The Quiet Routine That Produces 6 Articles a Week Alongside My 9–5
What you need to know about writing content part-time
I write for about 12 hours a week.
I realised after doing this for 2 years, that the way to maximise my output and ultimately write better content, I needed to optimise my morning routine.
And a morning routine starts with the night before. Here’s what I do weekly to write 6 articles a week (and most of the time I write a lot more).
Planning the evening before as a rule
If you wake up and have no idea what you’re going to write about you’ll spend the first 20 minutes picking your brains.
Then the pressure will get to you and you’ll start to beat yourself up. Another 10 minutes wasted. Then you’ll turn to Google. Say goodbye to the next 30 minutes of your life.
When you’re on a time limit (thanks to the 9–5) so you don’t have the luxury of relying on your brain to come up with inspired ideas at 6 am. I don’t about you but nothing much coherent is happening in my brain at 6 am.
My mornings would follow the exact steps marked out avoid until I realised that my brain needed stimulus to get going (especially in the morning). And so instead of the…
