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斯蒂芬·金用十分钟讲透写作的全部要义
Stephen King tells everything you need to know about writing in 10 minutes
导读
这篇汇总斯蒂芬·金关于写作的十分钟要点,评论补充了《写作这回事》中的核心主张:少用副词、删冗余词、别空谈直接写。对写作者来说,它提供的不是玄学,而是可立即执行的写作纪律。
可以直接用的写作要点
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用上下文和动作表达情绪,少用 -ly 副词,例如避免“他愤怒地尖叫”这类写法。
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删掉不必要的副词和形容词,优先做到“删去不必要的词”。
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不要只追求被喜欢,先完成并发表,持续写下去。
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写作建议若不能落地就没用,把“直接写”当作首要行动。
HN 评论精选
少用 -ly 副词,让语境和动作传达情绪。
多年前我买了斯蒂芬·金的《写作这回事》,他这里似乎复述了书中很多观点。遗漏的一点是他对副词的厌恶:在金的看来,“他愤怒地尖叫”是糟糕句子,因为它用 -ly 结构说出了本应由语境清楚表达的东西。因此除极少数例外,他会删掉所有 -ly 副词,让角色的行动自己说话。
brianlash查看英文原文
Years ago I bought Stephen King's On Writing and it looks like he echoes a lot of its points here. Missing is his hatred of adverbs; To King's mind "He screamed angrily" is a terrible sentence because it uses the -ly construction to say what should be clear in context. So with precious few exceptions he scraps all the -ly's and lets his characters' actions do the talking.
写作建议的核心是直接动笔并持续发表。
作为一个有志写小说的人,我读过不少“如何写作”的东西,通常觉得没用。金是唯一把话说得直白简单、不装腔作势的人。若从不发表,就谈不上被喜欢;若发表后赚不到钱、无法持续产出足够作品让人注意到,就更没意义。我最喜欢的一条金氏建议,约翰·斯卡齐也用自己的方式重申过:别磨蹭,直接去写。
electromagnetic查看英文原文
Being an aspiring novelist, I've read my fair amount of this 'how to write' stuff and invariably find it useless. King is the only person who actually makes it plain and simple and gives no bullshit. There's little point in trying to be a liked writer, if you never publish anything for anyone to like, and there's even less point if you can't make money off of what you do publish to ever release enough material to get noticed enough to get liked or disliked. My favorite thing of King's advice, and John Scalzi reiterates it in his own way: just get on with it and do the writing.
删冗余词,尤其是大多数副词和形容词;简短需要更多功夫。
我一直喜欢斯蒂芬·金。威廉·斯特伦克最先说过、金这里也反映的一条建议让我记了很久:删掉不必要的词。现在我会删掉所有不必要的副词和形容词——它们大多是多余的。我觉得自己的写作有所进步。金在《写作这回事》里引用的一句话也让我豁然开朗:“我把这封信写得比平常长,因为我没时间把它写短。”——布莱兹·帕斯卡。我和朋友过去笑这句话不真实,现在笑是因为知道它真实。
sarenji查看英文原文
I've always liked Stephen King. One piece of advice, first said by William Strunk and reflected here, has stayed with me: omit needless words. Now I take out all unnecessary adverbs and adjectives, which are most of them. I like to think my writing has improved. A quote cited in his book, On Writing, was also a revelation: "I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short." -- Blaise Pascal My friend and I used to laugh at this quote because we thought it wasn't true. Now we laugh because we know it is.
推荐《On Writing Well》作为进一步学习写作的经典。
这些建议让我想到 W. 津瑟的《On Writing Well》,这是我读过最好的写作书(甚至对写学术论文也有用)。我尽量向所有人推荐它,尤其是不喜欢空话的人,因为这是一本文写得出奇好的写作书。
mayanklahiri查看英文原文
The advice looks familiar to W. Zinsser's "On Writing Well", which is the best book on writing I've ever read (even for writing academic papers). http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-25th-Anniversary-Nonfiction/dp/0060006641 I try to recommend it to everyone, especially if they're not a fan of bullshit, since it's a book on writing that's written exceptionally well.
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