How to earn money from writing articles by order requirements? I believe that I should find three types of people. Today, I’d like to introduce the third type.
如何通过接写作的订单挣钱?我知道要找到三类人。今天，我来介绍第三类。
Part Three – find a collaborator
第三部分——找到一个合作者
Collaborators are like colleagues. Nowadays, articles by order requirements which are with many goals should be written by several people together.
合作者主要是同事的概念。现在很多写作任务都有多重目的，一般是不能靠单打独斗去完成的。
For example, I have written a kind of articles which are lecturers' speech drafts. So the most difficult part is not the writing itself but the communication with the lecturer.
例如，我接过一类写文章的工作是写讲师的课程讲稿。所以写本身并不复杂，最难的部分是与讲师的沟通。
Some lecturers enjoy talking through telephone directly. But the materials they offer by chanting on phone are usually stories that are not connected with each other. As a result, I should listen to them carefully, understand the logic well and rewrite the order and details of the speech so that it can be understood well.
有些讲师喜欢直接打电话交流，他们可能在电话里讲的故事是散乱的没有联系的。我听完之后需要很好地梳理逻辑，重新排列观点和案例的顺序，并调整故事的细节。这样这堂课才能被更好地理解。
Some lecturers like to send me texts. They have already written something, but the stories they offer are in pieces. Also, they are often too busy to write the contents into a well-arranged article. So my work is to do some embroidery. I make the article with only on one clear topic and cut off unimportant materials in different aspects.
有些讲师喜欢打字，他们本身就写了很多素材的片段，但他们自己很忙，没时间合稿。我就主要做语言润色的工作，将文章精炼到最核心的一个主题并去掉不重要的内容。
Some lecturers like to give me only a plot or a mind map. So I should first collect some facts and examples, write first-edition articles, and let them check if the themes are what they want. After that, we will do the embroidery together. Since the initial points are quite few, I will communicate with lecturers by asking the difficult points that I don’t understand or the proper examples they can offer. In the end, by communicating several times, the articles can be finished.
还有些讲师喜欢就给一个提纲，或者丢过来一个思维导图。这个我一般自己先吃透，找一些观点和案例构建课程的框架，形成一个初稿。我会和讲师探讨是否主题是他们想要的。然后就进入下一个阶段，我和讲师一起做文章的润色环节。因为最初的素材是在太少，我会重点记下自己不理解的点，和讲师求证，并让他们提供一些合适的案例。文章才会最终被完成。
Besides, working in a media company is more likely working on a pipeline. The key point：1 be familiar with my part of work, and 2 try to match with the former and the latter part. Writers are sort of factory workers. We should adjust ourselves to be good collaborators.
另外，在媒体公司工作其实有点像在流水线上工作。最重要的是熟悉自己所在的环节，然后和上下游环节配合精妙。不要神话写作者，他们其实某种程度上是文学产业工人。我们要把自己的状态调节好，找到好的合作者，自己也成为别人好的合作者。
(本文为原创文章)
今日英语锦囊
读文章 Didi takeover of Brazil’s 99 piles pressure on Uber （滴滴收购巴西打车应用99 加速国际化）有学到收购这个含义如何表达：
1 acquire 收购
■to get something 取得，获得；购得；学到
•He acquired the firm in 1978.他于1978年收购了这家公司。
2 the takeover pushes it further beyond its national borders
此次收购将把它的业务进一步扩展至国境之外
Takeover
UK ['teɪkˌəʊ.vər] US [-ˌoʊ.vɚ] noun countable
IMPROVER
■when a company gets control of another company by buying most of its shares (= the equal parts into which the ownership of the company is divided) 接管，收购（公司）
•They were involved in a takeover last year.去年他们参与收购一家公司。
make a takeover bid for sth
■to try to get control of something 竞价收购
•The company made a takeover bid for a rival firm.这家公司出价竞购一家与它竞争的公司。