Text/Liu Qingshan

A mature new media article, if you study it carefully, you will find that stories and golden sentences account for the bulk. As for the derived comments and opinions, you can often come out with a little understanding of the materials, which is another topic.

What material is it? In fact, it is the truth that we used to be reasonable when we were students, that is, the stories and golden sentences that we often see in new media articles, which need us to accumulate deliberately.

Recently, I have been accumulating golden sentences, mainly extracting famous aphorisms and philosophical short sentences that appear on the big font, but I feel that my story material is insufficient.

I think one of the reasons for this deficiency is that my social experience is very limited, and the other is that I haven't read enough books, movies, news stories, and even what I have seen can't be converted into useful information for articles, so there are often clever women who can't cook without rice.

I learned a lesson today, mainly to solve the problem of how to write an article without material. I summarize the following eight methods here, which can not only deepen my impression, but also bring some inspiration to my friends.

In fact, story cases can also refer to the materials in those big articles, but it is easy to cause suspicion of manuscript washing.

So it's best to actively search for new materials and dig out authentic materials from your own personal experience, so you don't have to worry about hitting the theme at all, because you are you, and everyone's life experience can't be exactly the same.

Dig up the material from yourself, and it is best to write the simplest and most credible.

Family, friendship, love, workplace, life ... we are in contact with others all the time, and what people around us say or happen can become writing materials.

For example, you can write about a friend's reaction after his lovelorn love, a relative's opinion on your admission to graduate school, and a colleague's experience after leaving his job and jumping ship ... all of these can be learned through daily contact and chat, which is good material.

Mining materials from people around us requires us to be thoughtful people.

Weibo, Baidu, Today's Headlines, Tencent News ... A lot of news comes into our eyes actively or passively every day, some of which are absolutely suitable for writing materials. Make records in time, and find them easily when necessary.

There are some good emotional columns on TV, which are actually news. We can pay attention to them deliberately and apply them to the article, which is also good material.

Mining material from news requires keeping a keen eye and mind.

The video mentioned here is not just a popular short video. If you want to get more systematic knowledge and materials conducive to writing, you can watch more classic movies, documentaries, classic TV dramas and variety shows.

Video material can start with drama review, story character analysis, classic lines analysis and so on. Of course, if you don't have so much time to watch videos and you need to write, you can try the "keyword" retrieval method.

Searching for materials from videos requires deliberate accumulation and retrieval.

As I said at the beginning, it is best to accumulate famous sayings and epigrams from other people's articles as available materials, because you can use what celebrities have said, I can use it, and everyone can use it, so there is no problem of plagiarism.

But for some very personal materials, such as stories, personal experiences, film and television focus, you must not write what others have written. We can use critical thinking to do the opposite, or we can find a point to extend from other people's articles.

Looking for material from other people's articles requires great attention to avoid being suspected.

Zhihu Platform is a good question-and-answer platform. Netizens are all immortal players. There are many inspiring and touching stories and many golden sentences in the comment reply area, which can be written in the article.

Similarly, the comment area of other website platforms, or video barrage, can also produce a lot of writing materials and inspiration, so you can accumulate more with your heart and don't worry when using it.

Look for answers and comments from netizens, and manually retrieve and save them for later use.

Himalayas, Fan Deng Book Club, stories of people at ten o'clock ... It is also a good way to accumulate writing materials through audio. You can put on headphones and capture touching and usable writing materials after school or on the way home from work or picking up children.

At the same time, I believe that many friends who like reading and writing, like me, have bought many kinds of audio books, such as talking about a book for 10 minutes or 15 minutes, but they forget it after listening to it once or twice. Don't waste it, it sounds!

Finding material from audio is a very useful method, which won't hurt your eyes.

As the author knows, if you read a book a hundred times, you must keep typing it. Books are the crystallization of human wisdom, which can be said to be vast, and there are a thousand different Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand readers. The information found in the book is unlikely to overlap with others. If you want to write, you must read more books.

But there are so many books, what kind of books should I read? In fact, you can read any book. The point is that it's not that easy to grab the material. My suggestion is that you should read this book first. You need to use golden sentences or story columns. You can go back and search for famous books through the internet or look through books again to find relevant details to help you write.

Finding materials from books is the most classic and practical way.

There are thousands of materials, and the key is to be able to save and find them. What is a good material worth recording? Stories, golden sentences, small experiments, scientific data, technical terms ... these things can make our articles more eye-catching and more readable at once.

Material classification can be divided by field, for example, emotional categories are put together and parenting categories are put together; Can also be divided into types, such as story patchwork, golden sentence patchwork.

For those who care, there is gold everywhere, but for those who care, there are bubbles everywhere. Writing really needs us to be a calm person, especially in the accumulation of materials.

Everybody, come on.

Qi Wei class, 9 articles in 22 years, 1953 words, a total of 25658 words.