This is Stevea Robbins. Welcome to the get it done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today we'll be discussing how to write faster by streamlining your writing process.

When people say they're going to write a book, I cringe. Not because I doubt them, exactly the

opposite. I cringe because I know how much thankless

work is required to write a book. From a business perspective, there's almost no direct financial

return, and only rarely does it even have an indirect financial return. For every billionaire

J.K. Rowling, there are 10,916,371 writers who lose money creating their masterpiece.

If you write efficiently, at least you can minimize the damage.

Note to listeners, if I've completely discouraged you from writing a book,

great, you're free.

If you're now more determined than ever, that's also great because it means you have the

grit to see it through.

Start at a very high level.

Any long piece of writing has a high level flow. It

takes you through the big chunk concepts in a specific order. Write down that flow in a few

sentences. Write one sentence for every major concept for an essay, and for a book, write one sentence

for each chapter. Just get the thoughts down. Don't worry about the order yet. If you're writing

about the dangers of keeping woodchucks as pets, your big chunks might be, one, there was a tragic woodchuck incident

in Topeka, Kansas in 1986. Two, woodchucks can indeed chuck wood. Three, lack of numeracy,

plagues attempts to quantify woodchuck output. Four, woodchucks shouldn't be kept as pets. Now that's just four sentences

long, but congratulations. You've written your first draft. Now that you've written your first draft,

review it. Does the order make sense? Do the pieces flow logically? If not, change the order.

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