Think less, write faster

Write faster drafts without tanking quality.

Writers are often told to slow down. To get the sentence just right. To pause and consider every word.

That’s a fine way to polish a final draft. But if you try it from the start, your writing pace will drop to the speed of erosion. You’ll end the day with three perfect paragraphs, a headache, and a weird twitch in your eyelid.

The truth is, writing faster isn’t about hustling harder. It’s about removing decisions.

Decision fatigue kills momentum

Your brain is a limited resource. And every sentence you agonise over drains it further.

Decision fatigue doesn’t just show up in moral philosophy. It hits you mid-draft, when you start wondering if “grin” is too twee, or if your transition between paragraph three and four is emotionally manipulative enough.

This kind of overthinking pretends to be precision. But really, it’s procrastination in a fancy hat. You’re making choices you don’t need to make yet. You’re solving for tone, rhythm, style and structure at the same time, then wondering why you feel like you’re wading through soup.

So stop doing it!