出版与作家生涯2016cbc.ca
斯蒂芬·金：一个不合群的高中女生如何改变了他的人生
Stephen King – How did a misfit high school girl change the author's life?
导读
这篇 CBC 电台节目讲的是斯蒂芬·金高中时被一个不合群的女生影响、后来写成《On Writing》里那段往事——但评论区更值得读：有人指出这篇稿子几乎是把金的自述改个人称就搬过来，有人提醒标题用“高中女生”其实是为流量牺牲了事实（真正改变他人生的是他妻子）。对写作者来说，这是一次关于“如何诚实地引用他人故事”和“金本人怎么写、怎么看待写作这行”的现场教学。
可以直接用的写作要点
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转述别人的亲身经历时，宁可大段直接引用原文并注明出处，也不要改个人称就当成自己的叙述，这会被读者一眼看穿。
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标题不要为了吸引眼球而替换关键事实：这个故事真正的转折是他妻子从垃圾桶里救回手稿，写成“高中女生”就是失真。
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把写作当成一份蓝领工作：有人付钱、支票没跳票、你能用它付电费，就算入了行——先写得出来、卖得出去，再谈天赋。
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高产本身是一种可敬的技艺：一本长篇都难写，能持续稳定地写、且不重复自己、人物有血有肉，这才是真本事。
HN 评论精选
改写他人亲历故事等于变相抄袭，不如直接引用原文。
别读这篇了，去读《On Writing》。这篇投稿的作者几乎是抄袭了金的这段故事：是的，他注明了出处，但到后半段基本就是把“我”换成“他”，而且抄得很糟。用同样的篇幅，完全可以直接引用金自己的原文。让我不舒服的是，这是金的故事，讲得又那么动人，该由金来讲，而不是这位作者。
scott_s查看英文原文
Skip this and read "On Writing". The author of this submission borderline plagiarized this story from King. Yes, I know that they credit the book, but by the end, they basically just replace "I" with "he". It's copying what King wrote, badly. It would take just as much space to just quote King's story. This bothers me because it's such a poignant story, well-told, and it's King's story to tell, not this author.
标题为了点击率替换了真正的关键人物，牺牲了事实。
等等，真正“改变他人生”的是他妻子（她从垃圾桶里救回了几页手稿）。但标题写“妻子”大概太无聊了，所以换成了“不合群的高中女生”。
codeulike查看英文原文
Wait, it was his wife who 'changed his life' (by rescuing some pages from a bin). But if they said 'wife' it would be too boring I suppose, so they went with 'misfit high school girl'.
天赋的检验标准很朴素：有人付钱、钱能用，就是作家。
金的《On Writing》是本好书，但我印象最深的是他回答“谁算有天赋”这个问题：如果你写了点东西，有人给你寄了支票，你兑了支票它没跳票，然后你用这笔钱付了电费，我就认为你有天赋。他把写作当成一份活儿来干的蓝领视角，非常值得借鉴。
bcgraham查看英文原文
King's On Writing is a wonderful book, but the part I most remember is his answer to the question, "Who is talented?" He said: "If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented." His blue-collar approach to the job of writing is a great perspective.
持续高产且不重复自己、人物立得住，是写作手艺的最高体现。
我不算斯蒂芬·金的粉丝，但每次看到他的访谈，都觉得想见见这个人。我曾经想过当作家，从那个角度看，我完全佩服他的产出量：写一本小说难如登天，他却几乎像钟表一样一本接一本。而且据我看，他并不是在重复自己或敷衍了事。我也羡慕他能写出真实、可爱、有深度的人物。就写作作为一门手艺而言（这一点我当年尝试写小说时严重低估了），我认为金是个天才。
krylon查看英文原文
I'm not a big fan of Stephen King as a writer, but everytime I come across an interview, I think I would like to meet the man one day. Also, at one point in my life I thought I wanted to become a writer, and from that perspective I am just completely in awe of the guy's sheer volume of output. Writing one novel can be ___ing hard, but he keeps churning them out one after the other, almost like clockwork. And it's not like he's repeating himself, or going through the motions, as far as I can tell. I also envy his ability to create realistic, likeable characters that have depth. To the degree that writing is a craft (an aspect I certainly underestimated when I made my attempt at writing a novel), I consider King a genius.
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