A while back, I got into a big argument with a guy on the Warrior Forum. It was a huge deal in the marketing world back then, and everyone was on there.

After lurking for a few years, I finally jumped in and started posting every day.

It was a good way to get people to visit my blog.

You could basically leave a comment and get traffic from it, as long as you put your website link in your signature.

Back then, things were pretty easy.

Writing on Ezine Articles also helped drive traffic, but you needed to write a lot of good stuff. It was a combination of quantity and quality.

And that’s where the fight started…

I argued that writing an article quickly often resulted in better quality than spending a long time on it.

Another guy, whose name escapes me, completely lost it and went on a rant.

He insisted you had to spend at least 4 hours writing an article for it to be any good.

I still disagree.

Of course, if you don’t know the topic well or it requires a lot of research, it’ll take hours to write. But if you’re familiar with the subject, you can write it quickly.

The time-consuming parts are research and thinking, both of which I had eliminated with my method for writing 8 articles in an hour.

I even used that method myself. On New Year’s Eve 2019, I still had 25 articles to write to finish a challenge I’d set for myself.

I could have taken the easy route and written one a day, but…

Procrastination is my middle name, so I waited until the last minute – December 31.

But I wrote and wrote, and I managed to finish all 25 articles.

I even got them past Scott, who was notorious for rejecting articles on Ezine Articles.

Each article was about 400-500 words, so that was a lot of words to write in one day.

I wouldn’t recommend it, but it felt good to relax that evening.

So, how did I write so many articles so quickly?

Eight in one hour, which is over 3,000 words per hour? Well, I used a trick.

My first article was a “7 Tips to X” type of article. Then, each of the next seven articles covered one of those tips in detail.

That’s how I got 8 articles.

And yes, I could write them in an hour. You can still use this method for blog posts or even here on Medium.

You can actually get more than 8 articles from that “7 tips” article, just by using different angles.

Imagine this:

  • Article 1: 7 Tips about X
  • Articles 2-8: An article about each tip
  • Articles 9-15: Q&A about each tip
  • Articles 16-22: What Would Happen If You Used This Tip? (for each tip)

If you can type quickly, writing 3,200 words per hour is totally doable, especially since you’ve already done all the thinking.

You just need to come up with that initial article, the one with 7 tips.

That’s how I managed to write 8 articles in an hour – and 25 articles in a single day!

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