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The Productive Writer: Batch Your Writing · The Daily Writer

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: For more resources, including your free Daily Rider Starter Kit, visit DailyWriterLife.com.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: This week we've been talking about ways to be a more productive writer.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: Now, even though this podcast is called the Daily Writer, the reality is that a lot of people don't write every day.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: They may set aside time every couple of days or once a week to work on their writing.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I want you to know that whatever your writing rhythm is, it is totally legitimate.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: You shouldn't take the concept of the quote unquote daily writer too literally all the time.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: The main point is to write regularly, whatever that looks like for your schedule.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: And the more regularly you do it, the better you'll be.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: So I definitely do want to say if you write every day, that it's better, all things being equal, but I don't want you to feel stressed out by that concept.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: Even if you're just sitting down once or twice a week to work on stuff, that is great.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I want to applaud you and commend you for that.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: Just case in point, there is some writing that I do not on a daily basis, but weekly.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: For example, I write material for this podcast once every week or two.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: I write a bunch of episodes worth of content at the same time because I'm in that mental mode, and it goes a lot quicker than if I were to try and set aside a few minutes every single day to write and record.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: I know some people who run a daily podcast, and literally every day they sit down and do an episode and record it and put it out there.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: I don't like to work that way.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm already in podcast mode, so I like to batch it, and I think it gets done a lot faster that way.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: By the way, this concept of batching is a great productivity principle.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I want to encourage you to think in terms of batching your content.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: And batching simply means doing similar kinds of work or writing similar kinds of content at the same time because you're in that mental space already.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: And you can do this with emails, with book content, podcasts, blogs, or pretty much anything else.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: So I encourage you to give this a try and see how batching can improve your writing output and help you be more productive.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: Now, again, all that said, and all things being equal, I definitely want to encourage you to write something every day if you can, even if it's just five minutes worth of writing.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: I think that daily habit of writing is really, really important.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: But I don't want you to feel stressed out or constrained by that.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: So I guess there's a balance.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: Here's today's challenge.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: Take the concept of batching your work and apply it to some type of writing that you're currently doing.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: It might be emails, blog posts, podcast material, copywriting, or something else.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever it is, give it a shot and see how it goes.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, before I end this episode, I want to let you know that this has been brought to you by the Daily Writer Club.
• 2:50
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• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: Members have access to weekly writing sprints and live calls with expert teaching, an active online community, access to retreats and in person events, and a clear pathway for growing your writing platform and business.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: You can check it out at DailyRiderClub.com.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and I'll see you tomorrow.