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想写得更好，就养成写作习惯
To write better, develop a habit of writing
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这篇短文主张：想写得更好，最该做的不是等灵感，而是把写作变成日常习惯。评论区因此展开了一场有价值的争论：习惯能保证产量，但只靠“多写”未必能变好，还需要大量阅读好作品、学习写作方法、并接受真正的批评。对写作者来说，这是一份关于“练笔”与“刻意练习”如何配合的实用提醒。
可以直接用的写作要点
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把写作固定成日程的一部分（比如每天早晨），用规律触发灵感，而不是等灵感来了才动笔。
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要接受大量产出中绝大部分是废稿，好作品是从那 99% 的垃圾里筛出来的 1%。
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光靠每天写不足以提升，还要大量读好文章、读写作方法论、并请有资格评判的人点评你的稿子。
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别瞧不起商业文案、广告这类“不纯粹”的写作，它既能练说服力，也能给你经济底气去写真正想写的东西。
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把写作变成习惯，同时保持务实心态：接受大量废稿、保留正职、不轻视商业写作。
推荐 John Scalzi 的博客：他愤世嫉俗、幽默，最重要的是实用。几条让我印象深刻的建议：1）别去读 MFA，纯属浪费钱，缺语法课就单独去上，想写某个类型就多读该类型；2）建立写作习惯，如果你不经常写一大堆垃圾，你永远写不出东西，你会扔掉大量稿子，但正是写完那 99% 的垃圾，才能找到值得留下的 1%；3）别辞职，你不可能一天连写 8 小时，与其整天因为没写出好东西而沮丧，不如有份朝九晚五的工作付账单、上医保，钱不愁了，脑子也能从“我还没写出好东西”里解放出来，为下一次写作留出创造力；4）别装清高，拒绝写任何“不纯粹”的东西，你看到的广告和宣传册都是人写的，会写有说服力的文字报酬很好，还能给你写下一部伟大小说的底气。
chrismeller查看英文原文
For anyone interested in writing “for real” (professionally or as a hobby) I highly recommend John Scalzi’s blog [1]. He’s cynical, he’s funny, and above all he’s practical. Among his advice over the years a few things have really stuck with me: 1) Don’t get an MFA, it’s a waste of money. If you need a grammar class, take one. If you need more of a basis in x literary genre because that’s what you want to write in, take a class or just read a ton in that genre. 2) Set up the habit of writing. If you don’t write a lot of crap on a regular basis you’ll never write anything. You will throw away a TON of what you write, but it’s only by writing that 99% of crap that you’ll find the 1% that’s worth keeping. 3) Don’t quit your day job. You will never, ever, ever write for 8 hours a day straight. Rather than sitting around depressed all day because you haven’t written anything worth a damn, you may as well have a basic 8 to 5 office job that pays the bills, health insurance, etc. Not only does it remove money as a concern, but it gets your mind off of the fact that you haven’t written anything good and frees up your creative juices for that next scheduled writing period. 4) Don’t be pretentious and refuse to write anything that isn’t “pure” or “worthy”. All the advertisements you see and brochures you read are written by someone. Being persuasive with your writing can pay really well and give you the security to pound out that next great American novel. 1: https://whatever.scalzi.com/ Edit: line breaks
习惯只保证产量，不保证进步；必须配合大量阅读好作品、研读写写作方法、接受专业批评才能提升。
我认为这过于简单化，甚至有误导性。我目前工作中约一半是专业写作、审稿和编辑，见过大量每周都写却写得很糟的人。以为“只要定期写就会进步”，就像以为“只要多演出就会变强”——你见过多少常年演出却多年停在原地、水平很差的乐手？太多了。要真正进步，除了写，你还得：大量读真正好的作品（我认识的每个好作家都是长期的重度读者）；真正去研读写写作的书；修改、审阅自己的稿子，并让真正有资格评判好文字的人来批评你的作品。如果不做这些，每天写的习惯可能让你产出很多，但可能一辈子都很糟。我认为真正的研究加上更少的产出，反而是更划算的时间投资。推荐入门书目：Steven Pinker《风格感觉》、Alice LaPlante《写作的艺术》、厄休拉·勒古恩《驾驭文字之舟》、William Zinsser《写作法宝》、Benjamin Dreyer《Dreyer's English》。问题是每个人都觉得自己的文章很好，你得愿意相信它还能更好。
iainctduncan查看英文原文
