Memories alone are unreliable. As the saying goes, a good memory is not as good as bad writing. If you have your own material library, you can extract materials from the warehouse at any time.
When reading the book "Learning to Write from scratch", several methods recommended by Hong Dan to establish a material database are particularly useful. She built a folder of "My Personal Library" in the computer, which divided all kinds of materials into five categories.
The first category: life story material library
Mainly used to collect stories in life. For example, people you meet in life, feelings when chatting, and so on. Can be recorded in an essay on the same day. These can be good first-hand writing materials.
Category II: Libraries of books, movies and plays.
In other words, all the books, movies and TV series you can see are put in this folder. After reading a book, extract golden sentences, stories, famous sayings and so on. Or write down your thoughts after reading it. I will also write a film review after watching the movie. So when you need to write, you can use it directly.
The third category: golden sentence material library
The material library of golden sentences comes from classic lines in movies, and good sentences can also be extracted from books and reading WeChat.
The fourth category: creative article material library.
For example, the articles I wrote can also be classified and copied directly when necessary.
The fifth category: network material library
Evernote is a good warehouse for sorting out network materials. You can associate Evernote on WeChat, collect good articles in Evernote, arrange, cut, classify and memorize titles at a fixed time every week, and organize the materials in Evernote into five material libraries by computer.
Write it at the end, write it to yourself. Ending is the most critical and important thing. No matter how much you collect, it's zero if you don't tidy it up. Set aside an hour every week to sort out the materials (this should be listed in the weekly plan).