I normally write bullet points and then fill them out. I find that lets me write quite quickly.

Some people don't actually write the article but speak the article if it's correct to say. They use speech to text programs. Some have templates ready for special type of articles and so on.

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Some of my posts are longer than 500 words (not kidding) and nothing has ever taken me more than 10 minutes to post. It's all about typing speed and whether you need to think about the content or not. I usually post (and write articles) off the top of my head, so just typing and thinking (more typing, less thinking) required.



But some of my writers (and me) use speech to text software to just dictate too.

Andy

I use dictation software so I don't type

One of the quickest ways is to write list articles.

For example..."The Top 5 Ways To..." or "10 Ways To Prevent..." etc

Introduce your article with a small paragraph describing the problem or what the reader is going to learn from your article.

Then write each list item and a few sentences describing that particular item.

Then end it with a small summary paragraph.

Before you know it you have a 400 word article ready to go.

Tony

I can't do it myself without seriously reducing the quality of what I'm producing. Saying that, sometimes if I get in a good flow about a subject I often find I have written enough to split one article into two.

If it is merely backlinks people are after like Al says it doesn't matter so much about quality, although I cannot see how the backlinks they achieve are not devalued by the shoddy workmanship.

Yeh try using Dragon Naturally Speaking to write your articles with. However, quality is sometimes better than quantity so make sure you don't sacrifice good keyword rich articles just so you can do an extra article.

They write crap.

I'm the same as you: a 400-500 word article takes an hour. I challenged myself to get article writing down to 15 minutes once (since someone - Jason Fladlien? - talks about "seven minute articles"), but I never managed to get it much below 20... and the quality of the articles was just horrific. I spent as much time fixing them the next day as I did writing them, and I was just so wiped out from the effort that I couldn't do anything the next day.

So what would have taken me three days of relaxed, enjoyable work instead took three days of frenzied self-torture and exhausted semiconsciousness... and the articles weren't as good.

It's not worth it. Never again.

Wow, thanks a lot for all the replies so far! Very insightful.

If you know the subject already then you would be able to write about it much faster than if not.

Or when you do research on a subject make a list of points like 10 - 20 things you "must do" when "flying a plane"...

Make another list of things "you should never do"...

Have another page that just answers the "Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How".

Another with interesting tidbits like "The first plane to ever fly more than..."

Quotes from great pilots. Quotes about flying.

Where to find more information and history.

Use those pages above as quick reference guides on that subject for your writing.

Now you have enough bones to put the skeleton of an outline together which enables you to write articles faster.

"5 Things You Never Knew About Flying" "3 Things You Must Never Do When Flying A Plane" "5 More Things To Avoid When You Are Going To Fly A Plane" "7 Steps To A Better Flight Plan"

Those could have been put together very quickly if you already have the other research in place.

I have to agree with Matt M...if you know the subject, you can usually write them much faster. Ask me about dogs and I can give you 3 very well-written, informative 500-word articles in an hour. Ask me about solar power...I got nothin', and it'll take me awhile to research before I'm comfortable putting anything down on paper.

when you write articles, do you include your targeted KW or just write anything that is related to what your website is all about?

The type of articles I write at a rate of 5-10 an hour are definitely of different quality than ones I spend an hour each on. These lower quality articles I use mainly for testing, simple backlinks, posting quickly to article sites, and for backlinking to the main article which takes me longer to write (which is usually on my own site).

You can save time by posting the same article to different article sites if you really only want the backlink and not the traffic, or you can spin your articles, again the quality will drop here, but if you only want the backlinks then again this is ok perhaps too.

At the end of the day though you should focus on your core skills and outsource the things that take you too long - I love writing and I do most of it myself still, but graphics and web design is another issue alltogether for me

Hi,

This is something I've struggled with myself. In general 500 words takes me between 30 minutes and 90 minutes depending on the topic (and that is if I don't procrastinate).

I'm working on my Masters thesis at the moment and for my academic writing I aim for 100 - 200 words an hour so that makes my article writing speed look better.

In terms of resources I like Jason Fladlien's write an article in 7 minutes product - I have never actually written an article in 7 minutes but his process helped me a lot. I also like WSO's by Zeus66 (John Schwartz) particularly Write Less, Bank More for keyword research on your articles and his Rewriting WSO (saved me a lot of time in rewriting my own articles to come up with new versions) and there is a free program called Dupe Free Pro which is great for checking keyword density and comparing two versions of an article. Sorry don't have the links for these but sure you can find them.

