Quantity and/or Quality in Daily Writing

Revisiting Dorothea Brande’s idea of “20 minutes EVERY day”

Alison Acheson
The Unschool for Writers
6 min readMar 8, 2024

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My dad always employed quality in every thing he did… author’s family photo

In her book, Becoming A Writer, Dorothea Brande talks about the importance of writing twenty minutes each and every day, a solid starting point for a beginning writer, or for one trying to return to “habitual.”

Writing daily is often cited as a “must”

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Alison Acheson
The Unschool for Writers

My latest book is a memoir, Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days With ALS. My newsletter is on Substack: THE UNSCHOOL FOR WRITERS.