Be More Productive by Writing Mini Essays

Donny Setiawan
4 min readAug 13, 2024

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Writing essays? Most people will not believe that no matter how busy or how lazy they are, they can still write essays.

Why? Because in reality, all ‘small’ things can actually change and even have an impact on anyone.

If you are a lazy writer, or very lazy, the method of doing ‘little’ things can lead you to ‘writer’s success’.

Or, if you are a nobody but want to write because you like it, whether it’s writing or you really want to sharpen your brain and skills, CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN, the method of doing ‘small’ things can lead you to ‘success that makes you feel better’. you guys are curious’.

The two successes referred to above are none other than: to successfully publish many articles, of course!

YES! The more often you write small things, the more you will produce new writing. The more often you write 200 words every day, the greater the number of words on the 30th day.

YES! THE MORE WRITING THAT IS BORN, THE MORE IDEAS ARE EXPRESSED.

ELIMINATE THE ‘BURDEN’ OF WRITING

Recently, I have been reading the book Merdeka Mengatur Waktu written by Hasanudin Abdurakhman.

The book is interesting, in it it is mentioned that work done slowly and long-winded will waste a lot of time. A lot of wasted time results in people who do it ‘failing’ to achieve their goals.

Look! Just by being long-winded in doing a task, people can fail to achieve it or have their achievements delayed.

The book states, apart from being clever in making activity plans, it also invites us to take action, don’t waste your valuable time. DO IT IMMEDIATELY, FINISH IT IMMEDIATELY.

WRITE LESS THAN 300 WORDS

In this case, people procrastinate usually because of fear. Things like too many tasks, work having to follow standard rules, and so on can turn a task into a heavy burden.

It’s not surprising that many people feel lazy about writing essays, even hearing the word writing makes them feel overwhelmed because they see, hear and feel that writing must be long and complete!

I recently came across a video about writing mini essays. I thought essays were in the form of, yes, a kind of long written work that was full of arguments, factual, educational, and very systematic.

Writing essays is often associated with school or academic assignments. BORING.

BUT, knowing this method of writing mini essays makes it easier for me to continue practicing my writing skills, especially now that I really want to be productive in producing writing, apart from wanting to write fiction stories.

Writing a mini essay does not require writing an argument that requires valid, credible and complicated data.

Writing a mini essay doesn’t take a lot of time to do research, because mini essays are meant to be written in a limited way.

Just one idea, one page, and less than three hundred words.

It cannot be denied and cannot be denied that living in this era means that we cannot be separated from the role of gadgets.

Everywhere you take your device, whether you’re going shopping at the market, just withdrawing money from the nearest ATM machine, and other activities.

By simply writing for three to ten minutes using a device, whether you are waiting for an order to arrive, waiting for a friend who is late, or just waiting for a reply to your crush’s message, you can produce one idea, one page, with three hundred words.

Writing mini essays allows us to write down ideas, not just a list of ideas, but to practice the skills of describing them by writing and makes us more productive.

And most importantly, it can save time. The burden of time is often used as a reason to feel worried about writing a scientific paper; whether it is burdened with time collecting complex data or time compiling standard structures.

CONCLUSION

We hope that reading this article will enable us to continue to be productive even when faced with situations that make it difficult to work.

For complete details, watch the related video in the following link: [1] [2].***

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