Comments on: Creative? Lazy? Writing As A Measurable Job https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/creative-lazy-writing-as-a-measurable-job.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Canada's Search and Social Media Authority Mon, 03 Jun 2013 02:20:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: MikeTek https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/creative-lazy-writing-as-a-measurable-job.html/comment-page-1#comment-22160 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:44:54 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/creative-lazy-writing-as-a-measurable-job.html#comment-22160 I don’t mean to say high speed = nonsense, but I know if I cranked out posts just as fast as I can type the end result, in my case, would be nonsense. Or, at least, not writing worth reading.
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]]> By: Ruud Hein https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/creative-lazy-writing-as-a-measurable-job.html/comment-page-1#comment-22158 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:37:07 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/creative-lazy-writing-as-a-measurable-job.html#comment-22158 In reply to MikeTek.

Well yes and no, Mike. I don’t believe that high speed = nonsense. The inverse would mean that low speed = high quality?

I simply think that the more words your article has, the more editing you have to do: cut out, reduce, distill. A 250 word “post” has a lesser chance of that need occurring than a 1250 words one — regardless of the speed.

]]> By: marketingtucson https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/creative-lazy-writing-as-a-measurable-job.html/comment-page-1#comment-22139 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:03:09 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/creative-lazy-writing-as-a-measurable-job.html#comment-22139 This post makes it so simple and was reassuring as I write about an hour a day. I write whatever I want to write about within the realm of marketing which is a pretty big field. The fact is that here in Tucson it’s a lot of fun doing it and as my dad who has written 4 books and innumerable articles is fond of saying “writers write”.
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]]> By: MikeTek https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/creative-lazy-writing-as-a-measurable-job.html/comment-page-1#comment-22136 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:56:35 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/creative-lazy-writing-as-a-measurable-job.html#comment-22136 Some excellent points here, Ruud.

When your job is to write you can’t sit around and wait for lightning to strike. You’ve got to plant your ass and do the work.

“Waiting for inspiration” is an excuse.

Of course, inspiration is still important – it just needs to happen in the minds of your readers, not your own. For that reason I’d hesitate to turn out a post I wasn’t crazy about. In fact, I frequently let posts die on the vine – sometimes they’re not worth publishing.

I happen to type 85 WPM, but that’s a little frightening – at that rate I should be cranking out 1275 words every 15 minutes. I’d pity the reader on the other end of that firehose of nonsense.
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