Copywriting Quick Tips to Write Faster

Sometimes, articles just don’t seem to go very fast. Even if you want to write your 500-word article in 10 minutes, chances are that won’t always happen. There are a few ways that you can speed up your writing process, depending on how much time you have available. Copywriting normally has a very quick turnaround, and blogs for example require daily turnout, so you want to be able to write them quickly. Twenty minutes for an article is probably about as much time as someone would want to even spend working on a 500 word article, so it helps to have a few ways to make it go faster.

1.    If you have the time to brainstorm on ideas, do so in list form or some sort of organized chaos, as it were. Once you have enough ideas and the time to actually rough out your main idea, you can then go about narrowing down your article. Sometimes you’ll have ideas that don’t quite work with the rest of your article, or sometimes you have something that, while good, isn’t going to flow. Either way, a brainstorming session can be an easy way to get started.

2.    Don’t try to wait and use your good ideas later. If you have your best ideas, then use them in your current article and restart the brainstorming process next time around. Your best ideas will always be easier to write than your “good” ones.

3.    Warm up when you write. It may sound crazy, but just by starting to free write for a few minutes, it makes ideas easier to flow later on. Like many things, once you get started, it’s easier to continue. So cut your teeth on some free writing and not your actual article.

4.    Leave your work alone. Write as much as you can in the first five or ten minutes, then walk away. Come back a little later and you might find that whatever writer’s block you had is long gone now. Don’t do this if you’re on a roll, though, because you don’t want to mess yourself up.

5.    The reason you shouldn’t stop writing when you’re on a roll is because if you write three or four different articles simultaneously, you might find that you’re coming out with much more material for the same amount of time. After five minutes of work in one piece, switch to another and then switch again, giving you the opportunity for more growth.

6.    Finally, do what I’m doing right now. Use numbers or bullets to help clearly distinguish between points and allow you a chance to stay on topic and breaking down the different ideas easier. 

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