1. You can still write books
During the Chinese New Year last year, my parents came from the countryside to my home in Luoyang. After watching the newscast with them in the evening, I couldn’t help feeling excited and specially showed them the manuscript contract signed by Beihang Publishing House. And solemnly introduced it.
I thought they would be taken aback and look at me like Sun Quan did to Lu Meng; but they didn't. Father has the most right to speak at home, but he said coldly: " Can you still write books? "
A basin of cold water poured over my body; at that moment, my glass heart almost fell to the ground with a click. Looking at my father's gray hair, I couldn't help but feel sad, tears seemed to be rolling in my eyes; I turned my face, and pretended to be calm and replied: "It should be done."
Although I want to hear my parents' encouragement, especially my father's approval. But I also know clearly that my father has always been a pragmatic person-a farmer who faces the loess with his back to the sky. He will not imagine anything impossible. Back then, I went to high school for four years but didn't even pass a second book. How could I become an author?
Yes! What about the 300,000-word manuscript, can I really finish it?
I have asked myself this question over and over again. Before signing the contract, I solemnly asked the editor teacher of the publishing house, I don't know where he got the confidence, and dared to ask me who has written more than 300 blog posts. The editor teacher’s answer was somewhat unexpected: "Mr. Wang, don’t worry; I have read many articles you have published in the past two years-while the text is full of fun, it can also explain some questions clearly and clearly. It’s not easy to give the answer in itself. Your writing ability is not a problem. As long as you stick to it, it’s not impossible to complete a 300,000-word manuscript."
You know, a year ago, when I signed the contract, I just sorted out the list of manuscripts, and I haven't written a complete chapter yet. However, a year later, that is now, the first proofreading of the 300,000-word manuscript has been completed; if not surprisingly, it will be published in two months.
If on the day of publication, when I present the book with the signature of "Silent King Er" to my parents, will they smile slightly?
2. Everything is difficult at the beginning
Perhaps, after the parents smiled, they would still ask with concern: "Son, how did you finish writing these 300,000 characters?" (This may be the mother's voice, and the father will probably remain calm)
How can I answer? To be honest, it's not easy!
As the saying goes: "Everything is difficult at the beginning." Indeed, I took a lot of effort to sort out a complete list of manuscripts - it took a full two months before and after, and almost never came out. Although I have written more than 300 blogs, most of them are scattered, impromptu, and note-taking, and cannot form a complete system; in addition, the quality of the articles is also uneven, and it is difficult to use them directly Material of the manuscript.
After finally sorting out the catalogue, when I was writing a specific article according to the catalogue, I found my mind was blank and I really didn't know what to write; after finally knowing what to write, I found that I was only from the perspective of the author. I wrote, without considering the reader's feelings; I finally felt that the reader should understand clearly, and found that the written text was boring and lifeless.
Once I get to this point, I will feel extremely anxious-I feel that an invisible hand is pulling me towards the black hole. I am getting farther and farther away from the goal of the "author", farther and farther, until my hands Use the keyboard to type the word "Quit" on the screen.
3. Get out of trouble
So, how did I get out of this predicament?
In the first step, I will pretend to ask myself: "Wang Er, what is your reason for writing a book? Why do you want to write a book?" Closing my eyes, I started thinking for five minutes; then, I came to the conclusion He came to such a sonorous conclusion: " I want to be an author! "
Whenever this goal appeared in my mind, I was like a ship that saw the lighthouse in the vast ocean and found the direction to set sail again. It’s great to be an author, not only to increase my popularity, but also to expand my influence, so as to have a higher quality of social interaction, more possibilities will follow.
Last week, an editor teacher of Huazhang Technology and a planning teacher of Yuanzhi Tianxia contacted me to discuss the possibility of publishing books on Java programming. My wife persuaded me to take a screenshot of the chat history to Moments, and I could get a lot of likes; I tried it with suspicion, and the amount of likes actually exceeded the total amount of likes in my Moments in the past six months-even leaders who haven't contacted in five years They also liked it. This happened before I really became an author.
If a person doesn’t understand why he wants to write (by extending the book one by one), he will easily have the idea of “giving up”; two years ago, I formed a writing original group of twenty people. After that, I was the only one who insisted silently—this result made me sad for a long time. Now think about it, the reason may be that I did not find a long-term goal for everyone.
The second step is to force yourself to write a thousand words for each section of each chapter.
The writing process may be like this: first start writing, then measure, then quality, and finally mind. Simply count, there are seven chapters in my manuscript, and each chapter has about eight subsections. If you write a thousand words in each subsection first, there will be a full 56,000 words-this is not a small The number is up.
Writing a thousand words in each section is not too difficult for me; I may not write well and not interesting, but I already have the ability to write.
The third step is to pretend to be a writer and revise and reconstruct the completed manuscript with a demanding attitude.
What to modify?
Typos (use "的" in front of the noun and "地" in front of the verb. For example, a beautiful girl, hoeing the ground in a smart way)
Punctuation (in Chinese, English punctuation is absolutely not allowed)
Sentences are not fluent (you can try to read silently first, then try to read aloud, the sentence is not fluent, read it a few times and you will find it)
What to refactor?
Order between chapters (step by step)
The order of the subsections in each chapter (put first for easy understanding)
Also, delete paragraphs and sentences that are not relevant to the entire book (although some paragraphs feel good about themselves)
The fourth step is to provide detailed, serious and patient answers to the questions raised by the editor.
For a book, the editor is the first reader in her true sense. Therefore, you must do everything possible to answer the questions raised by the editor, and you must repeatedly ponder and deliberate where you need to modify, until:
The second brother (pretending to be the author): Teacher Wang (pretending to be an editor), I think I am very satisfied with this revision. What do you think?
Teacher Wang: Wow! Really, second brother, you have done so well this time, and I am very, very satisfied!
4. Small goals
I secretly set a small goal for myself, that is-to become a better self; writing is the most effective way in my opinion.
In order to keep outputting, I need to keep inputting; in order to keep inputting, I need to keep reading, thinking, and acting:
1. I need to join more and higher quality circles; online, I participated in the Wujie 90-day writing training camp for the first time, and participated in the commercial mutual promotion of the technical public account for the first time; offline, my first time Participated in the exchange meeting of 007 in Luoyang, I participated in the exchange meeting of Fan Deng Book Club in Luoyang for the first time.
2. I need to form my own community to create a sustainable ecological chain; therefore, I created the Qingmiao Technology Incubation Valley and established the Qingmiao Technology Studio; just yesterday, I successfully incubated the first project (deposit received).
Finally, what I want to say is: an ordinary person like me can complete a manuscript of 300,000 words, why can't you? An ordinary person like me can walk on the road to wealth and freedom, why can't you?
https://github.com/itwanger/JavaBooks