Learning to Type The Easy Way

Typing is a lost art form these days.

At school I learned what they called Touch Typing which is a really useful skill to have now that we all own computers.

At school children were taught to type at up to 100 words per minute (wpm). But we didn’t learn to type that fast by typing as fast as we could.

We were taught to NEVER try and type fast.

Instead we had to learn to keep a rhythm as we typed, and it was something that we all did in unison in class.

We learned to never look at the keyboard because that’s the worst habit to get into.

Instead we had to place our hands on the ‘home row’ keys by placing our index fingers on the f and j keys and our other fingers fell into place automatically on the a, s, d and k, l, ; keys.

Finding the f and j keys without looking is easy because they each have a raised little bump on them so that you always know which they are.

We then spent week after week typing fff jjj fff jjj ff jj ff jj f j f j while the teacher said it out loud as we typed - “f f f space, j j j space, f f f space, j j j space…”

But it did help us keep a good rhythm as we practiced all the home row keys, even eventually typing sentences with our limited range of letters on that row “a sad lad had a glad gal” which is creepy now that I look it it. Our index fingers also typed the g and h keys on that row and moved immediately back to the f and j keys.

And now all these years later, I can still touch type without ever looking at the keyboard and my speed quickly increased once I managed to keep a rhythm with my typing.

 So if you want to be able to type faster, begin by keeping a rhythm and never look at your keyboard.

And before you know it you’ll be typing quickly too.

If you want to know your typing speed you can take the free online test at http://www.typingtest.com.

The Complete Online Course is Now Free to Download

The Complete Online Course is a huge ebook that teaches you how to write HTML code.

It’s a course I wrote years ago after having learned how to do it myself.

The course I learned from cost me several hundred dollars and I sold The Complete Online Course for less than $50 so it was a real bargain, especially considering that it also teaches how to make money online.

But now time has passed and things have changed so I’ve now made The Complete Online Course a free download so that it can help anyone who needs it.

And although some of the information in it is out of date now, most of it is still relevant and if you use it, it will guide you from idea, to writing your own HTML code, creating web pages and putting your own website online.

It’s great for anyone who doesn’t understand HTML code or how webpage design works.
It’s a huge PDF ebook and you can download it for free, with no opt-in required at http://cheritonhousepublishing.com/books/NOC.html.

And once you’ve downloaded it you can do whatever you want with it because I’m relinquishing my copyright of it too, so it’s yours to do whatever you want with it.

Enjoy.

Get Ready. Get Set. Write!

Lately I've been experimenting with different ways to increase my writing output.

I read an ebook about a writer who went from writing 2,000 words a day to 10,000 words a day just by going out to write every day instead of trying to do it at home.

She found that even though sitting in a cafe was noisy, there were no distractions and no demands on her time which freed her up to just write.

The reason I want to increase how much I write every day, is so that I'm more focused and more productive while I work.

I find that when I can sit down and get plenty of writing done in a short space of time, I'm far more creative and it feels like I'm working in a giant window of inspiration.

If I don't sit down and focus on what I'm doing, I get easily distracted and end up wasting time so it takes me twice as long to get anything done and my writing isn't as good.

So now I've gone as far as giving myself set writing times every day so that I have to sit down and write, even if I don't feel like it.

And I find that no matter how reluctant I am before I begin, once I actually start writing it's easy to carry on.

It was the famous horror writer Stephen King who said, in his book On Writing, that it's important to sit and write at the same time every day and always sit in the same place so that you know that you should be working. And preferably make that place a room with a door you can close.

Focus and self discipline are the two most important things if you want to be a productive and prolific writer.

Yet these two things IMH(yet accurate)O, are the hardest to conquer.

It takes practise and determination.

How I'm Becoming The Organised Writer

For me, self discipline is the hardest thing about being a writer.

The writing part is easy.

Actually sitting down to do the work in the first place is hard.

It's too easy to be distracted by other things when you're working from home, all alone, with no boss looking over your shoulder telling you what to do.

It's even harder on days when I'm tired or feeling unwell or if I have a project in the garden that I'm dying to get started on.

The way that I've gotten around this problem is by being a highly organised writer.

I have set times every day when I must work, whether I feel like it or not.

That keeps me working to deadlines.

I also have certain writing jobs that need to be done on certain days so I have to keep working during my set times to fit it all in.

I work well this way because if there's no pressure, then I have no motivation to keep going.

Being completely organised also makes it easier to work because I don't have to think of what I have to write because I already know. It's written in my diary.

All I have to do is look in my diary every day to see what needs doing and then I get straight to work.

I also find that the more I write the easier and faster it gets.

Try it for yourself.

You've got nothing to lose.