Some Ways To Make Blog Writing Faster And Better
Blogging has become a way in which many people have found they can make a living. Some sell things online and others get paid to write blog posts and articles for others. Still other bloggers do both. They work on their own website and blog in their spare time and make a living blogging as their day job.
When you’re writing up to 100 or more blog posts per week, you’re bound to burn out and get writer’s block. But if you’re going to make money blogging, you’ve got to stay productive.
Sometimes, you have to write multiple articles on one subject. This is good in one way, because it cuts down on your research time. If you get an assignment to write about something you don’t know anything about - scrapbooking papers, for example - you will have to spend as much as an hour researching the subject. That’s a lot of wasted time for one article, but not much at all for a series of ten or twenty.
If you’re given a technical assignment and they only want a single article, turn it down if it doesn’t negatively impact your job. If you have to spend three hours reading about the inner mechanism of a digital sport watch and then get paid for only 500 words, your hourly rate won’t amount to much. If all you have to do is write about how good the watch looks, though, that’s easy.
Some writers prefer to have to do all that fact gathering because facts give them ideas. If they’re given a vague assignment, they can’t think of a thing to say. How, for example, can you write 500 words about a black helmet? White helmets are white, black ones are black. End of story. How can you turn that into 500 words?
If that describes you, try taking on a few non-technical articles for a change of pace. When you learn to de-activate your intellectual mind and activate your creative mind, you’ll find that you have plenty to write about. Let your feelings and imagination take over. Beautiful Parisian models wear white helmets as they glide through the streets of Paris on their motor scooters. Evil biker gangs wear black. It doesn’t matter what the statistics say. If you’re writing about aesthetics, it’s feelings that count.
Creative writers often get frustrated by technical articles. If that sounds like you, just gather a few pertinent facts and weave them into your article, filling in the blanks with fluff. You’re writing a blog post, not a textbook, after all. All your employer is asking of you is that you write a certain number of informative words. He’s not asking for a Pulitzer Prize, so don’t get carried away. Keep it light and enjoyable and you will find yourself getting much more work done.