatesh Rao's Quora answer: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-tips-for-advanced-writers/answer/Venkatesh-Rao https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-tips-for-advanced-writer... “Writing is a skill like any other, and the famous 10,000 hour rule should apply, and it does, but not in the way you might assume. A prolific writer can usually churn out about 1000 reasonably decent words in an hour, so if you count in words, it might seem like 10 million words would be enough. Or at 4 hours a day, 250 days a year, about 10 years. The problem is everybody writes. And yes, things like emails count. So any idiot can clock that many words in 10 years even if they only do a lot of casual/work email and texting. ... What matters is not how much you write, but how much you rewrite. ... The HUGE difference between everyday writing that everybody does and serious writing is the proportion that is re-writing. I'd estimate that for non-writers, rewriting accounts for maybe 10-20% of their writing. For serious writers, it accounts for anywhere between 50-90% depending on how critical the particular piece is. ...”