When you’re writing lots of different articles, blog posts, sales copy, or any other type of piece for your clients, there are a couple of ways you can approach this:
- Pick a piece and go through each stage of the writing process (from idea to ready-to-publish), step by step.
- Progress a bunch of pieces at a single stage: pitching multiple ideas on one day, outlining them another day, and so on.
A few years back,
I wrote about batch writing for Craft Your Content in the context of your own blog or newsletter … but this is a technique you can use for freelancing too, especially if you tend to produce multiple pieces that follow a similar format.
You don’t need to batch every single stage, but even if you batch some tasks together, it can make you more efficient – and more likely to stay on track.
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