I’m Taking A Break From The HAHD Challenge To Speed Up My Submissions

As you may know I’m participating in the HAHD challenge. You can see my progress in the sidebar on the right. So far I have 18 articles submitted and approved for the challenge, which puts me on track as of today. However, I’ve decided to take a week off from writing further articles in order to speed up the process!

Doesn’t make sense you say? Read on!

Well, I have loads of methods, tools and learning material related to speeding up my writing. What I do need, however, is a tool that connects all these things. Having to tap and search through a dozen windows and files every time I write a new article just doesn’t do it for me. Fortunately, I’m a software developer by trade. That means I have the skillset to do something about this problem. I can create the tool I want to speed up the task at hand.

And that’s exactly what I’m going to do!

There are 3 main things I want in the prototype of this application, besides a text editor, and these 3 things are:

1. Direct Swipe File Access
2. Direct Article Template Access
3. Direct Research Document Access

My definition of direct access is that I can insert any of these 3 things by the click of one button! There are a lot of other neat features I’d like to incorporate in the future such as build-in research capabilities, published article analysis, article publishing capabilites and so on. However, one thing I will not (ever!) incorporate is spinning capabilities. I want this to be a tool to create original content and only original content. This is something for the future though. For the time being only the 3 listed features will be implemented. I will allow myself to spend a week implementing these features. No more and no less!

By the end of the week I will continue writing and submitting articles for the HAHD challenge whether those 3 features are ready or not! Hopefully this will help speed up the writing process, but even if it doesn’t I’ll be one or two experiences richer.