Before I knew it, the upgrade class was about to end. Looking back on when I signed up for Teacher Xiao Qian’s upgrade class, the struggle seemed to be still in front of me.
After all, for a full-time mother, the money on hand is really limited. She can ask her husband for it, but she is afraid that he will not understand and refuse to give it. It would be a pity not to sign up for the upgrade class. After studying in the basic class, I really feel that my writing ability needs to be improved, so I am unwilling to sign up. After some hesitation, I signed up.
was enrolled in the 216th period upgrade class. However, after practicing writing a book, her mother-in-law fell ill and was hospitalized. There is no way, I have to take care of the elderly at home, and I have three children. The youngest is only over a year old, and I really can’t keep up with my energy.
had no choice but to apply for an extension with Teacher Qiangse, and it was extended to the 425th period. During this period of study, I completed the writing practice of two book-breaking manuscripts, realized the realization of Toutiao, and successfully submitted a book-breaking manuscript of Sanqihui.
1.36 days to complete the writing practice of two unpacked book manuscripts
First, let’s summarize the writing practice of unpacked book manuscripts.
The first book I chose is " can talk to anyone ", which is a communication method book. This book seemed very confusing to me. It seemed to explain a lot of methods and key points, but it only scratched the surface. Many methods were not explained clearly, which made me want to change the book to practice writing.
But when I thought about what the teacher said, I may not be able to receive books that I am familiar with when accepting business orders in the future, I gritted my teeth and persisted in writing. This book "Can Talk to Anyone" took a total of 16 days from the outline to Day 123 to the final draft. It took three days to write the outline, three days to write DAY1, 6 days to write DAY2, 3 days to write DAY3, and another day to organize, for a total of 16 days.
Speaking of outlines, first of all, I cannot extract the first-level and second-level outlines in simple language. I find that the first-level outlines I wrote are not very relevant, and I cannot see the connection between the three first-level outlines. So, I listed it as one, two, and three steps, starting from myself and others, and then writing a way to deal with difficult conversations.
After the first-level outline is listed, the next step is the second-level outline. For the second-level outline, I flipped through the book to see what content in the book was relevant to myself and what content was relevant to others. I listed them out and selected three appropriate points to write down.
After writing the second-level outline, the next step is the third-level outline. The third-level outline is a detailed explanation of the second-level outline. It can be divided into one to three third-level outlines, which means no more than 3 knowledge points.
After the outline is written, the next step is the text. Because I have practiced writing in 216 before, I am more familiar with writing this time, and I am familiar with the text framework of the unpacked manuscript. Let me share a lazy trick, which is to copy the main text of the unpacked book manuscript, and then remove the content of the article, so that only the beginning and end of the article, as well as the subtitle of the article, are left, and the framework of the text is revealed.
The advantage of doing this is that the frame of the article is clear, and there are templates for the beginning and end. You can just fill in the text yourself. Moreover, according to this framework, the word count of general articles will not exceed or be insufficient. Because every time I write, I will plan how many words each second-level outline and third-level outline contain, and then divide them into viewpoints, examples, and summary parts. Therefore, basically the word count of each manuscript is between 3,000 and 3,500 words.
The word count is standardized, and the text content also needs to pay attention to the structure, that is, first state the point of view, then give examples, and then summarize. The point of view is the point of view in the book, you just need to explain it clearly in your own words. Because our unpacked manuscript is for listening, one thing we need to pay attention to is to make it easy for the audience to understand. Therefore, the words of explanation must be easy to understand and should not contain too many words that are difficult to understand. If a difficult word appears, then we need to explain clearly what the word means, or use examples to illustrate it so that the audience can understand.
’s point of view is clearly explained, and the next step is to demonstrate it with examples.When I can't find material to give examples and arguments, I usually make up a case. Because I have less experience, I always make up a case using common people or things around me.
The last part is the summary. After talking about the opinions and cases, you must summarize the content of this part, otherwise the reader will easily forget the previous content. Therefore, be sure to summarize your views.
As long as the frame structure of the text does not deviate, the manuscript can be easily completed, just like my second book manuscript "Learning to Write: An Efficient Method for Self-improvement".
After completing the writing practice of a manuscript, Teacher Qiangse suggested that you still practice method books, because business orders are basically manuscripts of method books. So, I chose this book "Learning to Write" on the bookshelf.
