7 Rare Tips That Will Help You Become A Successful Writer

Writing Fast

My biggest problem as a writer was that I was not capable of organized work. There were some other factors as well, that were dragging me backwards. I spent many sleepless nights, because I was struggling as a writer and despite my potential, I was earning shameful wages as remuneration. Soon, I did some introspection and tried learning from my mistakes. Here are a few tips you can use to become a successful writer and earn decent income through writing.

1. Don’t choose wrong projects
   I made big mistakes while choosing projects. I sometimes picked the projects, which I should not have chosen in the first place. Remember, clients don’t respect you for delivering high value content at low price. They won’t even remember you after some time. So, choose your projects wisely and quote the rates accordingly. They will try to take advantage of you, but steer yourself clear from their traps. They will say, “Just try this topic, it’s simple. Try writing a simple SEO article.” But, when you start writing that article, you find that you were asked to write a highly research based technical article at the price of a normal SEO article.
2. Stay away from wrong partners and friends
   I also faced issues while dealing with friends and finding buddy writers, which were often the source of anxiety and lots of frustration. I felt that people who I thought could have been my writer buddies were far behind me not only in terms of quality and expertise, but also in terms of character and mental strength.They were a lot selfish that I learnt later and they never wanted to move out of their comfort zone. They had a frame of mind that was focused around low quality content. This was exactly the case with my friend and writer buddy Mr Kapoor (name changed).I wondered why I could not associate with the writers, who matched my temperament. Soon I found that it was one of the biggest reasons I was not succeeding as a writer. Mediocrity is contagious and it spreads even through frequent interaction. Choose your friends wisely.
3. Don’t ignore the way neural networks work
   I also experienced frustration with my approach to writing, which was not scientific until I learnt how neural networks work and then suddenly my entire strategy went through a change.

   I started taking things with a different perspective and it revolutionized my writing and improved   my productivity. I learnt the secrets of sentence construction moving ahead in entirely unknown     territories exploring new things.

   I never ceased to find ways to improve my writing speed and at the same time I tried weaving thoughts and creating thought loops in the empty space to polish my skills to create content with  a flow state of mind. Luckily, everything was in my favor and I received a lot of support from divinity, universe and God whatever you call it.

4.  Develop mind maps
   In order to succeed as a writer, you must have a blueprint of what you are going to write. You must see everything as a cosmonaut sees the blue planet; a pilot sees his dashboard or as Tom Cruise      saw on his projectors in the movie “Minority Report”.  For that you need to develop mind maps. To know how mind maps work, you can read: How to Mind Map: The Ultimate Thinking Tool That Will Change Your Life, by Tony Buzan.

5. Connect with people by addressing their pain points
   You must also have the list of problems faced by your audiences and you should have the ability to smartly associate those problems with your content. Writing is all about research, exploring new things and moving ahead on the learning curve. Connect with people and address their pain points. Only then you can claim to be a good writer.
6. Focus on earnings
   There are many distractions that come in the way of becoming a productive writer. You must brush up your writing skills consistently in order to increase your earnings and getting the required satisfaction from this profession.
7. Experiment with writing the “next paragraph”
   As some of the top writers suggest that to improve your thought process and increase writing speed, try short writing sprints. You should practice writing the next paragraph yourself, when you see a piece of content anywhere including the Internet.When you read something online or offline, just take a pause and ask your brain to explore the empty space and try churning out next few paragraphs on the basis of the content that you have just read. It will improve your writing skills dramatically.

How to create content faster?

Introduction

Content is a major requirement nowadays for online businesses.  Companies are content hungry and individual needs to produce higher volumes of content in order to survive and make money.  But there are certain factors that prevent faster content creation and block our spontaneous flow.  We have tried to list all these factors and issues in this article.  We assure you that if you work upon these issues, the quality of your writing would improve greatly and you would be able to produce effective content as a much faster rate.

Things preventing faster writing

The biggest issue preventing faster writing is lack of ideas.  It’s also termed as writers’ block.  To get over this, you should first of all research the topic in detail.  The research should not be too extensive or time-consuming.  By research, we mean to delve into the topic to find enough information, so that we can pen down a good article based on it.  It should not take more than 10 to 15 min. to research the topic on the Internet.  The next step is to conceive ideas in your mind.

Lack of synchronized ideas: Do a little visualization

The major issue impeding the speed of content production is lack of relevant ideas.  You have to do a little visualization exercise for it.  Imagine, a machine producing content at the speed of one page per minute.  Imagine the vivid details of it.  What are the prerequisites? Where is the content and ideas coming from? And how is it producing content at that faster pace?  How the statistics and tables are being created?  Where the supply of sentences is coming from?  What is the rhythm of ideas?  All this is very important in order to find the approach needed to produce content at a faster rate.  Furthermore, you should try to practice writing on your favorite subjects.  The more you practice, the better you would become at producing content at a faster rate.  The best strategy would be to imagine the machine producing the content at one large page per minute.  That should be your target and you should train your mind according to that.

Poor command over English

Poor command over the language is also a major factor why you are not able to produce content at a fast pace.  You should try to make sentences in our mind well in advance and then produce it on the paper in a streamlined way.  Another good practice would be to read a lot.  However, I don’t think that grammatical issues or poor command over the language is the primary factor impeding your speed of writing.  I am a 100% convinced that lack of ideas is the primary concern; language is secondary.  Once, you are done with putting your ideas on paper (or Word doc in digital world,) editing would not be a tough task.  So, this is a baseless fear as we can remove most of our errors during editing process.

Procrastination

You should not try to ponder over or think too much about a topic.  After all, you are not going to submit a research paper.  Neither, are you supposed to lay a principal or an equation similar to e=mc², which Einstein has developed, nor do you have a task of producing the theory of relativity again.  You have to produce content and it should be interesting, engaging, informative and brief.  It’s clear that you do not need to produce scientific or incomprehensible content.  This misconception should be removed from your mind forever.

Other distractions such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and e-mail

You should also log out from social media sites and email accounts, once you decide to start writing. It’s a big distraction. Writing is a tedious and painfully hectic task. It tires our mind and body; whereas brain has a natural tendency to drift and look for avenues to recreate and entertain itself, which is harmful as it’s easy to get distracted but difficult to focus our attention towards something constructive.

Conclusion

So, we conclude that in order to produce content at a faster rate, first you should “create” content.  Content should be specific and well-researched.  By “well-researched,” I don’t mean that the content should be scientifically proven.  What you need is to have a fair idea about the topic.  Then you have to streamline your ideas and do some brainstorming to present useful information in a logical way.  The sole purpose of content creation is— to present useful information in a streamlined way.  And sadly most of us fail to understand this very purpose and keep on wasting our energies on unnecessary details. Remember the OTSERI principle ORGANIZE, TELL A STORY, ENTERTAIN, REPEAT and INFORM, while producing quality content.

Nashaat Quadri is a freelance writer, blogger and social media strategist based in New Delhi. His favorite subjects are motivation, digital marketing and electronic gadgets. You can contact him to setup your blog and run a search engines

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