I Used To Need 4 Hours To Write an Article. Now It Takes 50 Minutes

3 mistakes that are slowing you way down

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I know that dreaded feeling you always get while writing.

You look at your word count. It’s just half of what you were aiming for. Then you look at the clock. Already 3 hours have gone by since you first started fleshing out the headline.

Where did all that time go?

I used to get the same exact feeling when I wrote, too.

After several hours of pounding away the keyboard, I’d complete a 1,000+ word article. And then I’d look at the estimated read time: 7 minutes.

How could I be so slow to create something that anyone would consume in less than 10 minutes?

Frustrated, I started looking for ways to quicken my writing process.

My typing speed wasn’t the issue (I’ve hit 170+ WPM on monkeytype.com). And it certainly wasn’t my setup that I could complain about. It wasn’t like my keyboard was so dysfunctional that I’d have to spend half my writing time backspacing unwanted characters.

So what was it that was causing me to take so long to write?

It didn’t boil down to just a single problem. I discovered I was making 3 major mistakes that were…