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斯蒂芬·金：成功写作所需知道的一切
Stephen King's “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”
导读
这篇整理了斯蒂芬·金关于写作成功的建议，评论区延伸到《写作这回事》、删繁就简和多产的价值。对写作者来说，它提醒我们：好文字往往靠删减，而不是靠添加；持续大量产出，才更可能等到自己的突破之作。
可以直接用的写作要点
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重写时先做减法：删掉形容词、副词和只为制造效果而存在的词句，连漂亮的句子若只为句子本身也可删。
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把“多产”当成一种能力：持续写足够多，才更可能碰到灵感降临、写出真正出色的作品。
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减少社交媒体等消耗，把时间让给创作，因为高产创作者需要可支配的注意力。
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可以用埃尔莫·伦纳德的写作规则与金的建议做对照，借不同风格作家的规则检验自己的写作习惯。
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多产会增加出现杰作的概率，所以要减少社交媒体消耗、把时间投入持续创作。
我很喜欢金的《写作这回事》。小时候到刚成年时我是他小说的超级粉丝，后来渐渐不再那么迷了；但成年后我先读后听这本书，两次都很享受。无论读者是否喜欢最终作品，金在写作这门手艺上极其高效，我从他的写作过程里学到很多。我认为金（像阿西莫夫和其他少数人）证明：多产至少和伟大一样有价值。如果你做某件事足够多，就更可能天降灵感，写出像《肖申克的救赎》那样的作品；无论散文还是电影形式，那都无疑是一部美丽之作。金的大部分作品没那么好，但对大多数作者来说，他们没有任何作品有那么好，因为他们没有产出足够多，去找到那件才华之作（如果他们体内真有那样一件作品）。最近我一直在所有事情上努力变得更高效多产，也努力少做社交媒体成瘾者，这与成为多产的创作者相冲突。
SwellJoe查看英文原文
I really enjoyed King's On Writing. I was a huge fan of his fiction as a kid and into young adulthood, and kinda grew out of it. But, I read and then listened to On Writing as an adult, and really enjoyed it both times. King is extremely effective at his craft, whether one enjoys the resulting work or not, and I learned a lot from his process. I think King (like Asimov and a few others) is proof that being prolific is at least as valuable as being great. If you do something enough, you're far more likely to have lightning strike and result in something like Shawshank Redemption; which is unarguably a beautiful work, in both prose and film form. Most of King's work isn't that good, but for most authors none of their work is that good, because they haven't produced enough to find that piece of brilliance (if they have such a piece of brilliance in them). I've been working on being more prolific, lately, in all things I do. And being less of a social media junky, which conflicts with being a prolific creator.
重写的主要工作是删掉形容词、副词和只为效果存在的词句，漂亮句子也舍得删。
“第4条：删掉每一个多余的字”让我想起乔治·西默农回忆前老板科莱特：只有一条来自作家的通用建议对我非常有用，来自科莱特。我当时在给《晨报》写短篇，科莱特是文学编辑。我记得给了她两篇短篇，她退了回来，我又试了一次又一次。最后她说：“你看，太文学了，总是太文学了。”于是我听从她的建议。这是我写作时做的事，也是我重写时的主要工作。采访者问“太文学了”是什么意思、要删掉什么，他答：形容词、副词，以及每一个只是为了制造效果而存在的词；每一个只是为了句子而存在的句子。你有一个漂亮的句子——删掉它。每次我在自己的小说里发现这样的东西，它就是要被删掉的。
paganel查看英文原文
> 4. Remove every extraneous word This reminded me of Georges Simenon's (of Inspector Maigret fame) recollection of his former boss, Colette (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colette): > Just one piece of general advice from a writer has been very useful to me. It was from Colette. I was writing short stories for Le Matin, and Colette was literary editor at that time. I remember I gave her two short stories and she returned them and I tried again and tried again. Finally she said, “Look, it is too literary, always too literary.” So I followed her advice. It’s what I do when I write, the main job when I rewrite. > INTERVIEWER: What do you mean by “too literary”? What do you cut out, certain kinds of words? > Adjectives, adverbs, and every word which is there just to make an effect. Every sentence which is there just for the sentence. You know, you have a beautiful sentence—cut it. Every time I find such a thing in one of my novels it is to be cut. From here: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5020/the-art-of-fiction-no-9-georges-simenon
完美来自删到无可再删，而不是不断添加。
包括故事和双重引言，只花了6.5分钟。我最喜欢的引语，也很适用：“设计师知道达到完美，不是当没有东西可添加，而是当没有东西可拿走时。”——圣埃克苏佩里
ars查看英文原文
It only took 6.5 minutes, including the story and double introduction. My favorite quote, and quite applicable: "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
可把金的建议与伦纳德的规则对照，借不同作家的风格差异反思自己的写作。
把斯蒂芬·金的写作课程与埃尔莫·伦纳德的《10条（其实是11条）写作规则》比较对照，差异就像两位作者各自作品一样鲜明。
bmelton查看英文原文
Compare and contrast Stephen King's lessons with Elmore Leonard's "10 (really 11) Rules of Writing", and the difference is as stark as the author's respective works.
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