I've been writing notes just because, but today I learned how to write.

Here on note, many people write articles.
In fact, that's all they do.
Everyone is busily, steadily writing their own pieces.

How do you go about "writing an article"?

“Even if you ask me how...
I just write what I think, like normal.”
I do it that way too.

Because I can write that way, after all.
Anyone can do it. Even elementary school students can write.

But something is nagging at the back of my mind.
Everyone should be writing in the same way, so why are that person's articles interesting?
Why is this article read so much?
What is so different from my articles?

Anyone can write.
That's why no one ever thinks to "learn how to write."

But I can't write articles that get read.
Is it possible that there actually is a "way to write articles that get read" that I just don't know about?

What on earth is a "way to write articles that get read"?

I learned that Yasu, who runs the "After-School Writing Club," was holding a free writing seminar, so I listened to his Stand.fm broadcast.

The title was "Popular Writing Seminar."
Being "popular" here doesn't mean being popular with the opposite sex, but being popular with readers.

My first impression:
“Writing good articles isn't about talent, there's a method to it!!”

The broadcast was full of things to learn, and my eyes were opened again and again.

What Yasu taught us in that short 30-minute session was
the "Shin-Kishōtenketsu" (New Introduction, Development, Twist, Conclusion). (Sorry, that might not have been the exact name. It's ended up sounding a bit like that.)

One of the important points for attracting people with your writing is"structure."The most famous way to structure writing is "Kishōtenketsu."
But if you write using the Kishōtenketsu we learned in elementary school, it doesn't go well.

So, here is the new "Kishōtenketsu" proposed by Yasu.
It's the same Kishōtenketsu, but the interpretation of each character is different.
This is a Kishōtenketsu for creating articles that get read in this day and age.

To put it simply, it looks like this.

Everyone, do you think about the structure when you write a note?
I wasn't thinking about anything at all, haha.
I'm sure there are many people like that, right?

Of course, there is no set way to write a note.
Because it's free.
Note is a place where you can write however you like.

However, if you want to improve your writing even a little bit,
isn't it worth trying to be conscious of this structure?

I said you can write however you like, but since it's something that someone other than yourself will read, I think it's a kindness to the reader for the writer to pursue readability and clarity.

I believe that writers who are kind to their readers are the ones who get read a lot and are loved.

Towards the end of the stream, they also took questions,
and they answered things like 'Tell me more about how to write the introduction!' and 'What if the episode gets too long?'
They even answered my lament that 'I only have mundane episodes,' haha.

Man, I really learned a lot.

I had listened to Yasu-san's discussion on writing in another stream before, but
Yasu-san absorbs and analyzes so many things in order to write, and that attitude really strikes me.

Once again, I realized that I still have a lot of room to work hard.

And, he's a great talker and so funny!!!
As expected!

The things I heard today are probably just a small fraction of writing techniques.

Even so, for someone like me who gained that knowledge for the first time, it was enough to make me think, 'I want to learn more about how to write!'

I'm not confident I can do it well, but I'm going to try to be conscious of the structure for my articles starting tomorrow.

Thank you so much to Arkun-san for planning this, and to Yasu-san for talking to us.
I enjoyed listening to it, including the initial accident, haha.

Thank you for reading until the end.