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Saturday 30 November 2013

How Many Articles Can You Write on a Daily Basis?

Not everyone is capable of churning out hundreds of articles a week, though a few are. However, if you are able to produce, say, 50 articles a day, the quality of each article may turn out to be rather questionable. Mind you, this is not always the case as there are a range of factors that can affect how many articles you produce. Your typing speed, how familiar you are with the particular subject area you are writing about, the number of words you are expected to write, your organisational skills and your general ability to focus can all have a bearing on your article production.

If you have an in-depth knowledge of what you are writing about, you obviously won't have to do as much research and your writing style will be more fluid. You won't have to keep stopping and starting to see if what you're writing is accurate and you will be able to pinpoint relevant source material and resources much more quickly than if you have no real idea what you are writing about. Even though you may be able to write an article about a subject area with which you are not too familiar, it takes more time and effort to research and write such an article.

Consequently, the greater your familiarity with a subject, the more articles you can produce, especially if you are able to organise your time effectively. If you have a set list of titles you need to write to and a designated number of words each article has to come to, you clearly have less flexibility when it comes to writing. This can sometimes be a good thing, as you know what is expected of you and so you just get on with it. It is coming up with your own titles and writing to them that can be more problematic, as there is just too much choice!

On the other hand, when you choose which articles you want to write, you can pick subject areas which interest you and which you already have some knowledge about. You can probably get away with writing only 300 or 400 words, which may not be an option if someone is paying you to write articles that meet certain specifications. You have less flexibility and you may be required to perform re-writes until your client is satisfied, which can be rather time consuming.

To maximise the number of articles you write when writing articles that you actually want to write – rather than because you are being directly paid to write them – it helps to create a list of article titles that fall under a similar category. If you decide to write a range of articles on diet and weight loss, you won't have to waste time thinking about which titles to write to and then doing the research, as you will already have the titles there and be able to do all the research in one go.

Everyone has a different work rate. Some people are able to produce a large quantity of articles daily, whilst for others just writing one or two is a challenge. It obviously depends how much time you can dedicate to your writing, whether you are writing for yourself or because you are being paid by a client, how knowledgeable you are on a range of subjects, how quickly you can get your ideas down on paper and how many words you have to express yourself in.

Ultimately, though, quality has to count for more than quantity and so instead of focusing on how many articles you can churn out on a daily basis, perhaps it would be better to focus on creating content that people actually want to read.

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