Books to improve writing:
Books 1: from creativity to bestseller: revision and self-editing
Author: James? Scott. bel
In the book Courage of Writing, Ralph pointed out three problems that affect writing:
1. Can I finish my writing smoothly?
2, page fear, that is, facing a blank sheet of paper will feel fear.
3. Fear of being completely exposed to others.
As a writer, I have a deep understanding of these three points, but in writing, the problem of fear is far more than these three. Writing is a process of struggling with yourself and dancing with yourself. Once you make up your mind to write, these problems will disappear automatically.
The author points out in the book that you still have to do some preparatory work before you start writing a work.
For example:
First, study.
There is no denying that you can't be a good writer without reading. Read different kinds of books.
Second, observe+absorb and digest, carefully observe your life and record interesting ideas.
Learn the good methods and expressions you learned when reading and apply them to your own writing.
Third, there is no end to learning.
Even if you do the above three points, you should keep learning.
Of course, to complete a complete work and an excellent story, the above three points are only a big scope. James is an excellent writer and a teacher who can teach writing. In his book, he broke down the process of writing, especially writing novels, and made a breakthrough to achieve his writing goal in an all-round way. His novels include characters, plot and structure, narrative angle, scene, dialogue, beginning/middle/end, display and narration, voice and style, background and description, statement and theme.
People: Set the types of people in your story. Give you a rich personality. Give him emotion and walk into his heart. When the story can't be written, give it to your role? A gun? , which is to create surprises.
Plot and structure: the most needed characteristics of any good story: conflict, opposition, adventure, threat, etc.
Narrative angle: Narrative angle refers to the persona you substitute, which is the most suitable third person for beginners.
Scenes/dialogues: The inner reactions of characters can be shown through scenes and dialogues, not through the protagonist himself.
Beginning/middle/end: the beginning must attract readers, the development process in the middle must retain readers, and the end must satisfy readers.
If a person can exercise in the way mentioned above in this book, he can write a work. Of course, no one can guarantee that some skills will enable everyone to write great and immortal stories. In other words, even if you use the above skills, you may not be able to write a work, or feel depressed and sad halfway. This is normal. Most importantly, you should start writing again and again.
Book 2: Your Writing Coach
Author: Juergen? Wolf
At the beginning of the book, the author lists some reasons why writing is unsuccessful:
Fear of rejection
Worried that the work is not good enough
Worry about success
Worried about excessive display
Worried about Jiang Lang's fatigue.
Worried about being too old-fashioned
Worrying about research will overwhelm you.
The way to deal with these troubles is to challenge them every morning.
1. What exactly are we going to write?
In Qian Qian, there are many ways to express writing, and it must be a headache to start from which part. The simplest solution is to ask yourself this question: What do you like to read? What attracts you most?
1. If you have found what kind of articles you like to read, then find out what you are interested in.
2. If you can't find the 1 point, start looking for it yourself. For example, with your professional knowledge, do you study law or work in the medical profession? Write what you have seen and heard from this familiar part.
3. If there is no 1 or 2 o'clock, then review your life experience. Your life from childhood to adulthood is something you can create.
Second, start writing!
In writing, we are often misled by one thing: inspiration. Some people think that inspiration can be obtained through some special time, place or creating some special atmosphere. But the fact is that inspiration is never made or waited for, but trained.
1, brainstorming method. Record all kinds of thoughts about an event in your mind.
2. Open your curiosity and create more problems when something happens. For example, what if this happened at different times? What would happen if it happened in a different place? Can it have another ending? Try to answer these questions, because the answers are the material for writing.
I heard that many writers' creative sources are stories of their dreams. This method also applies to you.
Third, the secret of the story A vivid story is the vitality of an article or a work.
All attractive movies and novels have a vivid story, a vivid character and a plot structure that serves the whole story.
1, shape your characters. Show characters through scenes, reflect characters through actions, and reveal characters through descriptions. Choose concrete, interesting and vivid pictures to write when describing. You can't bring it with broad adjectives.
2. Plan your own story in advance, and it is not recommended to make up stories while writing.
3. Pay attention to precise words and detailed descriptions. When you provide concrete and rich external details and behavioral details, your works will be more realistic.
4. Elmer-Leonard's Ten Laws.
1) Never describe the weather at the beginning of a book.
2) Avoid writing a preface.
3) Never use it? Say? Verbs other than.
4) Never use adverbs to modify verbs? Say? .
5) Control the use of exclamation marks.
6) Never use it? Suddenly? Or? A mess? Something like that.
7) Use less dialects or jargon.
8) Avoid unspecific descriptions of characters.
9) Don't describe the event vaguely.
10) Try to delete the parts that readers can easily skip.
5. Revise your work many times.
Fourth, create an environment and atmosphere for you to continue writing. Writing is a job that requires high concentration and concentration.
