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This is the second article for a freelance writers. You can find the first freelance writer article here.

Define your easiest article

The easiest article is a great tool for work. Basically you need to specify the amount of words that you can write about the given subject in five-seven minutes without thinking too much or searching for additional info. For me it is 150-250 words. Later you can use this easiest article amount of words to split some large articles into smaller ones. It will help you.

Split the articles

This hint works for large articles, but can be used in any case. If you have a 1000 words article, you can write a 100 words intro and split the rest of the article into three or more parts (the mentioned easiest articles or even smaller ones). From this moment you will have three 300 words articles or five 180 words articles and they will be much easier to write.

Add some extra info

You can always cover a part of the article with additional extra info. For example if the article is about auto insurance, you can add a small part about auto insurance in general. Such additional information blocks are a great solution if you lack few hundreds of words to finish the article. Of course this works only if the client is ok with such info.

Start with the facts

If you don’t know how to start the article, start with the middle facts part. For example if it is a description of a product you can write the specifications of the product color, length, general market info. At some point you will see that you already have 150-200 words and you got some additional ideas while you were writing the facts.

Write parts

If you have a large number of articles to write, you need to start writing as soon as possible. Create all the empty documents, do some information search and start writing. As soon as you run out of inspiration for one of the articles, switch to the next one. Eventually you will end up with all the articles 20-60% done. At that point it will be very easy to finish such almost done articles. You’ve got to be careful with large amounts of articles, if you get stuck with one article you can easily spend too much time and miss the deadline. So it is better to start writing small parts of all articles.

Concentration

This works basically for every type of work. You need to concentrate to get the job done. Turn off the messenger, turn of the music (or turn on the one that you like), if it is possible even turn off the Internet. When you are left alone with your articles, you will be able to do the double of your usual work. I manage to do up to 12 articles per such offline day and only 4-5 per a day with dozens of things distracting me. Of course it is not easy to work 10-12 article days in a row, but I recommend mixing easy days with hard working days.

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