The most important thing that I learned from doing that "Power writing gone wild"?

byegonsarv

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Updated 9 years ago

There is a training in the Affiliate Bootcamp where you have to set a timer and then just focus on writing (30min, 60min, or whatever you choose).

To be honest, I did not want to do the exercise. I thought that I have already written quite a many blog posts so I better just tick it and move forward.

But unfortunately (or fortunately hahahaaa) I am not that kind of person. I want to be honest with myself. That means if I tick the exercise then I have really done it.

So I did the exercise. I set my timer for 60 minutes and started writing.

Now here's the problem.

I am not native English speaker. It means, often I don't really know how to express myself in a right way. I am able to express myself in my own words but when I blog I really compete against all those professional bloggers and writers who are native English speakers.

That's hard. It takes a lot of time to iron out all those grammatical errors that I am still making.

This makes my writing pretty slow. Often I just don't know how to express my thought in a right way.

So what I usually do, I write and edit, write and edit, etc. It's highly frustrating!

I know, I know. I should not do it. But I still do. Because I don't know how to express my awesome thoughts hahahaaa.

And because it's frustrating, it's usually hard to start a new blog post.

Now the exercise said NOT to edit anything. Just keep writing.

I kept that in mind while writing. Again and again I faced situations where I did not know how to express myself in a right way. But because I was not allowed to edit, I just put my thoughts down the way I was able to write them. You know when you speak with somebody in a foreign language and suddenly you don't know the word. Then you seek an alternative way to express your thought.

This is what I did.

This way I was able to write 1265 words in one hour. This is the post:

http://goo.gl/X4YHUF

It's 2000+ words so in one hour I was able to write about half of it.

Here's the most important thing that I learned today:

SPLIT writing and editing! Write first and edit later! When I write and edit, write and edit, I can have hours and yet I have very little done. You don't see any significant progress and your thoughts don't flow either.

Now I have quite a lot of text already on paper (in digital form of course) and the pressure to write is off. I can relax and edit.

Sadly, I learned this simple lesson in a hard way.

Just wrote this post to help those (especially) newbie bloggers who may struggle with the same thing.