Therefore, people who often write must have their own inherent writing environment. For example, some people can only write late at night, some people can only write in cafes, and some people need to listen to music to write. For example, I only like to write in the places arranged during the day, and I have to turn off the internet, mobile phones and other devices that can be disturbed by the outside world. No matter which one you are, find your most comfortable writing state.
1. Find a suitable writing environment or state.
2. Make some friends who share your writing interests and influence each other.
3. Find writing partners together and participate in writing training or sharing activities.
4. Or, find a writing teacher.
5. Arrange your writing time reasonably. Set writing goals, and complete one goal before moving on to the next.
5. Promote your work.
Once, an editing teacher sincerely said to me: the time when wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley has long passed. After practicing the basic writing skills and writing good works, you must be able to recommend your own works to others. ? The promotion mentioned here is not advertising promotion, but making others interested in your work.
1. When you tell others about your work, do you also have it? Elevator rule? . Try to say what you wrote in a limited time.
2. Let others know the type of story you tell and make others interested in your story.
3. Practice more and speak your works enthusiastically.
The writer himself and his works are actually a brand.
5. Embrace the media, learn the communication methods of writing in the new era, and build your own communication platform.
Finally, remember to write a story, sometimes it is a whim.
But to be a writer, or to be a writer in the future, pass on the works from generation to generation. This is a long and arduous process. It is bound to encounter difficulties and blows. Sometimes I write well, sometimes I have nothing to write, sometimes I have no money, and sometimes I am criticized. However, writing is a happy process, which sublimates your spirit and washes your soul. Let us see the world intuitively and have a channel to feel others and know ourselves.
1, please be true to yourself when writing, and don't write to meet the fashion trend.
2. Insist on setting and accomplishing goals.
3. Be prepared for all kinds of difficulties.
4. Remember what is most important to yourself in writing.
Volume 3: How to Tell a Good Story in Harvard Non-fiction Writing Class
Author: [America] MarkKramer, edited by WendyCall
The hardest thing about writing is not knowing what to write and how to write.
How to find good story thinking and avoid routine?
Chatting with strangers.
Step 2 skip class
Read the words on the wall or anything you can read.
4. Eat lunch alone. Listen to the conversations around you, listen to interesting things and talk to each other. People are usually happy.
5. Adequate life span. Pay attention to interesting stories in daily life.
6. Ignore those big shots
7. Praise losers
8. Go to a bar.
9. Give your phone number to the person you meet. When people have stories, they will call them to tell them.
10, write holiday
1 1, picking up stories that others don't want.
Book IV: A Handbook of Writers' Creation
Author: Jack? Hefran
At the beginning of the Writer's Creation Manual, it says: Writing is a kind of courage and a kind of hopeful practice. Writing seems to be a job that can't be taught, but in this book, the author Jack Hefran has accomplished this arduous work. Why did Jack Hefran write this manual? Let's take a look at his resume: Writer's Digest Publishing House, Story Publishing House, vice president of Story magazine, and special editor of Novelist. And I have always had my own ideas to write workshop courses. There is no doubt that under these experiences and backgrounds, this book is well worth reading. Since the book is called Manual, there must be some rules.
The author divides the writing into the following parts:
First, warm-up exercises.
1, the author points out: to prepare for writing, you should think clearly. If you want to be afraid of writing, you must start writing, and then you should keep writing.
2. Keep a diary and record life experience scenes.
3. Watch your life more and brainstorm all the keywords that can be used in the scene.
Second, explore
1. Peter Defrees, the writer mentioned in the book, said: Only when the author grasps himself keenly can he explore the inner world of the characters.
2. First, to know what you are writing, you must first know yourself.
3. Start with what you like or remember deeply. Cultivate this sense of rhythm. That is, you can write things you don't like and express your emotions.
4. Writers should keep their minds open and fluent.
Third, find the form.
1. There is an example in the book: In many interviews, the writer Jane smillie often integrates several ideas to write short stories. She compared this process to putting three or four things on the table and then moving them. ? Until you can see the correlation between them. ?
You can try this process yourself. Don't think too much about your choice. Just catch three things first, okay? A potato and a jacket. You can write as you like. Find the connection between them.
3, or write a story, write a dream you still remember.
Recommend 6 good books that you must read in advance if you want to write:
0 1, the writing weapon taught by McKinsey
(Japanese) Gao Xiao, translated by Zheng Shunlong.
Beijing United Publishing Company 2065438+August 2003
This book left a deep impression on me at four points. Originally, I wanted to recommend the Golden Pagoda Principle, but I thought it was too classic and typical, so I jumped out of the box and found this book. I have been reading it recently.
The first is logical thinking, which I have been practicing. In the past, I used to write long articles, but now I have to finish the construction at the logical level before writing, so I usually write the framework first, but I find it will be a lot and much easier. Basically, after the framework is built, 80% of the work is over.
Second, the writing style is smooth. This is the second part I often do, that is, the remaining 10% will be filled in this way.
