2020 is about to pass. For the entire human world, this year has been a year of misery and hope. We have gone through a lot of difficulties together, and we have also seen a lot of love and beauty.
I think everyone, in this year, will have some changes.
For me, 2020 is undoubtedly the most important year in my life. There have been many major events in this year, and my life has also undergone complete changes.
At this time last year, I definitely couldn't imagine that today, I will sit here and say these things to everyone.
Okay, let's start from the beginning.
01
At the beginning of the year, I left Beijing after ten years of struggle and returned to my hometown of Shaanxi.
Later, I always told everyone that I left Beijing to go home and start a business. In fact, I didn't know what I was going to do back then. Thinking about it now, at that time, I just thought I should leave, or it might be because I was greedy for snacks in my hometown. Who knows? On the train going home from
, I accidentally found the enrollment guide for a new media writing training camp. Before that, I had been a screenwriter for ten years and had a certain writing foundation, but I was not much prepared for writing in new media.
then signed up, paid the money, and was going to try to see if it could add some fun to the life of returning home. Who knows, it was this decision that took only five seconds to make that changed my future life path.
is very fast, I started to hang up in the training camp, and I wrote endlessly, as if to drift me north for ten years, all the blocks in my heart were all spitting out, I wrote crazy and wrote unscrupulously . Thinking about it now, it seemed that I was going to exhaust all my life's talents. It seemed that after writing these articles, I would abandon my pen and go to the army and be generous.
The reality did not give me the opportunity to be righteous, but it gave me the honor of two consecutive periods of elite students.
My results have also led the way. I wrote 15 headline Qingyun articles in a single month, won the title of monthly high-quality account and headline Qingyun award author, and became the realizing king of training camp. What surprised me most was that just one month of writing made me more than 14,000 yuan.
In fact, for my livelihood, I was still engaged in a small fruit group buying business with my friends at the time. The profit from writing really surprised me.
Later things turned around. My hard work was recognized. The training camp hired me as a writing coach. I also began to help hundreds of students learn new media writing, leading them on the road to monetization, and gradually became the "great god" among the students. .
The most important thing is that before July of 2020, I did a few major things:
I got married, bought a house, and stabilized my monthly income at about 20,000 yuan. In a small third-tier city in Shaanxi, it’s easy and beautiful. Live.
02
All of this is something I can't even think of in Beijing for ten years.
I have been drifting north for ten years. I have dreams of living in a shared house of more than ten square meters. I dare not spend money, dare to go shopping, dare not fall in love. I dreamt that one day I will be able to rise to the top. .
I live in a moldy rental house. I eat a bowl of hot dry noodles downstairs for 8 yuan a day and write scripts that no one reads. I was depressed for a long time, gained weight, had deep nearsightedness, and suffered from severe stomach problems. I haven't posted to Moments for three years. After I was irritated by the musty smell in the rental house again, sent a note: You must make money and get out of this moldy rental house.
I worked very hard and started to get some results. With a basic salary of RMB 3,500, I moved to Yanjiao outside Beijing’s East Sixth Ring Road and rented a 500 RMB shared house. At least I can’t smell the musty.
However, I still dare not spend money, dare not travel, dare not fall in love, and save a balance of 1,000 yuan every month.
I firmly believe that as long as I work hard, I can succeed and become rich.
One day, I was writing a script at home, and I received a WeChat message:
"I am unemployed and the company can't support itGo down, disbanded. Come out for a drink with me. "Z39z
, the person who sent WeChat with me, was from the North Floating School. It happened to be his 30th birthday. Z1z
is a practitioner in the game industry. Over the years, he has devoted all his energy and all his time to the game industry. However, in those years, most of the game companies were unable to escape the fate of bankruptcy. The company where
was located was one of many failed companies. He became an unemployed and frustrated middle-aged man.
Beijing one month 1 Wan4's mortgage made him breathless. After drinking that meal, he went to look for a job the next day, thinking about finding a job with a monthly salary of 20,000 yuan with his own ability and experience in the game industry. It’s not a problem.
As a result, this job is only half a year.
Finally, he was forced to go to a start-up company, reduced the requirements, and guaranteed that he could get 14,000 in one month. Z1z
graduated from a prestigious school , The previous work history was also very good, but at the age of 30, I did not save any money, and now I am facing a mid-life crisis of being replaced by young people at any time. At that time I realized: wants to find you Like it, it suits you, and you can do a good job and make money. It is a very difficult thing.
If I have a sense of crisis, maybe it has been there since then.
So, I am writing a script At the same time, I kept taking time to read, study, continue to grow, and keep improving. I have been looking for the career that really belongs to me.
Until 2020, I met today’s headlines and new media writing.
03
. , Are all things before July 15, 2020.
On the day of July 15, 2020, another big event happened, which opened another period of my open life.
I called my article "System Thinking 》, I made a video, and participated in an activity called Movable Type Project organized by Watermelon Video. Z1z
may be my experience in the film and television industry, and I have some insights into video production, audiovisual language and visual beauty. My video Like my article, it was liked by everyone. The first video of
soon exceeded 100,000 views, and I also felt the power of the explosion. The number of fans of
began to soar, from 10,000 to 50,000, from From 50,000 to 100,000, from 100,000 to 200,000.
