Years ago, members of our writing class followed Teacher Liu Ren to conduct an online exclusive interview with You Yuxi, the developer of Vue. After the interview, two classmates and I compiled the 3-hour interview recording into text. Liu Ren's writing class pays attention to learning by doing. Before the Spring Festival holiday, I applied to Mr. Liu Ren to write a special draft of You Yuxi's character. It took me two weeks to complete a manuscript of more than 7,000 words. I learned a lot in the process, so I would like to summarize and share:
1. Do enough homework before the interview, and have a certain degree of understanding of the interviewee. When you write a manuscript later, you will be more clear about what content you want and which content is secondary or even deleted, which can effectively lock in important content . This is what Teacher Liu Ren realized when he revised my first draft.
2. The interview draft is relatively trivial, so it is necessary to construct the writing framework first, construct it according to the chronological order or event transition, etc., set up the subtitle, and then put the relevant content into the part corresponding to the title. This process seems simple but has a certain technical content. It is related to your control over the entire interview draft and the degree of excitement after the story is completed. Some plots will have different effects when placed in different positions. Good article. Each manuscript will more or less have the author's writing style and writing characteristics, but the value and readability of the article are the key, which requires more writing and more practice.
3. An article must have a good title as a guide. Every time I revise and polish the manuscript, the title "Youyuxi Vue's journey to the top of GitHub does not seem to be difficult" can convey a tone to me. This is a very inspirational and story-telling title, which can make me more Actively polish the manuscript and advance towards the established goal. In the era of massive information, whether it is an article or a book, a wonderful title is indispensable, and a good title can even affect the success or failure of a work. We can usually accumulate more golden sentences, which are very helpful for writing articles and starting titles.
4. The structure of each part of the article consists of "beginning" and "expansion". The beginning is the first paragraph of each part, which can be the core or highlight of this part, followed by the expanded narrative and description for the title. Whether it is the whole article or each component, the exciting content should be placed at the top as much as possible, so as to attract readers to read it.
5. When writing a feature article, Mr. Liu Ren taught us a writing method: turning the past tense narrative into the present tense lens. This is very important for the students, each style has its corresponding writing technique, and the character feature draft also has its unique writing method. Quoting You Yuxi's original words in the manuscript is also a strengthening of this method.
6. Content optimization and combination should be done at different writing stages in order to reduce the length to a certain standard. This task is trivial, and the tricks are: a. Merge similar content together; b. Change spoken language into written language, try to be as concise as possible, combine two sentences into one sentence, and delete unimportant content. This is also a job that makes perfect and takes practice.
7. The most important thing in writing an article is to polish and revise it over and over again until it is written to your satisfaction; slowly add fragmentary and missing things into the manuscript, maintain the unity of the story, and put the usable parts into the story as much as possible inside. Any good work is polished, which is also an important means of cultivating patience and writing skills.
The word count of the final draft has been streamlined on the basis of my final submission, and it is closer to the published standard. Learning by doing, open source writing is really rewarding.