How do you write fast?

[stonecold]

I reckon that if you want a shot at a really good score, you've gotta be writing at least 1000 words per piece.

That is one word every 3.6 seconds.  No breaks, and not including proofreading time.
I'm so screwed!

[samuch]

I reckon that if you want a shot at a really good score, you've gotta be writing at least 1000 words per piece.

That is one word every 3.6 seconds.  No breaks, and not including proofreading time.
I'm so screwed!

me too! *cries*

[kyzoo]

I reckon that if you want a shot at a really good score, you've gotta be writing at least 1000 words per piece.

That is one word every 3.6 seconds.  No breaks, and not including proofreading time.
I'm so screwed!

17 words a minute doesn't sound bad, when I can do 28.5 words a minute with pure memorized piece

[EvangelionZeta]

I reckon that if you want a shot at a really good score, you've gotta be writing at least 1000 words per piece.

That is one word every 3.6 seconds.  No breaks, and not including proofreading time.
I'm so screwed!

It sounds difficult, but seriously, just practice.  The more you do, the faster you get.

[superflya]

relax people, come exam time, u'll have the majority of the essay done before u start. just a lil adjusting so it relates to the prompt.

[m@tty]

I reckon that if you want a shot at a really good score, you've gotta be writing at least 1000 words per piece.

That is one word every 3.6 seconds.  No breaks, and not including proofreading time.
I'm so screwed!

Really, by exam time, it should be flowing out of you. All of your practice should reduce your need to 'think'. Your previous essays and plans should provide a great spring board, both for your ideas and expression. So big chunks of your writing should be at a much greater speed than 3.6 seconds word^-1.

More practice = better and faster writing.

[AzureBlue]

I reckon that if you want a shot at a really good score, you've gotta be writing at least 1000 words per piece.

That is one word every 3.6 seconds.  No breaks, and not including proofreading time.
I'm so screwed!

Really, by exam time, it should be flowing out of you. All of your practice should reduce your need to 'think'. Your previous essays and plans should provide a great spring board, both for your ideas and expression. So big chunks of your writing should be at a much greater speed than 3.6 seconds word^-1.

More practice = better and faster writing.

Problem is, I type whenever I write anything... essays, homework, everything.

[EvangelionZeta]

I reckon that if you want a shot at a really good score, you've gotta be writing at least 1000 words per piece.

That is one word every 3.6 seconds.  No breaks, and not including proofreading time.
I'm so screwed!

Really, by exam time, it should be flowing out of you. All of your practice should reduce your need to 'think'. Your previous essays and plans should provide a great spring board, both for your ideas and expression. So big chunks of your writing should be at a much greater speed than 3.6 seconds word^-1.

More practice = better and faster writing.

Problem is, I type whenever I write anything... essays, homework, everything.

Don't worry, I'm the same.  Just handwrite when it counts (ie. before exams, SACs, ATs, etc.)

[AzureBlue]

Laptops have degraded my already rubbish handwriting LOL
I think it was better in year 6 when we had to handwrite everything.

[akira88]

As a lot of people here have already mentioned, having a good idea of what you're writing definitely helps with speed. I find that when I write, my ideas evolve with the piece itself, but this doesn't detract from the speed - I just allow the sentences to spill out and mould one another. I generally write pretty quickly - I did 12 pages for my first English SAC - but I don't feel as though the free-form approach I take to creative pieces diminishes the quality - it's still easy to maintain structure.

My teachers say if you write something too long they'll deduct marks .. :|

Not in English, no.  I know 50-scoring people who got 1500+ words for all three essays in the exam...

Oh alright, the English teachers at my school must be lazy b@stards then T__T It's always so much easier to write more than less.

[iffets12345]

my english teacher said "Im not giving you a lot of holiday homework because quite frankly, I don't want to mark it all."
by the way, does anyone here have like....a need for their paper to be a certain way? Like it feels funny to them sometimes and then other paper is perfectly good? Or am I just a weirdo lol

[stonecold]

^i hate that crappy paper that my mum buys for like $5 a ream.  it's not even fully white, you put it next to real office paper and it looks murky and shit.  and it prints like crap as well.

so I also am very selective about my paper

[TrueTears]

Topic.

I don't know why, but right now I have a serious problem with writing speed. 110 minutes to write 1000 words of language analysis >.<.

yeh you write faster by practising to write faster

[stonecold]

how much did you write in your english exam TT?

[TrueTears]

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