From July 15 to now, in more than five months, I have increased more than 200,000 fans, and in December, I successfully signed with Watermelon and became a professional The creator of
fans like my video, which gave me a lot of encouragement. I am also growing up and gaining new knowledge in communicating with you. The video made by
brings me a lot of happiness. I feel like communicating with everyone across the screen. Let me get it back In the movie dream of Bei Piao, I did not expect that after such a big lap, I returned to my original starting point. Perhaps this is what I call not forgetting my original intention.
I called the one I sent, and I told him that I really found a career that I like, is suitable, can do well, and can make money. This matter is not as difficult as I thought. .
Actually, when I think about it, I have to thank writing for all this. From the beginning of my screenwriting career ten years ago, to this day, I have never stopped writing. I think I can afford it. Z118z keeps writing the four characters .
In fact, writing to me is thinking and my life. I like to write and draw. I always take a notebook with me wherever I go. I always feel that I have to write something to make my trip worthwhile. I can live up to the beautiful scenery and feel happy.
people often ask me if there are any good ways to improve myself. I think writing is the best way.
I can't tell you the specific benefits, but what I want to say is that writing is a door. Open it and you can see another world.
04
said so much, and there is no important point. So, I want to talk about the real point below. Haha, yes, this point is my wife.
Ifwants to say that I am a beneficiary of writing, then my wife’s experience in writing is even more legendary.
In fact, when it comes to writing, we have almost the same thinking mode, but she has taken another, completely different path of writing.
My wife graduated from Boston University with a major in finance. She has a deep foundation in finance and economics. After returning to China, she joined a well-known central enterprise.
However, she is very obsessed with words and fanatical in novel creation. So that after meeting me, I resolutely gave up the high-income and stable central enterprise work.
She said, this is affected by my artistic temperament.
Actually, at that time, I was just a screenwriter of Bei Piao, dreaming of unrealistic film dreams every day. I had just begun to think deeply about writing.
She decisively gave up working in central enterprises, which surprised me.
But at that time, she said to me:
writing is the most powerful tool for self-growth and the most rewarding self-investment in this era.
As a financial worker, investment is her ability to eat.
Her interpretation of the relationship between writing and investment, I must think carefully.
Later, we groped on the road of writing together, and I finally understood what she meant:
In fact, writing can not only systematize your thinking, but also force you to learn and make you a one This habit of thinking about problems helps you find many, many life solutions. Many times, we have a habitual way of thinking, that is, writing articles is to provide others with new knowledge and methodology for others. In fact, for me, the biggest beneficiary of writing articles is myself.
After my wife resigned, she began to devote herself to novel creation. At that time, she was very enthusiastic and completed a novel of more than 200,000 words in three months.
I am the first reader, honestly speaking, very good, better than my script.
However, this is just the beginning of her "writing investment".
soon, because of this novel, she mixed into the Beijing literary circle. Cooperated with the "Penghao Theater" known as the private theater of the Central Academy of Drama, and adapted this novel into a drama at the annual "Nanluo Drama Festival". She herself directed and performed consecutively. Two games. What's more interesting for
is that because of this collaboration, she became one of the partners of "Penghao Theater".
This is an unexpected result. I was really surprised that I dropped my chin.
I have been in Beijing for ten years and I am considered half a person in the literary circle, but it took only three months for my wife to directly enter the center of the literary circle, which really made me admire her. The return on investment of
is really astonishing.
Later, she was on the way of writing and she was out of control.
My wife loves reading very much, and still maintains a reading speed of about 15 books per month. Besides, I can't match it. Because of her passion, she did not choose the Toutiao platform, but chose another platform that emphasizes literature and art as her writing base, and began to create book reviews. At first,
didn't read much, but she always insisted on the original intention of "writing for pleasure", and kept writing. Z1z
half a year later, her book reviews were discovered by the platform's internal editors, and she was invited to write for many well-known accounts of the platform. Soon, she became a special author, and almost every article was 100,000 plus.
At the same time, she took advantage of her English and reading advantages to launch a project that, in my opinion, would not have readers at all.
uses English to interpret the English version of Pride and Prejudice.
My god, who would look at this stuff!
but my wife is full of confidence in it. Sure enough, this project was once again favored by NetEase, and a brand new sale was made for her.Selling method-reader mode.
She will take readers to interpret the English version of "Pride and Prejudice" every day, and each reader has to pay a membership fee of 50 yuan to participate in this interpretation. The new gameplay of
is very interesting. It quickly improved my wife's personal IP value and became a celebrity in the circle of readers, winning many fans.
due to the increase in the value of IP, coupled with her financial background and writing achievements, soon a lot of cooperation came to her door.
Now, a series of creations such as her book project and novel project are in progress.
This is only the second year of her resignation and writing.
At the beginning of this year, she married me.
We live in this peaceful town, writing what we like and loving our love.
In order to enrich our creations, we agreed to live in a new city for a period of time every two months, so that we will travel across the country and even the world.
This is writing, which brings me and my wife a return on investment.
is no exaggeration to say that our current life and career are all brought about by writing. If I did not try new media writing, I would never believe that writing can have such high commercial value and excellent returns.
Look at the Internet today, whether it is headlines, Douyin or watermelon. People who can express
have always been the biggest dividend reapers of this era.
writing is the expression with the lowest threshold.
If you have not yet started writing, you will never know how many opportunities you have missed to achieve yourself.
Well, this is the 2020 for my wife and I. It is also the first stop of our wonderful journey. I believe that in the future, there will be more wonderful and wonderful journeys waiting for us to explore.
We are ready, how about you?
I am Johnny, a big guy, follow me and we will witness the future together.
