Xian Yu answered the reader's question: How can I write articles like you and drink water?

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Recently, I launched the "Xian Yu Answers Reader's Questions" activity. If you have any questions you want to ask, please leave a message and I will answer them in order.

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Seeing this question, I have to deeply reflect on it. Why do people have this misunderstanding?

I think it may be that the update speed has been a little too fast in the past few months. Since New Year's Day, today, April 11, 101 day has passed, and I have already sent 31 article, on average 3.3 one article per day, of course, this is only published, if it is not the WeChat public account, only one article per day, and the reading volume on Fridays and weekends is relatively low, and every time If I find it troublesome to post on many platforms, I may post more.

But it doesn’t mean much to post a lot. In fact, throughout this year, the articles I have written so far are mainly the VuePress blog building series. For the principle articles I wrote in the past, writing an article often requires reading through a lot of content, consulting Documents, and maybe even flip through a few more books, and then write them out according to their own ideas, but this kind of practical article, record the problems encountered, and write down the methods to solve the problems. I want to say that one article a day is simply too simple...

So there is no need to envy or admire the authors of the daily update. The articles they write in the daily update must not be very good. The author's level in the process of the daily update can only guarantee the lower limit, but cannot increase the upper limit.

If a person does not have a lot of input, he is outputting crazily. The articles he writes are either simple, the kind of content that can be learned and solved in a day, or they are downright rubbish articles.

So this is my advice to readers, don't judge a person at the speed of writing, writing articles like drinking water is not something to boast about.

I can't teach you how to write articles like drinking water, so let's just talk about writing.

As one of the five things that I often mention to you that can change your life quickly (getting up early, reading, writing, exercising, and meditation), the benefits of writing are self-evident. People often think of community influence, knowledge realization, etc. , this is indeed a very intuitive benefit, but since I haven't experienced it very much, I want to talk about some other benefits I have experienced:

The first is technological growth.

No matter what content you are learning, the learning at the beginning should be slow and solid. If there are many loopholes and blind spots in the previous learning, all the knowledge based on these foundations will be shaky. If the previous loopholes and blind spots are not completely solved, they will be affected by this forever, and there will be more and more new problems and loopholes in learning. In the end, people can only choose to give up in anxiety, disappointment, and depression.

Writing is the best way to supervise yourself and test whether you are solid in your studies. If you can straighten out a knowledge point and write it out in your own way, it means that you have a good understanding of this knowledge point. When you encounter this knowledge point later, even if you forget something, you will There is no need to read other people's articles and re-learn it, which saves your study time.

The second is to overcome inferiority complex.

In fact, each of us is more or less inferior. Whenever we talk about this topic, our parents will tell you with the attitude of a past person, what is there to be inferior to? Friends are more of comfort, "you have to be confident", "you are very good", "everyone likes you very much". I will also try to brainwash myself, "I can do it", "Just do it!".

But most of the time it doesn't help, because I haven't felt the joy of getting likes, I haven't received sincere thanks from others, I don't have that sense of "you are really good", you are It's hard to get over that low self-esteem.

And writing is a way to share thinking and get everyone's affirmation. If you believe that self-confidence can make your life more exciting, then you should try writing.

I remember that when I first started writing the article, I would feel angry and angry because of a sarcasm. If I wanted to reply to this person, I had to hold back my temper and try to reply as gently as possible. Afterwards, I would be brooding about such a "hypocritical" self and encounter problems. Sometimes I always feel that I wrote something wrong first, and I even stingy about complimenting others. However, the article has been written for a long time, and gradually there have been some changes. At least in the face of ridicule, be a little more indifferent, in a good mood, laugh it off, if you are in a bad mood, you should be scolded, after all, some people are eccentric and have no brains. When I meet excellent classmates, I often have the urge to get to know them. If there is something I can help others, I will try my best to help. I think this change comes more from the inner recognition of myself.

The third is making friends.

