Encouraging, I Guess

This morning on Darcy Pattison's blog, I encountered a link about quantity vs. quality. The theory is that producing high quantity gives an artist room to experiment and learn. In the end higher quality is achieved through experimentation.

My current WIP is a hefty 70,000 words. I realize that is not outrageous for a YA novel, but it will be a better manuscript when I've trimmed it to fighting weight. I've produced the quantity, I merely need to sift and winnow* for quality.

* I went to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, home of the sifting and winnowing plaque. (I am not the young woman in the picture.)