Does it take a lot of time for you to write an article, a single blog or to post them online? Do you take a lot of time to think about how to write an effective article? If your answer is ‘yes’ for the above-mentioned questions, then you should this article to get a solution for your problems. Whether you are a freelance writer, an article writer or a blog writer, you should be able to write effective articles in less time. If you are into a full time job as a web-writer then you need to manage your time in a manner in such a way that you write more articles in less time.
How to Write Posts Efficiently
Stay focused
When you sit to write an online article, close down all other applications, as, they tend to distract your attention. For instance, the application that most commonly disrupts the working pace is chat application. Therefore, it is always better to close down all the chat windows, when you are writing an article. Other application that you should close down is the email window, as chatting email also tends to divert your attention. Close the browser application, which you open for reference work, immediately after you are through with your work. It is better that you stop checking blog traffic stats and Adsense earnings.
Exhaustive research
You should always do a little bit of research work before you begin to write the articles. This will help you to write an effectual article in less time. The research work will help you to enhance the quality of the articles and the articles will undoubtedly show the effort you have put in behind researching. Most of the articles that make it to the first page of the social bookmarking sites are well structured and researched. The research work will make you article factual, informative and will give a depth to your article.
Schedule yourself
Prepare a schedule before you begin your article, as it will help you to save on a lot of time. On the schedule, fix a time limit for every work that you will have to do because of the article. Assign maximum time for writing as writing the article will take most of your time. Also, allocate some time for research work, thinking a title and for deciding subtitles. By following this kind of a schedule, you can easily write an article in an hour.
Go for proof reading
It is important to do a proof reading after you have finished your article. Generally, most of the people leave out proof reading paucity of time or patience. Once you are through with your writing part, give it a reading and check whether there is any mistake or not. If you come across any mistake, rectify it.
Edit your work
The formatting works should be done once you are through with you writing. See to it that the images are at their place, give a caption to the pictures and acknowledge the person you want to. While editing see to it that the article is precise, concise and does not have fillers.
Writing high quality articles in few minutes is a difficult task, but you can easily master the art if you follow the above-mentioned points.
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It’s also not a bad idea to write about something that’s been “on your mind” for a few days, or sometimes weeks. Good points though, especially the first one. I couldn’t believe how much faster I was able to get my work done last semester when I actually wrote my essays on the day they were due.
I find the research to be essential in my niche. Though I have traveled to the location I’m writing about things change from year to year including pricing, availability of activities, and more. It’s important to keep up-to-date. It’s also important not to approach a topic or location the same way another blogger has done it.
I find the posts that are researched are the ones that are most read. You can always tell the people that havee done their research. The best time to write a post that wasn’t researched is when you know enough information yourself where what you write sounds like you did research.
I think closing all applications is probably one of the most important ones. I used to write my posts while watching tv at night and I was finding that it was taking 3 times as long as it would if I just sat down and wrote it and most of the time I would have to make a lot more corrections. Now I use that time for things like researching, commenting, and finding new blogs I like. The less distractions the better I say.
I agree. I cannot stand having anything going while I am writing a post. It either takes me five times longer or my post is really a bunch of crap. I am able to write faster and better without any of those distractions.
I use checking email as a reward for outlining an article/post, then again after finishing the post.
Writing valuable post that adds substance your blog takes a lot of rime and dedication. Many times people get sidetracked with their overall objective. By doing this you can quickly lose your reputation of not providing quality content to your website readers
Chat programs are evil when it comes to writing new articles! That’s why most of my material comes from paper first. I will never win against the chat!
Yeah, I like to write everything down on paper too.
Great tips — especially giving yourself a fixed time window, an artificial deadline helps some folks focus! Before getting serious about pulling a post together, I set up a draft and use it as I’m researching to hold quotes and references or when a thought pops up. Also I have a faves folder on Flickr and just file away interesting images to review later when the post is fleshed out. When you proof read & edit, use a different window or a printed copy to make changes as you find them.
I also keep a folder of interesting images that I think I might want to use someday in the future. It is always nice knowing that others are doing the same things as you are.
Limiting distractions is very important. I am one of those people who has some sort of chat open at all times. And with multiple monitors and lots of things on each, it can be hard to focus on one window. I also like to work while playing music from “Pandora”, which I am sure doesn’t make me any more efficient.
But hey, if you are not all about efficiency and those things do not make you a worse writer, then it is fine. I always do what ever makes me write the best. And some days it is different things that other days.
I am actually attempting to make the move to efficiency. The blogosphere has been slowly eating away at my time, so efficiency is in.
By the way, I see you have a completely new look here. Maybe I need to jump on the bandwagon… all the cool people are revamping their blogs.
I think it’s important that you know who you are writing for. You have to keep your particular audience in mind.
Probably most difficult task would be close down all applications, at least for me was . But after I did, I tested myself and measured my productivity, by timing myself and quality of article. And I must say I was faster and quality increased not for much but it increased. The concentration was truly on edge. Of course I have to improve that technique. Thanks for the post.
Some great tips that I should really take to heart. I’ve been getting slow with posting as I just get easily distracted. I think cutting out the outside distractions can make a HUGE difference in posting.
Well I agree, that reasearch is necessary for a quality post, but sometimes I tend to spend too much time on reasearch and none is left for writing. With almost endles suply of information on any topic on the internet it would be a good idea to set some boundarys when to stop reading and start writing. Like to read only a set number of well reaserched articles or do it in some time frame. Drafting and writing some main ideas and keywords while reading is useful tu stay focused and to draft some plan for your own post.
If it gets to hard to write, you can always write with someone else or have someone ghostwrite for you.
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