Never Fail Again: The Best Hacks for Publishing on Medium 7 Times a Week
Repeated performance is the key to mastery. It helps us learn the ins and outs of a specific task. In view of busy lifestyles perform a task like writing daily can be difficult or maybe impossible. Repeating the task is important to your writing profession.
Some like Schonda Rhimes devote 10 minutes a day to write about anything. But If you are like me you wouldn’t be satisfied with writing just anything; you want to write something meaningful, a piece you can refer to and a work that inspires.
In this write-up we will be looking at 5 quick methods you can use to generate meaningful content at the go.
1.Note down your ideas: A single day can bring dozens of content ideas. However, these ideas go as quick as they come. Jotting them down is a great way of saving them for those spell days.
To save your ideas instantly, use note apps pre installed on your phone or try popular third party applications like Evernote, Microsoft one note, Google keep for Android users and Apple notes for the apple fans.
You could carry a jotter if you want to go old school.
2.Your recent experience: your learning experiences are a great source of content for your writing.
Did you misjudge a situation write about it?
Learned a new skill — tell people about it.
Regardless of what it is, people want to read about the experiences of others to satisfy them.
But be careful not to write about events you haven’t fully internalized. For example, learning from as doing this would make you shallow!
3. Read other works: If filling your head with content to write about proves difficult, then get help by reading the write-up of others.
In this method you enjoy a piece of content but highlight intense statements you can further expand on.
This is an endless treasure trove. It’s impossible not to dig out great lines that inspire you to write content of your own.
4. Use prompts: Every write-up starts from asking a question. How to get great writing ideas daily for instance inspired this write-up but what if you run out of questions? And no longer have anything to write?
In a prompt a question is asked and you answer. Your answer can be long form or short depending on your desired word count.
Prompts are fun! Here’s one. Which meal would you have on your worst day and why?
Here are some great prompt sites you can try:L
WRITERS’ DIGEST WRITING PROMPTS
5. Ask Google.
Have a topic but don’t know the angle to write from? Then Google may just be the answer.
To use google to generate angles you can write on simply type in your desired topic and google automatically shows you suggestions attached to your topic based on the queries of other users.
Whoever Writes daily wants to build consistency. This consistency could be to achieve some goal, a goal like growing a readership on medium or improve your writing skills.
Follow any of the methods above to ensure you smash your daily writing goals.
However, You could be prepared to write a 2000 long article but find no time for it.
This is a problem most writers have. To solve this, apply any of these tips
1. Schedule time: set aside a specific time of the day to do your writing for a specific amount of time. These dedicated period assures you one finished content daily.
2. Don’t schedule time: It’s counter to the first tip but its more flexible. Here you use whatever free time you have in the day to write. I personally sometimes write when I find the time for it. This could be in a bus, at an office or at home.
3. Gamification: Apps like Atticus and Habitica are programmed to display your writing as game target’s. This gives you a visual representation of your goals and motivates you to smash them.
4. Set realistic word counts: Set word counts you need to smash daily. It’s best if these word counts aren’t too ambitious but tailored to your goals
Are you writing for money heavier word counts are required
Writing for release — smaller word counts will do.
5. Set timers: timers seem like pressure tools but they eliminate time wasting decisions. I’ve found myself eliminating steps I thought where necessary when I had a timer set.
Bonus tip: Leave editing till the last. Write to your heart’s content and edit your mistakes after you finish writing not as you write. This allows ideas flow without interruption and you can finsih faster this way.
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