写作方法2010swombat.com编辑精选
如何把写作练得更好
How to get better at writing
导读
这篇短文讨论如何提高写作，核心答案很简单：多读、多写、持续练习，并给出删减废词、尝试不同文体等具体建议。评论区补充了实用的写作书单和“练习就是一切”的学习观，适合想找可操作路径的写作者。
可以直接用的写作要点
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多读多写是根基：编辑能力要靠大量读写积累，先写出来再改。
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删掉“几乎”“大概”这类弱化词，主张要敢下判断，读者自会打折。
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练习不同文体（剧本、诗歌、论文、短篇小说），每种文体锻炼不同的写作技能。
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把日常场景——社区发帖、工作邮件——都当作写作练习的机会。
HN 评论精选
多读多写是根基，编辑能力建立在大量读写积累之上，并推荐了几本实用的写作书。
我想强调“多读”和“多写”。你当然应该编辑自己的作品，但往往在你积累了大量关于什么有效、什么无效的知识之前，你并不具备有效编辑的能力，而这需要大量阅读和写作才能做到。另外，读一两本关于写作的书会让你受益匪浅，我常参考的几本：《Write Right!》（约90页的语法规则小书，能应付99%的情况）、James Wood 的《How Fiction Works》（主要讲如何注意你读到的东西）、William Zissner 的《On Writing Well》，以及 Steven King 的《On Writing》（读起来太有趣了，很难不推荐）。
jseliger查看英文原文
This reminds me of a post I wrote, "So you wanna be a writer: What Anthony Bourdain can tell you even when he’s not talking about writing": http://jseliger.com/2010/09/20/so-you-wanna-be-a-writer-what-anthony-bourdain-can-tell-you-even-when-hes-not-talking-about-writing . That's geared toward people who want to be professional writers, though. I would emphasize Tenner's "read a lot" and "write a lot" parts. You should edit your own work, of course, but often you don't have the skills to do so incredibly effectively until you've built up a lot of knowledge about what works and what doesn't, which you won't be able to do until you've read a lot and written a lot. Also, if you read one or two books about writing, you'll be much better off. A handful I consult regularly: 1) Write Right! (a simple, ~90 page book on grammar and rules that will see you through 99% of situations); 2) How Fiction Works, by James Wood (which is mostly about noticing what you read); 3) On Writing Well by William Zissner (a perennial recommendation); 4) On Writing by Steven King (which is so fun to read that it's hard _not_ to recommend).
提升任何技能的通用公式就是练习、阅读、尝试，别把学习过程过度复杂化。
这些建议不只适用于想提高写作的人，更像是一切技能提升的通用建议。提高编程的最好方式就是编程、读编程相关的书、在编程中尝试新东西；想提高扔橄榄球，就练习扔、读正确技巧的文章、尝试不同变体找到适合自己的。这类建议看似显而易见，但人们常因为想让学习更轻松而把学习过程过度复杂化。每个初学者在学习中都会问“我该怎么变强”，答案就是练习——我们常常忘记它就这么简单。
sp4rki查看英文原文
This advice is not only for people wanting to get better at writing, it's more a general advice for improving anything. The best way to get better at programming is to program, to read about programming, and to practice new things while programming. Want to get better at throwing a football? Practice throwing a football, read articles on the best and proper techniques on throwing a football, and practice different variations of the techniques to find which one suits you. I'd think this sort of advice is obvious, but lots of times one overcomplicates the learning process because of a need to make it easier to learn. This type of articles are needed to answer the main question every beginner (and even some advanced people) has at some time during the learning process: How do I get better? By practicing. We often forget that it's that simple.
删掉“几乎”“大概”这类弱化词，读者自会打折，不必替他们打折。
另一个建议是删掉废词。原文：“如果你留心，你能找到无数写作的机会。加入几乎任何活跃的线上社区，你每天都会有很多机会就你有看法的事情写作。一家活跃的企业会产生无数邮件，每一封都是写作的机会。”改后：“你能找到无数写作的机会。加入一个活跃的社区，你可以就任何事情写作。一家活跃的企业会产生无数邮件，每一封都是写作的机会。”像“几乎任何”这样的短语只会削弱你的主张。我知道这种弱化是有意的（我以前也回避过于强烈的陈述），但读者本来就会自动弱化你说的任何话，不需要你帮忙。
SlyShy查看英文原文
Another suggestion is removing waste words. "If you look for them, you can find millions of occasion to write. Join almost any active online community and you will have many chances a day to write about whatever it is you have an opinion about. An active business will generate countless emails, each of which is an opportunity to write. And, of course, there are more traditional options, like blogging or otherwise writing for an audience." "You can find a million occasions to write. Join an active community and you can write about anything. An active business generates countless emails, each an opportunity to write. There are also traditional options, like blogging or otherwise writing for an audience." Phrases like "almost any" only work to weaken your claim. I know that this weakening is purposeful (I used to shy away from overly strong statements too), but the reader is already automatically weakening any statements you make, and doesn't need any help.
练习不同文体能锻炼不同的写作技能，写作反过来也会丰富阅读体验。
过去一个月 HN 上有很多关于写作的好帖，受此启发，几周前我从没写过剧本，却决定试着写一部。我发现这是很有意思的练习，它让我对人物和情节的思考比以往任何写作类型都深入。基于这次经验，我想在原有建议上再加一条：练习不同的文体，无论是诗歌、剧本、论文还是短篇小说，每种文体都需要不同的技能。我还想补充：正如多读有助于写作，反过来也成立——规律地写作也会丰富你的阅读体验。
rjett查看英文原文
There have been a lot of good posts about writing on HN in the past month. Inspired by http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1851957 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1851526, I decided to try to write my own screenplay a few weeks back since I had never written in this style before. I found it to be an interesting exercise and it really helped me think through character and plot a lot more than I ever have with other types of writing. Given my experience writing this screenplay in the last month, I might also add to the list of swombat's [excellent] suggestions that you should practice writing different styles, whether it's poetry, screenplays, research papers, short stories, etc. Each one of these require different skill sets. I'd also add that just as reading a lot helps you write, the converse is true too. Writing regularly enriches your reading experiences. If anyone's interested, I wrote a screenplay for South Park, partly to see what it was like to write a screenplay and partly to see if I could use SEO instead of the traditional process to get a screenplay picked up by a major network. Here's it is: http://www.scribd.com/doc/44671533/Underground-South-Park. I was thinking of hosting it on posterous or making a small wordpress site to put it up and see if I could drive people to it that way. Suggestions and advice welcome!
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