The third is to solve the problem. The reason why I mentioned this is because I was actually thinking about this problem in the early stage, but when I have written about it, I will look back at what we are doing and what problems we want to solve.
The fourth is super persuasive. This is what we want to produce after reading the article. What are we trying to explain? What should we say? What should we convince?
So when I write now, I tend to think about these things.
02, the story
Author robert mckee, translated by Zhou Tiedong.
Tianjin People's Publishing House 20 14 September
One point that has not been mentioned just now is stories and singing skills, which will be covered in this book, and it is also equivalent to a supplementary level of knowledge.
No matter when, a good storyteller must have good communication and expression skills, and how to tell a good story has become something we need to explore and improve.
We can basically understand the main points of telling a good story and everything behind it. These are the reasons why I read this book again and again now.
How to design a story frame? How to complete the structure of the story background? These are all things that everyone who tells a good story needs to practice, and this book will also mention them.
Let the story trigger * * *, let the story achieve more stories, and let the story become a legend forever. The people we want, the ideas we shape, what should we do? Recommended reading.
03. Communicate with the Bible
Nicky Stanton
Beijing United Publishing Company 20 15 1 1 month
If I recommend a book about communication, then I recommend this book first, because it is comprehensive and of high quality, so I can basically solve these problems as long as I read this book repeatedly.
It tells us all about communication from four angles: listening, speaking, reading and writing, shows us communication skills again, and tells us what it is like to have good business communication skills.
From the process of communication, to speaking, listening and nonverbal communication, and then to every little point behind, it can really help us learn everything about communication better.
Regarding team management and self-improvement and development, I recommend intensive reading.
04. Become a writer
Dorothea. By Dorothea brand.
Renmin University of China Press 20 1 1 1
People who like writing may have such a dream, so how to realize this dream? You might as well read this book and learn everything about writing through it.
Who wants to be a writer? What does it take to be a writer? What should a writer learn? When I read the beginning about the difficulties a writer will encounter and what kind of person a writer is, I know this book is worth reading, because it not only tells us where the goal is, but also helps us dissect the difficulties. We just need to study and learn to break through.
Read, write, practice, correct, check and correct. This seems to be my life now. Are we becoming writers? In fact, this is true, but we can also ignore these and just be ourselves.
Then for those friends who want to make a breakthrough at this level, they may wish to practice more. Especially in terms of consciousness and skills, so writing is actually a kind of practice, and so is becoming a writer.
So find the magic of writing in a down-to-earth way, and then control it better.
05. to be honest,
(English) Greg? Greg McOwan, translated by Shao.
Zhejiang People's Publishing House 2065438+April 2006
The book says: less, but better. Actually, what I want to say is, less, but the best.
This is a book I read recently, and I am also writing reading notes. I put it on the list of writing exercises because I really gained something different from it.
In front of us, we shared the weapon of writing. With the story, we also shared a lot of things at the communication level. On the way to becoming a writer, we actually need essentialism more, that is, we should know that less is better than more, so we should keep practicing and constantly produce explosions. Just do what you do best.
So many times, we need to be single, we need to be single, and we only do one thing at a time. Just like my goal this month is to practice calligraphy, so I basically write at least 5000 words every day, and then I will keep revising. I also rejected everything else and only did this one thing.
So here I want to break the mentality that I can have everything and give up the choice that I can do two or three things at the same time. We only do one thing, and we will continue to systematize this model and then upgrade it.
Therefore, it is our first choice to pay attention to the meaningful minority and achieve a meaningful and purposeful life.
In this busy age, we don't need to be busy for the sake of being busy. You should know how to constantly improve your value, especially the value per unit time.
06, 30 days to write novels.
Buddy, translated by Hu Ting and Diao Keli.
Renmin University of China Press 2065438+May 2003
I found it interesting when I saw the title, which is why I put it at the end. I hope that every friend who has read this book list can immediately devote himself to writing.
Spend a month, just immerse yourself in writing, let yourself talk to yourself and race with yourself.
Then we might as well set a writing deadline together, such as a month, or a certain deadline, and then we can publicly promise that many people will come together to supervise us to realize this dream. When I really devote myself to writing, I also want to choose a platform. Of course, there are many internet at present. If your writing can be made public, you might as well post it on some platforms to better test our level.
Know how to plan, in addition to planning at the level of writing progress, but also learn to create more space and color for characters and stories and conceive different plots and characters.
So if you really want to cultivate your writing partner, you might as well practice it in a down-to-earth way!
What does it say at the end?
The above are six books about writing that I recommend, hoping to help more friends. The writing I care about and the writing I am practicing actually come from these aspects, that is, learning to tell a good story in logical thinking, that is, seeing how to become a writer, and then starting to practice in the main way. Of course, I'm glad I did all this. In fact, communication is also the most needed practice in writing. Of course, I am still making progress, and writing novels for 30 days has made me see more possibilities. So what is impossible for us?
Friends who want to write suggest reading these six books in advance. The sooner you read, the better!
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