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RE: Focus Your Writing to Strengthen Your Content
Cool blog you got there. :) Some thoughts:
Revising your work can seem tedious, but it's actually one of the more important things when writing. First Drafts rarely make masterpieces, and some authors have 6th or 7th drafts, whatever it takes basically.
Anyways, yes, constant writing is the easiest way to improve ones technique. Also I'm talking more about creative writing than blog writing, but most principals still apply.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I agree, especially when it comes to creative writing. For my short stories, I usually take them to draft 7 or 8 before I start to become happy with them (and even when things are in print I still wanting to make changes..).
For creative writing, I would argue that drafting IS writing--certainly not an afterthought and it extends well beyond making grammar and spelling edits. The need to continually draft is especially important for me, if, for the first draft, I was writing to discover the story (that whole "write to the end of your headlights" idea).
I think I have only ever written one story where the first draft was a near final draft (and it was published with the first place I submitted it to); that's never happened again!