How to Write Fast And Make More Money - It's Easy

Let's start with the premise: "If your writing equals your income, the faster you can write the more money you can earn." It's a simple equation. To make more money, you need to be able to write faster.

So the obvious question is how to write fast?

While I can't tell you how you should work, I can share what's work for me.

Here goes. "Once upon a time..."

My Personal Lightning Bolt

I was once a very slow writer. Veeerryyy sloowwww... But then something happened, I got power-ups. I’m still far from being the fastest writer alive. But I’m so much better. My record is finishing a 2000-word post in less than two hours.

So, what’s the story?

It started when I landed this 600-word blogpost gig. The client sent me a very detailed outline, with headers, main idea per paragraph, and supporting details for each paragraph. All that I have to do is follow the dots.

Guess what? I speed through the points and finish writing the post in under one hour. That very post would normally take me at least twice or three times as much.

To me, that writing assignment was similar to the lightning bolt that struck Barry Allen. The difference is, I don’t get the super speed right off the bat. It’s just a wake-up call that I actually can write faster given the right circumstances.

Now the question is, what are the right circumstances? How do you tap into the writer’s speed force? How to write fast? How to write faster?

I did my unofficial researches and experiments, and find out that the answer is in the thinking. Or to be exact, the lack of it.

To write faster, you must NOT think while writing.

How to Write Fast – What To Do?

Let’s start with the root of the problem. Why do many writers write slowly? Because they think and write at the same time. 

Slow writers write a few sentences, think about it for a few seconds, delete the last sentence, write them again, think, re-write, and repeat the loops throughout the process.

No wonder it takes forever.

I’m not saying that you should not put any thinking into your writing. If you want to know how to write fast, you should move the thinking part before the writing. And after.

Remove the Thinking Process

The fastest writers are meticulous planners. They plan well and know exactly what to write before even start writing.

In the simplest word: you sit and make time to craft a detailed outline beforehand.

Most successful novelist outline every scene of their novels before they open the word processor – or whatever tool they use to write. Once they start the writing engine and put their fingers into the keyboards, they don’t waste time thinking about what will happen next. They just write.

They don’t mind grammatical errors. You deal with that in the editing process after the writing. And if you want to put your editing process on steroids, use Grammarly. More on this later.

I will repeat the concept because it’s that important.

Don’t think while writing. Think before you write when you prepare the outline, and think after you write when you edit your piece.

But It’s Counter-Intuitive. Or Is It?

Some might think that this process is counter-intuitive. You usually do it all in one go. Won’t you waste more time going through your writing several times over?

The key phrase is “all in one go”. It means you are switching back and forth between thinking, outlining, writing, rethinking, and editing tasks.

As proven by multiple pieces of research, doing many things at once and juggling between the tasks will not make you work faster. The result is the opposite.

On the side note, the so-called “multitasking” has some benefit to your creativity, but only if you are doing longer and bigger projects such as working on several books at once.

Let’s go back to the topic. Doing everything all at once is slower than doing it in three separate processes. Do an experiment. Write two more or less similar articles (same word count, same difficulties), and use a different approach for each one. Don’t forget to track the time.

How to write fast? Forget multitasking.

Asking The Right Questions

If having an outline and eliminate the thinking process really help you write faster, you have to make sure that the outline is a good one.

And how do you prepare the best outline?

By asking the right questions.

And here are the seven questions that you need to ask while preparing your best outline.

1. Who is the target reader?

You need to be as specific as possible. Break it down to sub, sub-niche if you can.

For example, you want to target writers. What kind of writers are we talking about? Freelance writers. And you can go down one more level. What kind of freelance writers? Maybe those who just started their writing career.

2. Why should they care about your topic?

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