Revising The Complete Piece
It’s bad form, but it’s true. Most writers revise by crawling through their work section by section. Some do it after every sentence; some after every paragraph; others, every time they notice something while they draft. While perfectly valid, it’s absolutely slow – far from the most efficient way of churning out copy.
How do you make your process faster? Draft the entire piece, ignoring the desire to edit in real time. Only revise and edit once you’ve finished with your first pass on the whole thing. Finish before you correct; get it done before getting it right.
Apart from the speed, revising the complete piece brings another benefit. You revise the work as a whole, rather than as individual parts. That way, you already have a unified vision in mind before you even begin making changes.
Since you’re looking to edit efficiently, you may as well do the whole process right. Start editing for structure, trying to determine if your ideas flow in a manner that allows the reader the best chance to digest them. After that work on your transitions, carefully crafting how well each new topic segues into the other. Only after that should you even consider using a grammar checking software and working at each individual sentence.