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How to Write Fast

How to write fast? My students want to know. I find it kind of funny that I’m now able to write about as fast as my typing speed will allow. Because way back when I was in academia full-time, it took me WEEKS, or even MONTHS to write an article.

I mean, if I look at my first few EZA articles, I wrote maybe one a month, and then a few more… But it was a chore. I think I have to thank Jason Fladlien for teaching me how to write faster — and eventually even really fast. If you want to find out more, just click here for Jason’s Instant Content Creation.

Some people have other ways to write faster, but my ibook can’t handle Dragon Naturally Speaking, not even the Mac version of it.

But that might not be such a bad thing. Here’s why.

I understand that Dragon isn’t all that perfect. So there might be typos and punctuation snafus and so on. And I would have to fix them all before I can post my articles.

Here’s why I have realized just how big of a hassle that might turn out to be…

I have experimented with another way to speed up my writing. I did a series of teleseminars, and when I needed to get some articles written up in a hurry, I decided to extract a bunch of articles form my teleseminars.

That was a good idea — in theory. And I did get a few really good ones from my teleseminar.

BUT…

Guess what! I don’t exactly speak in articles. Not when I’m on a teleseminar, though maybe I could learn…

And the transcriptions (outsources) were, uhm, in major need of editing. In a few places I couldn’t figure out what it was supposed to be, short of going back to the audio. That was really embarrassing.

And all that editing took a lot of time. More time, it turns out, than it would have taken me to simply whip out those articles from scratch.

I’m really a visual-llinguistic person. I am best at processing written down information, and as I write and watch the words appear on the page, I get a pretty good sense of where it’s going and can take it there. When I’m talking, I don’t have that same feedback loop.

So how to write fast? For me, it’s to write about something I know, on a keyboard that lets me type quickly, which my ibook keypad does.

More on that next time. Also more on writing for different self-help purposes, not all in the same post, obviously. Right now though, I want a cup of tea.

Happy writing!

Elisabeth

P.S.: Curious about all those articles I wrote in the last few days of the #HAHD “Challenge”? Just go to http://www.articlesbyelisabeth.com and work your way down the list 😉 Or even better — pick out the articles on the topics that interest you.

Click HERE for More Info on How to Write REALLY FAST!

Article marketing on Steroids: How I Learned to Write Articles in a Fraction of the Time it Used to Take

Article marketing on speed?  You better believe it.

Now here’s a secret of sorts.   I haven’t really told this to too many people before.  As you may or may not know, I used to be an English professor, and well, that’s still a good part of my identity, but at least for the time being, I’m taking a break from academia while immersing myself head first in the wonderful world of internet marketing.

But of course I started internet marketing while I was still teaching.  And can you imagine what English professor me thought when I came across a Warrior Special Offer for an ebook called “7 minute articles”?

I thought it was crazy.  I was a bit ticked off too — such audacity!  Such devaluing of such a noble craft!

I took days to write an article.  Hours or days for the first draft, and several hour-long sessions for revisions.  And that was for ezine article sized articles.  Academic articles could take months.

And here, this guy Jason Fladlien was saying he could teach me how to write an article in 7 minutes, research included? I just had to see what that was all about.

I expected to be underwhelmed, but instead, I was very impressed.  This guy had a great system.  And for only $4 at the time, it was a steal.  I started to rethink my approach to writing…

A few months later, I got an email with the upgraded version.  As a purchaser of the first product, I would get any and all updates free.

And those upgrades got more impressive each time.  Next thing I knew, the little ebook had morphed into a comprehensive system with several additional parts.

I started to buy more of Jason’s stuff.  And now I’m taking just about every one of his teleseminars and webinars I can fit into my schedule.  The guy is brilliant!

Can I write an article in 7 minutes now?  Not yet.  But I’ve written some in 15 minutes!  And it rarely takes me more than half an hour for something I don’t have to do any research on.  I’m okay with that.

So what happened to that 7 minute article ebook?  Well… you can find out right now.  It has grown into a comprehensive content creation system: an Instant Content Creation System.

And it is still a steal for what you get even though the price has gone up quite a bit from those 4 dollars where it all started. And I expect the price to go up even more.  Jason has this way of upgrading his stuff and raising the price every time he adds more value. Fair enough, but why not get it now, at least if content creation is something you do as part of your work or routine.

You can check it out by clicking right here:

Instant Content Creation System

Happy writing!  And I’m not being sarcastic.  Content Creation with Jason’s system can be lots of fun!

Elisabeth