It's a bit like recalling what I gained when I joined a club in college. I forgot almost everything I learned, but I still remember the friends I met and what happened to this day. On the way of writing, I also met a lot of friends. At the end of November last year, I also created my own community, although it costs money to do this (it feels like I have sent more than 1,000 red envelopes) and time (according to me). , at least dragged me down to write 10 articles), but in getting to know you and communicating with you, my thoughts on many things have gradually changed.

For example, before this, I never wrote non-technical articles, but in the communication with you, I think, if I always tell you that technology can't change us, do more, then why do you Would you like to share your opinion? Sharing more thoughts and ideas outside of technology may be more helpful to everyone. It is precisely because of such changes in thinking that the series of articles "Xian Yu Answers Readers' Questions" was born.

Technology is cold, but people's hearts are warm . Writing is also a hobby. Like other hobbies, you will also meet many friends and communicate with you more, and you will gain more than the reason.

Next, I will talk about writing skills. To be honest, I have not thought about this issue specifically, nor have I summarized any methodology, so I will talk about my daily writing process.

When I write articles, I basically start from practical problems or needs, such as what kind of content I want to learn, what kind of function I want to achieve, or what kind of question I am asked, and then in the process of learning, I Will search first, to have some general understanding of the concept.

In the specific learning process, try to understand every detail of the knowledge point as much as possible, so as to know why. The reason is as mentioned before. If the loopholes and blind spots are not completely solved, they will be affected by it all the time, and there will be more and more new problems and loopholes in learning. In the end, people can only be anxious, disappointed, In depression, choose to give up.

Although I do read some related articles, I prefer to start from authoritative documents, such as official documents, standard specifications, etc., so in many of my articles, there are few reference links to other articles, more Quoting from the official documentation.

If I feel that there is something to gain, I will record it in Yuque. Basically, I remember while learning. This method seems to slow down the speed of learning, but it is easy to trace the derivation process when encountering new problems. On the contrary, it will improve the efficiency. When the learning is almost the same, I will review the difficulties in this road, and slowly I will have my own entry point. Finally, I will follow my own ideas and combine the previous notes. Basically, I can write it out very quickly. an article.

Writing an article is actually not difficult, the most important thing is to keep writing. I have two suggestions for this:

The first is multi-recording, like all my content, is recorded in Yuque. According to the annual summary of Yuque last year, I created 500 documents in Yuque:

Open my Yuque homepage , the editing records are much richer than my GitHub:

In daily study and work, I immediately record valuable content when I come across it, and when I have thoughts and inspiration, I also record it immediately. When I am confused and don’t know what to do, I often create a new document and put the content I think of. Type it down immediately, there is no logic, just memorize whatever comes to mind, and so on. There is no need to output anything in particular. I think it is good to have a daily habit of recording and writing things.

The second one is about feedback. Although we often say that writing articles is to sort out our thoughts, and the most important thing is to help ourselves, it is true, but it is also a reason to comfort ourselves when we write articles that no one reads. Writing articles requires feedback from readers, especially when you’re just starting out. This has nothing to do with vanity, this is a kind of human nature, just like after you post a circle of friends, you will always watch the likes and comments (I don’t, so don’t like my circle of friends, please give me articles Like), the author has worked so hard to write articles, not afraid of being ridiculed, but afraid that no one will read them. The enthusiasm of the author is ignored, and gradually he dares not write. This is why I often encourage everyone in the group to agree and learn The original article sent, even a like, a typo, a comment, a reply on WeChat, can greatly inspire the author.

But when you first started writing, there were very few people who followed you, and even fewer people who could influence you. It’s actually normal to have no likes. What I want to tell you is not to write articles for the sake of hot spots, but I hope you can keep your feet on the ground. Yes, what to do next, make sharing a habit. Slowly, more and more people like you, and the more people you can influence, the more feedback you receive, and eventually you will reach a positive cycle. So before that, keep a good attitude and let the results come naturally . Writing the first 10 articles may not work well, but when you reach the 100th article, there will definitely be a qualitative change.

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