感想&总结
今天的章节充满了写作的干货,读完获益良多,总结如下。
一、开头
1、吸引读者
(cajole hime with freshness, or novelty, or paradox, or humor, or surprise, or with an unusual idea, or an interesting fact, or a question, as long as it nudges his curiosity and tugs at his sleeve.)
(salvation often lies not in the writer's style but in some odd fact he or she was able to discover. A lot of research needs to be done to find the perfect lead. 1) always colloect more material tha you will use. 2) look for your material everywhere besides the obvious sources.)
(作者在文中举例抨击了几种老套的开头模式,有的有标题党的嫌疑,有的套路太明显。我感触较深的是那个“一天下午,有个塌鼻子的男孩在遛狗...”的例子,的确会让人很没有欲望往下读,这种开头缺少令人信服的细节,较难让读者上钩。 give your lead a freshness of perception or detal. 1) provide a steady accumulation of fact. 2) tell a story. 3) approach the subject in a manner that most naturally suits what you are writing about and who you are.)
2、说明为何写作、读者为何要读
二、展开
1、注意段落之间的关系与衔接
2、增加实质性细节
3、每一段的最后一句要有亮点,形成引力。
三、结尾
1、总结是另一种形式的重复,会让之前制造的张力松弛,读者容易丧失兴趣。
2、好的结尾,它本身应该是优美的:it gives the reader a lift, and it lingers when the article is over.
3、take the readers slightly by surprise and yet seem exactly right. SHOW CONTROL.
4、在观点和事实都说完之后,尽早结束。(for the non-fiction writer. 很高兴看到作者给这个建议划了个范围)
5、最好能够升华主题或者用一句话表现出恰当的出其不意。
6、to bring the story full circle, to strike at the end an echo of a note that was sounded at the beginning. 前后呼应
7、a quotation, a surprise.
词句表达
Probably no other museum is so personal a pilgrimage to our past.
这个句子怎么好像不太通顺?是否在 pilgrimage后面省略了as it is的部分呢?
I studied it as intently as if i had come upon the Rosetta Stone.
值得在自己作文中多加使用的句型:as...as if...就像...一样做什么
表达
Every article is strong in proportion to the surplus of detals from which you can choose...
in proportion to 和之前的 in ratio to,作者很喜欢用这类型的短语,我写作中却很少想到主动使用,值得借鉴。
Nose about in obscure crannies of the newspaper.
之前只知道nosy是八卦的意思,这里nose about是探听、搜寻的意思,很生动。
What will he make of the jukebox?
根据例句” what shall we make of that?“ 我们应该做什么呢?这里的make of是指拿...怎么办,对...做什么吗?
Most of us are still prisoners of the lesson pounded into us by the composition teacher of our youth...
pound做动词:击打、咚咚地走、心脏狂跳、粉碎、轰炸、大声播放,这个次有这么多意思,但是都十分形象,有内在关联。在这里的pound into应该可以理解为灌输、或者深深刻进脑海的意思。