I brought an article writing WSO today but haven't had a chance to read it yet - that will be my excuse to procrastinate from writing/studying tomorrow. :rolleyes:

Manda

It does get easier, Laura, and what I finally decided to do was write personally about the things I knew about and outsource the rest. It just takes me too much time to research and write about something I'm unfamiliar with.

Depends on how familiar you are with what you are writing about and how much research is required.

There is just no way I would put my name on something I cranked out in 15 minutes! It would be garbage!

If it is a topic that I wrote about frequently, then it is somewhat faster. But in order to get the quality that I put into my writing, it's going to take time for research, then time to write, then time to proof and perfect. I think the fastest I've ever done is 30 minutes for an article on a topic that I am very familiar with. The slowest was a project I finished a few days ago that was painfully slow and boring. 2 hours per article! I definitely lost money on that one!

I find it helps if you are a natural writer and actually truly enjoy it, plus it depends on how familiar you are with the subject as well, then typing speed.


Chris

I find it much easier to write if I dont think too much about it being perfect English and just type as if I was talking about the subject in question. No pontification just taking a paragraph at a time and it seems to flow easier and faster. I usually achieve around 700 words in approximately 30 mins. And for the purposes of SEO I write the same information in the form of 5 articles.. It works for me!

When I was writing articles I would just rewrite successfull articles completely.
Basically taking the concept and add my own twist to them.
I made some great money article marketing....those were the days!

It never becomes new. That's called a "derivative work," and you can't legally distribute it without the original author's permission except under the doctrine of "fair use" - which is not a license, but a defence. If you create a derivative work, and the original author comes complaining, you don't get to wave "fair use" and stay out of court. You get to go to court and PROVE it's "fair use."

Not a lawyer, but a former DJ and sample-based musician. Been sued for copyright infringement four times. I'm pretty familiar with the topic

I haven't read all the above posts, so excuse me if this has already been covered.

You get much faster at writing the more you do it. It used to take me at least an hour to write a good 500 word article. These days I type at around 65 words per minute and can have a great 500 word article out in 15 minutes. This of course would be for a topic I know about already. If I have to do research, it would double my writing time.

After you write for a while, you start to pick up a pattern to your writing style and the format you write in. It just gets quicker and quicker.

Travis

If you're writing on a subject you've thoroughly researched or you're already very familiar with then it's fairly simple to write quickly. Using Dragon Naturally Speaking, which I would highly recommend, also increases your output dramatically.

I think most of the 5 articles per hour merchants are just churning out garbage for backlinks so it's always a case of quantity rather than anything approaching quality.
They also fail to take into account the time spent on research, or in their case the time spent finding something on Ezine Articles to plagiarize.

Nigel

Oh, It's basically simple. You see writing from the perspective of an academic. Most of us see it from the perspective of sales. It all comes down to one thing: How much money can we make?

This doesn't necessarily lower the articles' quality. It is just that too much in depth research doesn't go into it as seen in the typical academic writings. Know one thing today: You don't need to write for the Pulitzer when doing article marketing.
A few things contribute to speed and accuracy in writing:

1. Knowledge of the topic

2. Versatility

3. Your own typing speed

4. Your ability to research the topics really fast.

Some people have this down to a system. What you know a lot about, you can easily write about. lemme know if you need some help in this area.

I pay someone else to write them...

I don't get it either...
I need 30-60 minutes to write an article. And when I don't know much about a topic, I need even more time. Doing research on a subject takes up a lot of your time.

Usually i pay someone else to write them for me as writing bores me, however it also works out cheaper to get a more general article writen, then re-writen and then spin those articles!

A pack of 5 articles which will cost me about $15 to $20 like this will then turn into 100+ unqiue readable articles and it doesn't take that long to spin them either.

Mark Blaze

Hai,

rather than used some tools or software, write an article its depend on the topics, some topic its well known by ourself, some are not. Familiar topic will make we get the ideas more faster than unfamiliar one.
when i write, i will start with point out the main ideas, then combined it to full article.

If I'm writing for myself, I will usually spend about 20 minutes doing the proper research about the topic. Then, I can usually pop out about 5 articles per hour. It's easy to do - you just have to let go of what you're doing and let your fingers spit out the knowledge.

