Content writers often need to meet deadlines, and while running toward the finish of an article, they often make mistakes. And readers hate mistakes. Spelling or grammar mistakes will turn away readers from staying on your site and they will avoid coming back.
At the moment, the title of ‘’world’s leading online proofreader’’ is Grammarly. So I consider it a must have in order to check all those tiny mistakes we often overlook. Extensions for Chrome, Safari and Firefox are free. It will not just control your Word spelling, but also whatever you type into Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Besides the obvious, WordCounter will successfully identify top ten key words you use (that’s what makes it a powerful tool for content writers), and it will also determine keyword density.
This “can prevent you from over-using certain words or word combinations and check for best distribution of keywords in your writing,” according to the site. Bonus: It will also tell you how long it will take to speak your piece aloud, which could come in handy.
Although it sounds paradoxical, one of the keys to being productive is taking regular breaks. Tomato Timer puts the theory behind the Promodoro Technique for time management developed by Francesco Cirillo to work for you by breaking up your day into 25-minute segments of work followed by five-minute breaks and then a longer break.
We’re faced with various challenges as writers; the biggest one being distraction. Before working on improving your productivity, you need to realize that there are two kinds of distractions; external distractions and internal distractions.
External distractions are distractions from things and people around you (the kids, TV, the noise etc.) while internal distractions are those from inside your computer (Twitter, that new Gmail message popping up, the latest Facebook/chat notifications etc.). While you can easily overcome the external distractions by having an office, how do you deal with the distractions coming from within your computer? While going offline might be a solution, you will sometimes need to research some facts, and have to waste time getting online again.
The solution is to use software that helps you block out every other view except for your writing software, and that is exactly what the Darkroom software (for windows), and Writeroom software (for Mac), does.
This is one software application I recommend you have installed on your computer, especially if you spend more than 2 hours in front of your computer screen every day. The Eye Defender software prevents you from straining your eyes by introducing a screensaver at intervals. By default, a screensaver will be introduced after every 45 minutes to signal that you need a break, and the screensaver will last for just 2 minutes, after which you can continue your work. Of course, you can adjust the settings in the software settings once you download it (I set mine to introduce a 2-minute screensaver after every 30 minutes).
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