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Writing Faster Articles - More Tricks Ive Learned

Published by admin | Filed under Writing and Speaking

Online articles are like free salespeople who continue to direct traffic to my website long after I have done the work and posted my article. The whole concept of article marketing is simply genius because every one wins. The writer gets exposure and traffic to her website, and other webmasters get free content they can use to turn their sites into resources that visitors will visit again and again.

I am on the writing end of this exchange, and I am always looking for new ways to increase my article-writing output. The faster I write, the more articles I can post online and the more inbound links are created to my site. This means more traffic and more people who download my free ebook and subscribe to my newsletter.

It’s a beautiful thing.

So what tips can I offer you to increase your writing speed?

  1. Read. A lot. Read other articles on your topic, read books, read offline articles. But read with a purpose. I have recently discovered these beautiful post it notes that are about 3 inches by 4 inches and look like miniature legal pads. As I read, I also write out questions that come to mind about the material, my own ideas, and summaries of what I have read over the last several pages. In other words, I am making this other author’s information my own, by adding my own material to it.

  • Don’t plagiarize. Surely I shouldn’t have to say this, but I do. It is okay to read someone else’s writing and reshape it to make it your own. I use these post it notes to turn the author’s words and ideas into my own. Typically what happens is I learn from the other author and then my own mind takes it off in another direction, creates new applications or makes a connection with another bit of knowledge already in my brain. As a general rule, each post it note can be later turned into at least one new article.

  • Write out questions. After you have a certain grasp of some material, you will find that you can write out at least ten questions in the same time it takes to write one factual statement. This is awesome because your article can either take a question-answer format, or you can intersperse questions into your article, or you simply use the questions as a “frame work” that you later remove.

  • After you have written several questions, your job is all downhill from there. All of your writing is now just a matter of answering your own questions. This makes it so easy because your answer can be as long or as short as you want. Also, your questions may prompt you to write more questions, which will lead you off in new directions.

  • Finally, write your articles in bunches. I am trying to get away from stand alone articles. Most of the articles I write now are part of a series, even if it is just two parts. If you have read another source material, your goal is to allow that to lead you to write several articles from it. You need not start from scratch each time.

    • Keep it up, I am still in the minor leagues compared to some other article writers who produce 10 to 20 articles a day (I can only dream). But anything gets better if you keep making steady improvement.

    Charles Brown is freelance writer with an unhealthy curiosity about nearly everything. He has used article marketing to promote a number of internet businesses. If you must, you can visit him at his Squidoo lens, http://www.squidoo.com/articlemarketing4traffic Getting Targeted Traffic With Article Marketing

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