George, Never Hit Backspace

HI George,

Daniel Scocco here, and this is the Daily Blog Tips newsletter.

The Backspace key is supposed to be used when you are editing your
piece, and not when you are writing it. Those are two separate
processes, and if you don't separate them your productivity as
a writer will be terrible.

If you work online you know that content is the corner stone of any
blog or website. The more unique and useful content you publish,
the better. In fact even Google likes that. The more content you
put on your website, the higher the trust Google will have on it.

The question then becomes: how can you increase your productivity
as a writer so that you can write more content (without
compromising the quality, obviously). One trick most people
don't use is to separate the writing and the editing processes.

Most people write like these: they write a couple of words, re-read
what they just wrote, think about it, delete one word, and then
proceed to finish the sentence. As you can see, the process is very
inefficient, because you are doing many things at the same time.

A much better approach is to separate the two things. First
you'll write. During this phase your goal is to simply put
words down. You shouldn't care if they make sense, or if they
are grammatically correct. You should just write the words down.

Once you are done writing, then you'll pass to the editing
phase, and that's when you revise the sentences, to see whether
or not they make sense, to fix the spelling and grammatical
mistakes and so on.

By focusing on each phase separately you'll be able to
drastically improve your efficiency on both.

The problem is that entering into a pure "writing state"
is difficult. Most of us have the habit of writing and editing at
the same time, and habits, as you probably know, are hard to drop.

There are two tricks you can use to achieve this: the first one if
to commit to never use the backspace. When on the writing phase
you'll never delete anything, you'll just write new words.

You can only go forward, not backward. I don't care if what you
just wrote makes no sense, you go forward no matter what, as
you'll have time to fix it on the editing phase.

Another trick, slightly more drastic, is to not look at what you
are writing at all. You can look at the keyboard, for instance, or
if you are stubborn you can turn your monitor off. Once you are
done writing you turn it back on and proceed to the editing phase.

If you don't believe me give it a try. Use either of these
methods and check whether or not your writing productivity will
increase.

Now let me turn the monitor back on to see whether or not I made
some spelling mistakes...

Talk to you next week,
Daniel Scocco
http://www.dailyblogtips.com

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