Six Writing Productivity Secrets To Help You Write Faster
Long ago, when I was an elementary school teacher, I used to write a book in one month. I worked at a year-round school which meant we worked three months and had one month off. During the month off, I wrote a novel, then I spent the next three months editing and rewriting. This allowed me to write quickly and produce two to three books a year.
But two things happened. The first was that I changed from writing relatively short romances to larger, more plot complex women’s fiction books. The second change was that I stopped teaching to raise my kids and my schedule became erratic.
At that point, I started writing one book a year.
Then when I started self-publishing and teaching courses outside of the university as well as teaching business writing and communication at the college, and adding more and more to my schedule, I moved to writing a book once every two or three years. This is not good.
So, I’d like to share what I’ve learned about productivity and writing quickly because I’ve been analyzing this for myself and I figured other writers could benefit from this too.
