As of late, it’s fashionable to write hell for leather. In fact, there’s a hot cottage industry in the writing culture. But is it good for the writing community? Or detrimental?
For lack of better terms, let’s call this trend the “The Hell-For-Leather Writing Movement.� Or HFLWM.
You see HFLWM in titles like “How to Write Fast,� “Write an Article in 20 Minutes,� and “How Fast Can You Write?�
Growing content demands and aggressive editorial schedules shove this thinking into our faces. But it gets empirical with 5 Personal Writing Metrics Every Content Marketer Should Track by Nate Baker at Raven.
And it also gets personal.
In this 7-minute episode of Rough Draft, Demian Farnworth discusses:
- If tracking your writing could make you write faster
- Why it’s a bad idea to compare writing to walking
- A more reasonable stretch goal than “writing faster”
- When writing faster is appropriate
- The perfect metaphor that describes how a serious writer revises
- And more!
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