The so-called material comes from life and feeds back to life. As creators, we play the role of processors in this process, and we use all kinds of materials in an exquisite way to achieve a high-quality article.
Material library can help you reduce the cost of writing, thinking and inspiration collection, and achieve handy results when needed through the accumulation of writing materials over time.
For example, a donkey friend needs to travel immediately. At this time, he needs to travel with a lot of things and use his own experience to carry things that meet this destination, so that he will not regret this trip. The role of the material library here is the experience and goods of the donkey friends.
With these materials, donkey friends can arrange this perfect tour by virtue of their accumulated experience for many years, but some authors will find it a very troublesome thing to create a material library, which requires a lot of time and energy to maintain. In fact, 20% of the relevant materials needed in the creative process come from life and 80% from the internet, which is what everyone often says.
With a pair of eyes that are good at discovering materials, it is actually very easy to establish your own material library. In view of the related materials on the Internet, we only need to divide all kinds of material resources reasonably, organize them into a system of our own, and make this system into our own material library.
Today, Du Yumu will tell you how to build your own material library and provide a steady stream of power for future self-media operations. Usually, the establishment of material library is mainly divided into two categories: collecting materials and sorting materials.
There are many places on the Internet to collect information. Next, I recommend several websites related to collecting materials for you.
1, Baidu Hot Search List: As the largest search engine in China, Baidu has a Baidu Hot Search List, which can provide you with a lot of materials.
2. Weibo Hot Search: It can also reflect some things that netizens are most concerned about in real time. Frequent browsing of Weibo Hot Search will provide you with tens of thousands of creative inspirations.
3. Q&A platform: mainly Baidu and Zhihu. In the question-and-answer platform, users' concerns and relatively professional answers are usually obtained quickly. Q&A platform is also a very good way.
4. Browser search: It is also the simplest, most direct and most rude way to obtain relevant information in the form of keywords. There are often unexpected surprises.
5. Watch more peers: There are many creators who are doing well in all fields. Paying more attention to the creators in their own fields and learning their material selection, starting point and writing style are of great help to improve their comprehensive ability.
6. Grasp the details of life: Besides the complicated information on the Internet, there are also many wonderful moments in life that can be the cornerstone of the article. In daily life, we can pay more attention to the little things around us, and we can pay more attention to people in related fields and have targeted conversations with them.
For example, authors in the field of parenting can go to parks and chat with mothers and babies more often, and there will always be unexpected gains.
If you have collected a lot of data for you through the above methods, then the next more important step is how to classify the data.
It is very important to put unique labels on different materials, just like looking for books of the category you want in the library. Because the sources and categories of various materials are different, it is necessary to classify each material accurately.
After big data analysis, we found that most excellent authors use the same material sorting method, and the whole material library can be roughly divided into three categories: unsorted, sorted and used.
The easiest way to classify materials is to create different folders. If text materials are used, they can be recorded and updated in real time in the form of keywords, and pictures and video materials can be saved in folders.
1, raw materials
It is mainly used to temporarily store some newly collected materials. These materials usually contain the keywords you need, but you haven't finished reading them. Subconsciously, you think these materials should be good materials. You can save the relevant materials first and find time to sort them out carefully.
The specific method is to temporarily store some relevant information encountered in the network or life in a folder as long as it feels useful. Find a time to sort it out in the form of keywords and put the sorted materials into "processed materials"
2. Processing materials
All the materials stored in this material have been sorted out and can be kept as spare related materials. These materials are often regular and organized and presented in the form of keywords in the list. It can be called at any time when creative needs, which is very convenient.
Special attention: there must be a standard when classifying data, so that you can find relevant data accurately in the future.
The purpose of collecting and sorting out data is to call relevant data quickly. If you can't find the material, the function of this material library is equal to zero.
3. Used materials
All materials stored in this material are used materials. The purpose of opening this material is to facilitate the use of previous case arguments in future creations, so as to find cases quickly and accurately. Moreover, the material has certain effectiveness. If used and unused materials are integrated together, it will easily become messy. It is not clear whether this material has been used.
It is a long-term and profound task to create a material library of your own. It may be difficult at first, but when the material library is formed, the creators can feel the benefits of the material library and benefit a lot from it.