When it comes to blogging, writing a single post can take a huge chunk of our daily workload. This leaves us less time for doing all the intricacies of our SEO campaign let alone a few minutes of personal time corresponding with our followers.
Being an efficient blogger is all about spending your work hours wisely. If you’re planning to become a professional blogger then you should be ready for all the hard work associated with it. A great place to start is to cut down on the time you spend writing your posts. Quality is the first thing that gets thrown out the window when we perform shortcuts. However, it is possible to write a post in a few minutes without sacrificing quality.
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List ideas – list all the points you want to address and create an outline. Scribble this on a notepad (a real one, it works better than typing it on a word processor). You don’t have to write the whole article yet. Simple write the headings for each paragraph or any major points that needs discussion. This way, you don’t have to pause every now and then rethinking what to write next. Follow this tip, as it could save you major hours from the writing table.
Give ideas time to ripen – many new writers end up staring at a blank document for minutes because they are too eager to sit down in front of the computer. Take time browsing through your list. There is no need for conscious analysis or synthesizing. Just read your list and your writer’s brain will subconsciously do the rest for you. After that, you will be able to sit down and breeze through your article.
Don’t write everything – you are writing a blog article, not a post-graduate level thesis. Omit long introductions, do not bother writing any unnecessary supporting ideas, and don’t bug yourself about a perfect conclusion (a blog article has no need for a concluding paragraph).
Divide your article into sections – using lists, bullets, or subheadings is a great time saver. Thinking of the most appropriate transitional phrases and making a whole big article as coherent as possible takes a lot of time. Just bullet it or list it like this. Saves time, spares you the headache.
Limit your article to 500 words – this is in line to the previous tip. Keep in mind that blog readers do not have long attention span. If they do, they would be reading the papers. Therefore, they only want to read important points. They do not care about things that are not important to the topic at hand. Take a direct route to the topic you want to present and limit the word number to 500.
Do your edits later – you just did a writing sprint. Your brain is worn out. It needs time to recuperate. Therefore, editing right after you finished your article is not the best thing to do. Relax get off that chair, and stretch. Try to do something else that will ease your mind and come back when you’re already refreshed.
Suzzane Edwards is a senior care provider and currently works as a medical writer for health and wellness websites. When she’s not writing for Assisted Living, she could be found blogging about simple tips on how people could live healthier and more productive lives.
Great advice! will use it to the best of my writing ability.
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Maybe you can schedule posts too. If you’re in the mood to write and you have a number of materials to publish, maybe you can schedule them. This way have longer time to reflect and make the next posts. Will this also work, Stacy?
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These tips really makes a great impact for me as a writer. I will definitely use these to be more efficient.
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I think the best way to write your article is to writer everything whatever comes in your mind and which your searched……. after that edit your article and try to keep it small and interesting.
It’s always better to writer article with bullets which makes it more attractive and readers can easily find the main juice.
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Thank you for the wonderful comments. These are just some of the things that have helped me through my writing career. I hope that you too could send us some tips on how we could write articles faster.
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Hi Suzzane, great tips for article writing… Yes I agree with you that editing must need to be done when you are relaxed. Proofreading the article out load can also help you see the errors. Thank you for sharing…
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Hi Suzzane,
I find it hard When writing post to my blog, specially in expressing my self to addapt with the topic that I’ve cohosen topic. Thanks to your advice and now I finally understand how to deal with it.
Cheers
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Hi Suzzane!
Very good tip about dividing your article by headings and subheadings. Reading the articles that are written in one font, without any emphasizing or underlining, is a hard job. You can miss something really important the author wanted to say.
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Yes dividing the topic by using headings and subheadings is a good way of breaking down the article. It makes easier for our readers to digest the content. Plus, it would be a good place to put our keywords and stresses the important points of our article.
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For good quality content,it is very essential to write ideas on papers.Do not forget to create a sequence in the ideas professionally.
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really very nice explanation Suzzane Edwards.featured image also very inspiring.keep sharing
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Very good ideas Suzzane! We should not sacrifice neither of the two, efficiency and quality. This is what the readers are looking after all. I agree with you that we should not write everything that pop ups in our mind. There are tendencies that reader might get bored.
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Absolutely agree that time is gold these days, but I’m really skeptical that it’s possible to produce an article of genuinely high quality in a few minutes.
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Hey,
Some great points there, I m sure many find it very useful like me. will definitely keep them in mind. Thank you for sharing such insightful thoughts.
Cheers.
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