How Long Does It Take You To Write a Blog Post?

The brainstorming definiately takes more effort than the actual writing, but timewise I'm not exactly sure. I would estimate that I spend somewhere between 30-45 minutes per post as an average with some being a quick as 10-15 and others taking well over an hour. But that also does not include the "pre-blogging" where I check my email and read the blogs I'm a regular visitor of.

I'm happy to have guys like you online who can school Mr. little people like me. And, if you have a MySpace page Mr. Chow, please e-mail me with your link. I'd like to network with you sometime when you get a chance

JC - the fact that you took 10 minutes to write the post on Facebook and how there is no potential for developers to make money with it - goes to really show how little thought you put into it and how limited your knowledge of whats really happening over at Facebook is. Please read my comment follow up on your Facebook post that talks about how developers are actually making big money on F8 platform. Please please do your homework before you shut off a potentially huge and lucrative opportunity.

It depends on the content of course, but if I am doing a review type post it will take me several hours. I try not to do to many "quick posts" but they are very tempting since they can be done in just a few minutes, unless of course you include time "thought" about the post. Like you said, sometimes I spend more time thinking about the post then writing it. Scott

Average time takes about 20-25 minutes.

If I can't finish a post within 10 minutes I have to leave it and go onto something else. I think the condition is called J.P.S. (Jittery Post Syndrome), my hands get all anxious and I can't focus on what I was writing anymore. The good thing is it goes away if I do something else for a couple of minutes. :shock:

I have to write in bursts. Micro bursts to be exact. I'll start writing a post and if it takes longer than 10 minutes I usually end up saving it as a draft and get back to it later on. Once I lose concentration I just take a break and go onto something else and often while I'm doing that I'll work out whatever caused me to lose concentration and get right back to the article. Yes... I have J.P.S. (Jittery Post Syndrome), and the only prescription is more cow bell. :shock:

I'm fairly slow at writing posts, it usually takes me 1 to 3 hours to finish a post. I often find myself getting sidetracked. There's just too many interesting things out there in the world... :mrgreen: and my time management skills still need some work.

Today I have written one post in my mother's tongue. It takes me 12 min and 52s.

Hmm, I'm a bit different. I have planned my next 3 months posts and am writing one each day. It usually takes me a good hour or so to write the post and then 10 minutes for an edit. I suppose though it does depend on how long you expect your posts will be and to what niche. I usually write between 700 and 1,000 words per post.

Typing is not a problem. I could do it pretty fast. The illustration of the contents is taxing on me. When I did my first article, it took me 2 days to complete. Still very fresh in blogging. :wink:

We have a list of topics we want to talk about on our blog. Some of the topics include notes about specific points we want to touch on in the post.

Once we get down to writing the post, it can take anywhere from 10 minutes to maybe 30 minutes for the first draft. Then the editing starts. Of course, we have two sets of eyeballs, to catch any mistakes.

We currently have several weeks worth of posts ready to go. We wanted to make sure we had plenty of material before we launched our blog.

On top of the posts already in the can, we have our very long list of topics. There is no end in sight of good material to write about! :mrgreen:

It usually takes me 2-3 hours, but some of that is time spent researching, or making notes or going off on tangents looking for graphics or commenting on other blogs, or making notes of future drafts.

I've yet to write some huge pillar articles, but I assume these will take several days of effort. I'm still learning a lot, so my efforts aren't as streamlined as they could be.

This was actually a great blog topic. Way to go John. :razz:

Emma

What I love is when a subject falls in your lap - like my wife commenting on the harshness of the title of a recent series I wrote - thanks hun! :cool:

I try not to spend an inordinate amount of time writing but only because I am usually pretty focused on my topic. I also think blog readers' attention spans aren't as long as we think. On average I spend about 10-15 minutes on MDP posts and then longer on The Proficient Investor posts because that blog is about stocks and trading which requires more research and pulling data.

I spend 20-50 minutes to think and write a post. But the best is to do a plan of the week.

Hardly spend less than 1 hour to write a post, most is 2 or 3 hours or days. Every sentence I will read twice and will copy paste in microsoft word to see if there's any grammar mistake. More to learn.
I saw your pagerank drop as well. Could it be fluke.

