Blogging tips
3 Ways To Publish More Articles
Techniques to start applying today.
Recently, I’ve been trying to write a new Medium post every day, more or less. And I’m not alone. Of course, targets vary — some writers on Medium aim to write every day, and others are going for a more moderate pace.
Whatever your own aims are, I’m sure you it would help if you could produce more in a given amount of time.
Right?
Here are three tips to increase the speed and productivity with which you produce new articles or stories.
1. Build a stock of good ideas.
As I find with my fantasy fiction writing, the more ideas, the better. I’d strongly recommend you to gather a collection of ideas for stories.
Doing so is a form of brainstorming. But it’s also part of creativity. Creativity is not just about having a great idea right off the bat. It’s also about reflecting, thinking through what you have come up with so far, and selecting the best ones.
To do so, you need options.
I do recommend finding a quick and easy way to capture all of your ideas before you forget:
Once you have a stock of ideas, it’s like a menu. You’re not going to sit around fretting, wondering what to write.
Instead, you can pick up the idea that appeals right now, and get going.
2. Switch to another project
A lot of people will tell you to focus on just one thing. And yeah, I agree with that concept to an extent.
If you’re going to complete something complex, there will be times when you need to put your head down and just push through. Get what you’re working on across get the finish line.
All the same — it’s never productive to stare at blank screen.
I’d therefore recommend having multiple works-in-progress. When you are hitting a wall with one, switch to the other. And vice versa.
It will keep things moving along.
This is what I find in my fiction writing, but it’s true in blogging, too.
Again, I’m not ignoring the fact that you do sometimes will have to work on things when you are not 100% motivated.
But I’m not someone who only has a single novel on the go at any one time.
Nope.
I let my passion guide me, and I write much more because of it!
3. Recognize when to drop an idea.
As I said above, part of creativity is not just about having the ideas, but also about selecting among them.
That means that not every idea is going to make the cut. Some will never leave your notebook. Others will fall by the wayside a bit later.
It can be tempting to keep going with something even when it isn’t quite working. When you’ve lost passion for a project. Or when you’ve begun to question if it was really worth the time.
Sometimes when this happens, you’re just in a funk. Put it aside, take a bit of time (see suggestion 2, above!), and then return to it invigorated.
But perhaps when you do return, you realize that the article or story just didn’t deserve to be finished…
And that’s okay.
You’ve only got so much writing time — so make it count. Dropping the weaker ideas will make your output better (on average).️
You will also publish more, because you are spending less time struggling with ideas that just weren’t worth it.
Good luck!
A quick shoutout to a couple of other writers whose articles I recently added to my Writing and Creativity list:
Sieran Lane: “When Nice People Use Headlines that Make Them Sound Like Assholes”.
Sandy Gold: “The Unexpected Gifts I Gained from Joining a Writing Group”
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