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Are most of you "highly productive" writers using Speech to Text software? My wrists/forearms would never hold up under that much strain (not to mention shoulders and foggy eyesight too).
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Instead of counting articles I count how many words I write. Most days I am writing about 15,000 words. Most of the articles I have this month for clients are 1,000 word articles so I am writing 6 of those a day and then about 9,000 words a day for my own projects.
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I'm with Jwinter on this one - if you know the topic or they are easy to research, you would be surprised by how many you can get done. I usually have a hard time getting started but once I do, I can do about 20 a day. This doesn't mean I could do it every day but I have a tendency to procrastinate where I have 15-30 articles (400 words each) to do in a day or so. I also have a lot of distractions. If my husband wakes up when I'm working, you can kiss my production level goodbye. He doesn't understand going away, lol. I'm sure typing speed makes a big difference too. Before writing, I did data entry for about 6 years so I can type almost 100 WPM and it helps.
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I'm not using a software of any kind. Mainly because if I know the topic, which is my rule before taking any work, then I write it faster than I can speak it. Besides, even when you have well trained software there are still editing issues and commonly switched words to look out for. There are also days when the software may or may not pick up what you meant and what you need so you end up spending more time correcting than you do writing.
I find that proper placement of the keyboard, knowing the topics and taking breaks works best for me. For example, if I have 25 articles (like I do tonight) I will do five or six then break then do five or six more and break. It also helps that I type over 85 wpm. There's a lot to factor in and each person is different. I mean I've seen people who type 85+wpm and because they don't know the topic or their grammar is bad they type as if they can only meet 25wpm. |
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Friday I did 14 400+ word articles for an emergency order for a client. I had about 6 more to go but I couldn't take it. I totally burned myself out. The shoulder of my right arm is so stiff that I can barely lift it - but I still gotta finish my job. I'm working on it right now.
My limit is usually 5 articles a day, between 400 and 500 words. I can work back up to 10 articles a day, which is what I used to do, but it's gonna take some time. I've got great clients though - they are super patient and really, really nice. It makes me want to keep working for them. |
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I loathe Dragonspeak. I've edited far too many articles using that program that virtually needed rewriting. I happen to type 80 wpm, and in my typing class, the teacher drilled posture, wrist position into us to prevent carpal tunnel in the long run, so I've never had a problem with that.
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Usually, it's up to 20 orders form my permanent clients and some additional tasks, so called extra task which are well-paid and worthy spending time on them.
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