It's all about getting to know the subject very well before you start to write anything. Then just think about going as quickly as you can.

However, if I'm writing for clients, I can usually only do about 2 maybe three per hour because I definitely want to pay more attention to what I'm doing.

Then run the whole thing through a quality spell and grammar checker and there you go. I haven't gotten into voice recognition software yet, but it sounds appealing - but I think the way that I do it now is working well for me.

-Noah Whitmore

I find that it takes me a solid half hour just to EDIT an article that someone else has written for me.

I propose that it all comes down how stringent your editorial policy and style guidelines are (hint, few people have ANY of EITHER).

In this, the quantity is king era of internet marketing, quality is sadly being cut down faster than brasilian rain forest.

I'm sure if my quality standards were lowered to the point where any random thoughts off the top of my head were good enough, then I would get a lot more quantity.

I see that a lot of people spin articles. Or they collect a database of topics and pull information out quickly.

It takes me anything between twenty five minutes to an hour if I have not researched the subject.

Typing isn't a problem for me, since I've made my living on production typing for years. Writing is also something that comes naturally to me.

However, I do write the articles much faster when I'm writing on a topic where I already have a lot of experience or knowledge.

I also find organization helps speed things up. If I am going to write on (for example) dog grooming, I would pick the keywords I'm going to target in the articles and read up on the topic (online and off) before starting.

I don't know where the thread is - here somewhere - but someone said they sit down and write on a topic, maybe 5000 words, then break it up into 10 articles. I can see where that could be a much faster way of knocking out a bunch of articles on a topic.

I also have typing productivity tools to speed things up. If the keyword is "dog grooming" and I've set my productivity tool, I can type in dg(space) and get dog grooming. (I believe a cheaper version of what I use is available here - http://shortkeys.com.)

4 words Dragon Voice Recognition Software. You can pump articles out like crazy!

I carry a voice recorder with me all time and take voice notes about articles ideas. So when I write it usually takes me about fifteen minutes per article, I just open a template, put the title, add some bullets, fill them, and this way I can write about 5 to 6 600 words articles per hour (I cna tyep 300 wodrs pre mitnute)

The process of Review them, correct them, check the spell and grammar, and make them readable for real people (not just SE Bots), takes me about 1 hour each... :rolleyes:

Some writing requires a lot of research and a lot of thought, so there's only so much speeding up that can be done. Unless you have a method for how to research and think deeply faster.

I just a little test then. I churned out 300 words in 10 minutes. I gotta agree with everyone, quality is definitely more important than quantity. By the time I've edited that so it's usable, I'll wish I'd just spent a bit longer and a did a good job.

500 words an hour for a quality article is absolutely fine.

Re: How do people write articles so fast?

They use a feature called "copy and paste". That gets them done within seconds

Get Inspired,

I know how you feel. It used to always take me between one to two hours to write an article. When I got it down to 45 minutes, I thought I was doing great.

I bought two WSO's that really helped get my time down. One was about how to turn one article into 16 by Brad Carroll, the other was "How to Write an Article in 7 Minutes" by Jason Fladien which has been mentioned previously.

After I read Jason's WSO, I sat down and wrote a 600 word article in 20 minutes. So far I've written a 500 word article in 12, I haven't gotten down to 7 minutes yet.

The one thing I realized after reading Jason's article is that I had a tendency to cover too much in the article. It really helped me focus, and as a result, I was able to write much faster. I think the quality of my articles is the same, maybe even better. It's easier for me to get into the flow of the article now.

Brad's WSO helped me look at the articles differently, and it's much easier for me to write a set of article on the same keywords.

Obviously, if there is a lot of research that needs to be done it will take longer. But if you're writing five articles on how to remove dog urine, you're not researching new information for every article.

Beats me.. I generally write one good article per day, works better this way for me. Some article directories accept the garbage that article spinners throw!

Try this:http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...wUoIBZSRE19NMm

The strategy that best works for me is to either create a list of bullet points and flesh out each bullet point with a minimum of 3 details, with an intro & summary paragraph. This usually works for subjects that I am well-versed in.

On the other hand, I do agree that "speaking" an article is the absolute fastest way to write, IMO. You talk for a few moments or an hour and POOF!- you have an articles series, free report AND book written (depending on the amount of detail you explore in your subject). I do have the Naturally Speaking software, but I also have used a free teleconference line (w/ free recording) to create articles/reports/books, as well.

