I Take Entirely Too Long to Write an Article
It’s true.
Tonight, I am working on finishing an article I started last April. (Yes, April 2010.)
Oh, but it gets worse.
You see, that article is comprised of some other articles I had already written.
So, all I had to do was merge this articles together, expand on a few things and wrap it up.
But, it’s taken me 9 months to do that.
Truth be told, I wasn’t working on the article for 9 months. That would just be really bad. No, I had put it on the backburner and I didn’t really get back to it until this past Monday. Oh, I think I had worked on bits here and there, but, mostly, it was just sitting there.
Yesterday, I finished writing it, which wasn’t too bad because some of what I thought still needed to be written was already done. So, it was really just a matter of writing a few paragraphs to finish it all up.
Today I worked on illustrations for the article, one of which I actually finished yesterday, because it was one I was able to “recycle” from another related project of mine. Tonight, after this blog post, I will proofread the article one last time, and then I will convert it to HTML to put on my website.
Now, if I had worked on the article straight from start to finish, this is one that would have probably taken me a full week to put together.
That’s, of course, a far cry from nine months.
But, the thing is that articles take me time to put together. Sometimes, I’ll put together an article in a day. I do a lot of blog posts in under a half hour. But, you see how infrequently I have a substantive blog post here.
I know of people that will write 10, 20 or maybe even 30 articles in a day. I think the most I’ve done in a day is maybe 10, but I don’t know for certain.
But, with a lot of these “highly productive” writers, what they’re creating is search engine fodder and not articles really meant to provide readers with information but to sell something. Mind you, not all “highly productive” writers are just cranking out search engine fodder. There are people that can produce a lot of useful content and do so quickly. But, I would hazard to guess that most people producing dozens of articles a day are not.
The thing is that a lot of these people have to produce that type of quantity day after day to get traffic coming to their websites.
For me, on the other hand, this article that I’ve spent 9 months (or a week, depending on how you want to look at it) putting together will bring traffic to my site for years to come.
So, while it’s true that I need to finish them up faster and not put the on the backburner, maybe I’m not taking too long to write an article because I can get as good results from a single article that some people may get from 100.
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