Top 10 Productivity Tips From Outstanding Writers

Writing is an in-demand skill right now. Whether it’s blog writing, copywriting, article writing, or email marketing, people all over the globe are willing to pay very nicely for skilled writers and excellent content made by them. 

As you’re being paid to create only first-rate content, the faster and more effectively you write, the more prominent a writer you’ll be on the market. As you become an increasingly recognized writer, more high-profile clients will want you to be the one creating high-quality content for them! 

Now the question is, how do writers learn to increase their overall productivity so they can feel motivated to generally write more? 

Below are 10 tips from writers who have well-established themselves in their writing field—be it books, blog pieces, and other formats—and share what has made them create content at their absolute best. These tips have helped me become a better writer myself. 

Writers’ Rough Drafts – Episode #70 – Dream Byline on The Atlantic featuring Megan Wildhood

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Megan Wildhood is a neurodiverse writer, a saxophone player, and a registered scuba diver. She is an advocate for those experiencing mental and emotional distress, as her work at a crisis center in the city that is ground-zero of this country’s housing crisis galvanized her to devote more of her vocational and creative efforts on behalf of the marginalized. As shared on her website, “I love words; there is no such thing as ‘just semantics.’ Words are worlds. Words create things and change minds without brain surgery. Words matter.”

Writers’ Rough Drafts – Episode #69 – How to Pitch Can I Play That? with Courtney Craven

5 Things All Writers Can Learn From the Adweek Copywriting Handbook

How can you use your writing to sell something? Whether you’re a novelist, a content marketer, or any other kind of writer, eventually you’ll have to write something that needs to be persuasive. 

Decades ago, copywriters fought to get the attention of potential customers in print. Print ads ran in magazines or as mailbox-stuffers, and there was tremendous pressure to keep readers engaged long enough to sell a product or service. Joseph Sugarman was one of the most successful copywriters in this era. In one of his most popular ads, Sugarman sold a spelling computer by filling his ad with typos and offering $10 off the computer for each typo a customer found. He wrote a book, The Adweek Copywriting Handbook, that shows readers how he did it.

It turns out that no matter what — or in which decade — you write, you can learn a lot from copywriters like Sugarman. I’m a copywriter myself at my day job, and my fiction has greatly improved from what I’ve learned doing this job every day.

Here are the five best writing lessons from The Adweek Copywriting Handbook.