Boost Your Writing Productivity Like Never Before

The colder months can make us feel sluggish and slow. Sometimes all we want to do is curl up and hibernate until the spring comes around once more. This feeling of hibernation can be understandable, but can really slow our writing progress down. 

However, we all know what happens when we start to get out of the habit of writing. If we don’t keep up our practice, it is all too easier to find more and more reasons not to write. The more we struggle, and the less it flows, the harder it becomes, and then before we know it, the dreaded writer’s block settles in, and we have a real problem on our hands. 

So, to make sure this doesn’t happen, we need to take steps not just to keep up our current productivity levels but to supercharge them to ensure that we keep up that motivation and momentum more than ever before. 

Your writing time is precious, and you should treat it as such and protect it with all your might. Carving out that time to sit down and work on your passion is so important. The thing is, if you are committed to your writing, you can achieve every single one of your goals. But you have to treat it like a non-negotiable.

So if you want to boost your writing productivity, try these strategies.

Get up early.

No, we are not talking like 10 minutes early or even an hour early. Get up properly early. Prolific writer Anthony Trollope wrote 47 novels over his lifetime used to get up at 5 am and write for 3 hours before getting ready for work. While getting up at 5 am might seem abhorrent to some of us, it is not impossible. In doing so, you can get so much done when there will be little else to distract you. So set your alarm, get up, make a coffee, and get on with it. 

Experiment with timed writing

The easiest way to become super productive is to give yourself a word count goal. This goal is personal to each writer, for some may feel productive writing 100 words a day, and others may only feel the same if they achieve 1000. Whatever your goal, make sure that it is challenging. Don’t be lenient on yourself. The goal is to push yourself here. When you have decided on your word count, you can make yourself mini timed targets. So, for example, your goal might be to write 250 words every 15 minutes. Keep a stopwatch beside you on your writing desk and make sure that you hit your goal within the allotted timeframe to eliminate the possibility of just gazing out of your window for two hours, or worse, falling back to sleep. Think about it this way. If you write 250 words every 15 minutes, you’ll write 1000 words an hour. If you write from 5 am-8 am, you’ll write 3,000 words a day, 21,000 words a week, and could be finished the first draft of your novel within a month! The great thing about a timed writing strategy is that it not only make sure you are producing lots of words, but you also just don’t have time to let your mind wander. You have to state focused on this single task. You don’t allow yourself to do anything else. 

A Wall Street Journal article once stated that “It takes more than 25 minutes on average to resume a task after being interrupted.” By making sure you don’t have many opportunities to be distracted, you’ll remain as productive as possible.

Of course, you don’t have to write in 15-minute installments, and your word count goal can be whatever you like. By experimenting with the time slots and your word count goals, you will find a rhythm that works for you, where you are pushing yourself without feeling overwhelmed or burnt out. 

Timed writing is a fantastic way to beat procrastination, eliminate attempts to multitask, and exceed your word count goals. So if you want to boost your productivity and keep focused on your writing, why not give it a try? 

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