Want to improve your writing skills? To mobilize your brain, you can start by insisting on writing a thousand words a day

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Not long ago, I wrote about it with my friends. There has always been a saying: "Good memorability is not as good as bad writing." "This is for beginners, but also for people with mediocre qualifications. If you are not diligent in taking notes, you will not be able to enter the industry.

However, today's recording tools are convenient, and people's memory and comprehension are seriously reduced. Hands-on notes, much better than recordings. As soon as the tape recorder was turned on, he was lazy, and he didn't even move his hands, and almost all six of his body were paralyzed.

Scientific and technological equipment, tools, etc., only help people work more conveniently, but do not let technology replace people.

I found that many young people use mobile phone recording to convert text very skillfully, you are also accustomed to recording people's natural conversations, and rely on recording, and then use software to convert into text, in fact, no matter how rich the recording is, but there is content in the recording, and there is no in people's hearts, a copywriter, it will inevitably shrink seriously. Over-reliance on recording, people's memory will be idle, over time, it will naturally degenerate and become tired, the key is that people's writing ability has not improved.

I've always had a habit of relying on my brain. I don't even rely on notes. The people and things interviewed are recorded in the mind like a video recorder, and the writing is just a trade-off for this scene.

The process of memory is the process of people feeling and appreciating, and they will not forget at all. Writing with memory is another process of gratitude, fast and vivid.

Think about how many years I've been in the media, but I've barely sorted out the recordings, at best it's a replay to listen to it, so that the recording awakens the memory, if you listen to a paragraph to write a paragraph, it's too boring, too uncomfortable. The process of playing the recording was actually another process of learning and gratitude. Instead of simply converting the recording into text.

Therefore, to improve your writing skills, I recommend that you ban the use of recordings first. If the brain can't remember, train to strengthen the brain, and if there is a tape recorder, it will mislead people's memory.

There is a recording, people are six tired and sluggish, in fact, the tape recorder is on the side, you listen to others to speak will naturally be distracted, wandering and unconscious. Whoever has something to rely on is naturally enslaved or interfered with.

If people's own abilities are not improved, the more convenient the instruments, the deeper the harm to people.

It is also "born of sorrow, died of happiness." Without a recording, you'll worry about not remembering, so you're extra focused. There are recordings that you have to relax and there is no one who does not slacken your spirits. Just like a child of a poor family, he must have the self-consciousness and motivation to work hard, because he has no choice; and a child who is slightly rich and does not worry about eating and wearing others needs to remind, educate, and motivate him in various ways.

The intergenerational status of the poor and the rich is interchangeable, and this is where it comes.

If it is a child of a poor family, who does not think of making progress, and takes the initiative to lie flat than the children of a rich family, it is a poor and hopeless villain. Similarly, if your memory is not good and you are still confused, you are not the material for dry writing.

For aspirants, I advocate that you can write a thousand words a day as a comprehensive way to train memory, thinking, and expression. We must overcome the fear of difficulties, earn hard, do not donate, develop habits, and benefit for life.

This is the way that Teacher Huang Tianji of Sun Yat-sen University trained undergraduates, I was honored to be the first batch of trainees, at first, very resistant, very complaining, very resistant, but I had to complete this assignment because I occupied two credits. Sticking to it is really a lifetime benefit.

I advocate writing a thousand words a day. If you can't write it yourself, you must copy it by hand, you can also type, but you can't read it aloud and convert it with your voice, otherwise it's like lying to yourself. It's about training stupid kung fu.

Then handwritten rewriting of predecessors.

Then he paraphrased someone else by hand.

And then again... Must have been written.

Song Qi, a Song Dynasty man, said: "For literature is a quiet industry." ”

Write at least a thousand words a day, the writer does not work, first leave it alone, mainly practice meditation, train stupid kung fu, and develop habits.

Everything is about perseverance, persistence, very simple and primitive persistence.

There are really no shortcuts and tricks to writing, Su Dongpo has a short article -

"Sun Xin, who was old enough to know Ouyang Wenzhonggong, tried to ask in words, Yun: No other skills, only diligent reading and more, self-work. The world suffers from writing little, and is lazy to read, and every article is published, that is, it is sought by others, so few people. Defects do not have to be directed by others, but can be seen by themselves. ”

I also remembered what Zeng Guofan said in his family book- "Life is always the first virtue." In his early years, Yu was writing together, and he also tried hard and thought hard, but finally achieved nothing. Recently, the Dynasty has been writing for a long time, and I feel that the months are different and the years are different. It can be seen that there is no distinction between the old and the young, and there is no difficulty in doing anything, but it is constant, like planting trees and raising livestock, and seeing its size day by day without not noticing the ears. ”

And the clouds ————

"Everything is done with sleepy knowledge, and it is not too sudden to seek fame or too quick to seek results." After that, it is advisable to learn a hundred willow characters every day, with raw paper on a single day and oil paper on two days. Pro-post should be xu, and imitation should be sick. After a few months, the more clumsy the hand, the uglier the word, the lower the intention, the so-called sleepy. Because the time should not be interrupted, after surviving this level, you can make less progress. Go in and sleepy again, stay up again and work hard, and have the day of prosperity and improvement. If you don't learn words, when everything is extremely difficult and difficult, the one who can get through is a good man. ”

I read the article in the morning. I feel that I must write a testimonial by hand, naturally, I don't feel that this is a tiring thing, not counted as a day's formal work, but I wrote a lot of things.

Next, I would argue that you can train your ability and skills in writing applied essays, i.e., practical writing. This is the study of life, and students settle down and start with practical learning. Don't start with what you learned, can't find your job, can't solve the problem of eating, but you are used to swaying words, feminine talent, moaning wind and moon, and complaining that you don't meet your talent.

In today's era, there is only one criterion for learning traditional culture: learning does not have to be knowledgeable, it must be useful. There is room for doing things, and it is necessary to learn literature.

Learning such as winemaking, first drawing water to grow rice, and then using water rice to make wine, the aroma of wine is formed by the combination of water and rice climate and other opportunities, or fragrant and sweet, or bitter and weak, there must be some reason, after all, it is grain wine. You can't give up water and rice for the sake of wine for no reason.

(This article is only the author's personal opinion and does not represent the position of this newspaper)

Xu Shilin