How to write blogs faster: 7 tips to improve your writing speed

If you write blogs regularly, time is of the essence. After all, for blogs to be influential and produce results, they need to be made regularly. That being said, if you tend to have trouble starting and completing your blog content, there are things you can do to make the task a little easier. 

Although you never want to speed through the writing of a blog without paying any attention to the writing itself, there are simple ways to learn how to write blogs faster without sacrificing content or meaning. Below are seven of those ways.

1. Keep a content calendar/list for future articles

The content for your blogs won't just automatically come to you, but it's a lot easier to find the right content if you make a plan. Make a list of your work, with each item on the list being a specific task. From each of these items, you should be able to develop a dozen or more ideas that you could write about regarding that particular step. Keep the list ongoing and add or delete topics as you see fit. If you write them down in the format, you're most comfortable with, editing the list will be even easier.

2. Always have a specific end in mind and call-to-action (CTA) 

One of your blog's primary purposes is to establish a call to action or CTA. A CTA typically will come at the end of the blog post and encourage your readers to contact you for further information, watch a video, sign up for a newsletter, or something similar. The CTA is an excellent way for you to build up your list of leads and prove to your readers that you are an authority when it comes to this particular topic. Carefully think about the CTA for each post to encourage readers to take their interest to the next level.

3. Never spend more than 15 minutes on your research

Limiting research to 15 minutes may sound like a strange suggestion. Still, study after study has shown that when people spend more than 15 minutes researching material for a blog or article, they are procrastinating at that point, and it doesn't add any value to their writing. When you research, you can get ideas for future topics and discover facts, stats, or quotes you can include in your writing. In other words, too much research isn't valuable and can have the opposite effect than the one you intended.

4. Use a template and/or outline to save time

Templates or outlines help organize your thoughts and establish an introduction, body, conclusion, and CTA for your blog. You can find a lot of templates and outlines online, and you can even personalize them so that yours is a bit unique from the others. Research various templates until you find one that feels right to you, and use the one you choose with every blog you write so that they have consistency regardless of the topic.

5. Never edit until you complete your first draft

Most writers have some editing experience and let's face it; you'll always have to edit your work before posting it online. But don't start editing right away; instead, wait until you've completed your first draft before you get out that red pencil. Editing at every step will only slow you down, and besides, editing and re-editing can be a neverending ritual. To save time, always wait until you have a complete draft before editing. Creating a draft is an important rule when learning how to write blogs faster.

6. Edit, but don't rewrite the article

Once you've completed the article, you can edit it but always resist the temptation to rewrite it and make it into something else. You can't expect any blog to be perfect; it just has to be good enough to appeal to your readers. Also, keep in mind that blogs are meant to be read in just a few minutes, so keep the blog itself and the individual sentences short. If you prefer, you can install a tool such as Grammarly to catch mistakes without wasting time, but keep your editing to what's necessary.

7. Wait until the end to finalize your headline and insert images

Sometimes the most challenging part of writing a blog is to come up with a title or headline. We suggest you start with a rough headline draft, then the task of coming up with a finalized headline can be a lot easier. While working on your article, you might develop a different idea for a title and even for the images, you wish to include. Waiting until the end of the article is much less time-consuming than trying to come up with the perfect headline or deciding which images to place than it is in the beginning.

Here at Blog Hands, we hope you’ve found these tips useful and are on your way to writing content faster. Need help with your writing? Let us write on your behalf.