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BWFoster78
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but if you are pushing out book after book of mediocre quality because you were so focussed on writing them quickly instead of properly, than you will lose your audience.
You absolutely have to maintain quality of writing in addition to a fast pace, so I agree with you there.
Your implication that you cannot write quality fast, as Chesterama noted, is completely flawed.
On the other hand, if you printed fewer books, but took the time to really create something of quality than you will develop a following, who will then tell their friends to tell their friends etc etc etc…. "The Martian" for example.
The Martian is a lotto pick example. There are so many more indie writers making a living because they churn out 4 to 12 books a year (yes, you read that correctly) than do because they wrote a single book that caught on.
Again, maybe you can succeed by putting out one "good" book a year, but that's a crapshoot path. The people who are making a living writing are the ones who are putting out a lot of books.
I agree that you absolutely have to achieve a certain level of quality. Once you figure out how to achieve that quality, though, you also absolutely must figure out how to make your process efficient enough to turn out that quality quickly.