This book doesn't systematically discuss writing, but only talks about some scattered knowledge points, such as "The road to hell is paved with adverbs", "The first draft is shit" and "If there are loopholes-I mean, you can look at the loopholes like the semi-trailer trucks in the past and correct them." Wait a minute.
This book is entry-level, the language is easy to understand, the operation skills are simple, and beginners can see it at a glance. Moreover, Stephen's attitude towards writing, his writing habits and the hardships he experienced in writing are also worth seeing for the author. Up to now, I have forgotten all the skills in this book, but I still remember Steven going out with his family for two days and sitting on a boat fishing every time he finished writing this book.
I haven't finished reading the short story writing guide, and it's also some fragmentary skills. What impressed me most was teaching you to write about your appearance. What should I do if I want to write about the ugliness of the protagonist, but I am afraid of making the reader sick? Clearly derogate from reality and praise. "Her skin is pale, her face is freckled and she is ridiculously thin." Come on, white and thin with a few freckles, isn't it a great beauty? But the author insists that she is ugly, and readers can only admit it. They not only admit it, but also show sympathy. It is really pitiful that such a beautiful woman was vilified by the author.
Read the story the second time and you can understand 50%. This book is still my strong Amway for all the authors. It is a basic system, telling the essence of stories, the classification of stories, and why people are attracted by stories. Other books that I saw later were basically books that explained a certain chapter of the story in detail. What does this book belong to? If you don't write to that extent, it is difficult for you to understand it. When you write it, you will understand. But when you write, it is also puzzling whether you need the guidance of stories. When you don't understand, there are often many self-assertion explanations that lead you astray. ┑ (д) ┍ But it doesn't hurt to have a look. Even if you don't understand, there are shadows in your heart. When you encounter similar difficulties in writing, you will vaguely feel that there is a correct direction. Finally, the story book helped me the most, which was a sentence printed on the cover: "Story is a metaphor of life." Every time I think about it, I feel a lot.
Your play sucks, save the cat … and some other script books. The only lesson that these books have taught me is that novelists should not read screenwriters, because they are muddled with half the effort. I have studied the story structure for two years by reading the script book ... In fact, the structure is a three-act drama, which can be mastered in a few months.
I didn't really start reading novels and skill books until I didn't write a script. It has been a long time since I met you. My opinion is: a writing book, you read it in an afternoon. If you can't, you'll have wasted an afternoon. If it is useful, it can save months or even years of study time.
Become a writer: Dali Amway. This book has no specific skills, but only tells the author's psychological dilemma. Creation is a spiritual and emotional thing, so it is easy to fall into an unhealthy mental state (you can't say that it is because creation is unhealthy or unhealthy from the beginning, and creation relieves symptoms. If an author is mentally healthy, full of vitality, not self-doubt and not jealous of his peers, then his creative progress will surely advance by leaps and bounds. This book has many ways to adjust psychology, and it is also very practical.
Plot and characters: the author of plot flow character waste looks at the past and this is it. I used to write about terrible people. After reading this book, I immediately wrote two living characters, one is gay (crossed out) and will fall in love. This book teaches you to write biographies of characters, and then tells you the relationship between the plot and the characters. Although the topic is the plot and characters, it is said that the author of the plot of Human Logistics can hardly learn anything.
A crash guide to fiction: read it. It says that at the end of every scene, the protagonist must have more trouble than at the beginning. I understand that this sentence is good advice for beginners. But once you pass the primary stage, you can no longer believe this sentence. The writing of novels is ever-changing, and any suggestion with "must" and "must" is not credible. I teach people to write. At the end of my study, I always say, I'll teach you one last thing-forget everything I taught you. Many of my suggestions only suit you at a certain stage. If you improve, these suggestions will not work. The seventh chapter of this book, about "show it, don't say it", is very good. Recommend friends who are pressed for time to read only this chapter. There is also a good point about revision in this book: just change it five times, until you think it may not be better to change the story again, that's all. The sentence "the first draft is rubbish" has been mentioned in many books. I don't know if it is true or not. Anyway, I am listening to these words now and wrote a first draft of extremely spicy chicken. I'll try to see if it can be phoenix nirvana after revision. If so, I will come to Zhihu to write an answer on how to modify the novel. If not, I will write "What's it like to be trapped in a writing book!"
