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How to Become a Prolific Writer without Compromising Quality

Quantity in Content Development Matters Too!

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Background

I emphasized the importance of quality and excellence in an article before. Thank you for your excellent feedback and for extending the topic.

In this article, I want to articulate the importance of quantity by wearing my business and entrepreneurship hats. Businesses simply require revenue and profitability to survive and thrive. Revenue generation mandates “quantity” underpinned with quality.

The challenge for a compelling business value proposition is to create more with less cost in a shorter time without compromising quality. Remember the project management discipline's triangulation of cost, time, and quality. We must keep this view in our ventures at all times.

To achieve this delicate balance in the triangulation shape, entrepreneurs in startup companies, and nowadays, even large business organizations, use agile and pragmatic approaches refraining from perfection. We do less and achieve more. The goal is excellence and productivity. The phrase “fail fast and fail cheap” is the motto in the industry.

Traditional approaches create products and services with a monolithic approach known as the waterfall method. Many initiatives using a monolithic approach failed miserably. The monolithic view is about to die in the industry.

In the monolithic approach, a product uses the entire project life cycle. If a product fails, we waste the entire project budget. However, in an incremental approach, thanks to the concept and implementation of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), if the incremental piece fails, we waste only a minimal budget. In other words, we fail fast, are cheap, and learn quickly.

Leveraging the concept of MVP, entrepreneurs produce more products with lower costs in a shorter time with higher quality. MVP turned to be a magical formula in the industry.

How can we apply the MVP concept to writing?

The MVP concept can be applied to writing in the context of being a prolific writer. I want to give you a simple example of using the MVP concept from my writing practice. My writing practice is involved in the technical domain covering bespoke solutions for a specific audience in a unique consumption model.

The way I implement MVP, in this context, is related to book chapters. For example, rather than waiting for the completion of the entire book for publishing in the workflow, I write a single chapter, get it formatted, peer-reviewed, and edited, send it to my beta readers, and obtain feedback for quality and readiness for consumption.

While the first MVP is happening, I work on my MVP2 and apply the same recursive process. If my MVP1 meets my acceptance criteria and becomes successful, I monetize it in my unique service consumption model. Considering my MVP1 may fail, I redo the MVP1 with my learning while the MVP2 is in the workflow. The process continues incrementally using a methodical lifecycle approach.

I want to apply this proven experience for ILLUMINATION's quantity strategy as a supplemental tactic. To experiment with this approach effectively, I developed a challenge for our growth. As I intend to initiate growth without overwhelming you, I designed a simple procedure.

What is the challenge?

This challenge is simple, practical, effective, and fun.

I named it the “quantity with quality for prolific content development” challenge. Can you give it a better name? Here’s our third challenge to empower us in our growth zone.

To this end, I propose each writer create one article per day in the next 30 days based on a single idea with a maximum of 500 words, preferably averaging 300 words.

To make this challenge practical and useful, I developed a set of criteria. Here are the requirements:

The article must be on a single topic or theme.

The topic must be compelling to the readers.

Each article must be unique, with no repeated content.

The article must have a sharp opening leveraging powerful phrases and metaphors.

The body of the article must explain the topic concisely refraining from redundant words, phrases, and sentences.

The conclusion must offer a maximum of three clear take away points for the readers.

We spend a maximum of 30 minutes for each article for full focus and attention. No multitasking when writing these specific articles! We aim to train our brain to become a prolific writer without compromising quality.

I believe each writer in this community can write 300 to 500 words in 30 minutes in their expertise areas and domains.

The purpose of this educative experimentation is to improve our articulation skills, leveraging clarity, brevity, and impact principles.

At the end of the month, I expect each writer to submit 30 high-quality, useful, and impactful articles to the publication. We will measure the progress. You can add this challenge to your monthly writing plan.

By using this technique, we can expose our content to a larger and newer group audience. I believe short, impactful, and high-quality articles can be appealing to readers.

Conclusions

Most readers prefer simplicity, not complexity. Everyone is busy nowadays. People don’t have time to deal with convoluted ideas, excessive descriptions, and complex content. Readers are after sharp and useful takeaway points to improve their lives, businesses, and other goals.

With this reader-centric approach and focus, I envision the number of reads and even read times for our articles can increase. We can gain new readers who can turn into our followers and also fans. If we use this technique for a year, each of us can produce 360 articles. This can be an easy path to becoming a prolific content developer.

As a by-product of this disciplined approach, we can generate new neural pathways in our brains. This can constitute an effective behavioral transformation. With the new behavioral patterns, each day, the writing tasks can get easier, more natural, and more comfortable.

In a few months, our new behavior can turn into a habit. Once we form a repeated pattern daily, we can start experiencing the flow state. When we are in the flow state, writing can be a joy rather than a chore. This technique helped me overcome the so-called “writer’s block” effectively. The way I used MVPs rewired my brain for joyful writing practice.

Would you like to take the challenge to become a prolific writer effortlessly?

Please comment if you have ideas on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of this technique. Considering we have many professional writers in our community, it can be beneficial to learn other techniques to become a prolific writer. I ignite the candle, and you keep the light going.

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