Learning to write fast and accurate from local and international journalists

By David Khoirul

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Journalists of Time, Poynter and The New York Times Website are absolutely fast writers. They update every day with at least two reports. They can write more a 500-word article in just a couple of minutes. And even it is not edited, the passage reads smoothly. How do they write in such a precise and productive way? They write in their mind. Both local and international journalists are used to writing this way. Detik journalists, for example, can produce tons of articles in a week.

Don Fry, an American writing coach, gives the advice of writing in your head before you put the words to the screen or paper. Writing from your head helps you plan and picture the story. You can get the best organization by doing this, almost the same way as outlining--only it is done in your mind.

Most writers can write this way, making use of the environment as the inspiration. Then they record that in their head and write several sentences based on what they see. Using this strategy, they finish a novel with ease.

Bloggers can benefit from this journalistic habit. See, record and put them into writing either on screen or paper. We have equipped with laptop and mobile phone to make it easy to write anywhere we want. Using a mobile phone, we can exploit speech to text in Android Swiftkey keyboard to write blog posts faster and more effectively.

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