章节：
Part 1 | Principles
1. The Transaction
2. Simplicity
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Words and Expressions:
1. I was asked if I would come and talk about writing as a vocation. ...Dr. Brock...was going to talk about writing as an avocation.
vocation (职业) vs. avocation (副业)
Note: avocation低频到LDCE都查不到 :(.
2. I said that professional writers are solitary drudges who seldom see other writers.
词频：
释义：
3.First came the word processor, in the 1980s, which made the computer an everyday tool for people who had never thought of themselves as writers.Thencame the Internet and e-mail, in the 1990s, which continued the revolution.Today everybody in the world is writing to everybody else, making instant contact across every border and across every time zone.
这段描述可以用在写科技发展的文章里。
4. Some people write by day, others by night. Some people need silence, others turn on the radio.Some write by hand, some by computer, some by talking into a tape recorder.Some people write their first draft in one long burst and then revise; others can’t write the second paragraph until they have fiddled endlessly with the first.
少见的三个some列举，句式值得学习。
4. Our national tendency is to inflate and thereby sound important.
句式可以用来表述“夸大从而显得很重要“.
e.g. What you said is just to inflate and thereby sound important.
5.Clutteris the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
6. The reader is someone with anattention spanof about 30 seconds—a person assailed by manyforcescompeting for attention.At one time those forces were relatively few: newspapers, magazines, radio, spouse, children, pets. Today they also includea galaxy of electronic devices for receiving entertainment and information—television, VCRs, DVDs, CDs, video games, the Internet, e-mail, cell phones, BlackBerries, iPods—as well as a fitness program, a pool, a lawn and that most potent of competitors, sleep.
该句式可以用来做distraction的详细描述方法。
Thoughts：
写作并非易事,因为 “Good writing doesn’t come naturally, though most people seem to think it does.”
要想Writing well，首先要明白：
Writing wasn’t easy and wasn’t fun. It was hard and lonely
Rewriting is the essence of writing
Writing is a craft, not an art
写作又很简单，all you need :
plain old hard thinking—what E. B. White was doing in his boathouse—and the plain old tools of the English language.
写作的方法有很多，总有适合自己的一个：
There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.
但有一些基本原则：
1. personal transaction by humanity and warmth (感觉有点难)
2. simplicity
前提要有logic，头脑清晰
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other.
这点很关键，有输入，自己想明白，才能准确输出给别人。由繁入简，还要保证信息不丢失，需要抽象思维和概括总结。但作为实体输出，需要强大的文字表述能力。
读书会第一天，拖延并不可怕，你看...连White也每天都在纠结....