"conspiracy! Plot! After reading the beginning, I can't stand it. As the author of the story stream, I think the suggestions in the book are simple and arbitrary, regardless of the ever-changing actual situation. Friends who are useless to stories may be useful ... beginners need special exercises to make rapid progress. Special exercises are not random.
Source: Zhihu.
2. Ask for some classic books about writing. My major in college is Chinese language and literature. Now I am a teacher, and I insist on writing at ordinary times. The topic of writing is very big.
1, first recommend textbooks, orthodox textbooks, such as Modern Writing Course, etc., there is no need to read them, and theory is greater than practice. You can look at these: In China, Ye Shengtao's How to Write, and Zhu Guangqian's The Life of a Great Beauty. Abroad, it is recommended to start writing! -fictional literary creation, start writing! -Non-fiction literary creation.
2. The major has little restriction on writing, and sometimes it is an advantage. Wang Xiaobo studied science, Chekhov and Mao Mu studied medicine.
3, experience more, experience more, feel more about life, be more sensitive, and observe more about life.
4. A good author is a good reader first. You can try Jin Shengtan's comments on Water Margin and Mao Zonggang's comments on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which will improve your writing level.
4. Reading quantity is the foundation. If you always read with the aim of improving your writing, improving your writing ability is only a matter of writing skills.
The most important thing is to write now, first!
6. Good luck!
3. It is not a good taste to regard the composition as a document and appreciate it.
People taste coptis chinensis, which tastes bitter. However, some people have tasted bitter gall and know that it is bitter. They must taste it.
Why? Used as inspiration. Austerity, struggle, family, torture yourself, perseverance, perseverance, willingness, perseverance, "I don't regret the widening of my belt, I am haggard for Iraq."
Bitter, so far it has become a mirror. Pursuing a goal and achieving a mirror, though bitter, is sweet.
It's very bitter, and it's also very enjoyable. The same is true of the joys and sorrows of reading.
Personally, I have read many books, so I love books and naturally know the bitterness and joy of reading. I like books, because books make me understand too much, but they also bring me a lot of pain and trouble. The days of 1, 2, 3, A, B and C all made me collapse. The days were so boring that I finally waited for the weekend. I wanted to have a good reading contest, but the homework was endless and the time was taken up. At this moment, I feel like a bird trapped in a cage, and I have lost my blue sky. Now I am studying.
Furthermore, when it comes to the bitterness of reading, I have to say something about my glorious deeds. When I was in primary school, my parents allowed me to read all kinds of healthy and beneficial books, and I began my reading experience without hesitation. Entering junior high school, the study pressure increases and the study burden becomes heavier and heavier, so the time and opportunities for reading are less and less, and the time for reading is more and more cherished.
I spent all my spare time without reviewing on reading, and soon finished my designated reading goal. At this time, my favorite writer Cai Jun published another book, The Revolving Door, which attracted me deeply from the beginning. I can't stop watching, but I don't have time to watch at ordinary times! So relying on my not too stupid mind, I thought of a way and bought a flashlight myself. When I turn on the light to sleep at night, I will secretly take out my flashlight, carefully take out my books, hide under the covers, turn on my flashlight, and look out gently from time to time to see if anyone is coming.
Half an hour passed, and I was so hot that I had to give up halfway. Finally, I fell to the point where I was ugly and sweaty.
So reading is not fun? Don't! Reading gives me more pleasure than pain. Books are the crystallization of the author's wisdom and carefully selected self-statements after contemplating life, so frequent reading is a shortcut to full maturity. When I was studying, I put aside all my troubles and was quietly taken into a brand-new cultural realm by the author to walk freely.
In countless nights, I seem to have had a calm and far-reaching dialogue with an elder, galloping through ancient and modern times and across time and space and region. This old man is full of wisdom and outspoken, and his thoughts will gradually melt into my heart, hitting my once naive soul every word.
My view of everything in the world began to change. I learned to understand the true meaning of life with my heart, to treat life happily and positively, to appreciate beauty and to create beauty. People who don't like reading all their lives are like prisoners. They are imprisoned in the cage of self and ignorance. They often complain: "life is boring and work is endless."
They don't feel happy, because they put themselves in a fixed life process, pay more attention to interests and gains and losses, not only know nothing about the excitement of the outside world, but also ignore a little happiness in life. This loss is very terrible. The ancients once said: "If you don't learn for three days, your face is disgusting and your language is tasteless."
I think this is the true portrayal. Barrow once said: A person who loves reading will never lack faithful friends, mentors, lovely companions and warm comforters.
