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为《洋葱报》写了一个月，我学到了什么（2015）
What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (2015)
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这是一篇回顾性随笔：作者为《洋葱报》（The Onion）写了一个月的稿子，记录这段经历带给他的写作体悟。评论区围绕"创造力是不是可以靠习惯训练出来的肌肉"以及写作这行的现实回报展开讨论，值得写作者一读。
可以直接用的写作要点
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把创造力当肌肉练：固定时段坐下来写，灵感往往在动笔之后才出现，而不是之前。
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把"想点子"排进日程——每天固定时间（哪怕只有半小时）专注头脑风暴，比等灵感可靠得多。
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动力常常滞后于行动：先强迫自己到场、开始，热情会在做起来之后跟上。
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头脑风暴最好找人一起面对面碰撞；独自对着邮箱投稿虽然也算写作，却容易丢掉创作本身的乐趣。
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几年前我和朋友因为在做喜剧讽刺内容，在 Medium 上开了个自己的"刊物"，心里的标杆就是《洋葱报》。有几个月我们每天早上 7:30 在咖啡馆碰头，赶在各自上班前头脑风暴。对我最大的收获是：动力是可以在你强迫自己早起、开始动手之后才出现的。有很多天我们偷懒没去；而去了的那些天，我一次都没后悔过——我们想出一些（至少我们自己觉得）特别好笑的点子，坐在咖啡馆里像傻瓜一样笑。后来"刊物"上线当然没火，因为要有稳定的营销和多年持续投入才能攒下读者。但那几个月是我人生中最有创造力的时期之一。读完这篇文章我反而觉得，作者描述的那种一个人待在家里、往某个陌生邮箱投稿、只为简历上多一行名字的方式，不太像我想象中的创作。我更喜欢大家围坐一桌一起想点子的感觉。
volkk查看英文原文
A few years ago, my friend and I launched our own publication on medium because we were very into comedy/satire. The Onion was the pinnacle. For a couple of months we met every morning in a coffee shop before the start of our respective jobs, around 7;30am and just brainstormed. The biggest thing to me was that I learned that motivation was something that could come after you force yourself to wake up early and just get started. There were many days where we decided to not show up and skipped the days. The rest of the days that we did show up, I never ever regretted them. We came up with some hilarious ideas (at least to us) and would just sit there laughing like idiots in the coffeeshop. We eventually launched our "publication" on Medium, and it of course fell flat because there needs to be a level of marketing and consistent effort for years before you have a dedicated following. But, those few months were some of the most creative months I've ever had in my life. I loved it. Was it a huge success? Not in the least. Was it even funny? No idea, our friends thought the articles were pretty funny, but other than that, it made it nowhere. If anybody wants to check it out -- https://medium.com/thedailylemming After reading this article, though, I think what OP wrote is sort of not what I imagined. Sitting at home alone churning out ideas to some faceless email for a name on your resume is not my idea of creativity, I guess. I like the concept of sitting at a table and just sort of ping ponging ideas until you get something that is amazing. Of course I can say that since I'm not an actual writer and I can do this on the side and be picky and choosy as much as I want.
关于"创造力是肌肉"这个说法，我觉得框架转变得很有力。很多人把创造力当成一道闪电，只能被动等待。确实有些点子是这样的，但很多创作者——包括历史上一些最伟大的艺术家——都是强迫自己按固定节奏工作一段时间，从而训练出长期稳定的创造力。好点子有时像神经元的随机放电，但那种放电的"预热"，也许正是靠习惯和纪律完成的。
lordleft查看英文原文
RE: creativity as a muscle, I think this is a powerful shift in framing. A lot of folks treat creativity as this lightening strike that you must passively wait for. And while some creative ideas are like that, many creatives, including some of the greatest artists in history, forced themselves to work for some unit of time with regularity, and were able to train themselves to be consistently creative over time. Sometimes a great idea feels like the firing of random synapses, but perhaps the priming of that firing happens through habit and dicipline.
先祝贺作者，这是个大活儿。想请教：假设一个写作者的水平处在 90 分位，如今靠写作能挣多少钱？就像职业联赛里最底层的替补球员——人在大联盟，但排在长梯子的末端——收入能到普通软件工程师的水平吗？我认识的近 50 位职业写作者里，几乎每个人都靠其中一项撑着：配偶收入更高、自己有家底或继承房产、有一份编辑或教职顺便写稿、或者拿到资助和奖学金。假设写作收入是帕累托分布（20% 的人拿走 80% 的钱），一个不错的写作者能期待挣到多少？
motohagiography查看英文原文
Congrats to the author, that's a huge gig. Let's say one were 90th percentile level good, what is the out/endgame for how much money a writer can make these days? Like if you're the writing version of the most entry level pro player on a hockey or basketball team - in the big leagues, but still bottom rung of a tall ladder, are you earning average software developer income at that point? Almost all the pro writers I've known (n=50) had one of a higher-earning spouse, independent means/inherited real estate, an editing/teaching job that they occasionally wrote through, or a grant funded position or fellowship. Assuming it's Pareto distributed where the top %20 of writers make %80 of writing income, how much can a good writer expect to make?
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