写作与思考2017newyorker.com
个人随笔的繁荣已经结束
The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over
导读
这篇文章讨论个人散文热潮的兴起与退潮，分析其背后的媒体生态、写作门槛与内容质量问题。对写作者来说，它提醒我们：个人化写作容易陷入自我沉溺和套路化，好文章需要更广阔的视角和编辑打磨。
可以直接用的写作要点
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个人化写作容易沦为自我沉溺，选题时要警惕视角的狭窄性。
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写作门槛低不等于容易写好，多数个人散文读起来像情绪宣泄，需要编辑打磨。
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警惕把个人经历写成套路化的“申请文书”式文章。
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内容生产受商业驱动时，要守住质量底线，避免成为“文学版真人秀”。
HN 评论精选
个人散文容易沦为特定阶层的自我沉溺，选题视角狭窄。
这篇元文章回避了更大的图景。“个人散文”似乎是“第一世界女权问题”的委婉说法：例子都是富裕女性渲染琐碎的女性问题，没有男性或下层阶级的对应例子。性侵散文有真诚有用的，也有利用他人受害经历自我拔高的。作者不承认这一点，可能因为她受雇于 Jezebel。我个人欢迎这种变化，因为西方上层阶级总在把注意力从穷人转向自己。
briholt查看英文原文
This is an interesting meta article, but it skirts the bigger picture. "Personal essay" seems to be a euphemism for "first world feminist problems." Note all of the examples in the intro are wealthy(ish) women drumming up trivial problems somehow related to womanhood. There are no listed examples of men having equivalent problems (let's say having a mishap with his pant zipper), and there are no listed examples of lower class problems (let's say a dishwasher who gets type 2 diabetes). The sexual assault essays go both ways - some are genuine and useful to understanding crime, some are authors desperately exploiting other people's victimhood for their own self aggrandizement ("stare rape"). The author's failure to acknowledge the topic of the personal essay boom may stem from her own employment at Jezebel, a publication largely devoted to first world feminist problems. Personally, I welcome this change. I've been very disheartened by what has been an obvious attempt at the Western upper classes to redirect money attention away from the needy and towards themselves. Sadly, I've seen a fair share of this on HN as well.
个人散文门槛低导致质量参差，好文章需要编辑打磨，但热潮本身有价值。
个人散文热潮才刚开始，人们在分享有趣的东西。问题在于任何人都能写，导致95%以上读起来像幼稚日记、情绪宣泄，或没有作者以为的那么有趣。信号噪音比一直是问题，需要文字编辑和出版物来打磨。我自己的 Medium 上最受欢迎的就是个人散文，主题是电影、音乐、写作，而不是以卫生棉条为透镜的生活评论。
6stringmerc查看英文原文
Completely false, very narrow minded perspective that pretty much works backwards from its conclusion using lots of anecdotes. The Personal-Essay Boom is just getting started, because now people are sharing more interesting things in more interesting ways in the past. Dishing on former employers. Describing personal journeys. Letting people experience a slice of life that they otherwise would not come across. The only problem with Personal-Essays is that anybody without any training or practice can sit down and give it a try, which is why 95%+ will read like a Sophomoric diary entry based on literary merit (if lucky) or Ranting (overloaded with emotions), or just not as interesting as the Writer thinks. So, to contrast the anecdotes and conclusion I disagree with in the article, I will happily cite that on my Medium.com page, where I have 70 publications, the highest viewed, most shared, and apparently most liked are Personal Essays. They are about interesting subjects - Film, Music, Writing - not, as the Writer uses as a comparison - some kind of nuveau-critique about life as told through the lens of a Tampon. The signal to noise ratio has always been a problem. That's the role of Copy Editors (RIP, really they're seemingly extinct in the US outside of Top 1%) and Publications to get things into shape. Or, to re-frame the discussion in terms of guitar and me experience with it, "Anybody can pick up a guitar and make noise, but making beautiful music is going to take a lot of time and effort." Personal Essays also follow this axiom.
个人化写作的盛行与应试训练有关，容易套路化。
我想知道这是否与教育趋势有关。我这一代在高中英语课上似乎只学了怎么写大学申请文书，越个人化越好。
douche查看英文原文
I wonder if it has something to do with trends in education. It seems like the only thing my generation ever did in high school English classes was learn how to write college application essays, the more personal, the better.
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