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什么是“晨间写作效应”?
What Is the Morning Writing Effect? (2011)
导读
这篇文章讨论“晨间写作效应”:为什么刚醒来的清晨适合生产文本,而把编辑放到之后。作者结合轶事和随机研究,强调初稿与修改是两种不同活动,应分开安排。对写作者来说,它提供了一套可操作的作息与工作流思路。
可以直接用的写作要点
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把写作拆成“产出初稿”和“编辑删改”,在时间、地点和工具上分开,避免一边写一边批判。
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清晨刚醒时适合只写不改:允许文字粗糙,甚至不划掉,先积累素材,之后再整理。
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把高强度脑力工作安排在早起后的安静时段,晚上放松,可避免疲劳和睡前过度兴奋。
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不必强求夜猫子作息;若夜间工作侵蚀生活,可尝试早起,在一天开始前先完成一点写作以减压。
HN 评论精选
初稿和编辑是相反的活动,应在时空和工具上分离;清晨适合不批判地生产文本。
根据我的经验,写作(至少虚构写作)由两种不同活动组成:真正的写作,即生产文本;编辑,主要是删掉文本。可以把编辑阶段想成把雕像从大理石中解放出来,写作阶段则是生产大理石。由于两者性质不同,最好在时间、空间和工具上分开。我在清晨坐在客厅餐桌旁,用纸笔生产。清晨梦境仍萦绕,批判能力尚未完全清醒,这使它成为只管产出的理想时间。我认真对待这一点,甚至不允许自己划掉词。继续写,之后再整理。当天晚些时候我在书房用文字处理器编辑。附带说,我不建议写代码也这样。
kieckerjan查看英文原文
In my experience writing (at least writing fiction) consists of two different activities: the writing proper, in which you produce text, and the editing, in which you mostly get rid of text. Think of the editing phase as liberating the statue from the marble, and the writing phase as producing the marble. These activities, since they are so different in nature, are best separated in time and space and tooling. I produce in the early morning, sitting at my dining table in the living room, using a pen and paper. In the early morning your dreams still linger and your critical faculties are not yet fully awake. This makes it an ideal time for just producing stuff. I take this seriously in that I do not even allow myself to cross out words. Just keep on writing, and sort it out later. Later on the day I edit, sitting in my study and using a text processor. As a side note, I would not recommend this practice for writing code.
早起工作能避开夜间疲劳和睡前亢奋,是提升持续产出的有效安排。
这符合我的经验。我通常凌晨3:30到4点起床,在一天开始前完成事情。回大学时,我发现晚上工作有两个主要问题:第一,工作一天后晚上已经累了;第二,夜间高强度脑力活动让我比希望更久睡不着。和朋友讨论后我意识到,可以下班后放松(减压),早起完成工作。这是我提高整体生产力方面最重要的发现。
MaximumYComb查看英文原文
This rings true with my experience. I typically wake up at 3.30-4am to get stuff done before the day starts. When I went back to university I was finding two major issues with doing work at night. 1, I was tired at night from a days work. 2, Intense mental activity at night kept me awake longer than I'd like. After discussions with a friend I figured out I could just relax after work (which reduces stress) and wake up early to get my work done. It was the single best discovery I made in regards to improving my overall productivity.
文章调研和论证非常扎实,可作为学习“用证据支撑写作观点”的范例。
我对这篇文章投入的工作量感到吃惊!不只是长度(大量引文填充),还有章节数量。我原以为结尾会有庞大的评论区,结果是一个章节接一个章节。哦看,他还做了一项随机研究。哦看,一张巨大的轶事表。难以置信。
rrreese查看英文原文
I'm left astonished at the amount of work that went into this article! Not simply its length (which is padded with large amounts of quotes) but the number of sections. I had assumed there would be an enormous comments section at the end, instead section after section after section. Oh look a randomized study he ran. Oh an enormous table of anecdotes. Incredible.
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