How to Increase Your Words Per Hour Without Sacrificing Quality

Here is my favorite method for increasing your writing speed without sacrificing quality. In fact, this tip may actually help you create more organized, better flowing posts.

Many bloggers don't realize that writing is a two step process. There's idea generation and then there's the editing. Both are needed to create quality piece of content. However, if you try to do both processes at the same time, you get bogged down. Your mind is less efficient when it's try to multitask. And, if you think about it, idea generation and editing are quite different tasks.

Idea generation is the

Editing is the pruning and organizing and rewording to create a post that flows well and is lean without the extraneous words.

So, the

Practical Ways of Doing This Method

think of yourself as two people, one is the idea generator and one is the editor. tell the editor not to interrupt the idea generator until he's finished generating ideas.

don't hit the backspace or delete key until you write at least 200-400 words.

close your eyes while you're typing
or cover the screen

write a list
it doesn't even need to have complete sentences.

brainstorm, get a pen and paper and just write down anything that comes to mind - phrases, sentences, bullet points,

don't worry about quality at this point. instead, aim for quantity. you'll evaluate and organize your ideas during the editing stage. right now, you just want some raw content to work with.

Why This Method Works

As with many things, the most important thing is to just get started. By putting the editing process off until you have some raw content, you force yourself to take that small step of writing the first couple of words. You may not even use those words but those words are the momentum that propels you to write more words and then more words.

Have you ever been intimidated by doing a task but once you got started, you got going and realizing the task wasn't too difficult once you had some momentum going? This method helps you quickly get into the zone where you're feel confident and have some momentum going.