Hope that helps!

I use dragon naturally speaking, not because my typing is slow but my spelling is horrible. After you have spent lots of time with the program its accuracy goes way up and the production speed increases.

The key to cranking out articles for me has always been the compiling of information. My first 10 articles are usually very long 1000+ words. Because I keep those articles very well themed for example, one article may just be on "Tips to do X" and the next one is "The cause of X." This allows me to go back and reconstruct new articles.

If my articles are for article marketing then I always decided on how I am going to "get the click," with the end of the article, this is what I call my overall "transition concept". I plan and write this first, usually 100-150 words. After it is done, then I just make 10 - 50 variations. I don't use a spinner or anything like that, that way each rewrite is unique but focused on the overall concept and goal of getting the CTR as high as possible.

Keeping good track of all this for each niche is the key. I have some niches that can I can go to right now and crank out 10-18 very good articles in an hour just based on the information that I have compiled in the past. The best part is I have a very good idea of the CTR based on the past performance of the "transition concept" I use to end the article.
The other benefit of keeping all of the "transition concepts" separate is that when I receive outsourced material all I have to do is plug one of my pre-determined concepts. This allows me to take a sub-par article and get some decent miles out of it without having to rewrite the article. It's a money saver too, if I want a 500 word article all I have to do is pay for a 350-400 word article then I plug in the rest and publish.

I'm just going to reiterate what a lot of people have been saying here. It really depends on the speed you time and the topic you write about. In my years writing for daily newspapers I had to come up with about 800-1200 words a day. And even when I had all my notes and I was familiar with the topic the fastest I could write a good article was probably 30 minutes.

Now when I write articles for my blog, my client's blog or for article marketing it takes between 30-45 minutes. The fastest I've written something is 15 minutes but that was my blog and writing on a subject I was extremely familiar with. That was out of the norm though.

All I can say is that maybe these people who can write faster are gifted. Or maybe we just really care about our work and take a lot longer with it. All I know is if I'm satisfied with the work when it's done then it took as long as it needed to take.

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First of all "quality" is only decided by whoever is reading the article. It's also important to note that an article you make for marketing does not need to be an academic article you are about to submit to health journals or trade journals.

Today I wrote 10 keyword researched articles in under 2 hours. That's not to brag, but just to show how it does not and shouldn't take time to write articles. All you want is them to check out a quick tip and then click your link.

That's the ultimate goal, and most people get hung up on making a quality article.

I make my articles short and offer a simple tip or two. This way I get them hungry and the only way they'll get "fed" is to click my link and learn more stuff.

Even my resource boxes are "unprofessional" by conventional standards. I use blatant phrases to get people to click my links such as:

"Nobody wants to see a Pepperoni Face - Click Here to......"

"She's getting tired of you leaving her unsatisfied - Click here...."

Those are basic examples, but you get the idea. I make some even more crazy statements, but those are my gems I'm not gonna share.

I'm getting off topic now, but once you wrap your mind around the fact that your articles don't need to be academia style you'll be able to pop them out so much faster.

Another thing I do sometimes is look at a "5 tips to..." article and I'll make a separate article for each tip.

This is not even close to being complete, but hope this helps you out a bit.

Eric

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There are two things here - the speed of writing one article, and the number of articles you can write in any given time.

Writing an article quickly can still result in a quality article, full of information about its topic and entertaining for its targeted audience, provided it has been researched properly, but writing, say, 10 articles in an afternoon, is different.

Will the tenth article you've written be as informative and useful as the first?

Fatigue can set in after a while, and that applies to everyone. If that happens, it shows when the reader reads the article.

I believe it's important to put quality before quantity. Otherwise the internet will end up as a huge repository of second and third rate information regurgitated to death.

They outsource it and pay hard cash for it. It would be pointless of writing everything yourself, you wont have enough time to focus on the important factors.

Try elance.com, they have lots of freelancers willing to do the job.

Any questions let me know

Nick

As both a writer and a songwriter, I find it helps to have a reference paragraph in point form above what I'm going to expound on and write about. I use it as a prompt for the rest of my thoughts and descriptions.

This brief outline gets the creative juices flowing, and once I get inspired it takes me 20 to 30 minutes to write 400-500 word articles.

This method definitely puts me at least 2 complete articles an hour that are unique.

