Learn with me! Cooking and self-media,
"Xiangxi Yang Guo" invites you to work together,
Work hard every day, and your life will be different from now on!
Hemingway said he rewrote the ending of "Farewell, Weapon" 39 times to be satisfied.
Part I: Collage works and memoirs.
Title XII: Revision of works.
Every type of writing has to be revised, and Mark Twain once said, "The distinction between the right word and the inseparable word is like the difference between a light and a firefly." ”
In this lesson, we're going to go after the real light source.
Revision checklist
One, the beginning and the end
The first paragraph: the first sentence, can it attract the reader's attention?
What is the overall structure of the work? Start too early or too late? Or end too soon or too late?
Do the beginning and end match? Is there a foreshadowing?
Is there a sense that the problem has been solved? The protagonist has changed, and new meanings have emerged?
Is it a closed ending or an open-ended ending: still unfinished after the end?
Second, depiction: character and scene setting
Does every scene setting help the story evolve?
Sense of presence! Is the description vivid and unique? Can it impress people?
Are the characters vivid and vivid?
Three, dialogue
Is the dialogue stronger than the characters and the story?
Does dialogue help reinforce the style?
Does each character have a unique voice?
Fourth, narrative technique, tension and conflict.
Is there tension in opposing scenes, characters, and dialogues?
Is there a use of narrative techniques, is there a "positive flow"
Do the ups and downs of the plot deserve the story?
Fifth, association, metaphor, metaphor, symbolism
Is there a center that dominates the imagery?
Are there any comparisons, metaphors or metaphors?
Is there a deep connection and displacement, symbolism?
Sixth, genre and style, whose story, perspective, style, rhythm, tone of the work style is suitable for this story? Are genres and subtypes appropriate for stories?
Whose story is this?
From what perspective?
Is style appropriate for the subject matter, poetic, didactic, humorous?
Is the rhythm consistent, sweeping the length, using words, repeating?
Is the author's tone full and coherent?
Seven, the theme and connotation
Theme: What is the main idea?
Is there any confusion? Is the author's thinking clear?
Has it brought about a new awareness: enlightenment?
Why is this story important?
Thereafter, once the work has been revised, the final step can be taken:
VIII. Editing
Topic: Is the title appropriate? Can it catch people's eyes?
Length: Too short or too long?
Sentences and paragraphs: diversification or simplification?
Verb: main dynamic or be dynamic? Avoid using the verb "yes"
Verbosity (adverbs, adjectives, clichés, strange words, mantras, dialogue labels
Visual effects: arrangement of paragraphs, blank space
Consistency proofreading, punctuation, spelling
As my predecessors said, great writers are almost endlessly revising their works, and it is said that Tolstoy is still revising War and Peace on board.
"Xiangxi Yang Guo"
Life is a ray of light,
Warmed myself and illuminated the world!