Making friends with the fear of writing: A writing class for blogging
At our company, we regularly hold in-house study sessions. The other day's theme is "Sentence course for blog" and the lecturer is Kawashima an engineer of our company who also works as a novelist.
Kawashima has been writing since he was a junior high school student, but based on his own experience, is mainly concerned about how to overcome the barriers that are easy to hit when writing blog posts. he told me.
It is packed with useful learning for those who are not good at writing, so we will deliver you the contents that summarized immediately.
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Introduction - Goodbye! Root Theory
"I can't write sluggishly. I cannot write well." "I am afraid to write something," he said. He stood down, got tired of it or put him back again. Do you remember yourself?
as a prerequisite it's not a bad thing to be afraid of writing. That's a specification for writing, and fear also has the good side of being careful about how you handle your words.
That said, there's a lot to write about. How do you get along with your fear of writing? You have no choice but to keep writing. But it's hard. If you can write in root theory, nobody will suffer.
So I'm going to talk about exactly what we should do. Now, this one!
an ingenuity to write until the end without being frustrated
any length of article that is not intended to be written in the form of a sentence from the beginning) It's effective to make and write the stairs. Yes.
The stairs for writing will take the following three steps:
- write a bulletin on someone's thoughts
- imagine the destination of
- make a selection
make a bullet in one's thoughts
first, i'm going to write things and thoughts as bullet points. for example kawashima wrote an article about xd. I was asked to show my first draft.
You can speak to yourself, and you don't need a sentence. I want to write this, but I also write questions such as what is this or things that have not been answered.
the most important thing is that there's nothing to write at this stage. That's what I mean. Because it is a task to find something that you want to write from now on, you can derail it so let me write everything in your head.
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- Nothing can be written at this stage.
- You can write your own words, Gion's words and grudges.
- You can write ideas and derailments that don’t matter.
- You can write everything, whatever you want.
imagine the destination of
I've thought a lot of things before, but if you write everything down it will be huge and we're going to narrow it down next.
and helping to narrow it down Who is the most likely to read this sentence? When you decide who to read while imagining your readers and users, we will do the backcalculation from there and review the contents of the bullet article.
make a selection of steps 3.
For the reader who imagined in step 2, think about which information is useful, what information is unnecessary and narrow down the content to include it in a sentence. When you feel that your selection is not good, make a simple table of contents and think about the flow It's good too.
If you go through the steps so far, you can take yourself from a state where you don't know what to write until it seems like "I feel like I can write!" (If everything is clear from the beginning, these procedures will be fine.)
easy-to-read type
I've got a drawing of the sentence, and then I will talk about "types of composition" that can help you when writing an easy-to-read sentence. There are many types, but this time I will explain two kinds of type that is suitable for blog and long sentence.
Number one: blogging.
The first is what Kawashima called the "blog type":
number of syllabaries
800-2,000 characters
vaginal composition
preface (presenting empathy or doubt)
Main text (about three small headings)
Kite (reconfirmation of the preface)
benefits of frost
be familiar with reading
-- write quickly and stably
- Easy to mass-produce
vaginal disadvantage
-- easy to be buried in articles of the same type
It is difficult to read long sentences.
It's hard to deal with complex configuration
for example,
Image reference source: https://www.non-standardworld.co.jp/corporatesite-faq/20114/
This web-based type consists of three stages: preface, body and knot; suitable for practical articles such as short FAQs, how-tos or columns.
No. 2: Long sentences
The second is the "long sentence" type, which includes:
number of syllabaries
2000 to 30,000 characters
vaginal composition
introduction (presenting empathy or doubt)
Summary and Conclusion (introduction)
Reasons for conclusions 1:2 (specifically)
Conclusion (reconfirmation of conclusions)
Annotations and thanks (if necessary)
benefits of frost
• Easy to read, even in long passages
To prevent a reader from mismatching
- Opinions logically converge.
vaginal disadvantage
-- a lot of effort in writing
-- prone to redundancy
-- make a firm impression
for example,
Image reference source: https://www.non-standardworld.co.jp/tech/12814/
Unlike blog types, this type can handle up to 30,000 characters and I think it's easy for you to logically summarize the reasons or opinions of an overview. It is suitable for articles with complex compositions including questioning and opinion raising. Also, by first presenting a summary and conclusion, it will be easier to prevent mismatches between readers and articles.
This time, I introduced two types, but there are many other types such as transfers. The important thing here is: The type is the collective wisdom of 'a writing style that feels easy to write and read,' not 'a type which should be written like this.' You can choose the type that suits your sentence, or is likely to fit what you want to write.
summary so far
When I get to the point where "I feel like I can write" with the power of creating a staircase for writing until the end and making an easy-to-read sentence, it is recommended that you write at once. If you open up too much space, you will want to try again from the stairs. It's easier and more effective to write without spacing. Yes.
finish after writing
After writing, it's important to do something. " first of all, to praise yourself. That's it.
Immediately after you finish writing, it's hard to think of things like "No, we have to fix them more," and I hate to write. No, let me praise you for your hard work first.
It is a task to make the sentences more readable, and you don't need to feel guilty about not pushing them down, but if you have enough energy, I'd love to try it.
what you can do for a more readable sentence)
When it comes to illustration, if you go to a bookstore there are many books that summarize the specific contents of the book, so this time I will summarize briefly below.
- stream organizing (Are there any derailed sentences or are there any discomfort in the whole stream?)
- text optimization (Is a sentence too long? Is the word order clear or is the distance between modified words appropriate?)
- review of expression (Are there any ugly adverbs, adjectives or too emotional sentences?)
- eliminate duplication (Have you said the same thing over and over? Is that really necessary?)
- review typographical decoding (1If you're doing four or four, I notice most of the time. But if you look back at it in the sun, you will be lucky.)
See: Surprisingly different -> only four rules that optimize your sentence
It is finally completed after doing so far!
instead
In the end, it was a bonus, and Kawashima talked about the important tips when writing as well as how he wanted to be one of his writers.
The most impressive part of the story is that while writing has the power to help others, you must never forget there’s always a possibility of hurting someone.
for example A self-deprecating expression such as "I'm the eldest daughter, so it doesn't work" is that I am taking someone with me who has a similar nature and beating them down. It is a time when you can easily send out sentences about the negative aspect of writing that, even if you think and write it, there may be a murder weapon in an unnoticed place, so I want to remember.
How was the "text course for blogging"? I would like to continue to share our in-house study group. If you'd like, please let me know your thoughts.