Words To Profit Mastery - Fast Writing: (Lesson 7) How to write fast
By Jonathan Green
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Since we now know how to do effective research and turn it into words, we can master writing quickly. Writing fast can make you much more money by turning a job which takes 8 hours a day into 2 hours. Having a great outline will make the writing process much faster.
Paid By The Word At first, depending on the types of contracts, you might start and get paid a flat fee based on the length of the book that you do for the client.
Once you advance and get a higher reputation for doing great work, you might be able to negotiate a percentage with future clients. It may be as little as 4 cents a word at first; then would jump up to 7 or 8 cents a word and eventually you could get paid a gross percentage; whatever the case may be. Whether you are getting paid a flat fee or a commission, if you can write fast then you are guaranteed to make more money. Jonathan Green – www.ServeNoMaster.com
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Organize First The first thing you need to have in order to master writing is organization. The more you organize your mind map and research, the easier this part will be. You should organize the tools to help you with this. Even things like second monitors for your pc/laptop will really come in handy as you don’t need to constantly keep switching between windows and pages. You don’t need a massive one, just big enough to do the job. Before spending money on software or hardware, a good question to ask yourself is, “is this good enough and will it increase my productivity and efficiency?” A fantastic piece of software to use is scrivener. It’s fairly cheap and has a ton of great features. You can convert your mindmap into scrivener and copy over your notes as well. The app also lets you set micro goals which can be crucial to success. You can set up little goals like, 3 sections that need to be written out in a day or writing out 700 words before moving onto a different task. The app regulates what you can access and this can greatly improve your concentration and productivity by cutting down the work into bitesize chunks. There are other apps besides scrivener, but currently it’s one of the best apps made for this type of work.
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Using Your Voice Are you a slow writer? You don’t necessarily have to use a keyboard to write. You can become very fast by dictating. Many people can dictate 2 or 3 times faster so it definitely is a very good alternative to typing. First of all, you need to figure out the math on your contract and how much you can afford to spend on transcription services. A very great and affordable transcription service is Rev.com who charges $1 a minute however, you need to refer back to the last statement about making sure that you have the budget to pay for it and doing the math to see if it’s worth it when including the payment that you will receive from your contract. Another way to do transcription is to use a tool like Dragon Dictate by nuance which can transcribe your words when you speak. Lastly, there are also plenty of smartphone apps which you can utilize, which are generally free so they can also be added to your list of tools to use. This gives you lots of options to choose from when it comes to dictating and its worth to demo most of these to figure out what works best for you.
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Eating An Elephant When using scrivener, its best to organize your work, to not get overwhelmed. For every chapter that you have, you will want to make a folder and for every subsection, you will want to make a scrivener card.
Taking on a task of mammoth-proportions is fine If you manage to break it down into parts. The app provides you with interactive training which is around 1 hour long, so you need to try and go through it and hopefully by the end, you will know enough to master it. The reason we want to use scrivener is to be able to chop up big goals and instead make it into small digestible pieces. Instead of trying to write an entire book and get overwhelmed, we will try to work on our small goals, bit by bit. Scrivener actually integrates with dragon dictate, so you can do your sections by just speaking, watching your word count go up and doing the entire creative process faster, all whilst doing it little by little. Jonathan Green – www.ServeNoMaster.com
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Book length Length really varies by the type of product and project. A click bank product could be anywhere from 25-35,000 words whilst a basic Amazon book could be between 8-10,000 words. The Amazon marketplace has an entire section dedicated to “short reads” where books are usually bellow 20,000 words. The category is extremely popular, and many people buy them a lot because of the time restraints and on the basis that it’s quick and comfortable to read. Even blog posts have change from the standard 300-500 word per article and because of a Google update, the preferred article length is now around 800 words.
Writing Rhythm The way to get fast is to have a rhythm. You need to develop a writing rhythm and its more of an experimentation phase to figure out how much you can write and in what manner, before you become too stressed or overwhelmed. You could write one section at a time or you could write in one or two hour blocks. It will take some time to develop your writing style so don’t try to write more than you can and learn your pace. The best way to write is to have two monitors. Jonathan Green – www.ServeNoMaster.com
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You can have your mind map on one monitor whilst having scrivener on the other. One of the best things about the mind map is it will help and prevent you from plagiarizing other people’s work. You want the words to be 100% original and the mind map really helps to make sure that happens. Invest time into finding your rhythm; it will really help you a lot. . - Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green – www.ServeNoMaster.com