? In the 20th century, Virginia Woolf's prose balanced theme and style, but reality also played an equally important role. Essays are self-contained and are the closest weapon to truth. The communication between the author and the reader in prose is like one person telling another person who wants to hear it.
? In recent years, writers have maintained their enthusiasm for cba because this form has great plasticity and compliance, including four elements, style, form, drama and authenticity.
(1) has a strong personal style and writes in the first person.
? The paper is not enough to present the whole experience completely. The author must set his own perspective and express his thoughts. The essay writer's method to deal with subjectivity is to regard each individual as a micro-world, and at the same time sublimate individual experience to make the characters universal. When you honestly share some of your profound experiences, it will move readers, thus making personal experiences universal.
(2) Form, essays are at the junction of novels and poems.
? The author will express his personal experience and story form, or polish it with poetic techniques. For the balance between poetry and story, the original essay is so charming.
? (3) Dramatic,
As Dillard once wrote: There is no theme that can't be touched, and the whole world can be the theme of presentation, as long as it is dramatic enough. Personal prose is such a description of real life. It can only be said that real life itself is full of drama, and the author only experiences it personally.
(4) Truth
This article leaves the truth to the author and readers. Stories don't have to leave a truth for readers, and prose is different. This is the biggest difference between short stories and prose. Essays are usually based on real events, and the author will make a profound internal interpretation of them, but they will not be fully explained, and readers must distinguish them themselves.
? So how to write your own personal essay? The following four steps (four levels) are usually followed.
? 1. Selection and identification (first level).
(1) Choose an experience of your own or let it choose you.
Choose only one event, one place, one observation or one emotion at a time. Close your eyes, stay for a while, listen to your inner voice, and see which segment makes you want to write?
(2) Focus and structure
Montaigne once said: "Everything has hundreds of parts and hundreds of faces. I only choose one of them. I won't describe them as widely as possible, I just go as far as possible. "
(3) Collecting information
? Look through the experiences you have chosen before and put them into your public life.
? (4) Freely writing the first draft essays and rambles can reveal hidden anecdotes.
2. Demonstration (Level 2)
(1) Show the process and write the scene. In the past, the feature of essays was that form was more important than rhetoric, but now most articles focus on visualization.
(2) Dramatizing the elements of story writing into prose writing;
(4) Use story elements to write the second draft of the essay.
? 3, retouching (level 3)
(1) Transform personalized content into universality. The personal experience is sublimated and universal.
? (2) Elaborate on this step and slowly polish the text. At this time, if you want your article to cause a poetic sound, you must integrate the elements of poetry:
A. Imagine reorganizing your article and looking for images, that is, anything you can describe.
? B. rhythm and rhythm. Read your article aloud. At the same time, I hope to pay attention to the tone melody and technically deal with the rhythm and prosody of those stressed syllables and unstressed syllables.
? C. sublimation. That is, how to sublimate the theme. What is the core of the software you want to test? What about the truth behind the incident? Refine your life and deal with it recently, and you can find the essence.
(3) Write the third draft with poetic elements.
? 4. Wait for the flowers to bear fruit.
? After writing the draft of the article, put your article aside, at least overnight, preferably for a few days or even weeks, and then read it before revising it.
(1) Be patient, as Rilke said: "Everything needs to be conceived before it can be born."
(2) The modification is repeated or even repeated.
The key points of revision include: beginning and end, article details, dramatic tension, dialogue, image, rhythm and theme, etc.
(3) Delete:
Control paragraph length, adjust sentence collocation, form paragraph structure, use verbs reasonably, delete redundant words, and pay attention to creating a sense of picture.
(4) Find someone else to comment on your work.
This is also the value of your peers, writers and workshops. (5) consider publishing essays.