How to Work Through Your List of Drafts and Publish Stories Much Faster

Do you want to know what helped me publish 270 stories in the 3 months I’ve been here?

Are you a Medium writer that wants to be more productive and earn more money with your stories? Well join the club. We’re all striving for the same goal, even though some are further along than others.

No matter what we’re accomplishing as writers on Medium, there is usually room for improvement, and personally, I don’t mind admitting it.

I’m not all that happy with the amount of time and energy I spend writing, in comparison to the return I’ve been getting for my investment.

That’s why I continue to do evaluations every week, to try and discover what I’m doing right and what I’m doing wrong.

I consider myself to be a prolific writer, with 270 published stories (counting this one). However, though my earnings reflect I’m headed in the right direction, I definitely believe I should be making a lot more.

To me, that means making even more adjustments, and thinking of even more creative ways to get my stories viewed. That’s my ongoing mission.

What about you? Are you seeing the results with your stories that you’re hoping for? If you’re not pleased with your story output, and the amount of earnings your stories are generating, it’s time to do something about it.

Consider the strong guarantee I provide about the contents of this story:

If you’re willing to implement the effective strategy that I discuss in this story, it can help increase your writing productivity, and ultimately your earnings.

Take a few minutes and read this simple little method I use each morning, or whenever I sit down for a story writing session.

Here’s what I’ll explain:

1. What my method is.
2. How you can perform the simple method.
3. The advantage of using this method to clear your drafts.

My Method for Working Through Drafts

As we all know, there’s nothing new under the sun. I doubt that I’m the only Medium writer who has found this effective method for working in “draft” mode.

Some writers who read this information may feel like it’s old news, while others will be glad to get it. But the important point is not whether you’re familiar with it, it’s whether you actually take advantage of it and make it work for your.

So what exactly are we talking about? Using the method of organizing and setting your drafts up, ahead of your writing session every day.

In another very detailed story I wrote, I explained how crucial it is to have lots of drafts if you really want to increase productivity. In a second, you can notice just what I do in order to move those drafts and turn them into published stories.

Here’s what to know in advance about my process:

• For starters, I usually have about 20–30 tentative titles AND subtitles sitting in my list of drafts.
• Some may actually contain notes, or a small amount of content, based on what I was thinking when I first saved the title.
• The titles are generally in no particular order, until I actually began to work on them and prepare the stories for publishing.
• I usually direct my attention to 5 specific stories to work on and get published within a 2 to 3 day period.
• Between that 2–3 day period, the 5 stories usually move positions like musical chairs, depending on which story is being worked on at the time.

You may not have realized it, but there is a way that you can organize the list of draft titles. You can set it up, so that the 5 stories you plan to work on are all lined up, in whatever order you want to write and publish them in.

For you to do this, you need to be aware of some other information first.

As soon as you work on a story that you’re not ready to publish, it is automatically saved as a draft. But suppose you decide to make a change to your tentative title?

You won’t automatically see the change appear while you’re in story mode, looking at the draft titles. In order to see the change to the title, you have to manually save the story.

The problem is, you need to know how to save it manually, since you’re not ready to hit the green publish button?

What you do is click the three dots so you can select a tag and save it. You don’t have to choose all your tags right now. You can do it when you actually publish the story.

The point of this step, is to force the draft to manually “save” and you’ll be able to see the new title and any updates to the draft, even though it’s not published yet.

This is the exact same procedure for organizing the drafts in the order you want. You can get up each day and position the drafts in the order you choose to work on them, depending on your mood.

Now let’s walk through that, step-by-step.

How You Can Perform this Simple Method

Each morning I look over my current list of drafts, then I proceed to set my stories up, so they appear in the order I plan to work.

• I decide which 5 stories I want to work on, and in what order.
• I START with the story I want to work on LAST, by opening the title, and adding some text to the story. When I save it, via the “save” button where you add the tags, this story will be displayed at the top of my list.
• Then I go to the 4th story I plan to work on. I repeat the process, and now, it is in the number 4 position. By the time I save the last story — this is the one that winds up at the top of the list, and now, I’m ready to work on the stories.

This system has been great for helping me work through the tons of draft ideas that I like to keep waiting for me to turn into stories.

What is the Advantage of Using this Method to Clear Drafts?

The main advantage of using this method to clear your drafts is being able to know exactly what you plan to write about each day.

This method provides a daily blueprint that you don’t have to overthink. Once you organize the stories, and discipline yourself to go from one to the other, it becomes like second-nature.

I can honestly say, this has been one of the methods that has helped me publish stories a lot faster, so why not give it a try?

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FINAL THOUGHTS:

The best way to make improvements, is to constantly be evaluating your progress. If you discover a flaw in how you’re doing things, you have to be willing to make a change, or you’ll keep getting the same results that you know you’re not pleased with.

• Remember the strong guarantee made in the beginning of this story.
• Think about the reason you should be doing regular evaluations.
• Recall why it is so crucial to have a nice supply of drafts
• Use the method to organize stories the way you want to work on them.
• Set your own deadline for how long stories should remain in draft mode, and start converting those drafts into published stories.

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