1000 original articles completed! Here's a 3000-word summary for you!

The author shares his creative ideas for writing 1,000 original articles and summarizes some of the feelings of ordinary people in writing. Let’s take a look.

I have finally written 1,000 original articles, and the cumulative number of words I have created is at least 2 million.

I started writing in August 2019, and it has been nearly 6 years now. For me who has a job, it is not an easy thing.

As someone who has started writing from scratch, I would like to talk to you about some of the feelings of an ordinary person about writing.

For example, some common doubts:

a. Does writing require a professional background?

b. Should I take classes for writing training?

c. How to make money from writing? Can you make money?

d. What should I write about to be more likely to become popular?

e. I have only read a few dozen words. Should I continue writing?

These problems also apply to self-media such as shooting videos.

1. Desire to express

Everyone can write, but the prerequisite is that you have to have a desire to express yourself. If you don’t have enough desire to express yourself, you can’t write anything.

2. Content Value

The quality of writing has nothing to do with literary talent. For example, my sentences are plain language. The key is whether your content is helpful to the readers.

Whether it is entertainment help, emotional help, skill help, or help in information gap.

3. Continuous input

Having the desire to express yourself is the basis, but having knowledge is also very important.

If you want continuous output, you need continuous input.

For example, you can do more projects, read more books, follow more public accounts, and watch more headlines and Douyin, so as to accumulate your own creative materials.

4. No length limit

The length of a writing is not the factor that determines whether it is good or bad. Others can collect 100,000+ quotes and share them.

So whether you write 300 words, 500 words or 1,000 words, the core is that you wrote it and expressed one thing clearly.

5. General equipment

Writing does not require any professional equipment. To be simple, a mobile phone and at most a computer will do.

Other tools are redundant. Computers can collect content and mobile phones can take pictures. These are completely sufficient. There is no need to buy any other software memberships.

6. Go write!

Ordinary people should not worry about what to write or what kind of positioning analysis to do, as this will easily make you give up.

Ordinary people just write. Write whatever you want to write and whatever you can write.

7. Have a rhythm

Should you write daily? Of course you should do it if you are capable. Traffic is already low, so if you don’t grab it, you will miss out.

But if there are challenges at the beginning, it is recommended to update three times a week, such as Monday, Wednesday and Friday or Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

8. Write ahead

Be sure to write in advance, don't wait until the day to write, unless there is a hot topic that must be updated that day.

Otherwise, the content you are seeing now would have been completed by me a month ago.

Writing ahead of time can help you slow down your procrastination.

9. Material Library

If you want to avoid being clueless about writing, you must create your own material library. That is, write down anything you see that is interesting and easy to write about.

10. Imitate

When you are a novice in writing, don’t be afraid of imitating others. Just write what you see is popular and what title suits you.

11. Don’t be afraid of repetition

Can I still write what others have written?

Of course, there are thousands or tens of thousands of people writing about any given topic, but because you are you, your content has its own uniqueness and personality.

12. Monetization is slow

Can you make money quickly by writing?

No, because you are an ordinary person, and ordinary people are destined to go through a long process.

For example, a WeChat public account must have more than 500 followers before it can start to generate advertising traffic revenue.

13. Long-term preparation

If you are not prepared for long-term writing, such as updating daily for 100 or 300 days, then don’t write, because I have been writing on my small account for more than 100 days, but I don’t have 500 fans yet.

14. Trust in transactions

With few fans and low readership, can it be monetized?

Sure, but it depends on what you are selling?

Is it related to your expertise and resources? Are you selling courses or physical products? What are your prices?

My new account has only a few dozen readers, but that doesn’t stop me from closing deals.

Because people in my circle of friends know that this is my account, they have developed trust in me.

15. First day of cashing out

Don’t worry about whether you have advertising traffic permission or not, you should present your products from the first day you write.

For example, how much does it cost to consult you once, or if you write a paid article or send out a paid report.

In short, even if it is only one dollar per copy, you can put it at the end of each article.

16. Get used to being criticized

Whether you are writing articles or shooting videos, being teased by people around you and criticized by netizens is the most common thing. If you are embarrassed or can't stand other people's comments, then you are not suitable.

I have written 1,000 articles, but many people have never written one, yet they often leave comments on our articles to teach me how to write?

17. Private Domain Traffic Diversion

You must develop the habit of directing users to private domains, post your WeChat in the official account or tell users to scan the code to receive information.

18. Toutiao

If you want to make money quickly through writing, then I suggest you start with a Toutiao account. It is relatively easier to earn income from a Toutiao account.

