Man’s exploration of the unknown may be divided into two directions: outwardly seeking truth and inwardly seeking truth.
In an era of Internet access, it’s not easy to write about something that’s interesting to readers but also new and unknown. Because it is not easy, there is a call for output to force input. The actual result? Reading the output of this model can sometimes feel like eating a sandwich. There is no shortage of accusations that those who produce such articles are two – or five-way knowledge peddlers.
I am not an experienced or prolific writer; I am a complete novice in the field of writing. I’m trying to practice continuous writing. Some people raised the question:
The prerequisite for writing 1,000 words a day must be a lot of reading, right?
If we advocate writing words a day, shouldn’t we also advocate reading pages a day?
Yeah, empty head. What’s the output? But it’s not just reading other people’s books or articles that fills the mind. It’s also possible to look inward.
I said to myself: if I can’t write new and unknown knowledge, I can also try to record my life and observe my heart.
I told my friends who practiced writing with me that it is also good to simply record life, people around you and what is happening. It is not necessary to just use writing as a tool to spread knowledge.
Writing is a tool for thinking, for expressing, and for communicating. Of course, writing can also be a tool to make money, using it to bring goods, contribute, mine, write books, and so on. After all, writing is a tool, used by people. How you want to use it depends as much on what you like as what you want. What we want is not the same as what we like. If we try to achieve goals we don’t like through writing, we lose more and more of our resistance to writing.
For me, there’s one big reason I enjoy writing consistently: it makes me think.
I gather my observations or opinions on certain topics by scribbling 1,000 words a day. Sometimes I gather relevant pieces of a topic together, comb them out and think about them in an effort to generate a more thorough understanding. This process sometimes results in an article that is published as a result, and sometimes there is only an unwritten text record.
The public article written in this way may not be very good for readability and referential value for readers.
I was a little anxious about it:
Should you stick to your target audience and make it easy and rewarding to read?
Is my writing style too self-centered? Why am I always writing about myself?
I don’t have good arguments for whether I should or shouldn’t, but simply feel that the question doesn’t need to be resolved soon, and for me, its time may not have come. With my current cognitive level and writing ability, continuous writing can effectively record life, promote thinking, and accumulate some text data for my life, which is a good situation.
I know what I like. If I set out to meet the needs of a certain type of reader, I would find it hard to keep going. I have no intention of targeting an audience, of packaging or selling my values and practices. I personally have a strong aversion to didactic writing.
What I like is to share my life sincerely and record my thinking faithfully. I don’t pretend to be pushy or complacent. I have some confidence, so I have enough energy to analyze and evolve from myself with actions. In a way, all my thoughts and actions are similar to others in the world.
This is what I expect: I’m an anonymous content producer in the sea of the Internet, thinking writing in order to iterate on myself and sharing in order to get feedback. This will allow me to establish a friendship with my readers that transcends time and space. This friendship has company, communication, disagreement and consensus. Slowly but surely, we’ll be drawn to each other.
I feel confident that, at some point in the future, I will have the experience and ability to write something new and unknown that will interest a wider audience. And this is just the beginning.
Maybe I have some kind of misunderstanding about writing that I would like to untangle. At least with this article, we have a foundation for effective communication.
I also wrote the following article about continuous writing:
- Again, I decided to keep writing for 100 days
- Start writing more effectively
- Practice writing is starting to pay off, but don’t rush to raise the bar