How to write faster and more
Productivity Inspiration / / December 23, 2019
In order to write faster, takes practice, and practice to take place, need an environment in which you simply can not get time off. However, when you start to write, no matter what: an article in a blog, advertisement or something else - it is necessary to first fiddle for a long time. Why is this happening and how to reduce the time of work?
When I was just beginning to deal with content for sites on each text it took a lot of time. But I was not able to leave unfinished for tomorrow: did the day - Append night. These were the harsh conditions, but in a month or two, I increased the write speed is almost doubled.
Of course, no one has repealed procrastination, and if it were not hard timeframe, I'd hardly got a good rate. But in the process it became clear why you can write faster, and what prevents to do so from the outset.
Maybe my experience will be useful to those who are just mastering the work with texts or wants to accelerate, but do not know how.
What prevents write faster
To begin, we need to understand the reasons why the work can slow down, and what can be done to eliminate them.
1. Sticking on the information
Of course, before you write about something, it is necessary to collect information on the subject. It is at collection of information It spent most of the time.
I, for example, the selection of different sources accounts for 70% of the time, as another author Layfhakera Sergei Suyagina. Nastya Rainbow generally appreciated the selection of information while 90%:
Nastya Rainbow90%. I try to thoroughly examine the topic always collect the material is not from one, but from 3-5 sources. Therefore, the collection of information - this is the most complex and time-consuming step. When I know what I want to say to the reader, the text is written quickly and easily.
Of course, the information is very important, but it is because it may take hours, but the result will not be any better. The thing is banal is stuck on the material.
You go from one source to another, you start to read other people's articles, are often not available to your topic irrelevant, simply because they are interesting.
As a result, you gather as much information as would be enough for a dissertation, and you need to push it in 1 500-2 500 characters. Because of this, to systematization of the material it takes much more time, but still many of the found data will not be included in the article. And what do you spend on proofreading their 15, 20, 30 minutes!
What to do
Firstly, we need self-organization, the ability to see at a glance whether there is in the text of something necessary for your publication, or he's just a hell of an interesting, but not on the topic. And, of course, the ability to leave even a very interesting article, if it is not useful for your work.
You do not need to read, namely the view information. Delve possible only when you are sure that this information is needed.
Remember, the time you spend on gathering information, it is possible to reduce. This is not some fixed value, it depends on your desires and practices.
Dmitry GorchakovEarlier in the collection of information and the search took quite some time for a few hours every day. Now I learned how to do it faster and for 2-3 hours immediately find the theme for a few days.
2. It is hard to start
Sometimes it's hard to decide where to start the article. Such attempts on a "write something, erase, write again - and again, not something" out quite a lot of time wasted.
What to do
If an interesting article, which you get stuck before, may someday be needed, the line failed, disappearing after pressing Delete, precisely nobody and never will be useful. So do not torture yourself for a perfect entry, you can start from a different place or leave the introductory part failed: after the article is ready, it will be easier to rewrite it.
Author foreign blog The Buffer Belle Beth Cooper in his article "As I cut writing time from two days to four hours"It tells the story of how difficult it is to start and what to do about it.
Belle herself cope with it so: he begins to write anything. For example, "I do not know where to start, because... blah blah blah." It is said that the process of work helps to organize thoughts and find that same entry.
Personally, I will start by listing the major points in the notebook. That hand on paper rather than printing them in the same file where the text is. Write a couple of sentences of entry, name, erase and write over the top good.
Another way - to get out of the workplace and the like: the room or office, go out into the hallway or on the street. Often, it is during these walks come good start.
3. not concentrate
No matter where you work - in the office or at home, you can be distracted anywhere. In general, the struggle with distractions seems to me a real war, with which each author lives. Interesting conversations with colleagues, funny Public, entertainment sites, checking email messages from friends - a great many of these cases are just waiting, when you're relaxed, and immediately snapped up, distracting from work.
Dmitry GorchakovOne article takes 2 hours to... 4-6. But it is "dirty" time, because I have not learned to work without distraction. I can take short breaks for news, sites of interest, exercise and so on.
Even if you are just half an hour checking email or browsing a page on the social network, the concentration is broken, and you will again have to force yourself focus.
What to do
If the topic is interesting to focus on it much easier.
Nastya RainbowArticle Article strife. It depends on the subject and involvement. The first involves the following caveat: I know the subject about which I will write, or need to learn it from scratch? And second - if I'm interested? If the answers to both questions is "yes", then the article goes from 2 to 5 hours.