Originally planned to study this book and write the manuscript at the same time. Who would have known that finalizing the outline this time would be easy, and the draft would be completed in one go. I thought about it later and realized that this book should be relatively simple, with clear logic and easy to understand. Therefore, when I wrote the outline, DAY1, and DAY2, I passed it in one draft.
However, when I wrote DAY3, I fell into another trap. There was too much content, the ideas and methods were not explained clearly, and the summary was not written well.
Thank you again, Teacher Qiangse, for your careful and sharp comments, which made me understand my shortcomings.
carefully read the teacher's comments, thought about it again and again, and changed it again and again. Every time I ponder the teacher's comments by myself. Although the teacher always says to ask her if I have any questions, I still want to try my best to solve them myself. After all, the path of writing a manuscript is ultimately one you have to take on your own. If you really can’t do it anymore, then you can find a teacher!
After revisions again and again, the manuscript was finally passed. During this revision process, you really have to read the manuscript aloud. Only by reading aloud can you discover those sentences and words that do not make sense in the article.
As for recording myself listening to the manuscript, I recorded it myself, but I really couldn’t listen to it. I have no choice, my throat is chronic pharyngitis , I can't continue to read the manuscript, and I feel that the manuscript I read is very rubbish, intermittent, and I can't listen to it at all. Therefore, I can only read the manuscript repeatedly, stop and correct it when I read something that I feel is not good, and then continue reading and correcting it.
In short, when writing a manuscript, you must first build a good framework. If you write step by step according to the framework of opinions, examples, and summaries, you can easily write an article. Also, after you finish writing the article, you have to read it several times and revise it several times before you can make a good article.
The above is about the experience of dismantling book manuscripts and practicing writing. Next, let’s take a look at the realization of Toutiao.
2. The headlines were monetized for 263 yuan
It has been 164 days since the creation of Toutiao today until July 1. A total of 211 headlines were written, with 3993 likes and 620 fans, and the monetization was 263 yuan. I am actually not satisfied with the results of Toutiao, but with limited energy and lack of enthusiasm for Toutiao, it would be great if I can keep updating it every day.
Today’s headlines will be updated starting from January 18 this year. For a long time, because I didn’t have enough energy, when I was in the basic class, I just wanted to practice writing and write manuscripts. The basic class I reported at that time was for the issue of December 28, which happened to be before the Chinese New Year, and there were a lot of things going on, so I didn’t think of updating the headlines.
The headline started because of a book review I wrote about organizing and storing rooms. Teacher Egg Yolk said that this book review can be posted on the headlines and many people will like to read it. So, I didn’t understand anything and posted it. After this article was posted, it received 12,000 impressions and more than 500 reads, which was very encouraging to me as a newbie.
So, I started to update the headlines. However, I didn’t know where to start as I didn’t understand anything, so I watched Mr. Xiaoqian’s micro-toutiao free lesson, and then started imitating it. First, I imitated Mr. Xiao Qian’s micro headlines, and then I looked at other people’s popular micro headlines on headlines.
Because he didn’t understand anything, he almost copied other people’s micro headlines and just repeated them in his own words. One can imagine how low this amount of exposure and reading is. Some display numbers are even less than 100. Obviously, according to Teacher Xiaoqian’s instructions, check for sensitive words and imitate popular items, but the number of views is hovering in double digits or single digits, and the number of fans has never exceeded 100.
I was so shocked that I stopped updating several times, and then continued to write headlines because of Teacher Xiaoqian’s encouragement. On March 1st, a Weibo headline about washing buckwheat pillows went viral, with 74,000 views. Before this, the highest reading volume of my Wei Toutiao was only three digits, with no readings exceeding 1,000 or 10,000. Unexpectedly, a post with 74,000 readings suddenly appeared, which made me very excited. And this micro-headline directly made me have more than 100 followers.
I joined the Toutiao group with more than 70,000 Toutiao followers. I didn’t understand anything, so I kept diving in the group to listen to the big guys’ Toutiao experiences. After listening more, I also understand why the headlines I wrote have low exposure and low reading volume.
First of all, it is easy to be homogenized with the popular micro headlines, and the headlines will not promote it. If you want to follow the popular micro headlines, you have to have a different angle.
Secondly, there are too few micro-headlines written. There are too few and no touch, so it is impossible to write micro-headlines that attract readers. We all know that writing with suspense at the beginning can attract readers. However, I just can’t write, and reading is the best response. Therefore, we still need to write more.
