The purpose of this article is to improve my writing efficiency when I have the mentality of finishing first and then perfecting
This is my 779th day/1000th day of continuous writing
Hello, I'm Da Mingzi.
In "Writing is a Craft", it says:
Writing is not a surgery, it doesn't have to be done once.
As long as you have something in hand, the difficulty of making changes after that decreases dramatically: going from 0 to 1 is the hardest, while going from 1 to 2 to 3 and even infinity is relatively easy.
Remember, the most important thing in the first draft is speed, not quality.
In other words, the most important thing about the article is to write the first draft quickly first, and the rest will be easy.
Why do that
Writer Stephen · Pinker said, "The difficulty of writing lies in the unfolding of reticular thinking through tree-like syntax into linear words." ”
That is, we have to write down what we think in our brains, and then present them logically.
But our brain has a labor-saving principle, that is, if you can not use your brain, you will not use your brain.
Because writing an article requires thinking, and thinking requires energy.
This is contrary to our principle of labor saving.
Then our brains will find all sorts of ways, all sorts of reasons, to stop us from thinking.
Like what
- When I'm writing articles, I'm always cranky and can't concentrate
- I always want to do simple and easy things, I don't want to think about it
- I always want to write the article right at one time, and I don't need to revise it
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And one is vigorous, then it declines, and three is exhausted.
After many interruptions, it became more and more difficult for me to write articles, and I also wrote more and more slowly.
I can't write a full essay before the deadline.
Ernest Hemingway once said: Any first draft of an article is stinking shit.
If I can write the first draft first, I will continue to revise and improve it
The difficulty dropped a lot, and I was able to achieve a satisfactory result.
I used to write articles that I always wanted to do in one go, and I didn't have to revise anything after I finished writing.
Publish it right away.
So when I write, I always revise as I write, and I write ten sentences, maybe eight sentences, which reduces my writing efficiency.
And in this process, as the number of changes increases, my mentality has also changed, and I have become impatient.
The more I wrote, the more I didn't want to write, and I procrastinated, and it took me more than 2 hours to finish what could have been done in about an hour.
This sense of experience made me gradually afraid of writing, and every time I thought about writing an article, I felt a kind of pain.
My first draft was getting behind schedule, and my writing speed was only getting slower.
Even more seriously, after a long period of suffering, it is possible that I will eventually give up writing.
So, if I want to reduce the resistance to writing, I can't just be perfectionist and do it right the first time.
It's that no matter how good or bad the article is, it's good to be able to write the first draft of the article quickly.
And then go and modify it step by step.
I'll feel a lot less scared.
My writing efficiency can gradually improve.
If I keep asking myself to finish one at a time, I'm fighting against my own humanity.
The more confrontational, the more painful it will be.
Gradually, I only think about how to complete the task of writing, and I don't think about how to write better.
If I keep doing this, it won't give me what I want to achieve.
If I develop a habitual mindset, I will easily deviate from the meaning of what I am doing.
I just write for the sake of writing, not for my growth.
It took a lot of time and effort, and then I wouldn't have changed, and I would have fallen into inefficiency, or even ineffective diligence.
Then it will be difficult to achieve the goal I want.
So, a lot of the time I write now, I comfort myself that I should finish it first in perfection.
Don't think about eating to be a fat person in one go.
Only then can the writing efficiency of the article be continuously improved, and the content will be written better.
Make yourself better and better.
After the full text, it is another day of growth, and I hope this article can also bring you some food for thought and help.