Writing Articles Quickly: 4 Steps That Can Really Turbo-Charge your Article Writing Speed

As an online writer, I find that time is money. I can waste 15 minutes idly surfing the internet or use that time to write another marketing article or short blog post.

If you can write an article in 15 minutes you can write 4 in an hour which is 32 articles a day if you work an 8-hour day.

Even if you’re a bit slower and only manage 3 articles an hour, that’s still 24 articles a day.

Can you imagine how much you could increase your online income if you could write that quickly?

How do you write articles fast?

1. Research. This needs to only take one minute or less to search online for 3 or more points to cover in an article.

2. Outline. You can’t write an article quickly if you don’t have an outline to follow. It would be like trying to make a cake without a recipe to follow.

3. Write Quickly. Don’t get distracted. If you have an article to write, write it. You already have your outline so start writing and don’t stop until you’ve finished.

4. Edit and Proof Read. This should be quick to do. If you write often you work will be good because you’ve  had plenty of practice so your articles won’t need much editing. And a final quick proof read will pick up any typos and spelling errors.

And that’s all there is to it.

Just don’t let the Writing Nazies tell you that writing quickly will produce bad writing. It won’t, unless you’re a bad writer to start with.

Writing fast will make you quick AND efficient.

Write by Hand Or Write Straight to Keyboard?

This is an age-old question that writers have been debating for years.

Is it better to write by hand and type your work up later, or write straight to keyboard?

Personally I prefer to write by hand first because I’m more creative when I work this way.

But when you do the math of the extra time this takes compared to writing straight to keyboard, it seems like a much slower way of doing things especially when hand writing is slower than typing AND I have to type my work up as well.

On the surface, it looks like I’m always doing things the slow way, but I disagree.
I’ve tried writing straight to keyboard many times because the way I work can seem frustratingly slow sometimes.

But what I find is that I’m not as creative when I try and write straight to keyboard.

I use JDarkRoom  on my Mac computer which is a free-to-download, distraction-free software that’s meant to block out any of the usual distractions to help enhance creativity. And while it helps, it doesn’t solve everything. I still feel less creative and my writing doesn’t flow as well as usual.

This ends up in wasted time stopping and thinking about what to write, lost creativity and extra time editing and correcting what I’ve written, or completely deleting everything and starting again from scratch.

So while the way I work may look time-consuming and slow, for me, it works.

And as the saying goes, if it aint broken, don’t fix it.

3 Ways to Make Money Writing Online Articles For Your Own Blog/Website

Writing online articles is what being a writer is all about.

You can’t get away from it. If you’re a writer you need a website and that means writing articles/blog posts regularly.

You website needs to grow and to be filled with regular articles. But what are the articles you’re supposed to write? And how can they help you to make money?

Every article that you write needs to have a reason for being. In other words, what is the article for? How does it help the reader? And most of all, how can it help you to make more money online?

Below is a list of 3 ways that you can use article to make money from your own blog/website.

1. Blog/website Articles. Your website or blog can be a site about you as a writer to promote your books, or a niche website where you sell products and write articles around the products you sell to help drive sales. Use your online articles to help promote what you sell while providing worthwhile information for your readers.

2. Article Marketing. Once you have your blog/website set up, you need to drive traffic to it. You can do this with article marketing. You can write press releases whenever you begin promoting a new book/product, write articles for other blogs/websites and link them back to your site, or write articles to publish on the article directories. Short articles are fast to write and can go on helping you to make money for years.

3. Emails. once you get people to your website you need to get them to subscribe to your email list so that you can continue to market to them long after they’ve left your site. Writing regular short email articles can help keep your subscribers entertained, educated and, hopefully, turn them into regular customers.

So set up a blog/website, fill it with informative and entertaining articles that help you make sales, drive traffic to your site with article marketing and then keep in touch with your website visitors with regular emails.

This is how many people have been making money online for years.

You just have to keep on writing.

New Work Routine Forced Me to Unclutter Which Lead to an Easier Way to Write

As I told you in the last post, I now use two computers; one for writing and one for all my other work such as uploading, emailing, accessing online accounts, etc.

This has really changed the way I work because my writing computer is distraction-free so I can't check emails, play games or log into online accounts because I don't have access to these on my new computer so I just have to keep writing.

This in turn has made me much more productive and has helped to increase my writing income.

My main computer is a Mac Book Pro and my new computer is a Mac Book Air which is light to carry around which is what I intended to do with it because I bought it so that I could also work on it away from home.

But one of the things I discovered is that I can't carry around all my usual notebooks and writing pads that I use at home.

I have several different websites in different niches and I always used different notebooks for each different site.

But with wanting to move around more I found that I can't carry it all. Not only that but it makes me have to pay more attention to EXACTLY which note books I'll be needing depending on which websites I was writing for.

So I had to streamline the way I work because I can only carry one notebook with my computer plus my usual clutter (purse, cell phone, etc). Even if I'm not going very far and only intend to work outside on the deck because it's raining (and I can't go and work in the park, and the deck has a big roof), I still can only carry so much with me otherwise it turns into several trips in and out of the house and the same again once I've finished working for the day.

So now I only have one notebook/writing pad that I use for everything, no matter which website I'm writing for.

At first I thought it was going to make things more difficult but it has actually streamlined the way I work.

No matter where I'm going to sit and work I only have to grab 3 main things - my note book, my computer and my pencil case.

And whatever helps me to unclutter and makes my life less complicated is always a welcome change.

I love having a simple life.

So why didn't I think of using less "stuff" when I'm working before?

At least I know better now.

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