To this day, there are 3 micro-headlines and articles with over 10,000 views, 4 articles with over 40,000 views, and one article with 140,000 views. To sum up, popular micro-headlines are close to the lives of ordinary people and can easily arouse resonance.
For example, a Weibo headline with 140,000 views was about boiling lard and putting it in a plastic bucket, and then the bucket melted. The Weibo headline with 70,000 reads was about washing a buckwheat husk pillow, and then washing it more and more.
Therefore, it is very important to choose the topic of micro headlines, and choose something close to life.
Reflect on yourself, you are not enthusiastic enough about headlines, and you still have to write more. Next, you are going to study headline Q&A , how to write Q&A to increase reading volume and income.
3. How did I do it after just one submission?
After writing the two books on pen practice, because there were no business orders to write, the teacher suggested that everyone continue writing. You can write about Ewha Order Acceptance Plaza. For business orders, you can also submit articles to external parties, such as Sanqi Reading Club, Black Fire Reading Club, etc.
At first I was thinking about writing a list for the order-receiving plaza. I wanted to write about travel, but I couldn’t decide on a topic and it was difficult to search for materials. After looking at it for several days, there was no result, so I gave up and decided to go there. Write a manuscript!
By chance, I saw an urgent order from the Order Plaza, requesting to write a comprehensive review of the book "Autumn Garden". But the time was too tight and I gave up before I could write the manuscript.
I thought of this book when I decided to write the unpacked manuscript of Sanqi Reading. So, just like when I wrote the manuscript before, I read the book first, made an outline, and then wrote the text.
The book "Autumn Garden" is a biography. It is written by a 60-year-old man about the life of her 89-year-old mother. The outline of this book is relatively simple, just follow the timeline.
After making the outline, write the main text, which is divided into 6 parts. The first part is about the author and the book. This part mainly introduces the author and the contents of the book.
Parts two to five are written in chronological order, describing Qiuyuan’s life experience.
di The sixth part is the end of the article. It is necessary to jump out of the content of the book and evaluate the book. This part of the content stumped me. At the beginning, I didn’t know how to write this part of the content, so I just wrote it blindly. Then the teacher's comment was to evaluate Qiuyuan's life, and to make an evaluation out of the book. As a result, I wrote an evaluation of Qiuyuan's life and then submitted it.
waited three days for no response after submitting the article, so I revised the article and then submitted it again. Because Sanqihui’s manuscript submission mode is that if the manuscript is not suitable three days after submission, you will directly report it, and if it is suitable, it will be reviewed. If there is no response, your manuscript is still a little bit behind and needs to be revised.
So, I revised the manuscript and continued to submit. This time there was a response, and it also came with suggestions for modification. It was recommended that I write 300 more words in the last section. To evaluate this book from a macro perspective, read more on Douban Comment and then give your own review. Therefore, I read the reviews of "Autumn Garden" again. I had read them before, but this time I read them more carefully. But after reading too many comments, my thoughts became more confused. In desperation, I asked Teacher Qiang Se for help.
Teacher Qiangse’s suggestion after reading it is to get out of the story, to see the big from the small, from the individual to the group, from the individual to the era.
After listening to the teacher's comments, I pondered for a few days and changed the ending beyond recognition. Then I waited for another two days and revised it several times before continuing to submit. After waiting for two days, I received the news that the submission was approved. I was really happy. At first I thought I had failed, because the waiting time was a bit long, which gave me the idea of abandoning the manuscript. If it didn’t work out, I would write the next one.
This unpacked manuscript from the Sanqi Reading Club has a total of more than 6,000 words, and has been revised more than a dozen times. It really made me realize that good articles are all revised!
Because every time I read the manuscript, I will find some language errors and have to correct them. There were also some sentences that were well written, but they did not echo the content of the article and would make readers confused after reading them, so they were revised. There are also some sentences that are too wordy and difficult to pronounce after reading them, so I changed them. There are even some contents that have been deleted and rewritten. Because there is no way to modify them, they can only be deleted and rewritten. After more than a dozen repeated revisions, the article finally reads more smoothly.
Therefore, after the submission is approved, there are not many things that need to be modified during the text review. It really proves that good articles are all modified!
di succeeded in submitting the manuscript in one submission. Ji Dadi encouraged me, and I plan to continue to work on the manuscript. Come on!
