Blog Byte: Need to Write Faster? Create Templates

If there are writing tasks you do frequently, you can speed your task by taking a few minutes to create a template that you can use over and over again. The point here is to avoid reinventing the wheel every time you write. Your template can be as simple as a paragraph outline, if that's all you need, or a full draft of a document that you can customize as needed. Refine the template as you continue to use it, to make it as efficient as possible. Create a template for every type of writing task you do.

A word of caution--be sure you keep your template updated, and work from the template itself rather than another document built on the template. Otherwise it's easy to leave in content from the prior document by mistake. Be sure you proofread before you send the document out!