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如何成为写得更快的写作者
How to be a faster writer
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这篇 Slate 文章讨论如何提高写作速度，HN 评论补充了每日定量练习、写作前规划后隐藏规划、以及速度并非唯一路径等经验。对写作者来说，值得读的是：速度可以通过练习和专注训练，但也要尊重不同写作者的节奏。
可以直接用的写作要点
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用每日定量写作（如 750 字）配合计时和连续天数记录，把“写得快”变成可练习的习惯。
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写作前先做规划，但正式动笔时把规划收起来，避免边写边改计划造成上下文切换。
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快速写作常以质量为代价，练习时可偶尔计时冲刺，但不必每次都与时钟赛跑。
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不要假定所有写作者最终都要变成快写者；有人像纳博科夫一样逐字推敲，同样能写出好作品。
HN 评论精选
每日定量加计时练习能显著提高写作速度和产量，但快写需接受质量波动。
推荐 750words.com：它实时统计字数，用连续写作天数和徽章督促你每天写约 750 字，还记录写作中的打断次数和用时。我曾因过了午夜才想起写作而中断 149 天连续记录，现在恢复到 40 天；我惊讶地发现自己通常 15 分钟内能写 750 字，最快一次 8 分钟。当然快写有时质量会低一些，所以我不总跟时钟赛跑；不到一年已在该站写了 185,022 字，但只花了 56 小时，离一万小时还很远。
alanfalcon查看英文原文
This is the perfect place to mention one of my favorite websites: http://750words.com/ 750 words is really fantastic if you want to practice writing every day, especially if you want to practice writing quickly. The site keeps a live word count and pushes you to write 750 words (roughly three pages) every day by tracking your streaks and awarding badges for hitting certain milestones. On top of that, the site tracks how many interruptions you have while writing your 750 words and how long it takes you each day to write. I had a 149 day streak broken when I lost track of time and forgot to write until after midnight one day, but I'm back up to a new 40 day streak. I was shocked to learn that I'm usually able to write 750 words in under 15 minutes, and on some days I like to push myself to try to write as quickly as possible (I've gotten as low as 8 minutes one time). Of course, writing quickly sometimes means writing somewhat lower quality, so I don't always "race the clock". If you have any interest in improving your writing skills, I can't recommend 750words.com enough. I started less than a year ago, and I've written a total of 185,022 words that I probably never would have written otherwise! Of course, by writing so quickly I've spent only 56 hours writing on the site, so I have a long way to go before I reach the 10,000 hour mark.
速写不是所有写作者的必经阶段，慢写精雕同样可以成就佳作。
我不愿把速写推荐给所有人，也怀疑那种目的论式的一万小时观，即认为所有写作者练到一定程度都会成熟为快写者。有些人是，有些人不是，我不因此看低后者。写作者有不同模式：有人能在 15–20 分钟内就任何题目写出可用内容，有人逐字打磨、可能痛苦数日；纳博科夫属于后者，以慢和挑剔著称，每天有时只写出一两句话，但大概没有可信批评家会因此攻击他作品的美感，或说他缺乏练习。
jonnathanson查看英文原文
I hesitate to prescribe speed-writing to everyone. Similarly, I am leery of such a teleological view of the evolution of a writer's "10,000 hours," i.e., the claim that all writers mature into speed writers after a certain amount of practice. Some certainly do. Others seem not to, and I do not think less of them for it. The thing is, different writers have different modes of writing. Some are wholly capable of producing, in spans of 15 to 20 minutes, perfectly serviceable content on any topic imaginable. Others pore over every word, agonizing for possibly days on end. Nabokov, for instance, fell into that latter category; he was notoriously slow and picky about his construction, and his daily bursts sometimes yielded a sentence or two at most. Yet I doubt there's a credible critic around who would assail the beauty of Nabokov's results, or claim that he wanted for practice.
高速产出背后是高强度专注，而不是随意挥洒。
1995 年学生实习时，我短暂与 Matthew Parris 共事，他当时是《泰晤士报》议会速写作者。他在议事厅待了不过 30 多分钟，就用很短时间（约 15 分钟？）写完了每日速写。那非常惊人；若不是他工作时专注得近乎紧张，看起来会显得很随意。他一度说过大意是：接下来几分钟我可能显得很无礼，但我必须极度专注于此。
zwischenzug查看英文原文
I worked with Matthew Parris briefly when he was the parliamentary sketch writer for The Times in 1995 on a student placement. He knocked out his daily sketch in a very short space of time (15 mins?), having spent little more than 30 minutes in the chamber. It was incredibly impressive, and would have seemed very casual were his focus while working on it not so intense. At one point he said words to the effect of "I might seem very rude in the next few minutes, but I must concentrate very severely on this".
动笔时把规划移出视野，减少边写边改计划带来的切换成本。
最好的建议（我之前没听过）：先做规划，然后把它扔掉（或藏起来）。写作时若盯着规划看，你会忍不住修正规划，这种上下文切换会拖慢你。如果规划非常高层，或已嵌入正文（比如主题引入），也许另当别论。
wisty查看英文原文
The best tip (which I hadn't heard before) - do your planning, then throw it away (or hide it from view). If you look at the plan while you are writing, you will try to correct the plan, and the context switching will slow you down. If the plan is really high level, or embedded (i.e. topic intros), maybe that's different.
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