There is a saying: "A clever woman can't cook without rice". This sentence vividly expresses the importance of material for writing.

If you write without material, you will feel that there is nothing to write. Even if you write, the content will look pale and tasteless. This is what we often say: no input, no output, and that's the truth.

There are two main sources of material:

First, it comes from our life, and what happens to you or around you, including what you see, hear and think, can be used as your writing material to enrich your writing content;

Second, it comes from our reading study. Through a lot of reading, you can also get a lot of rich writing materials.

It can be said that the writing material determines the quality of your writing and the success or failure of your writing. The importance of material for writing is self-evident.

In this case, how can we collect materials through reading and enrich our writing content?

Here, I'd like to share one of my own tips for collecting short story materials, hoping to help you.

When collecting story materials, many friends like to directly copy and paste the short stories or cases they saw in books or online, and save them in the book or document where they collected the materials.

This is a lazy collection mode, which can save the time spent collecting materials, but its disadvantages are also obvious, and you will easily forget it.

When you need to use a certain material in your writing, you can't remember what the story or case is. You have to go back and read it slowly, looking for a long time before you see the material you need.

At this time, the writing efficiency is not improved, and it may also affect your writing efficiency by interrupting your writing inertia. It can be said that it is not worth the loss.

It can be seen that the materials collected in this way have not left much impression in your mind, and you have not really learned this material, let alone used it flexibly.

So what can I do to really keep the stories I have seen and read in my heart and call them at any time when writing?

The method is simple: when you see the material of a short story that you are interested in, what you need to do is not to copy and paste it directly, but to understand the main content and key points of the story or case, then close the book, repeat it in words and express it, and then record it in your notebook or document.

In this way, you can truly understand and master the content of this story or case, and you can use it naturally when you write.

It not only saves you the time of searching, but also greatly improves your writing efficiency.

this little skill of collecting story material is simple, but it is very important. Just like the password to open a treasure chest, often a few simple Arabic numerals can bring you a rich fortune.

A simple method can bring completely different effects and results to your material collection. You might as well try it.