Do any of you actually write 5 articles per hour?

Yup, this is what I do. I set the timer. Write an article and see how long it takes. Then, set the timer for 5 minutes less and write another. Once you get comfortable with that pace, shave off another 5 minutes until you can write one article in 10 minutes.

I started off closer to a rate of one article every five hours.

It's constantly improving though. Under one hour now .

As mentioned above the secret is to sit down, start writing and keep writing.

I can humbly offer a couple of tips:

1) Write about something you know about.

2) Don't sacrifice quality for quantity.


Best Regards,

I can write 5 in an hour if it's a topic I know well, but I always do my keyword research first before writing a batch of articles. I have my list of titles and resource boxes ready to go before I write as well. Writing 5 in an hour is all very well, but how long could one actually keep that up? My article limit is still only about 10-15 per day - any more and I'd burn out very quickly.

Writing 5 articles a day, for how many hours each day? You'd burn yourself out pretty quickly!

I can do 3-4 per hour depending on the topic, but only work around 6 hours max a day on actual writing.

This made me think of my last English Literature exam at school. A large portion of the marks came from ten pieces of coursework we were supposed to have submitted throughout the year leading up to the exam - I'd submitted four during the year, and cobbled together the other six (by the skin of my teeth) while sitting in the school cark park during my lunch hour on the day of the deadline. How I passed that one, I'll never know.

I very much doubt I could manage the same thing now - article writing takes me forever (OK, forty minutes or so ) and is my least favourite part of what I do. Five an hour? No chance. The way I see it, even though I am not going to compare well with the keyboard whizzes who can manage to pull this one off, I'm still in front of the people who look at article writing, say 'I can't do that' and don't do anything at all.

Ten or twenty articles a week isn't a lot compared to five an hour, but the effects soon add up and will almost always amount to more than those of the 'nothing' that's often accomplished when you're deterred because other people's productivity seems unrealistic compared to your own.

Here in the UK, we had a sit-com in the seventies called Fawlty Towers. Not many episodes were ever made, but it's still remembered and talked about now, long after popular sit-coms of the time that ran for series after series have been forgotten. It doesn't matter if you're not as prolific as other people are - if you think it's worth writing, then just get it out there.