写作方法2018theguardian.com编辑精选
埃尔莫·伦纳德的写作法则（2010）
Elmore Leonard's Rules for Writers (2010)
导读
这篇《卫报》文章汇总了埃尔莫·伦纳德的写作规则，核心是极简、动作驱动，以及让文字不显得“像写作”。对写作者来说，它提供了一套可操作的减法：删词、删无关细节、用对话和动作推进故事，而不是靠修辞炫技。
可以直接用的写作要点
- 01
用尽可能少的词讲故事，先删冗余，再谈风格。
- 02
避免用生僻长词炫技；能简单说清的地方就用简单词。
- 03
多写动作和可观察细节，少堆无关背景；写进去的细节最好后文有回响。
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如果文字听起来像“在写作”，就重写，让技巧隐身。
HN 评论精选
好故事靠极简和动作推进，每个细节都应有作用。
用尽可能少的词讲故事；不要用生僻长词来违背这条规则；描写动作，而不是无关细节——你写进去的每个细节都像契诃夫之枪，后面必须响。
logfromblammo查看英文原文
Tell your story with the fewest words possible. Don't cheat the previous rule by using sesquipedalian words. Describe the action instead of the irrelevant details. Every detail you include is a Chekhov's Gun that will have to be fired later. Take out the character that is most like you. Take out the character that is least used. Make them fight to the death in their own short story, and reward the winner with a nice, hot shower in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. If they survive, they can be more interesting in the next story you let them into.
伦纳德式叙事靠锋利对话和有趣动作取胜，而非沉重隐喻或文学腔。
我正是因为这些原因喜欢他的文笔，虽然他并非我最爱的作家。影迷可以感谢他影响了昆汀·塔伦蒂诺和科恩兄弟；如果喜欢他的叙事哲学，可以看《火线警探》：这部剧松散改编自他的人物，像献给其作品的情书，没有笨拙沉重的隐喻，不硬装希腊悲剧或狄更斯小说，只靠锋利对话和有趣动作，却奇妙地超出各部分之和。
and0查看英文原文
I've enjoyed his prose for exactly these reasons, though he's not a favorite author or anything. If you're a film buff, you can thank him for Quentin Tarantino + Joel & Ethan Coen. If his story-telling philosophy sounds appealing, check out Justified. It's a TV show loosely based on some of his characters, but it's written like a love letter to his work. It finished just after his death, and was refreshing to watch right around when the concept of "prestige" TV started to collapse into itself / constant navel gazing trying to be the next Breaking Bad. There's a lot to take in about modern Appalachia (it takes place in rural Kentucky), but there's no heavy-handed metaphors. It's not trying to be a Greek tragedy or a Dickens novel, just razor-sharp dialog and fun action that somehow adds up to more than the sum of its parts.
好文字应隐藏技巧，不让读者感到作者在“用力写”。
“我最重要的规则概括了那10条：如果它听起来像‘写作’，我就重写它。”这对软件也有意思：你通常不希望自己的作品凸显其人工雕琢。
decasia查看英文原文
"My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: if it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." There's an interesting relevance to software here. You don't usually want your creation to foreground its own artifice.
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