6 Ways To Reduce Your Writing Time
Alex Milner
When you’re in the zone, do you want to be able to reduce your writing time without removing quality? Here’s how
Write About What You Know
When you’re writing, one of the important pieces (the majority of the time) is the ability to write about what you know. This is especially the case when you want to reduce your writing time, as in some instances, you will need to do research and preparation compared to those subjects with which you aren’t too familiar.
Of course, when you’re experimenting with your writing and with the continuous learning of copywriting, it is important to write about different subjects, including different styles & patterns, but when you want to focus on your writing quality and time, it can be crucial to write about subjects you’re familiar with and which you have a level of expertise.
This is also important because the goal when writing should be the ability to help the end-user, so this level of expertise will give the end-user more useful and informative pieces of content. With the levels of consistency for success within your writing, it is important to enjoy the subjects you’re writing about, and when you do that extra research, you can enjoy the process.
Perfectionism
A key to your writing is making it the best it can be, to be the most informative and helpful or entertaining and everything in between for your audience — regardless of who they may be and the niche they may reside.
However, with this section, the subject of perfectionism can be a problem for those continuously wanting to improve a piece of content. Even though the content should get your point across and for someone to learn something new, or be entertained, or whatever the content goal is for you, there is only a limit you can go with it.
Writing content is all about balance.
Once you’ve gained the best balance for you, between providing the best content and releasing content, you can gain the ability to reduce your writing time and have the best content quality possible for you.
As well, with the amount of time you are spending researching and writing further, you can do your re-reads, edits, and distribution to then start working on the next piece of writing or next paragraph, ranging against the medium you’re working on.
Check As You Go
As you write your content piece, it is important to ensure that you re-read, check and edit your content. Instead of doing this process at the end and doing a longer piece after writing all of your content, it might take longer overall.
However, if you re-read and edit your content per paragraph and as you go, it can make your editing process quicker as you know it’s what you want to stay whilst you go.
It is also important to edit as you’re in the process of writing the article because, in this instance, you will remember the points you want to include and which are more important than others so that you can highlight these further.
Once you’re finished, because you have already gone through each paragraph beforehand, with a quick read-over, you can do the FINAL amendments, and you’re complete!
Present Your Ideas
Before you start writing your content, create subsections for the subject of which you’re writing about. If you doing a numbered piece such as this piece “6 Ways to Reduce…”, research and place your six points, so you have a starting piece to understand where you’re working towards.
As well, If you want to carry on with your writing another time, you have elements to understand where you’re up to; this saves you a lot of writing time as you already have a roadmap. as a roadmap for your writing.
When you’ve broken down the information into the subsections for your article, if you need to, for more context on what’s writing about, down your project into smaller sections for each main point. Under each section, write bullet points of the key information you’ll include under each section and a bit of information.
This will speed up your writing process because you have a clear layout, especially if you break up your article into multiple writing sessions. This is a crucial piece for the structure for the reader, SEO, and yourself when writing the content.
Previous Material
When you’re writing your article and other pieces, especially long-form content, if you have written a piece of materials on a similar subject and you have pointers that also work for the piece you’re working on now, you can use this information to be able to elaborate further.
When you’re using previously written materials, you mustn’t copy, but if it’s a similar piece of content or subject area, use information from it and use this to elaborate on the points you’re making in this content piece.
Sessions & Take Breaks
When you’re writing, it is important to set yourself time limitations on the amount you’re going to write.
When you’re sitting down and fully concentrating on a content piece, say to yourself that you’re going to write for a set amount of time and break up your writing blocks into different periods, 90 minutes, for example. This will enable you to be more efficient and produce effective written pieces.
Within your time writing whilst you’re working on a project and in between projects, it is crucial to take breaks. This is the time, for me at least, when you gain more ideas to write about — or at least snippets from which you can grow your ideas. Use this time to think, and you could generate lots of different ideas (ensure you add these to your notes or drafts!).
Within your breaks, ensure you gain hobbies or interests; this might be an area where you want to write about further in the future. This can enable endorphins to help your overall health (physically and mentally — depending on what it is, of course), which will then help your writing efficiency.
With this, doing different activities and new experiences can help you be more efficient and become an idea machine. For myself, as well as reading to understand different writing styles and techniques, I try to do the opposite to writing on my computer, get outside as frequently as possible and take part in (untraditional) sports outdoors.
If you’ve discovered this works for you, what’s your way to break from writing and relax?
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