As long as there are books, there will be endless joy. If you want to keep looking for happiness on the road of reading, you will inevitably encounter many hardships, but if you reach a state, you will truly realize that this kind of bitterness is also sweet, and this sweetness hides bitterness.
Reading-Feeling I was once told that the quality of a book is not judged by others, but by myself. But I think the quality of a book is "feeling"! (1) At sunset, my father came back with a tired body and a stack of Guangzhou Daily in his hand. Dad is like that, "the charm of the newspaper" can always break through everything.
He thinks reading books is better than reading newspapers. In the newspaper, it is still a "boring" major meeting; So-and-so female college students! I feel sleepy when I look at it, but my father said, "Reading newspapers is not just reading, but more importantly, I feel it with my heart-feeling that the party is good to us; Feel the pain of a female college student! Just like reading a book, you should not only read it, but also feel the emotion and plot. That's the real reading! "(2) When the new semester begins, my mother always likes to drive to an old book street and help me buy exercise books.
I am full of questions. "Why don't you go to the big bookstore and buy books here?" In the end, of course, it is full of goods! On the bus, my mother said to me, "Maybe you think you should go to a big bookstore to buy books!" " Yes, there are books you want to buy in the big bookstore, and there are also books here.
However, when you go to a big bookstore and see many people buying this book, you want to buy it; Then, someone over there said that the book was good and you wanted to buy it. In the final analysis, you will only follow the crowd, but you don't really know what books you need, what books you want, what books are suitable for you and what books are not suitable for you. When you walk into a second-hand bookstore, in a quiet environment, the same book, you will not follow the crowd, what book will you consider buying? Isn't it better to feel which book is more suitable for you? "(3) finally have a holiday.
I want to read books during the holiday, but what books should I read? I suddenly had a good idea-drag my brother to the bookstore and ask him to help me find a book to read! The bookstore is on the second floor. My brother took me to the novel counter, found two seats and picked up a novel to read.
What about me? Nothing to do, walking in the bookcase, reading novels, reading any novels casually. Finally found a book I am interested in! On the way home, my brother suddenly said, "books should be suitable for you, so that you can."
Introduce a book about writing. I haven't read a special writing book, and it's useless. Argumentative papers suggest reading more newspapers and review magazines. Recommend some magazines that I think are good for writing argumentative papers.
Learn more about "composition materials". Basically, there are concrete examples of writing argumentative essays, many of which are effective, easy to use and closely combined with reality.
Wen Yuan magazine is used to make the language beautiful. It is very noticeable to add a few poetic sentences to the argumentative paper. And get high marks.
Read more books and mottos. Anyway, reading more is the best way to write well. Few people write high-scoring articles for quick success and instant benefit.
I hope it helps!
5. Recommend some books that are helpful for senior high school students to write their compositions. I forgot the name of the magazine. I remember that the book is 16, not thick, about 30 mm It seems that reading and writing is less than 3 yuan, and it comes out once every two months, which is closely combined with reality. The composition inside can be called a model essay for the college entrance examination, and there are all kinds. In every article,
My composition in high school is very unstable, and I didn't find the book until two months before the college entrance examination. After reading the book, I marked the highlights inside, memorized them roughly, analyzed the format of the model essay, and then applied it. At first, one composition per week was stable above 46 points, and with the improvement of proficiency, the score was higher and higher. Later exams were all above 52 points. I got at least 54 points in the college entrance examination. Although I can't get full marks, I am still very satisfied with my short-term results in two months.
I have read many kinds of books before. In my opinion, prose poetry can make some sentences in the article shine, but not all teachers will like it after writing the composition. The same article may be 55 points or 35 points, which is risky and difficult to grasp. You can read in moderation, improve the elegance of sentences and increase the brilliance of articles, but remember that the key point is sentences, and don't learn to write. Readers and Youth Digest are totally entertainment magazines. The stories in them are just for reading, not profound, and the stories are too complicated to sort out. It is suggested to buy a book with composition materials, classify various examples, and there are beautiful poems in it, which can be applied to the text. Actually, I think it's better to be steady. If the intention is too deep, it is easy to digress. The teacher will talk about innovation, but after writing it, what he didn't expect is even partial, which is not cost-effective.
These are the suggestions that I personally think will help improve your composition score, and I hope they can help you. I wish you good grades in the college entrance examination.