Not long ago, I saw a true story in "Qi Pa Shuo":

The post-00s girl "Mu Zhi", a high school girl who is only 17 years old, was able to do it in 2 Write an article within an hour and get 15,000 in advertising fees!

She earned 100,000 a month from writing and bought a house for her family.

At such a young age, she achieved financial freedom through writing. You might think she is some kind of genius, but in fact she is an ordinary person like us. She even only scored 18 points in an exam and was scolded by the teacher in public. Words like "trash, waiting to be eaten up in the future".

In order to prove that she could do it, she started various attempts, such as doing micro-business, opening an online store, shooting short videos, etc.

In the end, she discovered that writing is the most suitable way for ordinary people to make money.

Luo Zhenyu also said in "Qi Pa Shuo": "The most important asset in future society is influence, and the first component of influence is writing."

Not long ago , the online drama "The Hidden Corner" has overwhelmed the circle of friends. The author of this script, Zijin Chen, can be described as a real "celebrity".

Zijin Chen’s two novels "Bad Boy" and "Long Night" have been adapted into "The Hidden Corner" and "The Hidden Truth" respectively. The Douban score is as high as 9 points, and he himself is even more famous. Harvest with profit.

When asked why he wanted to write, Zijin Chen’s answer could not be described as “a breath of fresh air”. It went directly to the hot search, triggering 130 million people to read it and 18,000 people to discuss it!

Zijin Chen said: Money is his biggest motivation for writing.

After graduating from college, he worked in a company. At that time, his monthly income was very low, with a monthly salary of only 4,500 yuan, and his life was not smooth. Until an accidental opportunity, he came into contact with mystery novels, and then quit his job to write full-time at home.

In a few years, he created his own kingdom of wealth through writing. I also realized my desire to make money through writing.

After reading Zijin Chen’s interview, I am even more convinced that in the Internet age, writing is the best way to continue to benefit ordinary people and even achieve counterattacks.

Especially in today’s economic downturn and the sharp increase in unemployment, part-time writing has become a popular side job to make money.

Of course, many things require strength but also opportunities. For example, it is difficult for Zijin Chen to become a novelist and Mu Zhi to earn 100,000 yuan a month from writing.

But if ordinary people can take 2 hours of free time to write every day, there is still hope that they can earn an extra 3,000-10,000 yuan a month from writing.

So how can novice writers improve their new media writing and earn thousands of dollars more every month?

1. Clarify your reader positioning before conceiving the article

When conceiving the topic of the article, you must first clarify your reader positioning and identify the target users.

For example, if your readership is college students or newcomers to the workplace, then the content of the corresponding articles should be consistent, and the articles should not be self-explanatory.

To clarify reader positioning, you can think about it from the following aspects:

1. Who is the target reader? What is the approximate male to female ratio? What is the age range?

2. What are the needs of the target readers?

3. What can I do based on my needs?

4. How do I need to do it?

Before conceiving any article, you must ask yourself these four questions, and gradually train your thinking to determine the writing style.

After the article is published, you should regularly check the background data or reading volume, summarize the articles with high reading volume, and adjust the topic of your article. Write the article that readers like to read.

2. Articles must be down-to-earth

As we all know, Internet information occupies users’ fragmented time. The overwhelming news, articles and advertisements every day make reading more and more convenient. As users have more and more choices, they will become more and more picky.

The "down-to-earth" article style has become the mainstream of major self-media platforms.

? The so-called down-to-earth meaning is that the article is straightforward and easy to understand.

In the education we received in the past, we were required to use various rhetorical techniques to reflect the beauty of writing. For example, college entrance examination compositions require a large number of rhetorical words to set off the beauty and connotation of the text.

But in new media articles, due to fragmented time reading, readers hope to obtain more knowledge or information in a limited time, so the text should be concise, straightforward, and grounded. gas.

I have three suggestions on how to write articles that are more down-to-earth:

1. Use less special nouns

Special nouns are common in popular science articles.

Many popular science articles may feel that if they do not include some professional terms, they will appear unprofessional, but in fact, good popular science articles explain the professional terms clearly so that users can understand them at a glance.

