diff --git a/docs/quickstart.rst b/docs/quickstart.rst
index fb90b002..a13b6e52 100644
--- a/docs/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/quickstart.rst
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ Your site has now been generated inside the ``output`` directory. (You may see a
 warning related to feeds, but that is normal when developing locally and can be
 ignored for now.)
 
+To quickly iterate a single file while working on it, you can generate only a
+single file. See: :ref:`writing_only_selected_content`.
+
 Preview your site
 -----------------
 
diff --git a/docs/settings.rst b/docs/settings.rst
index df2fa722..bc02fc2f 100644
--- a/docs/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/settings.rst
@@ -811,6 +811,13 @@ on the command line using the ``--write-selected`` option, which
 accepts a comma-separated list of output file paths. By default this
 list is empty, so all output is written.
 
+An example of doing this might be:
+
+    pelican --write-selected output/posts/2014/10/08/in-re-nsl/index.html
+
+You can use the output of the ``--debug`` flag to determine the correct file
+names to provide to the ``--write-selected`` flag.
+
 Example settings
 ================