That’s why, despite often being shorter, my last articles are usually my favorite ones. I stopped caring for how much time I had left in my session. I stopped caring about how far I was in the story. I stopped caring for how quickly I typed. Screenshot of the first 3 articles written by the Author on that day Each word I wrote was a part of what got me in flow. I had already written over 3,500 words when I started it. Remember that 2,000-word article I wrote? It wasn’t out of nowhere. The more articles you create in a row, the easier the words flow out of your mind onto the keyboard. That’s when batching articles could become a good tool to reach flow. There’s no turning back from writing once you’ve experienced how it can improve your life. If you don’t write often enough, all you need is a pebble to make you trip and fall of the wagon.Īfter you’ve understood the power words can hold, you should be safe. After all, it’s important to develop the habit of writing first. New writers tend to give themselves a short amount of time here and there to write. In a nutshell, flow allows you to make connections your brain wouldn’t have made otherwise. Tim Denning wrote an amazing piece about the power of flow so I won’t dive into it now. Flow, as described by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly is an optimal experience during which we lose all perception of time and effort. The more you write, the more you can transform simple stories into adventures transporting the readers.Īnd the more you write, the more you live in “flow”. The more you write, the more you realize people don’t care for perfection. The more you write, the more confidence you gain in your capacities. “Practice makes confidence,” would seem better to me. In a decade, I’d probably laugh at my current writing style. I also know I’ve only spent 2 years and a half writing. After 800 articles, I can say with confidence my writing style has improved. Until you tell me your trick, I’ll keep using what seems to work best for most writers: practice a whole lot. That’s why you’ll never type at your full theoretical speed for an hour straight. You have to think and manufacture sentences you’re proud of. With over 800 articles behind me and thousands ahead, the road to stringing ideas better and typing faster will never reach an end. But I know I’ll get better as I keep writing article after article. I’m sure some writers type 3 to 4 times as fast as I do. I learned to not get stuck on one paragraph for 20 minutes. I also learned to string my ideas with more ease. I began typing faster but that’s not the only difference. Screenshot by Author of his Clockify session I recently wrote a 2,000-word article in 1 hour and 22 minutes. Now, over two years later, I eat those 300 words for breakfast. When I started my 1-year writing challenge, I sometimes struggled to type 300 words in an hour. At worst, it’s hurting your productivity. But thinking this is what is slowing you down is wrong at best. Would it help to be able to type faster? Maybe. You’re the only one who cares how fast you type. If you wrote the exact same story in 4 days and in an hour, nobody would know. Nobody cares whether it took you 20 minutes to write an article or 3 hours. There’s no boogieman looking over your shoulder all the time and pushing you to type a certain amount of words in a short amount of time. And practice starts with two realizations. What matters isn’t how fast you type, it’s what you learn through practice. In reality, I’ve never even reached half that amount. Since I began writing online, it’s gone up to near 80. I knew I could type faster than many people but I wasn’t far from the average of 45 Words Per Minute (WpM). I just practiced it by using it for work or some classes and it became second nature. I never learned the common Qwerty keyboard. I practiced typing when I was a teenager but the keyboard was the French one ( Azerty). My typing speed was never what slowed me down. I’ve had days when one single article felt more difficult to write than climbing the Himalayas. I’ve had days when I crushed article after article. Depending on the day, I would either think I could write a thousand-word article in 20 minutes or it’d take me two hours. Before starting to write online, I was both optimistic and pessimistic.
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