Wang Xiaobo once said, "Anyone who has read a few books can start writing if he has a pen on hand."

About whether writing makes money

Especially in the era of Internet self-media, the threshold for writing is getting lower and lower. Whether you are writing novels or chicken soup story tools, there are many corresponding platforms for publishing. As long as you persist in practicing for more than three months, you will receive a royalty fee, rewards from official accounts, other platforms will make appointments for manuscripts, and write copywriting soft articles related income (I am).

Instead of doing things like the traditional paper media era, you have to practice for a long time before you are nervous about submitting your articles, and it may not be possible to pass it. It is common for you to be rejected if you have a weak foundation. Even if you pass the articles, the fee is extremely low, and a new writer may have no profit for two or three years to write.

Nowadays, the times are different. The Internet has undergone tremendous changes in various physical industries. Those who have a writing foundation have seized the dividend period of the past two years and have made a lot of money. Now the annual income can match their past ten years.

I know a girl who has only been writing for more than two months, and a platform asked her to sign a book review for 300 yuan. Some people will go to some large accounts to contribute, which can increase exposure and earn some pocket money. Why not do it?

If you can keep writing and accidentally publish a big article, tens of thousands of people will know you and pay attention to you, which will produce economic benefits in itself. You can tell if you try it.

The famous Internet observer Kevin Kelly mentioned a concept in his new book "Necessity": In the era of the Internet and business, wherever people focus on their attention, wherever time is consumed, money flows.

About saying there is no material to write

It is recommended that you start by reading pictures and writing words, writing diaries, or writing book reviews, changing and acting little by little, writing about interesting stories about yourself and the people around you, and what you see, from a hundred words a day to three hundred words and then to five hundred words. This is a process of accumulation over time.

In the past, I rarely have more than one thousand words of an article. Now I can easily write two or three thousand words of articles, which is something I didn’t dare to imagine before. This is the natural growth result of persistent practice.

Now I read the article I wrote last year and feel that it is so bad that I can’t see people. It’s like a diary written by a primary school student. This is a reflection of my own progress.

I have also read many big names who have published books and expressed similar views. A female writer in the circle of friends said that she really wanted to burn the first book and couldn't believe it was written by herself. But if she didn't have the immature writing style of the first book, how could she continue to mature in the future?

Hemingway once said: Any first draft is stinking shit!

You see, even Hemingway, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, said this, let alone you and I are ordinary people? Are you still afraid to write? After all, those stinky dog ​​shit will be better and better, and will turn into rice grains! It is not because of the result that you start writing, but because you write, you will have results.

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The starting point of any manuscript starts from a low point, or a person's development also moves from unbearable to perfection. We must first accept the current unbearableness in order to gradually move towards perfection. Writing is something that requires constant training to be sharp.

Writing words is a long way to go. The more you go on this road, the less important the writing style is. Instead, the understanding of worldly things and the importance of empathy are highlighted. This requires the writer to have a deep accumulation and reading is a good way. From ancient times to the present, the articles passed down have great emotions.

Sometimes when I write an article, I always feel like I lift the pen too heavily and the writing is too light. I always feel that the words I write are not enough to express my psychological feelings. It is like an eight-year-old child who wants to move something weighing 100 pounds and has a feeling of being unable to do so. This should be the norm for new writers.

Master Zhu Guangqian once said that the highest level of writing is to follow the pen. Writers yearn for this level, but this requires a lot of practice to keep your pen up to your heart.

About Talent

Never believe that writing depends on talent. No writer can write for a long time by relying on inspiration and talent.

It is true that talented people will develop much faster than others, and the upper limit will be much higher, but most people can achieve a very high achievement through acquired practice.

Dorothea Brand, the author of the book "Becoming a Writer", said: Everyone can become a writer, and there are only two types of writers. One is a master, who is talented, and the second is ordinary, which is acquired efforts. It is just that having a little talent makes it much smoother to go this path. Not to mention anything else, at least writing things rarely encounters obstacles.

Being a writer requires talent, but more so, training.

Words are things that express oneself and need to be expressed in meaning. I have read a lot of books, which are all things from others. If you do not combine yourself with yourself, you will not be able to become the basis of your own words.

When you practice writing and then read, you will naturally read with thoughts and understand the author's writing style, logical framework, and character structure.

Writing is not much harder than speaking. Learn to observe life more, maintain sensitivity to things, and have the desire to talk.

In the early stages of writing, everyone will have a problem. The self-expectation is too high. I hope I can become Lu Xun, Zhu Ziqing, and Lin Qingxuan with just one pen. I can write famous works throughout the ages. This will cause a great psychological burden. I often pick up the pen and write it at the beginning and dare not continue writing. I feel that I am not the material for writing, and I start to doubt myself and deny myself.

Let’s just write in the most comfortable way we can, so why not just write a diary? Text is spiritual. If you write too much, you will naturally give you feedback and help you improve, and it will come naturally.

Some people say that writing is about telling stories and expressing oneself. No one is born with it. Those geniuses who seem to be just because they can unconsciously meet these requirements and persevere for a long time.

As long as you write with sincerity, sincerity and sincerity, it will naturally attract many readers. Truth itself is a powerful force! It will have a powerful infectious power.

Talent determines the upper limit of a person's writing path, and "persistence" determines how long it can take on this path.

Is it too late to write now

Many friends said that it is too late to start writing now, traffic has been divided up by large numbers, and the bonus period has passed. The problem is that if you don’t start writing now, then looking back in three to five years, wouldn’t it be even later?

Nowadays, it is difficult for newcomers to make a public account. After all, the circle of friends is too closed, but they can rely on third-party open platforms to attract fans, such as Jianshu, Zhihu, Weibo, and Toutiao. This is how my current 2,000 fans are attracted little by little.

Even if a platform really passes the bonus period, a new platform will naturally appear, and the light of the text will never be erased, just like under the banyan tree, blog, Weibo, Tianya, Douban... is a process of gradual replacement. The question is that if a new platform really appears, do you have a copy of the manuscript in your hand? Have you practiced your internal skills? Can you seize the opportunity?

Writing is a lonely and tiring thing. It takes three or four hours to write an article to revise the press conference. You need to sit in front of the computer to concentrate, be able to endure loneliness and be patient.

The most difficult thing in writing is to start and persist. If you don’t write enough to have a million words, how can you talk about the writer’s dream? From now on, you can start writing! No matter what you write, you can start.

Writing is not easy, cherish it all! May you and I be a better self.

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