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Ask HN：如何学会写博客文章？
Ask HN: How to learn writing blog posts?
导读
这是一则请教如何学写博客的提问帖：作者有想写的主题，却陷在细节里、无法把内容组织成易读的结构。高赞回复从三个角度给出可操作路径——请专业编辑给针对性反馈、把"未来的自己"当成读者来确定核心内容、拆解自己喜欢的文章来学结构，并推荐了几本经典写作书。适合正卡在"有料但写不成文"阶段的写作者阅读。
可以直接用的写作要点
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动笔前先设想目标读者是"几个月后已经忘掉细节的自己"，只保留那时最需要知道的内容，其余砍掉。
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分析数据只能告诉你哪篇受欢迎，告诉不了你句子结构和行文哪里有问题——想要这种反馈，可以付费请编辑读几篇旧文。
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把喜欢的文章收藏起来，逐篇追问"它为什么有效"，把它的结构和写法拆成自己可复用的套路。
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先搭结构再写句子：结论先行、论据分组（金字塔原理），能有效解决"陷在细节里"的问题。
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博客写作缺少针对技艺的反馈，花钱请编辑读旧文是性价比很高的破局方式。
学写博客的难点之一是你几乎收不到关于写作技艺的认真反馈。你能看数据、看评论，知道哪篇受欢迎，但没人会说"如果你句子结构别那么重复，这篇会更好"。我花钱在 Upwork 上请了一位自由编辑读我的几篇文章，几百美元，高层面的反馈极有帮助，读者量几乎立刻就有明显提升。这不是灵丹妙药，我还得自己消化反馈、继续改进，但和任何领域一样，专家反馈比独自试错进步快得多。
mtlynch查看英文原文
One of the difficult parts of learning by blogging is that you rarely receive thoughtful feedback from your readers on the craft of your writing. You can look at analytics and comments to see which of your posts are popular, but nobody ever says, "Oh, this post would have worked better had your sentence structure been less repetitive." I solved this problem by hiring a freelance editor from Upwork.[0] It was a few hundred dollars to have her read a few of my articles. The high-level feedback was extremely helpful and had a huge impact on my readership almost instantly. Obviously, it's not a magic bullet. I still had to do the work of integrating her feedback and continuing to find ways to improve my writing. But like anything else, expert feedback helps you grow faster than just learning on your own through trial and error. [0] https://mtlynch.io/editor/
把未来的自己当第一读者，既能定出内容的取舍标准，也能筛出真正对味的读者。
为"未来的自己"写作。问问自己：等我忘掉现在知道的东西之后，未来的我最需要记住这个主题的什么？这样当你去谷歌搜这个问题时，可能会绕回自己的博客。大概率还有一群和你相似的人也会读你写的东西；如果他们不欣赏，那就算了，他们本来就不是主要读者。而真正参与进来的人，往往是能建立长期关系的那类人。我从少数几个人、或者只是未来的自己那里得到的深度互动，远比大量陌生人带来的浅层互动有意义。
softwaredoug查看英文原文
Write for your future self. Ask what is most essential for future you to know or remember about the topic once you’ve forgotten what you know now. So when you go to google the problem, you may end up landing back at your own blog. There are other people probably similar enough to “future you” to also engage with what you write. But if they don’t appreciate it, then forget them, they’re not the primary audience anyway! (And those that do engage will be the kind you want lasting relationships with. Which is a nice side benefit). I’ve long learned deep engagement from a handful of people, or just future me, is far more meaningful than shallow engagement from many randos.
写作能力靠大量读和写积累，结构问题则可用《金字塔原理》的方法解决。
我觉得学写博客和学写别的东西没有本质区别。就此我推荐斯蒂芬·金的《写作这回事》，里面有条建议大意是：学好写作最好的方法就是大量地读、大量地写。另一本推荐芭芭拉·明托的《金字塔原理》。
mindcrime查看英文原文
I don't think learning to write blog posts is particularly different from learning to write anything else. To the extent that that is true, I'd refer you to Stephen King's book On Writing[1]. Specifically, one bit of advice from that book (loosely paraphrased) "the best way to learn to write well is to read a lot and write a lot". The other book I'd recommend is The Pyramid Principle[2] by Barbara Minto. [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-10th-Anniversary-Memoir-Craft/dp/1439156816 [2]: https://www.amazon.com/Pyramid-Principle-Logic-Writing-Thinking/dp/0273710516
养成收藏好文章并追问"它为什么有效"的习惯，是自学写作最直接的方法。
如果看书有帮助，我推荐 Strunk 与 White 的《风格的要素》和津瑟的《写作法宝》。就博客写作，我建议养成一个习惯：把喜欢的文章收藏起来，问自己为什么喜欢它、它为什么成立。要指出的是，博客在风格和内容上的自由度是极少有写作形式能比的，这确实是把双刃剑。我也在经历类似的过程，完全理解你的难处，祝好运。顺便想起保罗·格雷厄姆的《如何写出有用的东西》，可能对你有帮助。
nondeveloper查看英文原文
If you benefit from reading books I recommend The Elements of Style by Strunk and Howe and On Writing Well by William Zinsser. For blog writing I recommend making a practice of bookmarking posts you like and asking yourself why you like them or why they work. I will point out that blogs permit a flexibility of style and content that few writing forms have ever had. This is a double-edged sword, truly. I’m going through a similar process so I definitely recognize the challenge you’re having. Good luck! Edit: I just remembered bookmarking Paul Graham’s excellent “How to Write Usefully” the other day. It might be helpful to you: http://paulgraham.com/useful.html
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