Even if the subject of the article is not particularly appeals to you, you can always find in it something useful, to force myself to get excited, to present themselves to those who are interested in this topic, as it were, become them. Maybe you underestimate your ability to reincarnation.
In any case, Minimize distractions: close all windows with social networks, put away your smartphone, and if you are constantly talking in the office, put on your headphones. It always helps to rhythmic music, preferably without words, to abstract from what is happening in the office and start writing.
4. no timetable
If you set aside to write very little time, it's very annoying, you fall into a panic, and it becomes more difficult to concentrate. But if the timing is not at all, to force myself to work hard enough. Again, if there are no deadlines, distractions easier to take possession of your attention.
What to do
If you do not set deadlines, do it yourself. I have long noticed that the first evaluation theme (its complexity and how much time I will go on writing), I actually ask myself a deadline.
If I look at the subject and think, "Oh, it is a complex, it will take at least four hours" - and it eventually turns out to be a terrible and complex, still in her writing takes at least 4 hours. It works like magic. How has identified himself so much happened in the end.
So try to put yourself in the mind the deadline, only realistic. If writing is usually 5-6 hours, specify 4:00, the next time - a little less and so on. Well, if your time frame do not help, ask you to put a deadline (think your leadership will not give up).
Nastya RainbowFor me, work not inside the time frame (as I myself took the time to work), namely, external deadlines (editor told to do today to 14 hours, then, and not the other way). Like it or not, and Parkinson's Law works: Work takes all the time that is given to it. After all, we ourselves have always put a timeline with a stock, but do often at the last moment. Therefore, I prefer, when the terms I put other people: a sense of responsibility and fear to bring a person does not allow prokrastinirovat.
In order that prevents write faster, we understand. Now, that helps.
Create better conditions
Each person has his optimum conditions for writing, and if you decide to improve, try to find them. You can experiment with the place, time and situation in which you will create.
1. Time
Every person has the best hours to work, ideas, creativity and relaxation. Maybe your type (a night owl or an early bird) will not have much value, and you suddenly realize that it is best to write early in the morning and think through new projects - closer to the night.
I, for example, the most productive hours of 8:00 to 12:00 and afternoon hours to five pm. The longest hour, when I can do the most - from 15:00 to 16:00. It seems that time just freezes.
Morning, apparently, are best suited for writing, and confirm that larks and owls.
sergey SuyaginIt works best early in the morning and before dinner.
Dmitry GorchakovI work only during the day. Better, of course, before lunch, at the end of the day I try something easy to postpone.
Nastya RainbowAccording to biorhythm I owl. Severe such a night owl. Earlier, when he was in a freelance, she worked at night. Now I reinvented on the daily chart. Productive hours - from 10 to 13, and in the evening from 16 to 19 hours. At lunch usually want to eat, and where to eat - and sleep there.
Try early morning hours from six in the evening or even late at night. Celebrate when creative ideas come when you least distracted, what time is easier to focus.
2. Silence or music
They say that the overall noise of a positive effect on creativity. This is what I wrote in the article about lanchhaki. In short: a moderate noise makes your job more difficult, due to which you will automatically come out of your comfort zone and think more creatively.
I tried to work for a non-intrusive noise from the site Coffitivity. It does not irritate, even in his own pleasant, so that, if the music distracts you, and silence do not like, you can try it.
Most of all I love to work for instrumental music, but in silence, too bad. For someone to work without music is unthinkable ...
Dmitry GorchakovOnly the music. Genres are different, but only foreign or instrumental. To a mind not to shoot down.
sergey SuyaginMusic - the genre of the mood, from Nada Surf to the Scar the Martyr.
... while others, on the contrary, does not accept the music during the time of writing.
Nastya RainbowIf I collect data or make a post, you can listen to music (in the playlist - rock and folk), but the text always write in silence. Also, I demand complete silence, when I take interview.
Try to work in silence and music, experiment with different genres and noise. Perhaps the work of the classical music and dubstep will be your key to productivity.
3. creative space
If you do not have to sit in the office, try different places: in different rooms (maybe on the balcony), in a cafe or in the park. In studies at the cafe has a few advantages they have and work from home (most importantly - make trouble). Experiment - and you will find your best working environment.
That's all the advice, if you have your own way to write more and faster, please share in the comments.
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