19. Make money by writing

Can you make money from writing?

I have been writing for six years, although the number of readers is still around four or five hundred, one or two thousand, and the number of fans has not yet exceeded 100,000.

But you see, I am still writing, which proves that continuous writing has monetization value.

20. Don’t quit your job

Should I quit my job and start my own media?

Should you quit your job to write articles or shoot videos? This depends on two aspects:

First, how much savings do you have? How long can you afford to go without income?

Second, do you have any experience in self-media before?

Otherwise, I don’t recommend you to quit your job and start your own media.

It is more reliable to treat self-media as a side job, make a little money and enhance your influence.

21. Which one to choose?

Should I write an article or shoot a video?

The advantage of writing articles is that you don’t have to show your face, and there are still users who like immersive reading of text, but the challenge is that short videos now do attract a lot of users’ time.

If you like being on camera and have good expressiveness in front of the camera, then you are more suitable for shooting videos.

22. Best time

Is it too late to start your own media now?

From the perspective of the so-called hot trend, we have definitely missed the best opportunity.

But for you, if you haven't started yet, now is the best time.

Because in five or ten years, you will find new people writing articles and shooting videos.

So if you do it now, it is equivalent to planning five or ten years ahead of them.

23. How to cold start

How to cold-start traffic through writing?

First, writing about hot topics is a shortcut to increasing followers and traffic, so hot topics need to be written about.

Secondly, if you have your own public account, friends, or WeChat groups, you can make use of them.

Thirdly, it can also be done through mutual promotion of accounts, investment of traffic, etc.

Fourthly, you can also contribute to different accounts and platforms. For example, I initially gained good traffic on channels such as Renrenshishipinmeng.com and 36kr.

24. No AI

Should we use AI and make a matrix?

If you are planning to create your own personal IP, then just write your own original content.

AI is not essentially advocated by the platform, AI writing is not original, and AI cannot completely replace personal experience, emotions, experiences, etc.

Using AI and making matrices is suitable for those who are bent on taking advantage of the platform's traffic. They can test the popularity of content and topics in batches.

25. Which platform to choose?

Should we develop multiple platforms?

My personal suggestion is to only have one platform and synchronize the other platforms.

For example, if you are working on TikTok, you should focus on the pictures, texts or videos of TikTok.

If you are using WeChat, you should focus on WeChat’s official accounts and video accounts.

Whether it is Xiaohongshu, Kuaishou, WeChat, Douyin, or Toutiao, they are all platforms with over 100 million daily active users, and you can make money by seizing any one of them.

26. Follow the hot spots

You must follow hot spots, hot spots are traffic, and not following them is stupid.

So many big names and officials are chasing hot traffic.

But chasing hot topics is not about forcing yourself to do it, but about thinking about how to combine it with your own ideas?

For example, if it is Jackie Chan’s birthday, if you are using an emotional account, you can write about his emotions; if you are using a movie account, you can list his movies; if you are using a parenting account, you can write about his charity work that cares for children; if you are using a business account, you can analyze his business empire, various revenues, and so on.

27. Make Small Money

As mentioned before, monetization of self-media will be slow and time-consuming.

But it is completely possible to make a little money. For example, I write articles every day and synchronize them to other channels. I use the microphone to publish paid articles and special topics, and I can make dozens of dollars every day. This money is certain.

28. Build a fan group

When writing articles, you need to direct fans to the private domain, so should you create a fan group?

My suggestion is that it is unnecessary, because this kind of purposeless and operational group creation will become a dead group or an advertising group.

The same also applies to the so-called paid communities. Without continuous delivery, they will all fail.

29. Poor writing

Don’t keep worrying about not writing one or two, or even ten or twenty articles well.

You see, I have written 1,000 articles, and I never worry about whether my previous articles were well written or had a high readership.

As long as someone watches it, it means it is valuable to some people.

Your goal is to keep writing and keep producing content.

30. Free exposure

Why don’t I worry about whether one or two articles I write are good or bad? Please deeply understand this sentence: let the content flow in the channel.

First, the articles I wrote four or five years ago are still being searched and read today, and some people have even added me through WeChat at that time.

Secondly, regardless of whether it can be monetized or not, the content I distribute through various channels every day can bring me 500, 1,000 or even more exposures for free, and this is the money I earn.

Just imagine, if you added your business showcase in 1,000 of your articles, how much money would that be?

So everyone, it is never too late to start your own media.

First, how is your execution ability? Did you take immediate action?

Second, do you have unrealistic ambitions and can you persist?

This is the key factor that affects whether you can do well in self-media.