"Vista Cocoon Diary": The Fascinating Way of Writing
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July 18, 2021
As a freelance worker, your work and life are not bound by a set time. It sounds enviable, but in fact, everything requires self-discipline. Therefore, I originally had no special feelings about weekends or holidays. Now that I am cocooned at home, it is easier for me to turn ordinary days into a tasteless cup of overnight tea.
Therefore, it is very important to establish a sense of ritual (opens in a new tab), and you must also know how to plan and allocate time.
Although it is Sunday, I still go out for exercise at 5:30 in the morning. I kick off the day with walking and running. After I come back to wash up and have breakfast, I start writing the content of the e-newsletter. After sending out the e-newsletter, I had no time to rest and continued busy with the work at hand.
I was very happy to receive assignments from several students in the “Write Your Own Story (opens in a new tab)” online course early in the morning. In addition to appreciating the life stories they wrote, I also wrote back to provide some writing suggestions. These mature friends have a lot of backgrounds and each have wonderful life experiences. Some of them are retired and choose to be happy volunteers, and another classmate is the dean of a department at a university!
Reading the articles written by everyone also made me realize deeply: In the field of writing, I am so lucky to be your teacher, but in the classroom of life, these students are more worthy of my learning from them!
After finishing lunch, I went back to the computer and prepared to listen to the online reading club hosted by my friend Wu Tianyuan at 2 p.m. This time he will help you read “Marketing 5.0: A comprehensive strategy in the era of perfect integration of technology and human nature, using MarTech to design customer journeys and open new business opportunities for digital consumption](https://www.books.com.tw/exep/assp.php/vista/products/0010895002?utm_source=vista&utm_medium=ap-books&utm_content=recommend&utm_campaign=ap-202107 (opens in a new tab))” is also a very popular marketing book recently.
Because I have read the previous book “Marketing 4.0” in the past, I also read “Marketing 5.0 (opens in a new tab)》, so I am not unfamiliar with the theme of this book. While listening to Teacher Wu’s introduction, I was preparing to revise my website (opens in a new tab).
In recent years, I have taught copywriting-related courses in many public departments, enterprises, and universities. In view of the writing bottlenecks and learning needs that everyone has encountered, I have the urge to build a writing database so that interested friends can refer to and learn from it. I named this website “I want to learn writing (opens in a new tab)”. In the future, I will gradually add articles related to writing teaching, hoping to help more friends who want to learn to write well!
Some friends once said to me: “Oh, writing is really difficult!” In fact, writing is definitely not as difficult as you think. As long as you master the correct skills and practice deliberately, sooner or later you will be able to write articles that make people feel. In the future, I will share more experiences and insights about writing on the “I want to learn writing (opens in a new tab)” website, and I hope everyone can write together!
Someone said: “The charming thing about writing is that stubborn feeling.” Think about it, it really makes sense! I have been writing since I became literate, whether it was writing poems or novels, or when I grew up, I started writing books or columns… The reason why writing makes me yearn for is that it really satisfies some subtle feelings deep in my heart, as well as my desire to talk and share with others.
In the evening, I saw the Central News Agency’s Exclusive Interview (opens in a new tab) with the 165th Akutagawa Prize winner Li Qinfeng (opens in a new tab). There was a passage in it that impressed me deeply.
She said: “I feel that it is natural for me to win the award, but it is not that my work is better than others, but that I put all my efforts into my work and worked hard to write it well and write out what I wanted to write.”
I admire her candor and her dedication to her work. For most people, they may not be recognized by a literary award in their lifetime, but at least we can learn from her spirit.
Well, let’s encourage each other!
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Further reading
- “Vista Cocoon Diary”: How to improve writing efficiency
- “Vesta Cocoon Diary”: The Power of Writing
- “Vista Cocoon Diary”: Strategic Thinking of Content Production
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Vista Cheng speaks and runs workshops on AI workflows, writing and content systems for companies, schools and public agencies.
