My Favorite Self-Help Stuff

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.

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!

How to write faster?  There isn’t enough time in the day to get it all done.  Sure, you can outsource it, depending on your situation, but then you have to micro-manage it and that may still take longer than simply writing it yourself — provided you know how to write really fast.

There are two components to writing really fast.  Okay, three components:

1) you need to know the information.  So you need to write about what you know.  If you don’t, you’ll need to do research, and that will take extra time.

2) You need a set format so that you won’t have to put a lot of thought into decision making.

3) You need the right mindset.

One of my favorite Internet Marketing/Writing experts, Jason Fladlien, has the formula down pat:  He started by making a splash with his 7-minute articles, and has developed the system now to an instant content creation system that really puts your content creation on steroids.

Where can you find out more about it?  Here:

http://budurl.com/jficc

And if you want to take your new-found speedwriting expertise to the next level and actually make money with it, here are a couple of possibilities:

http://budurl.com/n8u4

This is a fantastic resource with 20 legit ways to create $100/day oniline.  Several of these methods do involve writing, so once you have your writing pace up to speed (pun intended), you’ll find it much easier going and it could be a natural way to make money.

Especially since the online world is hungry for content.  If you can provide it, you’re golden!

Still feel intimidated?  Don’t be.

But here’s a third resource I love, also by Jason, the same guy who wrote the speed writing system above:  On how to become an online millionaire.  No, it’s not hype.  And the path to millionaire in his system could take you a few years, but if you keep at it, you’ll get there fairly quickly.  Take a look:

http://budurl.com/jfimr

And discover how a monk went from zero income to $50,000 within 6 months.And well into the 6 figures before the year was over.  If that doesn’t cheer you up, I don’t know what will.

Oh, and about the economy?  Like they say, in the challenge lies opportunity.

P.S.: And now that I’m just starting a new site on Richmond Web Marketing I’ll need to supply some content, so my fast writing skills will be challenged all over again.  And that’s not the onliy writing I need to do – there’s lots of writing to be done for my clients as well…

So I’ll be puliing out my own copy of my fast writing manual and have at it…

Happy writing, and give writer’s block a run for its money!

Elisabeth