写作和写作教学都需要这本暖心书籍
有多暖心呢?
举个例子:E.L.Doctorow once said that “writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” 写作就像在黑夜里开车。尽管只能看到头灯照到的范围,但你能这样走完全程的。
You don’t have to see where you’re going. You don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing or life, I have ever heard.
作者说,不用在意目的地在哪里,两三英寸的光亮足矣,只管往前走。“这是我听过关于写作和生活最好的建议。”
而相比之下,莉萨.克龙就是冷静的技术派,她在《怎样写故事》引用多克托罗这句名言之后,是这样告诉读者的:
“当然——他是多克托罗呀,他能全程开夜车,写完《拉格泰姆时代》,但如果我们依葫芦画瓢,故事就会走上歧路,迂回蜿蜒、断断续续、支离破碎,最后一不当心掉进幽暗的悬崖底下,戛然而止。”
有多实用呢?
她总是用小故事启发读者领悟到,写作并不是要关机关网,闭关数月才能写出好作品。写作是哥哥一只鸟 一只鸟地赶那篇鸟类报告,是宝丽来相机的底片上慢慢析出影像,是把自己催眠,相信美好,继而清醒地把感受到的美好写下来。
如果问:怎么才能从众多的写作指南中得到帮助,写出自己的第一部作品呢?
嗯,暖心的这本,先收了吧。

