写作与思考2016theatlantic.com编辑精选
为什么作家是最严重的拖延症患者
Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators
导读
这篇《大西洋月刊》文章探讨为什么写作者是最严重的拖延者：写作把自我价值和作品绑在一起，怕写出烂东西、怕被评判，于是迟迟不肯动笔。对写作者的价值在于，它把拖延从“懒”重新定义为一种可识别、可对治的恐惧，让人能对症下药。
可以直接用的写作要点
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把“写得好不好”的判断推迟到动笔之后：先允许自己写烂稿，修改是另一个工序。
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固定每天同一时段坐下只做创作，哪怕产出很差，重点是“到场”这个动作本身。
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警惕“我要写小说/做个 App”这类只谈不做的身份宣言——它常常是拖延的伪装。
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用外部约束（截稿、约稿、连载、搭子）替代意志力，有人等着看时拖延会显著减少。
HN 评论精选
每天固定时段只创作，好坏不论，靠持续到场打败“阻力”。
别太把文章里讲的那套当回事。如果你是写作者、艺术家或音乐人，卡着出不了活，解决办法就这么简单：每天固定一个时间段，坐下来除了创作什么都不干。写得好坏无所谓，你唯一的任务就是在那整段时间里持续创作。关键就在“持续去做”这一点。强烈推荐史蒂文·普雷斯菲尔德的《艺术之战》，他讲得更透。他还提出“阻力”（Resistance）这个概念：它是一种近乎自然规律的力量，专门阻碍你把事做成，而且你做的事对你越有意义，它就越强。
kdamken查看英文原文
Don't worry about what this article talks about. If you're a writer, or an artist, or a musician, etc and are having trouble getting things done, the solution is as simple as this: Set a time slot everyday where you will sit down and do nothing but work on creating your art. Doesn't matter if it's good or bad, your only job is to sit there and create for the whole time period. That's the key, is consistently trying to do it. I highly recommend reading the The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, he goes into this a lot more - https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1936891026/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= He also talks about the concept of "Resistance", which is basically a force of nature that's works against you getting things done, and that gets stronger the closer you are towards doing work that is meaningful to you.
公开对话场景能激活写作，空白文档则让人瘫痪：换个“有读者、有由头”的场景。4
真该有人做一个伪装成论坛帖子的写作编辑器。在 Reddit 和 Hacker News 上回帖，我随手就能写出好几段，毫无压力；可一坐到空白编辑器前……说实话，光是坐到那儿就已经很难了，动起来更要费很大劲。要不是有 Nanowrimo（全国小说写作月）和每年被提醒去参加短篇小说合集，我大概会是个“不写作的作家”——除了在 HN 和 Reddit 上发评论。
cableshaft查看英文原文
Someone needs to make a writing editor that disguises itself as forum threads, because I can write paragraphs off the cuff in response to Reddit and Hacker News no problem, but when I sit down to a blank editor I ...well it's hard to even sit at the blank editor to begin with, but it takes a lot of effort to get going. If it weren't for Nanowrimo and being reminded consistently to participate in a short story anthology every year, I'd be a writer who didn't write (except comments on HN/Reddit).
拖延源于对作品被评判的恐惧，并非作家专属；“我在做项目”常是同一类空话。
这毛病真不是写作者独有的。我做个人编程项目时也有完全一样的拖延问题。就像文章里说的作家怕写出烂小说，我一想到没人会用我这个 App、项目太难做不完、或者怕别人看到我写得很烂的代码，就直接放弃了。当然也有差别：软件能不能用、有没有实现预期功能，有更明确的硬门槛，而小说“写得烂”则模糊得多。但我觉得，“我在做个 App”大概就是我们这代人的“我在写小说”式口头禅。
wjoe查看英文原文
Hardly unique to writers, I've had much of the same issues with procrastination when working on personal programming projects. Much as they describe writer's fear of writing a bad novel, I give up when I think no one will want to use the app I'm working on, I think the project be too difficult to finish, or I'm worried about letting people see my badly written code. Obviously there are some differences - there's a more specific barrier to making software that is functional serves it's intended purpose, compared to a story that might be badly written. But I think "I'm working on an app" may be our generation's version of the "I'm writing a novel" cliche
按件计酬、有明确交付压力时，拖延会大幅减少：给写作加上外部结算点。
就我的经验，大多数写作者是按字数拿钱的，写得非常快。Upwork 上多数内容写手似乎很少拖延。换句话说，想象一下你作为程序员按产出代码行数拿钱——而且没有编译器、没有单元测试……
jkot查看英文原文
In my experience most writers are paid by word, and write very fast. Most content writers at Upwork seems to have very little procrastination.. In other terms, image as coder you are paid by number of lines you produce. And there is no compiler, no unit tests...
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