People always ask, is it too late to make money by writing? Some say it's not too late. You don't believe it.
You always feel that the best time has passed, and you also feel that you will not make money.
Ask, just can't do it.
So, don't ask, just give it a try.
01. "Writing" is more important than "thinking"
I have a friend who loves writing as much as I do.
It's just that we're slightly different.
I sit in front of the computer every day, open the document, the moment before I hit the keyboard, I may not have thought about what to write, but when I sit down and calm down, I know what I want to write, and all that's left is to organize the language, hit the keyboard, and at the end of the day, I will always have something to gain.
Sometimes, an idea is well written and I continue to develop it into a story, and then the next day's work is scheduled in advance.
If I don't write well, I practice writing when I don't have inspiration, because I don't have inspiration every time I write, but my job requires me to write every day.
My friend is different from me, she has to complete all the ideas in her head before she writes.
Sometimes I don't write for a day or two, sometimes I don't write for a week, sometimes I don't write for a month. When I asked her, she said that it was all in her head and was constantly improving, but sometimes, in three months, I had written a novel, and she couldn't come up with a single story idea.
Therefore, "thinking" is important, but "writing" is always more important than "thinking".
02. "How to write" is not difficult, "what to write" is difficult
Some people say that I like to write, but writing is too difficult, and I must not make money for writing.
Actually, writing isn't that hard!
Especially self-media writing, it is not literary creation.
You look at all the self-media authors who are saying that writing is not difficult.
Why?
Because self-media writing does not need to have much high literary literacy, you just need to be able to explain things clearly, you can make your point of view clear, you can justify yourself, if you can be more interesting and unique, you are enough to be competent for self-media writing.
In fact, we have received writing training since childhood, we start from the simplest expository essay, to narrative essay, to argumentative essay, from 800 words to 1500 words, which is the standard word count of our composition. You find that no, if you can express what you want to express normally like writing an essay, it is enough to complete a self-media pictorial creation.
Self-media creation, especially for novice Xiaobai, the most difficult thing is to choose a topic, which is the problem of "what to write", not the problem of "how to write".
"How to write" is not difficult, "what to write" is difficult!
03. Imitate first, then surpass
Writing is an output behavior, want to continue to output emotions, output views, output value, we must continue to recharge ourselves, enrich ourselves, improve ourselves, only in this way in the face of the same thing, have their own unique angle and point of view.
What makes us unique ourselves, and reading is the best way.
And reading is not just about reading a book.
To learn film and television, we have to pull films, learn to write, we have to read the classics, learn to write from the media, and we have to dismantle the explosive models.
Whoever writes suspense does not know Hitchcock, who writes about love does not watch Titanic, and which one who studies film and television does not study Hollywood.
Reading can broaden your horizons, expand your thinking, learn from each other's strengths, and even imitate them.
All things are imitated first, and then surpassed.
Falling on the matter of writing, it solves the problem of "what to write" and the problem of "how to write".
Change is inseparable.
Dismantling explosive models is always the only way for us to learn and master a new knowledge and new skills.
If, even these simple things, we are not willing to sink our hearts to do, how can we look forward to the day when we will succeed?
Writing forces reading, and reading helps growth.
We can't travel thousands of miles, we can read thousands of books.
Life is long, and no one wants to stand still.
04. It is inseparable from the self-media creation of writing
Micro headlines, articles, Q&A, videos, which all require the participation of writing. There is no word limit for micro headlines, you need to write interestingly, articles and Q&A have word count requirements, you need to learn layout, videos need to explain, you need to create your own copywriting, so, when you decide to do self-media, writing has become your indispensable homework.
In addition to that, what you must know is that the earnings of articles and Q&A are higher than those of micro headlines, and the earnings of videos are higher than those of articles. Writing has been incorporated into all the creations of self-media for the purpose of making money. Do you still say you don't want to write?
Writing is the foundation of self-media creation, and it may also be your future traffic password.
So, all you need to do is sit in front of the computer, as I do now, type the first word, and start writing.
I am @ Spit Sisters, an obscure but love to write engineering women, I hope to meet you who also love writing, let us work together and make progress together. Welcome to leave a message in the discussion area, let's have fun together!
Have fun and thanks for reading!
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