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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I agree with number 1 a lot. I write for a number of blogs and during my down time, whenever I come across something interesting, I bookmark it on my browser. That way, I can come back to it later and I have an instant list of topics that I can write about.
I confess, we sometimes hire a cheap writer to do the brunt of the writing of the article. Usually the grammar is off, but we edit and post. This process has been a great way of getting something done quickly. It backfired one time however. The writing was soooo bad there was no amount of editing that could clean it up. We simply through the articles away!
I do tips 1, 3 and 5 more often than not. but I guess you are also right about points 2 and 4. I think that’s the reason why sometimes it takes me 1 1/2 – 3 hours to finish one. Thanks for these tips Harsh.
With the connection of the Internet, I just find it is a diffucult task to finish one post as quickly as possible.
So, thanks for your sharing tips here, which is really helpful to my effective writing.
Harsh,you are right that environment should be friendly and without distraction.Bloggers should only focus on article while writing so your stream of thoughts do not waste in other activities.
I strongly agree with your 2nd point “environment”. I always spent 1-2 hours for an article because of distraction from Facebook and MSN! I write a few sentences and I’ll turn to Facebook and see what my friends are talking, or my friends nudge me in MSN. I may try to go offline when I write article next round. 😉
Great tips Harsh!
Regards,
Lee
The second point is so true. Keeping all of those sites opened can really be distracting and when one gets distracted, it becomes almost impossible for him to continue with the writing. Lately it has happened several times to me and it is very frustrating. Thanks for the article! It was a nice read.
Indeed, these are tips that will sure increase one’s productivity and make you write articles fast.
Permit me to drop my comment on each point:
Topics: The beautiful thing is that ideas fly around. Different things inspire us per time. It is best we write down whatever ideas come to our mind immediately. Forgetting it might be so costly. I have post topics in their twenties that I have not even touched. Whenever I’m ready to write I just pick one from the list and this saves me so much time. It’s said that the faintest pen is stronger than the sharpest memory. Learn to write ideas down as they come. Think on paper!
Environment: Does a preacher prepare his sermon in front of the church? There is a place of seclusion and preparation. However, it’s hard for bloggers to get off the internet doing networking. Personally, I had to fight it hard. I got for myself an internet subscription that will make me only browse at night. This will avail me the opportunity of using my day time wisely, plan ahead for my blog then land on the web at night ready to dazzle – not just roaming around aimlessly.
Partition Of Your Article: Break them into pieces that your readers can easily digest and search engines can easily read. Like you said, it helps to save the time of having to think hard on what next to write. I use this tip constantly.
Proof Read: I like to proof read my articles many times before it is posted. This is so important because you won’t want your esteemed readers to come over and meet a half-cooked post. It speaks so much of how much you value your readers and how much efforts you are putting in to see that they get the best.
Formatting: Why would I bother myself about coding in the name of formatting? I believe wordpress as put everything I need in place. All I need to do is to get a nice picture to depict my message, quote when needed, highlight when needed and so on. Basically, don’t give your readers what you can’t get from other people.
This is such a great piece! However, I’ll like to add that when writing; feel free to write whatever thought comes to your mind. Stop trying to be perfect and look like a writer you love, be yourself.
Cheers!
Seun Kilanko
I think all bloggers come across this problem more often than we like to admit. I know that I do anyway. This is some great advice, even though I already have been doing a couple of these tips already, getting a new perspective on things is always good for a blogger. I think that if we get to comfortable with things, thats when we are more likely to make mistakes. I definitely agree with walking away then proofread your article/post a little while later.
Thanks,
Brian M. Connole
i-Blogger
Great roundup harsh,
apparently it seems that i have the similar post on educating people to how to write effective article post on my blog =P
but nevertheless, any post that is of quality no matter how is worth reading.
Well i personally have written many articles during my course of making money online. for me, i am not really good at handling distractions… therefore i always tend to sway off each time i write something.
however, there is one particular ‘move’ i will subsequently take to ensure that i continue writing as much as i can.
that is i will try to cultivate a ‘roll’- a writing ‘roll’ apparently. what this means is that i will somehow go into a state where keep the rhythm flowing. As I maintain my flow and pattern, like it or not, i would somehow activate and write continuously. My thoughts would eventually be filled with relevant points and tips as I concentrate to write .
thats how i have worked and this has help me to write many articles. =)
cheers people