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Ni Shuang recommended this book on Twitter , and it was very attractive to me who likes to write. It took me a short time to finish reading this book. Recommend to everyone here. This book mainly provides some guidelines for those who think that they cannot write articles. The first half of the book is the methodology, and the second half is the writing routine (or writing framework).
Jiugongge means that before writing, from the center of the article, you can spread out 8 squares, fill in the information related to this center, and form a writing Jiugongge. The function of the nine-square grid is to force you to think about the center of the article, ask questions, and then fill in before writing. is an aid to help you gather information before writing.
So in layman’s terms, the core of Jiugongge writing method is to train your information collection habit before writing. There is a more precise example in the book: if you are planning a trip, plan to write a travel journal after the trip. You should draw a nine-square grid before you travel, and fill in this travel note with all the points you want to write:
Then when you travel, you can collect relevant information on the target, and then fill it into the nine-square grid, so that when the trip is over, you have collected enough information to organize them into a complete travel note. Instead of wandering aimlessly in the local area, then I can only go back to the past and forget what I can write. In the end, what I wrote is just some superficial feelings.
The nine-square grid writing method doesn’t actually require you to have only nine grids, you can expand it as you like. So this writing method, the central idea is: before writing, list all the questions you want to discuss about the writing topic, and then start writing. While listing the Jiugongge, the structure of the entire article is formed naturally.
The Jiugongge writing method highlights the importance of information gathering before writing to easily write a long and valuable essay, which is why as a person who intends to write, it is so important to take notes. Only by consciously saving the value input as a note in your second brain (note-taking tool) when inputting information, can you easily write an article based on your usual notes in the future. This process is also known as “information internalization”. The nine-square grid writing method assists your “information internalization” ability.
That’s the heart of the creative process: before you choose what you’re going to write about, you have to research and accumulate. Ideally, you should start researching before writing, so that once you decide on a topic, you have weeks, months, or even years of rich material to draw on. That’s why it’s so important that you put information in the “second brain”.
I used to find it difficult to write, because even though I entered a lot of information, I didn’t internalize it into my own information. Falling into the myth that “writing is starting with a blank sheet of paper”. I started using Roam Research by chance a few years ago and read How to take smart note, and I started to record valuable input that I usually take in my note-taking tool. With a two-way link, it made it easy for me to conceive an article. get enough material. So when I read this book, it resonated with me, and it also provided a more systematic methodological support for my writing mode.
The second half of the book is basically some writing routines (framework), which doesn’t make much sense to me. Because I have gained a lot of practice accumulation through writing in school and blogging at ordinary times since I was a child, I already have the content of writing (such as what should be the focus of the article, how to express valuable subjective feelings in the article, etc.) more experience. So I just skimmed this part. For readers who lack practice, this part can also be perused.
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