If there are too many professional terms in the article, it will not only make it difficult for readers to read, but also boring.

Therefore, try to use professional terms as little as possible. If you use them, it is best to write a more intuitive explanation, so that at least it will be easy for readers to read.

2. Use less rhetorical techniques such as adjectives

In compulsory education compositions, use rhetorical techniques, change short sentences into long sentences, use beautiful text modifications, and add more famous quotes. But in new media writing, these are unnecessary.

When we interpret a noun concept, we can choose to use a more intuitive metaphor, without adding various additional rhetorical techniques.

3. To trigger cries of cries from readers

Another interpretation of the down-to-earthness of the article is to trigger cries of cries from readers and make readers feel intimate. Therefore, we need to write text that is close to the readers' lives and emotions. We usually cultivate users' thinking, think from their perspective, and write based on the readers' needs.

3. The article structure is focused and short

We must always keep in mind that in the Internet era, users read articles in fragments, on the one hand to kill time, and on the other hand to read in short Get information within time.

Based on this purpose, the structure of the article must be focused. If you can describe something clearly in one sentence, don't use two sentences. If you can summarize it clearly, don't let readers guess.

For example, you want to write an article about learning methods. First of all, it is necessary to clarify what learning methods are available, and which of them can allow users to obtain incremental information.

So before writing, you should first conceive what kind of target group will read this article, and what are the problems they need to solve?

At the beginning of the article, you can write about the pain points of readers, such as people who cannot learn, low efficiency, waste of time, half the result with twice the effort, etc. Throw out the pain points first, and then write about what the correct learning method should be and what kind of results it can achieve. Then introduce specific learning methods and highlight important method points.

In this way, the structure of the article is clear and focused.

Secondly, the text length should not be too long.

It is best to control the word count of a self-media article to about 2,500 words. The article is too long and readers will not have the patience to finish it. So if you want to improve the quality of content in short articles, here are three suggestions:

1. The article must have a story

They are all chicken soup articles, why are other people’s articles It is very popular, such as Mi Meng's previous article, such as the article about reading at ten o'clock in the large book.

A very important reason is that in addition to having sharp opinions, the more important thing is that the text is readable, and the most important thing is that the text is readable, and the most important thing is that there is a story in the text.

If an article simply writes some big principles, it will look compelling, but in fact, everyone has no shortage of life mentors, and the written expression will naturally not attract users.

If you look closely at each of Mimeng's articles, it is not difficult to find that there is a sharp theme, and what confirms the theme in her articles is a small story instead of a long article. reason.

2. Add humor to the article

The expressions in the article can be appropriately added with a sense of humor. Adding some golden sentences or paragraphs to serious paragraphs can make the article more interesting. .

Just like some witty words are more down-to-earth than straight official documents.

3. The article should be divided into paragraphs and contain multiple pictures

The most basic layout of self-media articles is to have paragraphs and not to pile up long words. Usually two or three lines are divided into one paragraph, and the longest should not exceed four lines.

The purpose of multi-paragraphs is to relieve readers’ visual fatigue, because users have an F-type visual model for reading, and usually focus on the first sentence of each paragraph and the beginning of each line. And multi-paragraphs It can make the F-type model have more horizontal lines and fewer vertical lines, so it can naturally obtain more information.

Similarly, multiple pictures also give users a visual breathing space. If a full screen of text is presented in front of you, will you quickly lose the patience to continue reading, and then Exit the article.

So the text is important, but the layout of the article cannot be ignored.

The above is a summary of my experience in writing. It can be seen that writing is not about talent, but methodology and skills, both of which can be mastered through practice and learning.

Because of my writing, I now have a five-digit fixed monthly income. In fact, being able to write is not only monetizable, it has now become one of the important workplace skills in all walks of life.

If you also want to achieve a counterattack in life through writing, then start writing from now on. Of course, if you can have a systematic set of writing thinking and techniques, and have the guidance of predecessors, you may grow faster.

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Finally, writing is a compounding skill. The earlier you start, the better. Start making your writing plan in 2021!