I agree that the best way to write articles fast is building lists of things and resources. That's my best method

It takes me about 45 minutes but I tend to nit pick, and go through various drafts. I value quality over quantity. My speed has improved it used to take me a lot longer. I probably need to work on my writing technique to save myself re editing various paragraphs as I'm typing.

I have speech software for the mac and a good headset but I am not a confident speaker and don't know how to stricture what I say so it flows cohesively.

You could use an article spinner if you can seed it with a high quality spin ready article.

I used to actually set a timer and see how fast I could write an article. Being honest I used to be able to write a 300 word article in 5-10 minutes. After I looked at my work I wasn't proud or satisfied.
It was basically just adding junk into the internet so I could get a few more clicks to my website.
I now focus on writing articles above 700 words and making sure that they are
1) Interesting to read and ...
2)Bring value to the table.

A decent article spinner using PLR articles, with a quick adjustment of errors means you should get out a 300-500 article in about 10 minutes. Aparentl "best spinner" is a good tool, although I can't vouch for this personally

There are several ways that you can write articles faster. First you want to be very knowledgeable with the topic. If you are you use dragon software and it will type 120 words.

You have at least two to 3 main points with transition sentences. At the beginning you tell the person what you will be discussing. You then run through the article in 5, 6 minutes and then go back and edit which should take a couple minutes.

Or you can make lists. Like 3 fat burning foods that have been proven to help melt pounds off of problem areas. Play on emotions and do not go super detailed. The shorter the article the better because it will put more emphasis on your sig, which is what you want them to click on.

Next method might sound a little shady but its not. You go to google and put in the keyword that you are targeting and find content. Rewrite the content in your own words. That will be super easy. Using the dragon talk and type with this method will help you plow thru articles.

I write articles in groups - so I might write 5 articles on one topic all in one batch. That way I can pull up several research pages at a time but still have all I need for 5 unique articles. It can be done, especially if you know your niche well. 10 minutes is a bit fast, even for me. I average 15-20 minutes on 400-500 word articles.

One method that helps me is to already have some ideas for working titles before I do my research.

For example: Dog Grooming -
Ten Ways to Market Your Dog Grooming Business
The Pros and Cons of Starting Your Own Dog Grooming Business
What You Must Know Before Starting a Dog Grooming Business

How to Groom a Dog in Seven Minutes (ok, not really, I threw that in for kicks. Some things just shouldn't be done in 7 minutes).

It keeps my research more focused so I can get on with the actual writing.

I love how if someone can write an article faster than you, then it's "Crap".

Kind of like when a girl is skinny, people automatically assume they don't eat or are anorexic.

I can get 500 to 600 word articles in an hour and even more if I have all my research together. It does depend on if I have written on the subject before, or know it well, then I can write it faster.

Having heard of the Dragon software, I would like to give it a try one day, but not yet. I still like old school notes and writing from an outline. I like quality and want my name associated with quality, so I doubt I'll ever be fully able to do many articles in an hour.

the best way is too read about your topic for about half hour and then start to write your articles. everything is fresh this way and it's better than spinning others articles

Well of course a lot of the articles you see out there are garbage that people just spun from other articles, but with practice you can get pretty good at just rewriting other articles.

As an example, I'll re-write your post:

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I always take over an hour to write an article that consists of roughly 400 or 500 words, but I see others who claim that they can actually write 5 articles in only ONE hour. How the heck are people writing that fast???

I do get that I write slower because I come from an academic background, but still, writing an article in only 10 or 15 minutes is still quite an accomplishment.

So what suggestions would you fast writers out there give to help me speed things up?

(as a side note, I can't actually speak for the QUALITY of the articles that people are claiming to write so fast, but they do usually say that they write decent articles).

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That took maybe about 4 or 5 minutes for me to re-write, and I'm sure there are plenty others who could re-write faster than that. You just get the idea of what the article is saying paragraph by paragraph (or even sentence by sentence), then say the same thing in a different way.

I wouldn't really call these articles "original" since you're just re-writing something else, but you can certainly get a lot of unique articles with this method very quickly with practice.

I can sometimes write an article (500 words or so) in 15 or 20 minutes. Often those are among my best pieces because they are inspired. That is when I have an idea and the words just flow.

Of course, that doesn't mean I can consistently write four articles in an hour. I am a fairly fast writer, but I can't produce quality articles that are up to my standards in that kind of time frame.

