This is a guest post by Harsh Agrawal, who blogs at Shoutmeloud and offer Blogspot to WordPress migration service.
Writing article is in daily schedule for every blogger. But we can’t afford to spend more time in writing articles because we have to complete lots of other tasks also like managing blog, promoting blog, accessing social networking websites, handling advertisements etc. Thus, it is better that we must spend less time in writing articles and concentrate on other things also.
Spending less time doesn’t mean that we don’t write quality articles. You can for sure write quality articles fast. When I started with blogging, even I used to take time in writing articles but now with few tips I have increased my productivity and can write articles fast.
Here Are 5 Tips To Write Articles Fast:
1. Topics
This is the most important and most difficult task in writing articles. As a blogger we might come across writer’s block situation. To avoid such situation and wasting your time in searching topics for your articles, you just need to write down the topics whenever it strikes to your mind. Make a habit to write down the topics as soon as you get an idea, thus while writing article you can easily choose from the list of those topics.
2. Environment
This is another mistake done by the blogger. While writing articles, bloggers generally keep their AIMs open, Twitter and Facebook account signed in. How you can write article while others are chatting with you? While writing articles keep all your social networking accounts and chats signed off, so that it won’t disturb your flow of writing articles. I always prefer to play soft music while writing articles.
Do Read : 5 Tips For Avoiding Distractions While Writing
3. Partition Of Your Article
Before you start writing your article, decide and write down few points which you want to cover in the article. This will help you to go in a flow and you will save time in thinking what to write next. Decide header, points to be covered and footer and note it down in notepad or paper. This will surely save your time in deciding content of article.
4. Proof Read
This is very boring task to do. Finding our own mistake is bit tough. I prefer to proof read my article after half an hour or one hour. So that when I proof read my article it would from the point of view of my readers not me. If you require publishing the article soon than I would suggest that you must proof read your article loudly, this will help you to find mistakes fast.
5. Formatting
Presentation is very important while writing articles. Finding Images, choosing header tag or paragraph, formatting text can be time consuming. I would recommend you to save few formatting code in notepad so that you can use them again and again in your article. Just copy-paste the code and your formatting will be done.
If you want to increase your productivity and don’t want to waste much time in writing articles than follow these tips and you can for sure write articles fast. Do let us know what tips do you use to save your time while writing?
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Hi,
It is important to manage your time effectively, and this is true for writing articles too.
I think it is important to have an idea of what you are going to write, so that your time is not wasted thinking about what to write in the middle of an article.
I agree with turning off social networks, as these can be very distracting. Especially, If you have TweetDeck, then you need to turn it off while writing an article.
-Nabeel
Yes social media and sometimes even the Internet access need to stay off when writing posts or I get nothing done. I actually have a very simple way of writing, just answer the 3 questions: What, Why an How and there’s your post done on any topic!
Awesome post Harsh, great advice here. Here is my comments on each of your points:
1. Topics
I rarely have writers block, but that’s not to say that when it comes time to write something that I get ideas right then and there. I always get great ideas of things to write about at random times, so when that happens, I write it down in Evernote so when it comes time to write, I have a whole list of interesting things to talk about. Ever since I’ve adopted this strategy, my posts have all been significantly higher quality and all pretty much get a great response.
2. Environment
I agree with your points here, and because of distractions, I use WriteRoom (for mac, but there are windows/linux alternatives) which basically blocks everything out on your screen EXCEPT for your writing. This has helped me stay focused while writing and thus improves the quality of my writing.
3. Partition of your Article, 4. Proofread, and 5. Formatting
I think all of these go hand-in-hand and I completely agree with you. I do everything you say in the ‘Partition of Your Article’ section… and it works tremendously. Since I break my posts up using H3 tags, I usually begin by writing those first and then filling up the paragraphs underneath. I sometimes even jump around and that usually helps me to get all of my great thoughts out.
Thanks again Harsh for the great advice. For anyone who takes this advice that is not already currently doing so, you’ll definitely improve the quality of your blog by a lot.
I find the best way to write quickly is to find your ‘flow’ and write like there’s no tomorrow, never editing yourself.
Whenever you stop to edit, you lose your train of thought and thus slow yourself down.
Edit after but until then, write everything that comes to your mind, make it flow.
I think the environment is very important because if you are distracted by some noise by you are flowing with your blog post, arghhh, you can’t focus back again 🙁
I think I am guilty in the environment part. I keep my chatting tool and FB open thus making my blogging long long time. Say 4 hours. And I must admit as well it is true that it distracts me that is why I am lost in my own train of thoughts.
Thanks for this wonderful article. Keep it up!
yes, i agree that most important thing is the selection of topic. While selecting the topic, we should see that either we have enough knowledge about the topic or not. If not, then we should do the necessary research to get some good knowledge before start writing.
I think the last three are the most important points. If you have not proof read your work then there is no point in posting the article. It can seriously harm your credibility.
Formatting is also important aswell, there is nothing worse than reading a big wall of text.
It is important to manage your time effectively, and this is true for writing articles too. Usually when I write articles or do some other work, my facebook and skype are always open, I never close them..
The disturb is a lot, and I can’t work.. but I can’t close my skype too – never.
Usually I work in the night to about 4 am to finish my work for the day, and then I go to sleep..
I can’t do ANY work in the day…
Very great post. At times when my mind is clustered I find it hard to complete a good article.
But When my mind is at ease I write my articles within 30 minutes.
Thanks for the tips 🙂