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J.K.罗琳的情节规划表格
J.K. Rowling’s Plot Spreadsheets
导读
这篇围绕 J.K. 罗琳用手绘表格梳理情节的做法展开讨论，并延伸到纸笔规划与数字工具之间的取舍。对写作者来说，它提醒我们：复杂故事需要可视化的结构工具，但不必迷信工具本身。
可以直接用的写作要点
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用表格或网格把章节、时间线、人物位置和事件并排铺开，能一眼看出情节结构与漏洞。
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纸笔适合快速涂改和发散构思，数字工具适合复制、移动和重组，可以按不同阶段混用。
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像罗琳、托尔金那样记录时间线、人物行踪甚至月相，能增强长篇叙事的连贯性。
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先找到适合自己的规划介质，不必为了工具而工具化。
HN 评论精选
纸笔仍是许多创作者的主要构思媒介，即使有定制软件也难以取代。
我认为在纸上工作是创意工作者相当标准的方式。我参与一个数字漫画项目，朋友是创作者兼导演；我做了内容制作软件，他本可全程使用，但仍用专门打印的表格，我也会把软件改得更像那些表格。我自己开发东西时，也常拿笔在纸上思考，尽管有各种专用软件。
DeusExMachina查看英文原文
To work on paper is a pretty standard way of working for creative people, I think. I'm working on a digital comic project with a particular direction twist (more on this later). My friend is the creator of the comic and the director. I made a software for the creation of the content of our app and he could use it for the entire process. Still, he uses special sheets he printed for the purpose. I will modify the software to look more like those sheets he created, but they will remain his main medium to work on. And when I'm developing something, I like to to grab a pen and to think on paper from time to time, despite all the software designed with this purpose in mind.
把小说时间线与人物位置反向整理成可视化资料，可作为结构分析练习。
我反而想反过来做：仔细读尼尔·斯蒂芬森的《巴洛克三部曲》，尽量细地记录每个主要角色在各个时间段的位置，然后导入 Timeline 做可视化。
bockris查看英文原文
I actually want to do this in reverse. I want to do a careful read of the Baroque Cycle trilogy by Neal Stephenson and make a note of the location of every major character for as fine of a time period I can. Then I want to load it all into Timeline (http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/)
纸笔利于快速发散和涂改，软件利于重组，二者各有短板，可混用。
在纸笔和电脑之间，有些任务我都不完全满意。画界面或应用架构时，纸笔更快更方便：随手记、划掉、画箭头；但我也希望它更数字化，便于腾空间、复制、移动。软件里加小注要换字体或工具再点击，纸上只要写小点；纸上要在两项之间插元素，常只好重画。两者都不完美，也许触屏能接近。
Timothee查看英文原文
Regarding using pen and paper, for certain tasks, I'm never fully satisfied with either working on paper or doing it on a computer. For things like UI, mapping out the basic architecture of an app, on one hand I find that pen and paper is much faster and more convenient: you can scribble notes here and there, easily scratch out parts, draw arrows; but on the other, I wish it were more digital to reorganize things: make more room here, duplicate this, move that... With software, if I want to add a small note, I need to select a different font or a different tool, click where I want to put it... On paper, I can just write smaller. But on paper, if I realize that I need to add an element in between two others, the best way is often times to start all over again, So neither are perfect, but maybe some touch interfaces will get us there.
托尔金也做细密时间线和人物位置表，说明这种笨办法对长篇世界构建很有效。
托尔金也这样工作。他为书中每一天写清人物在哪里，甚至当天月相；他的笔记展览与罗琳所做的颇相似，藏品来自马凯特大学。
gchucky查看英文原文
JRR Tolkien worked this way as well. He wrote out all the days for the books and where everyone was, even down to what phase of the lunar cycle the day was. There was actually an exhibit of Tolkien's notes that toured around for a bit, and they looked not entirely unlike what Rowling created. For reference, the collection was from Marquette University. (http://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/tolkien.shtml)
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