It is possible to write a quality article in 15 or 20 minutes, but for me it is not possible to do that all day, every day. However, when I am "in the zone" I can turn out several articles, one after another, in what seems like no time at all.

I do what a former colleague rather inelegantly called "puking on paper." That means just tearing through the first draft as fast as you can, putting every thought on the page. Then you go back and edit that draft to smooth it out and make it better. I find the editing process is easier when I let my writing mellow for a day or so before going back to it.

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I use dragon naturally speaking which is a voice processing system that allows you to change your speech to actual text. I can write a 500 word article in 5 minutes and easily make corrections all with telling my computer what to do.

You can type as fast as you can talk and it's about the other software out there other than the one you probably don't even know you already have. This can be found under your control panel after clicking on the start button. Once you have made it this far simply click on ease of access and look for the speech tutorial so you can quickly learn how to function it properly.

Instuctions from windows HERE

Cheers
Jake

Great questions produce great threads! And what a terrific way to start the weekend!

You'll have to crunch the numbers for your unique situation, but the examples given work out to a flawless 60 WPM - which, I think, is decidedly on the high side for most of us. That would give you a 420 word article in 7 minutes, or a 600 word article in 10 minutes.

Theoretically; which is the rough equivalent and every bit as bogus as saying that NFL players make millions working less than 40 hours a year. Not everyone has that kind of education, training, and experience; not everyone has the proper mindset, skills, habits, and discipline. You've got to know your strengths and leverage them; and know your weaknesses and work around them.

The reference to academia set off a barrage of claxons at my terminal that I want to address immediately. First, PLR and outsourcing is NOT plagiarism: all parties know exactly what is going on here, and no one is being cheated, nothing is being stolen.
Second, you don't need to knock yourself out with citating sources or the usual nitpicking over style - although that can be an advantage in some niches and with some target audiences.

Personally, I have trouble thinking in terms of a single article - even if I know the topic and the intended audience intimately. I have to think in terms of a series of articles. That comes in very handy if I'm going to have to spend a few hours or a few days doing further research. And inevitably it all leads to series of brainstorming sessions about new topics, new niches, new strategies.

Just to give you one example: although I use the Dragon software and think it's great, you're going to have to spend more time with it (than with manually keyboarded) looking for homonyms. And you need to know in advance to buy the Premium edition at US$129.99 that allows you to use a digital recorder for input - which doesn't with the Home edition at US$58.74.

It's well worth it, IMO. Your actual mileage may vary. And if you're going to invest in "high tech" you might want to start thinking about Flip or something similar for video.

Again, because of the reference to academia, I can recommend three very highly regarded, inexpensive paperbacks as must reads:

Robert Boice. Professors as Writers.

Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett. How to Write for a General Audience: A Guide for Academics Who Want to Share Their Knowledge with the World and Have Fun Doing It.

Paul J. Silvia. How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing.

and don't be put off by the academic slant - all three would benefit every writer who can get beyond the title.

And, of course, a good High School Dictionary (not collegiate, unless that is your specific audience); along with a good thesaurus. Use them! Words are now your stock in trade!

As for developing your craft, I've gotten the biggest bang for the buck out of a casual tip eons ago from a classmate in my freshman year to keep a journal. Somehow I fused that with a another tip about freewriting, and I've been starting every day since with an untimed session while my coffee is brewing. About twice a month I read through my journal and extract ideas to Post-It notes. By then my subconscious mind has been processing the problem, so it's pretty easy to write an workable outline or
sequence.

We're all wired differently, so you'll have to experiment a bit to find the best (most productive) time for you to write and adjust your schedule accordingly.

Everyone is different, but the tools used can help.
Using speech to text can make things go much faster since a person can talk at 160 words per minute instead of typing 50.

Also it depends on the topic. For example a person who is an expert on jellyfish wouldn't have to do very much research vs. someone who doesn't know as much.

It also helps to have an outline and be used to using it.
Such as knowing what type of information you want to give in each article. That way you won't spend ton of time going over the same things over and over again.

But ultimately I find that being an expert in one or a few areas really help. Then try to get clients who want articles on those subjects, or have your websites on those subjects.

And it also takes a lot of time to get into the flow of things.

Once you learn, then you can just duplicate.
Have the time and effort. No distractions and you should clear down a couple hours.

If you really have no time or want to gain more time for other things, outsourcing or finding reliable fiverr's can be a good idea.

