Article Writing Tips - Accelerating your Article Writing

Need lots of articles but have limited time to spend in front of your computer? No worries! You can still produce more articles in as little as 2-3 hours as long as you know how to speed up the whole process. Getting your articles done in less time will work to your advantage. I am pretty sure that you can make use of the time you save in doing other things that you consider important.

Here's what you need to do:

First, choose those topics that will not need extensive research. Go with those ones that you're very familiar with. However, you need to make sure that your topics are those that are being sought for by your target audience otherwise; your efforts in writing your articles will just go down the drain. To make it easier and well-guided, I suggest that you consider the needs of your audience and the main reasons why you're writing your articles. This should help you pick the best topics to write.

2. Get comfortable in writing your articles. Get used to writing your articles the faster way. This can happen through constant practice and by exerting conscious effort in mastering the whole process. Identify the roadblocks that slow you down and determine how you can quickly overcome them. For example, if you type less than 30 words per minute, you can overcome this by simply improving your keyboarding skills.

3. Proper planning. Think of the things that you would like to discuss on your articles. Decide on the angle that you would like to target. Create an outline that contains detailed information that you'll cover on your articles. Review your outline and make sure that it will help you create an informative article and a content that will flow smoothly.

4. Eliminate distractions. Concentrate on your articles when it's your time to write. Even if it sounds difficult, try not to entertain unrelated thoughts. Also, tell everybody around you not to disturb you in a nice way. Lastly, be disciplined enough and resist the temptation of surfing the net and socializing with your friends through social networking sites.

5. Create an outline. Creating an outline will surely speed up the whole process. This must contain a tentative title, information you're going to discuss on your introduction, at least 3 major points that you would like to discuss, and idea on how you'll end your articles. This will act as a guide and all you need to do is to fill in some words and information and you'll be able to put a great content before you even know it.

6. Write your articles. Now that you have an outline, writing an article will become relatively easy. All you need to do is to follow your outline, expound on the major points that you've listed using short paragraphs, and end it with a very short conclusion. No matter how fast you think and type, you will still spend quite a lot of time writing a single article if you're trying to put together 1,000-2,000 words. What I recommend is to keep your articles short to save some time. What I do is I produce 250-word articles that I can finish in minutes.

7. Turn off your internal editor. You can't write, review, and edit your articles all at the same time as this can disrupt your train of thoughts. Allow yourself to commit mistakes while in the process of putting your ideas into writing. Then, edit once your articles are done. Believe me, this process can save you enormous time.

8. Write when you're energized. Don't even try to tap on your keyboard when you're tired or sleepy because no matter what you do, you're not going to be able to finish one article. Well, even if you do, I'm pretty sure that it's going to be lousy. Write first thing in the morning when you feel energized or when your creative juices are flowing smoothly.

9. Spend the last minutes remaining in proofreading and editing your articles.