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Through study, we know how to monetize new media articles, but how to write new media articles well article? What are the routines and secrets? This is a question that many people are concerned about.

If you want to write new media articles well, you must first understand its characteristics. New media articles need to catch the readers' attention at the first time. The content should not be too long. Generally, it is 1,500-3,000 words in length. About 2,500 words is the most appropriate length. If it is too short, the article will appear incomplete and too long. Readers can't finish it and don't have more time to read it completely. Besides, a person can't be highly focused on one thing for too long.

Before writing, we must understand a question: Who are we writing our articles for? What kind of people are you writing for? In what way should it be presented to the target readers?

The most popular styles of new media articles include opinion articles, story articles and practical articles, while poetry and prose articles are more suitable for newspapers and periodicals. On new media platforms There is rarely a market. Therefore, studying the characteristics and needs of the platform, rules and positioning are necessary homework before writing.

1. How to write a good opinion essay

The most common method is three-paragraph writing, that is:

This method seems simple, but it does not mean that You can write a good opinion piece using this method. Why do we always write poorly in articles? The shortcoming is the lack of materials to support our opinions. This requires us to exercise our ability to collect materials.

In addition to choosing a topic that is a hot topic that everyone is concerned about recently, you must also master the steps for writing an opinion essay.

1. An attractive beginning. Common methods include: cutting into hot events, introducing the theme with famous quotes, directly throwing out opinions, and directly starting to talk about the event. Just choose one.

2. The stories and cases that support your point of view should be able to arouse the readers’ excitement. After raising your point of view, it is best to choose story cases that are familiar to everyone or that you have personally experienced. It does not need to be too exhaustive. Just let readers know the content of the story and do not write it too long. Choosing well-known news events, celebrity stories, or recent highly topical events can expand the audience and is conducive to the spread of the article.

3. Derive opinions from events. Draw conclusions from stories and cases that support your point of view. It is best to have two or three stories to prove your point. There is no need to have too many stories, and you should also avoid a single incident that causes insufficient evidence. Pay attention to the logical structure of the article, and the transitions between paragraphs and sentences should be natural and not too stiff, so that the article will appear smooth when read.

4. Summarize and sublimate the topic. After telling the story, draw a conclusion and tell everyone what your point of view is, what you should do when encountering such an incident, and what you think about the matter, etc. You should be good at leaving blank space at the end, leaving room for readers to think. It is wise to say everything very clearly without having to leave some space for readers to participate in thinking.

2. How to write a good story

Needless to say, everyone likes to listen to stories in life. The secret to writing a story is to first know what elements it consists of.

A complete story consists of three major elements: characters, events and emotions.

1. Characters.

Creating a vivid character will make your article more attractive. However, some authors write stories with vague characters, making it difficult to remember what kind of image this person is.

To create a vivid character image, it is often through language description, action description, psychological description and detailed description to reflect the character's personality and show the character's inner world. This plays a very important role in advancing the storyline.

2. Event.

What we need to think about is what kind of story we want to tell readers and what information we want to convey to readers through this story.

According to this method, no matter what story you write, you can write it wonderfully. The characteristics that a good story must have are turning points and climaxes, otherwise it will be bland and like chewing wax. If you achieve these seven points, it will be a complete and wonderful story. Therefore, this is how good stories come.

Stories come from life. There is no shortage of stories in life, only the eyes to discover them. If you don’t know how to write them at the beginning, you might as well find some stories first and use the seven points above to break them down. After practicing, you will be able to write them. Got it. Once you become proficient in using it, you will naturally become a master of storytelling.

3. Emotion.

A good story must not only have a complete plot, but also have rich emotions. When many people are imagining stories, they find it difficult to express emotions because the prototype is not themselves. What should they do? This situation can be solved using the substitution method, which is to assume that you are the protagonist and are encountering everything that the protagonist has encountered. What emotions will you feel in this situation? What choice will be made? What kind of psychological activities will occur? When you think about it this way, the emotion of the story comes naturally.

A story without emotion will naturally not make readers excited and experience all kinds of life. If the author is emotionally involved, readers will feel it. If the emotion is emotional, readers will like it. .

3. How to write good practical articles

The function of practical articles is to convey knowledge to readers and help readers solve problems.

Writing practical articles is relatively simple, just remember two points:

1. Share experiences. Tell readers about your experience through your own articles. The commonly used method is to analyze the problem. First, you must understand why such a problem occurs, and then use your own experience to tell readers how to better solve the problem.

2. Sharing method. It would be incomplete if it just puts forward how to solve the problem without listing specific methods. For example, if you write a practical article about quickly drafting a manuscript, it is incomplete if you only share your experience. Then you will list the methods for drafting, as well as things to pay attention to, how to submit the manuscript, and how to find the platform, so that readers can practice it after reading it. , so as to attract readers.

A bad feature of practical articles is that the content is relatively boring. Therefore, if you want some interesting articles that people will like to read, you should pay attention to writing them in an interesting form so that readers will not feel boring and have a strong sense of motivation. readability.

4. Good articles never tire of revision

After an article is written, whether it is well written and meets the requirements of the platform, it still needs to be revised and polished repeatedly until it reaches the best level. . As the saying goes: an article should be written in three parts and revised in seven parts, which shows the importance of revision.

There are three ways to modify the article:

1. Read your article aloud. You can find some problematic areas and make preliminary modifications.

2. Leave the article for a period of time and then take it out for modification. After some articles are written, the deficiencies cannot be discovered at the time. If you leave them for a while and read them, you can find the problems. At this time, further modifications can further improve the quality of the article.

3. Change until you are satisfied. Only if you are satisfied with an article can the reader be satisfied. If you are not satisfied with the article, how can the reader be satisfied? So changing it to your satisfaction is the minimum requirement.

The steps to modify the article are as follows:

Step 1: Modify the title. The function of a good title is to reveal the topic of the article and attract readers to read it. There are many ways to modify the title, the common ones are:

Use golden sentences in the article, summarize the storyline of the article into one sentence as the title, use the suspense of the story as the title, use the ending of the story as the title, whether the title is smooth , try to be concise but not general, pay attention to avoid typos, make sure the punctuation is correct, write a few more titles for backup, check whether the title contains multiple keywords and hot words, etc.

Step 2: Check whether the article has typos, grammar, and sentences are smooth

Step 3: Determine whether the article deviates from the topic and delete useless plots

Step 4: Check Is the logic reasonable?

Step 5: Look at your own problems with a critical eye

Step 6: Accept criticism from readers and make corrections.

The above introduces three methods of writing new media articles, as well as the steps for modifying articles. Making full use of these methods and tools can help you write a high-quality new media article faster. Help you monetize your writing faster.

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