The 5-Minute Writing Method

By Khalid Yassin

This book offers a single writing technique that shaped me as a writer. It's what gets me to write consistently in all the directions I do, and keep writing. It's helped me explore myself, my ignorance and a create real progress to the books I'm writing.

It's simple and straight to the point, you'll get the jist of it by reading the books sample, and the rest of it is putting the madness into perspective, sharing writing ideals that are important, ideas on how to organise your writing, and when to use the method and how to feel about it.

It's an essential tool in my writing toolbox I want to share. And it's been invaluable ever since. it will pay dividends to your life as a writer of any kind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Khalid Yassin
• Release date: Apr 9, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224230877

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What you'll need:

Writing Material

Pen and paper

Or laptop

Cheap or weathered or colorful. So long as you don’t attach to thinking your writing needs to be as great as the expensive notebook you bought you’re golden.

A Timer Tool:

Your watch

Google timer

Pomodoro timer

A distraction free writing tool:

The Most dangerous writing app [1](needs internet connection)

Cold Turkey Writer[2] (no internet needed, free and paid version (8€)

Did you check those out? Do.

Aside from tools, you need training

Touch typing training

Touch typing is writing with all 4 fingers of each hand using your keyboard. There are many tools online for this, and also available in different languages. My favorite is keybr.com for practicing in english. If you want to be a writer worth your salt you'll get your word count per hour up, and you'll match your ability to write with the speed in which you think.

I spent 10 minutes a day every morning during an internship and my word count went from 30 words a minute to 85 words a minute in two weeks. And that's been paying off for about 7 years now. 2.5x the amount of words and with much less error. Put that focused thought for a while and thank your past self once those numbers of yours rise. Might take you more or less time to get the same increase in word count. Sometimes I go back to the website to practice a bit just to get into the groove again. Spend some conscious time there. Do your thing. You're a writer. Ideally you'll be writing a lot. It's best that you write more and have to correct yourself less so your output remains high and the quality remains high. The more you get used to writing, the less you have to edit your sentences because you get used to getting to your point faster and with as few words as possible. Making your words look beautiful is something you have to care about another time.

So step one is up that word count, step two (which happens alongside of step one, not after) is you spend 5 minutes sitting down writing why the hell you think you want to become a writer. If it isn't something constantly repeating in your head like a mad man trying to escape an asylum, maybe it isn't your thing, and that's fine. Write, see what happens. Don't think too much. Repeat.

Writing comes in all shapes and sizes. How I describe words (after writing at least more than a million of them) is that they are the medium that carries all medium. Meaning, there's a book about every single topic possible under the human sphere of consciousness. There's a book about golf, quantum physics, tango and salsa, making vegan pizza.. you name it. if you can think about a book it's probably been written, and if it hasn't and you need to write it then please do. Write it in a way that makes it as easy for the person to read it to get through it and take as much from it with them as possible.

When it comes to my own private life, I have a series of journals I