1.

During the Spring Festival last year, my parents came to my home in Luoyang from the countryside. After watching the news broadcast with them in the evening, I couldn’t help but be excited and showed them the book draft contract (the Way to advance the Development of Web Full Stack) signed by Beihang Publishing House and introduced it solemnly.

I expected that they would be surprised and look at me with the same respect sun Quan had shown lv Meng. It didn’t. My father had the most say in the family, saying only coldly, “You can still write books?”

A basin of cold water was poured over me; 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 feeling sad and tears seemed to be welling up in my eyes. I turned away and tried to keep my composure as I replied, “It should be done.”

I would like to hear my parents’ words of encouragement, especially my father’s words of approval. But I also know clearly that my father has always been a pragmatic man — a farmer with his back to the sky and his face facing the loess, he will not dream of anything impossible. How could I have turned into a writer after four years of high school without even passing two books?

Yeah! 200,000 words? Can I really finish it?

I’ve asked myself this question over and over again. Before I signed the contract, I solemnly asked the editor’s teacher at the publishing house where HE got the confidence to ask for an article from someone who had only written over 300 blogs. Editor teacher’s answer more than I expected: “Miss Wang, you don’t have to worry; I have looked through many of your articles published on CSDN in the past two years – it is not easy to explain and give answers to some questions while writing interesting words. Your ability to write is not in question, and it is not impossible to write a 200,000-word manuscript as long as you continue to do so.”

You know, a year ago, when I signed the contract, I had just finished cataloging the manuscript, and I hadn’t written a whole chapter yet. But now, a year later, more than 200,000 words have been proofread for the first time; If everything goes well, it’ll be out in two months.

If on the day of publication, I put the book with the signature of “Silent King two” in front of my parents, will they smile slightly?

2.

Perhaps, parents in a smile, will also be concerned to ask: “son, how do you finish the two hundred thousand words?” (It’s probably the mother’s voice, and the father’s probably not.)

What am I supposed to say? To be honest, it’s not easy!

As the saying goes, “All things are difficult before they are easy.” It is true that I had a hard time trying to sort out a complete list of manuscripts — it took me two months to sort it out. Although I have written more than 300 blog posts, most of them are very scattered, improvisational and note-taking, unable to form a complete system. In addition, the quality of the article is also uneven, it is difficult to directly take as the material of the book manuscript.

Finally the catalogue was sorted out, but when it came to writing specific articles according to the catalogue, I found that my mind was blank and I really didn’t know what to write. When I finally know what to write, I find myself writing only from the author’s point of view, without considering the feelings of the readers. At last I felt that the reader should understand clearly, but found that the written words were dull and lifeless.

Once I get to this point, I feel extremely anxious — I feel an invisible hand pulling me towards a black hole, and I’m moving further and further away from my “author” goal, until my hands tap the word “give up” on the screen.

3.

So, how did I get out of this mess?

The first step, I pretend to ask myself: “Wang Er, why did you write the book? Why did you write a book?” Closing my eyes, I began a five-minute meditation; Then I came to this emphatic conclusion: “I want to be an author!”

Every time this goal comes to mind, I feel like a ship seeing a lighthouse in the vast sea and finding the direction to set sail again. It would be great to be a writer, not only to raise my profile, but also to expand my influence, so that I can have a higher quality of social interaction and more possibilities will follow.

Last week, I was contacted by an editorial teacher from Huachang Technology and a planning teacher from Yuenzhi Tianxia to discuss the possibility of publishing a book on Java programming. My wife advised me to take the screenshot of the chat records to the moments of friends, you can get a lot of likes; I tried it suspiciously, and sure enough, the number of likes exceeded the total amount of my circle of friends in the past six months — even the leaders I haven’t contacted for five years have also started to like it. And that was before I actually became a writer.

If one does not understand why one is writing (and writing books in general), one is liable to “give up”; Two years ago, I formed an original writing group of 20 people, and two years later, I was the only one left to quietly stick to it — a result that made me sad for a long time. Now that I think about it, it’s probably because I didn’t find a long-term goal for everyone.

Second, force yourself to write down 1,000 words for each section of each chapter.

The process of writing may be like this: first write, then quantity, then quality, and finally heart. To make a simple calculation, my manuscript consists of seven chapters, each of which has about eight sections. If I had written a thousand words for each section, that would be fifty-six thousand words — not a small number.

It is not too difficult for me to write a thousand words to each stanza; I may not write well, I may not write interesting, but I have the ability to write.

Step three: Pretend to be a writer and revise and reconstruct your finished work in a demanding manner.

What are you going to change?

  • Misspellings (use “of” before nouns and “ground” before verbs. Like, pretty girl, hoeing the ground.)
  • Punctuation marks (In Chinese, English punctuation marks are definitely not allowed)
  • The sentence is not smooth (you can try to read silently first, and then try to read aloud, the sentence is not smooth, read a few times will find it)

What do you refactor?

  • Chapter to chapter order (progressive progression)
  • Order of sections in each chapter (easy to understand first)
  • Also, delete paragraphs and sentences that are not relevant to the book as a whole (although some paragraphs feel good about themselves)

The fourth step is to answer the questions raised by the editor in detail, seriously and patiently.

For a book, the editor is her real sense of the first reader. Therefore, for the questions raised by the editor, we should try our best to answer them, and the places that need to be modified should be repeatedly pondered and deliberated until:

Second brother (pretending to be the author) : Mr. Wang (pretending to be the editor), I feel very satisfied with this revision, do you think? Miss Wang: Wow! Really, brother, you this modification is too in place, I am also very very satisfied!

4.

I secretly set a small goal for myself, that is — to become a better version of myself; Writing, I think, is the most effective way.

In order to continue to output, I need to continue to input; In order to keep typing, I need to keep reading, thinking, and acting:

1. I need to join more and higher-quality circles; Online, IT was my first time to participate in the 90-day writing training camp without giving up. It was my first time to participate in the commercial promotion of technical official account. Offline, I attended 007’s exchange meeting in Luoyang for the first time. I attended Fan Deng’s book Club’s exchange meeting in Luoyang for the first time.

2. I need to build my own community to create an ecological chain of sustainable development; Therefore, I founded Qingmiao Technology Incubation Valley and established Qingmiao Technology Studio. Just yesterday, the first project was successfully incubated (deposit received).

Finally, I want to say: an ordinary person like me can finish a manuscript of 200,000 words, so can you? An ordinary person like me can walk on the road to wealth and freedom, so can you?

If you like it, just like it and comment. Because of your participation, I am no longer alone on the way forward.