03 I am not satisfied with trying to break through the sea of
. I have been trying to expand my boundaries and find my "strong points".
vaguely, I found that story-based articles are more popular. Is it written by the sea well, or is it that everyone prefers stories? The sea has no way of knowing it, maybe it has both.
For example, I have written a short story of about 12,000 words, forming a collection of "Three Grandmas in the Countryside". Everyone received a good response. The number of views exceeded 7,200 in two months, which was beyond the expectation of the sea.
also has a short collection of nearly 14,000 words, named "The Cat of Nine Life". Although the popularity is not as good as the former, it has been read by more than 3,400 people in the past month. This is the most popular article besides the manual articles on Jianshu's operations.
In addition, there is a privately processed 50,000-word special topic of "Camo Seal" and a variety of concerns to be continued (the time will be updated to be ripe). They are all creative models with stories as the core, with a large number of readings, comments, and likes.
Perhaps because of the platform's traffic orientation, many of the articles mentioned above are listed, so that the "more people have more" Matthew effect may gain more attention and read, which is unknown.
In short, writing more stories and more things that others like to see may be the "success password" and "traffic password" of the sea. And this layer of awareness and introspection may be the biggest gain of writing this article.
04Summary lessons
Dahai has written million words, but there are not many experiences, and a lot of lessons. I want to summarize it, I hope it can help everyone avoid detours, although everyone will inevitably take "detours"...
1 is that there is no system, piecemeal. According to the book-reading thinking, Dahai made no other achievements after writing "Road" and "Sun Tzu's Translation of the Art of War". About 70% of the text is submerged in "useless work". The only use may be exchanged for some benefits from Jianshu Diamond/Beijing, which is heartbreaking but true.
The second is to be willful and random and do not know how to choose. Picking up a basket is full of food. Although it helps to practice writing, it also consumes a lot of energy and time. Dahai also understands that if you don’t have construction drawings in your mind, even if you move tens of millions of bricks, you are just a bricklayer and cannot become a construction master.
3: being too persistent and being obsessed with the enemy. The sea cannot let go of the obsession with the thousand-character text of the day, so it deviates from the original intention of writing. Sometimes, in order to achieve the continuous recording of thousands of characters of daily updates, we work hard to make up for the update, mix and make up for the updates...
above problems seem to be divided into three parts, but the root causes are very consistent - the lack of book thinking, system thinking, and user thinking, and the problem of "what to write, how to write, and for whom" has not been solved.
05 Writing direction
If you are purely aiming to write books and write around a system, the sea knows that there is no strong "diamond" and it will inevitably be thankless to write, and it is easy to become a "four-no-like" monster.
If you simply seek the quality and make the sea give up daily updates and practice writing, you may completely step on the watermelon skin and slid wherever you go. It would be a pity to develop the habit of daily updates in two years.
Dahai believes that solving the problem still needs to be divided into two parts. You cannot give up on your food because of choking, nor can you become fat in one bite.
so, first, continue to practice writing daily updates and maintain the "deliberate practice" writing feel. Even if you often release "water" texts that are "unstandard" and "no one cares about", you cannot relax your spirit of continuous progress, and you cannot lose the habit of writing with a new touch and the habit of writing with just a pen!
The second is to strengthen practice and convert short stories or story creation. As far as possible, from simple to complex, from stories to novels, from short stories to medium and long articles, from individual articles to system conception, and from overall design to breakthroughs one by one, strive to write two or three connotational, quality and resonant articles every week. It is also a progressive process of accumulating few into many, gathering sand into towers, and gathering armpits into fur.
0 Let’s say that it is well written, very, very fast and exquisite, which is a luxury for the ocean. Since we cannot take into account both, we can explore while writing, put in a hard time, and then write a million words to read. We hope to summarize some new experiences and lessons.
Wait until the 1,000-day update of a thousand-word text, or a total of 2 million words per day, the sea will summarize and reflect on the experience and lessons, strive to write and think frequently, and strive to write and keep new...
