Seriously! Take a stopwatch and set it to 5 minutes. Then, open a new ‘Word document’.
Write down a catchy title with an important keyword for the article and then go back to the stopwatch. Don’t have a stopwatch? Me neither, so I use an online stopwatch. It has a countdown function, and I set it to 5 minutes. Write as fast as you can and don’t stop! Now start writing! What’s most important about this approach is that you don’t stop writing. Not under any circumstances! If you can’t think of anything for a moment, just write down “I can’t think of anything” a few times, but keep writing. Your brain doesn’t like to waste its time, so it will make an extra effort, and before you know it you’ll be writing content for your article again. Don’t make any corrections, but keep producing! During those 5 minutes you are not allowed to touch 2 keys on your keyboard: the delete key and the backspace key. The result is that you keep producing. Your brain is now being trained to deliver content. In a later stage we will edit the content, but not now. So don’t start thinking: ‘Oh, that was a nasty typo or spelling mistake’, just keep producing! Your brain will get the opportunity to edit and improve later. Not now! When the countdown buzzer sounds, stop writing immediately! The stopwatch is sacred! Once the countdown reaches zero, you immediately stop writing. Don’t even finish your last sentence. This, too, is an important process for your brain. It is being taught and trained to deliver a top performance in 5 minutes. Exactly 5. You will notice that the quality of your texts improves as you practice this method more and more. Easy to read; it’s almost as if someone is talking to you You don’t really think about the sentence structure, but you switch to ‘autopilot’. Just like when you are on the phone with someone, you end up with short, direct, and action-oriented sentences. Because your texts are more in line with the way you speak, they become more and more authentic! The more you practice this method, the easier it will be to produce 250 words in five minutes. So the actual writing of a blog post takes 5 minutes… Maybe another 15 minutes for editing and of course some preparation. Take this article. In total, including posting it, it has cost me less than half an hour.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
December 2018
Categories |