Otherwise, good luck!

If you know your subject matter well, you can definitely write an article quickly! And as you write more, you will be to write faster too. But speed should not be your main concern, as I think quality and uniqueness of the article is more important.

I write about 4-5/hour and find that doing 20 minutes of good solid research helps me get it done faster than trying to research before every article. I also tend to just write and edit after I'm done so that I don't filter anything and get in the way of myself.

I don't think there's a tip other than practice more. Some topics come easy, and some suck.

Here are few tips that you may find useful while trying to write an article real fast:

1) Do your research beforehand. A lot of people don't do proper research and this results in slowing down their writing. Make notes, bullet points that you can refer to later while actually writing your articles.

2) Don't think / read the words in your mind while writing the articles. I remember when I started article writing I used to think a lot and that slowed down my writing process. If you have done your research properly, you would just need to refer to your notes and bullet points.

3) Don't review/correct the mistakes while writing. Have a separate review process after the writing is complete to correct grammar/spelling mistakes.

4) Enjoy the writing process. If you think of writing articles as a laborious task that you need to complete somehow, I guarantee your mind will wander from time to time and slow down the writing process.

Apart from this you can also use a speech to text software as some have already mentioned. I think Dragon Naturally Speaking is the best speech to text software around so check it out.

Finally this is one fun site that really helped boost my writing speed. If you have some free time, do check it out

Write or Die by Dr Wicked

Best Regards,
Anup

Google "Free Writing". It is a genious and simple method to write article fast. In as little as 10 minutes and ANYONE can do it.

Writing fast doesn't mean thinking fast as such. The moment you got a project for blogging, start thinking deeply and make ideas in bulleted points in your mind ,after that its quite simple to write any article in very limited period of time.

I'm a native english speaker at a top university in the United States. So I feel like I tend to have the advantage when it comes to writing articles. I can produce 500 words in 15minutes flat. I just hate doing it because it is so boring. I can speed it up 5minutes by using software like Dragon Naturally Speaking but ultimately, I tend to like to outsource writing and pay my writers well. It really helps.

Writing quickly is not a difficult thing to master. First of all it can come down to generally being able to type fast and having a good keyboard for the job (flat laptop keyboards can be troublesome).

Generally as a product creator I try to write about 5 pages an hour. Each of my pages is about 300-400 words long so I am doing about 1400 words per hour.

A lot of the problem is not being able to get into the flow of things. Now off course this is easier when writing a whole product then stopping to make a new article every 15 minutes, but when you have the general pattern and flow of things it becomes much more easy.

Having a specific layout will help you type faster. I would assume that this is more prevalant in article marketing because after writing 20 articles or so you would have a good flow for "introduce problem, build on this, give example, solve problem, fix hang ups, conclude" etc. allowing you to just go over this structure again and again to quickly pop out articles!

Hopefully this has helped some of you. (Oh and off course you could just use a program that turns speach to text, after all who cannot speak about three times faster then they can type?).

Kind Regards,
Connor

Articles that are written fast are usually articles that have either been copied at some point of the article or the article does not make sense.

They produce crap, thats why.

They mostly rewrite using software especially designed for that, or they use speech recognition software such as Dragon Naturally Speaking along with a few templates.

I use a Microsofts own speech to text tool. I can get an article done in about 20 mins and then spend 10 minutes checking it though.

But an article every 15 minutes is a crazy feat.

-Matt

I do like 5 articles an hour. I do it by typing fast since I have been typing for so long. And I don't even use the home row. Also I think what you really need to do is know a lot about your topic so the words just flow. I really immerse myself in the niche I am in by learning from other well made sites.

I think so many people just have so many different kinds of writing styles. For example, I just write. Whatever comes to mind I write, and I keep writing. I don't stop to really "think" as much - but just write what comes to and I don't stop. Of course this can only be done in markets I know, so I stick to markets that I know well.

I would say that it all comes down to personal preference. I know for a fact, that no matter how knowledgeable I am on a subject, there is no way that I could write a 400-500 word article in under 20 minutes. My process, like yours, takes about an hour.

Some people, I think, are willing to sacrifice a little quality in order to quickly establish themselves. On the other hand, I think producing excellent content is probably the best way to gain long-term authority in a niche.

Then again, I'm a complete newbie and am just speculating on what I think is the logical explanation to your question.