Personally, I find this overly simplistic and I believe it's misleading. I write, review, and edit professionally as about 1/2 of my current job, and I see tons of awful writing by people who write every week. Believing you just need to write regularly to improve is like believing that if you play tons of gigs on your instrument you'll get better. How many really bad musicians have you seen who have been stuck at basically the same level for many years, but play all the time? So, so many. It's just not true. To really improve, in addition to writing you need to: - Read really good writing. A lot. Every good writer I've met is a voracious reader and has been for a long time. - Read about writing, as in, actually study writing - Edit and review your writing, and get your writing reviewed and critiqued by people actually qualified to comment on quality writing If you aren't doing this, a daily habit might get a lot written, but it could stay crappy for your whole life. I would argue that real study and less production writing is actually a better use of your time. Some of my favourite books to start on serious study: "A Sense of Style" - Steven Pinker "The Making of A Story" Alice LaPlante "Steering the Craft" - Ursula Le Guin "On Writing Well" - William Zinsser "Dreyer's English" - Benjamin Dreyer The problem is that everyone thinks their writing is great. You need to be willing to think it could be better. :-)
灵感靠习惯招来，关键是持续性：建立每日写作仪式，长期坚持自然会有成果。
熟能生巧！福克纳说过：“我只在灵感来的时候写，幸运的是它每天早上九点来。”写作（和很多事一样）有个迷思：以为要有灵感才该写，但那是胡扯。你需要创造让灵感降临的条件，而养成频繁写作的习惯正是为灵感降临打地基。比如 Tyler Cowen 说他每天早上都写，不管是周末、圣诞节还是别的什么日子。其他建议：《艺术之战》把阻碍你创作的东西称为“阻力”，全书可概括为：建立并坚持每天创作的仪式，坚持够久你就能创作出有价值的东西；也有人用 Julia Cameron《创意，是一笔灵魂交易》里的“晨间随笔”来养成每日写作习惯。说到底它们都一样，无论选哪种，最重要的是持续性！写得够多，你会达到某种水平，也会有不止几篇完成的作品（不过抱歉，诺贝尔文学奖没法保证）。
wholien查看英文原文
Practice makes perfect! As William Faulkner says: “I only write when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes at nine every morning.” With writing (as with many things), there is this myth that you should only do it when inspiration compels you to write. But that is total rubbish. You need to create conditions so that inspiration will strike, and creating a habit of writing frequently will lay the groundwork for inspiration striking. Tyler Cowen, for example, talks about how he writes every morning - whether it's the weekend, Christmas, or anything else [1]. This is an example you agree with his philosophy/economics or not. Other recommendations: - "War of Art" is a fun little book that lays this idea out, and frames what's stopping you from creating as "resistance"[2]. In the end, the book can be summarized as: create and stick to a daily ritual of creation. If you do that long enough, you'll create something worthwhile. - Someone else posted Writing Streak [3] which can be fun to use as well. - Others use Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way" [4] ("morning pages") to develop a "daily writing practice". Honestly, they are all the same. No matter what you choose to do, the most important thing is consistency! Do it enough and you'll get to some level of ability and more than a few finished pieces (Can't guarantee a Nobel Prize in Literature, though, unfortunately :/ ) 1: https://www.writingroutines.com/tyler-cowen/ 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_Art_(book) 3: https://writingstreak.io/ 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artist's_Way
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