Increasing Your Writing Productivity Can Help You Develop Other Skills
Are you able to get more writing done or have you seriously reached your limit?
One thing about the online writing community, especially on the Medium website; we simply love writing advice; both giving and receiving it.
We especially enjoy reading about how to write good stories and internet articles, and hopefully, earn money writing them.
So the advice and opinions you find in this story are meant to encourage new writers to start becoming more productive in their online writing.
Time and Productivity
In order to make time to increase your writing productivity you will need to confront one question, as honestly as possible:
Are you possibly able to get more writing done or have you seriously reached your limit, when it comes to your regular output?
I know from experience, what a significant life change it can be to finally buckle down and get serious about writing.
Do you think it’s possible that you’ve been straddling the fence about how dedicated you want to be to your online writing? Don’t answer that.
Just realize that now is the perfect opportunity to make up your mind and do something definitive about it.
I’m 63 years-young, and I’ve been writing online for at least 1/3 of that time. I believe that qualifies me to give a little advice and throw a few opinions around.
So please, take a few minutes to enjoy how consistent online writing enabled me to increase my productivity over time. My writing related activities helped turn this freelance writer into a researcher, an instructor, and a publisher.
Article Writing is a Bridge
Writing articles online for the past two decades has helped me in more ways than I can count. As a result, I also picked up a lot of other useful skills, including marketing, and self promotion.
Article writing was my bridge to finally reaching many of my other creative goals, including writing my first book, and self-publishing my first novel.
If you hope to write your first book in 2021, thanks to the COVID-19 crisis and everything else that happened last year, you’ll have plenty to write about.
Whether you start writing articles on various websites, or you exclusively write stories on Medium, you can learn to hone your writing skills, and prepare yourself for becoming an author.
Then again, maybe on the road to authorship, you might decide you want to do something altogether different with your writing skills. That’s the beauty of writing online, and getting better and better at what you do.
As you continue reading, you’ll see exactly what I mean. Notice all the advantages my writing has provided me, because of the things I learned along the way.
Research and Online Writing
Ever since I was a child, I wanted to be a teacher. I just wasn’t exactly sure why.
I didn’t realize it at the time, but my desire to be a teacher had more to do with how much I personally enjoyed learning, rather than me actually loving to teach others.
Article writing forced me to do research, and I loved it! It felt great, doing my due diligence and trying to find out all I could on the subject I was writing about.
If you hope to write a book one day, you’ll ultimately have to do some form of research. This is true even when you write fiction [A future story will discuss this in more detail].
Instructional Article Writing
Whatever my motives may have been in the past for wanting to teach, I always liked the idea of sharing what I knew with others, and I still do.
Years ago, I taught preschool for a while, and that satisfied my teaching desire but eventually I wanted more.
In other secular jobs, I often found myself having to train one or more individuals, so writing instructional guides came easy for me, when I started writing ebooks.
I owe the publication of my first ebook to many of those articles I had written. In one way or another, I was able to use all the previous articles I wrote and everything I learned while writing them.
When I went from article writer to self-published ebook author, this provided me another outlet for my desire to teach.
And of course, I was still writing articles, all about the subject of online writing.
Writing and Self-publishing
In spite of the many ebooks I eventually self-published, I didn’t truly embrace my newfound status as an author until I actually published my first novel.
That is what had truly been my lifelong dream, and I finally attained it, thanks to the skills and self-discipline I learned from my years of article writing.
So now I’m a self-published author with multiple titles, and I’m creating and working toward new goals (one of which is to go from being an unknown, author to a known author whose work is read often).
Final Thoughts
Whatever your ultimate writing goals and objectives are, your stories and article writing can help you attain them.
Focus on:
- Getting used to writing on a regular basis
- Working and improving your writing skills
- Increasing your confidence in your writing abilities
- Getting started on the path to writing your first book OR whatever you want to come next for you.
It doesn’t matter what your current or future writing goals happen to be; writing stories and articles online will bring you closer to them.
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