I have spent anywhere from 10 minutes to 4 or 5 hours as well. Coincidentally, the posts that took the longest time to right have driven over 90% of my traffic. Quality and length probably helps my Google search results I guess.

I manage a blog ghostwriting service and we've created a system that anyone can follow that will create a blog post in just 10 minutes if they follow the system. Our ghostwriters routinely write great blog posts in 10 minutes or less about topics they've never encountered before using our system.

I see your google PR dropped to PR4 just like Probloggers. You are doing something Google doesn't like... just curious to know what it is. most of the blogs say it is text links on the sidebar but Problogger then stumps me by saying that he doesn't even have text links on his main blog.

John's leading by 337 subscriptions

I saw 13008 subscribers on this blog compared to 12671 on Shoemoneys blog. Congratulations and Good luck.

I just posted a blog. For the first time ever, I timed it from start to finish. The subject was an idea that struck me earlier today when I had gone shopping. I guess that it took about fifteen minutes to mentally structure the blog and when I sat to type, it took me exactly twenty minutes.

CONGRATULATIONS ON HITTING THE 13,000 MARK!!

I think you should have a contest with PROBLOGGER next and see if you can hit the 30,000 mark!

It takes at least three hours for me to write blogs. I don't write as often but when I write I spend a lot of time to make sure my articles are good. I hear Search Engines like longer posts.

I don't take that long to write it. It takes me much longer to research the item so that i know its good before I start writing about it. Thats what people care about.

Does it really matter? There was an episode in Brainiac where they let a monkey type random letters for hours and guess what none of them turned out to be a Shakespeare quote.
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more than 10 minutes..sometimes hours for longer post. i write about tutorial. So i need to really careful bout what i am writing.

The time range from I guess 10 minutes to mmmm mmm....never completed a post....!!! because the post is kept and save because no motivation to continue the post...instead, i wrote other post. :neutral:

When quality is the word for articles nowadays, I tend to spend more time, if possible one whole day to prethink a few posts, not loading them all up into my Wordpress editor in one shot of course.

I try to outline the important points, brainstorm and type it out using a word editor. Very often, after we have outline the things, we tend to think about it all the time and this can being in more points and add quality to the article itself.

An article will took me about one day if I sum up all the brainstorming and outlining but a breaking news will take about a few minutes to be posted. :mrgreen:

John, you hit 13k! Congrats! A new blog post?

If it's just text then it won't take too long. But if it requires images, editing and resizing such as our last "Celebrity Bloggers" post then screen dumps can be time consuming, as we applied 20 images.

I can usually write an article within about 1/2 hour. However I have taken longer when doing research on a topic or just having some brain block.

lol!tim tim..I think john asked us for a reason.perhaps he wants to help us to blog faster?And john really hits the spot.sometimes.i literally ran out of ideas on what to blog also.but once i sit down,the idea just pops out and i just bang my keyboard all the way! :mrgreen:

In other words... john had nothing to write about so he wrote about that :twisted:

Well john, I also sometimes put 2-3-4 hours in posts, especially in reviews, product reviews in my case. But on average I spend about 20-30 minutes a post. If I do a more research post like lists and such then it can go past 1 hour.

hai john..i'm also take about 3 hours to write some articles..if i've got the idea what to write for sure it take a little shorter time..

propertyireland: google sucks, so don't worry about it. im sure john doesn't.

back 2 topic: i write fast and furious, just like i do everything else. :wink:

off topic i know, but did anyone else notice the pr drop here again?
now down to 4.

It really depends on the topic. If its a spontaneous thing then it takes 5-10 minutes. But if it is a research based thought oriented post then it takes from few hours to few days.

It doesn't take me about 30 mins to complete a post, but picking the topic usually takes me a solid hour :???:

This is totally dependant on the blogger as you mention. To those who enjoy its fast and to those do not, its slow.

Update - John Chow has just pass Shoemoney in the RSS Feed counter by around 1000 readers!

research takes the most time, 20 minutes generally

15-25 minutes to type the initial draft and then anywhere up to a couple of hours of just looking at it until it sounds right.