How to sell your writing by writing thousands of words in one hour

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You can write at warp speed to sell your writing and make more money in todays' shaky freelance industry. You can write thousands of words in an hour. No guarantee the writing is literature quality, but a buck is a buck and writing SEO or keyword articles will never qualify for a Pulitzer. I interviewed working freelance writer Amanda Evans and got a hurricane of response to her statement that she writes eight 500-word pieces per hour.

Writing fast isn't unusual. Novelist Sidney Sheldon bragged he never wrote, penned or keyboarded a word. He would, I heard, dictate each novel into a tape recorder, at one sitting. Writer lore? Maybe. But there are organizations who encourage writing a novel in a month, or even a weekend. And I think my working pace is troublesome!

Envisioning Amanda at her desk, tearing her hair, papers flying willy nilly and computers shorting out right and left, I recontacted her and asked for clarification. I don't have the stomach to recommend web plagiarism and I'm not convinced software packages that write for you are ethical, so I was worried. She cleared it up.

Once I have all my research completed for the articles (on a single topic) it really is just a matter of typing them up. Having spent 10 years as a professional secretary, I guess my typing skills allow me to get this done. There's an excellent e-book (Content Writing Riches) out there that gives great tips for anyone who wants to write 500 word articles in 10 minutes.

Copyblogger, an awesome resource for web writers, has yet another take on fast writing. Supersonic writing can be done - and each writer has to figure out if that's the right storyline to follow.