Planning: the planning and arrangement of the text structure when writing. Mao Dun 1960 Random Comments on Short Stories: "Some can focus on layout, planning, refining words and making sentences, but they are cautious, evasive, or bizarre, and so on."

Layout: the author's thinking activities in the process of gestating and creating works. This kind of thinking activity is formed in the author's imagination and runs through the general concept of the content and form of the work in a certain thought. Also known as "conception"

Simply put, planning an article means that the author knows the structure of the whole article before writing.

Layout is like playing chess. The dark lines have been buried in advance, and they will be triggered one by one when they follow the context.

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