"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little or no at all are planning to write and expect others to enjoy their writings. But I know there are such people. When talking about writing, writer Stephen King said without hesitation.
Today, the ecology of reading and writing has changed, but Stephen King's "such people" seem to still exist:
They are happy to write, but neglect to read, and eventually they are trapped in poverty.
Even around the writer Alai, there are some talented writers, who write and disappear: "This may have a lot to do with not paying attention to supplementing yourself." ”
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In fact, for writers, reading is an important creative core, and in professional writing training, reading has long been included:
When Yan Geling studied for a master of arts and a degree in writing at Columbia College of the Arts, her first academic year was to read masterpieces.
When China Youth Daily And Freezing Weekly trains new reporters, it will also find those classic works and let them read them repeatedly.
"The more you read, the less likely you are to look like a fool when you write or type on the keyboard." Stephen King said, "Reading will continue to tell you what clichés are, what is refreshing, how to write something or lifeless." ”
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But many people have obviously read a lot of books, and when they write, they are still pale, why is this?
In fact, the key is that the wrong reading method is used.
Whether you can draw writing nutrients from reading is never how much you read, but how much you understand.
If you just flip through it effortlessly and close the book and completely forget what you have read, it will be difficult to write a lot, even if you read more. As the writer Bi Feiyu said: "You can't see where people are good, but you can write well yourself, which doesn't make sense." ”
Looking at those writing masters, you will find that they all have their own set of reading methods, which can read the writing techniques through the surface of the text, and then use them for their own use.
For example, when the third uncle of the Southern Sect read Jin Yong, he not only indulged in the storyline, he had long begun to "ponder how many words this character said a few words, which plot point these words pointed to, and why they were written like this." When Jin Yong's novel was torn down to a skeleton, he stuffed his own storyline into it.
For example, when Wang Tianting read "Looked Up and Forgotten", he almost memorized Guy Tris's "New York: The Neglected City", and he knew its sense of language and the way of organizing the material, and finally there was the sensational "After Zero Point in Beijing".
Therefore, the people who can see the doorway and will not watch the hilarity, ordinary readers may only be able to read the superficial plot, and those who have mastered the correct reading method can see the bones and textures through the text - how the book is constructed, how the characters are stimulated and guided, and how the climax of the story comes.
When you really read the author's creative method, it is natural to write it.
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So how do we develop this ability to read and write?
Before Yan Geling went to columbia art college in the United States for professional writing training, she mostly relied on her own experience to create, but after training, she said that she was able to handle various subjects with ease. What did she go through during this time?
Her first academic year was to systematically read European, American and Latin American masterpieces under the guidance of her professors. Then copy the works of the masters of various types, until the senior year, they began to write their own works, and gradually formed a set of their own narrative methods and language systems.
It can be seen that the improvement of reading and writing is inseparable from two points: one is the click of a good teacher, and the other is a large number of reading and writing exercises.
Therefore, after training nearly 30,000 writing class students, we took this opportunity to once again invite Bao Limin, a lecturer of the writing training camp "Gu Yu Award" judge, Guo Yujie, former co-founder of "Noon Story", Wang Tianting, a former reporter of "People" magazine, and Zhao Hanmo, editorial director of Gu Yu Studio, and Liang Hong, a writer, to jointly create the "Southern Weekend Reading and Writing Training Camp".
I hope to accompany writing enthusiasts, like a writing workshop, to cultivate reading talents and improve their writing in reading:
First, the lecturer will lead everyone to read from the perspective of the writer to see how the classic works are structured, described in detail, shaped characters, etc.;
Then the students learn from the master's writing methods and compose independently;
Finally, the instructor clicks on the student's article to see if these "moves" are practiced in place.
Last year, more than 2,300 students followed 4 lecturers and guests to read several classics, and everyone also directly called "harvest full":
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Before the start of the course, many students thought that the reading and writing camp was just reading with the teacher, but after more than 1 month of study, they found that the course brought them far more than reading:
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Many readers who missed the camp period repeatedly asked if we would reopen the course. At everyone's urging, the Reading and Writing Camp (Phase 2) is back!
4 domestic front-line journalists and writers
Accompany you through 4 non-fiction landmark books
"River City", "Dark Country", "Control of Nature"
The Looked Up and the Forgotten
There are also heavyweight guests Liang Hong sitting in the seat
Jia Di shared the creative secret of "China in Liangzhuang"
This time, we will also upgrade the recording and broadcast Q&A to
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Front-line journalists and writers sit at the helm
Dissect the writing principles of classic works and take you to read a good writing
The lecturers of the practical camp are all domestic front-line journalists and writers, who know how to write in order to penetrate the hearts of the people, and they know how to read in order to draw writing nutrients from the book:
For example, when Guo Yujie studied in the Department of Chinese at Peking University, she followed her teacher to learn how to disassemble stories and read texts carefully;
When Bao Limin was in "Freezing Point Weekly", the "secret" of training new journalists was to find out those timeless classic works and let them read them repeatedly.
This time, they will combine more than ten years of practical experience in reading and writing, from the dimensions of structure, narrative, style, etc., to analyze the writing principles that ordinary people can't see through in classic works, so that you can learn and use them after reading:
For example, when you first read "Frank Sinatra has a cold", some people will find Guy Tris's structure broken, but after listening to Wang Tianting's interpretation, you will suddenly realize that Tris has been writing in a clear way that everyone can learn:
Tris is around three main scenes, writing about Sinatra's past and present lives. First write that he is depressed in the bar, then narrate why he is depressed, write that he returns to the scene, writes that Sinatra hears his song indifferent, and then uses this song to jump into a narrative of the past, borrows the song, writes Sinatra's status in the music world, and then jumps back to continue writing the scene...
In order to state, Tris will jump in and out of the scene, in the scene, Tris writes the scene, writes dialogue, writes action; when jumping out of the scene, Tris writes history, writes background, writes the past of the characters, through the scene and jump out of the scene, Tris closely combines the two, many times you don't even realize the occurrence of this change. That's what a good writer is capable of.
And anatomy of writing principles like this that goes deep into texture and subverts your cognition abounds in the curriculum.
Of course, the lecturers will not be limited to this book, but will also expand on other important writing methods and ideas:
For example, Bao Limin will use the "first-person" narrative in "Jiangcheng" to explore whether non-fiction can be mixed with discussion, and summarize the four uses of first-person in narrative, as well as ways to make the discussion non-aggressive.
Zhao Hanmo will extend from the structure of "Controlling Nature" to the circular structure, the image structure, the two-line narrative, and then to McPhee's writing long-termism...
In addition to writing skills, the instructor will also introduce his own method of reading non-fiction and leave time for everyone to practice reading in the course to cultivate the habit of deep reading.
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High-density course schedule
Help you build the underlying logic of reading and writing
In the one-sided pursuit of reading speed, reading quantity today, we want to abandon this impetuous, from input to output, set up a 5-step reading and writing method, hoping that through in-depth reading, help everyone learn a set of practical writing methods from classic works, and truly use reading to feed writing:
Step 1: Listen to the introductory lesson and learn how to read non-fiction classics.
Step 2: Read independently and record your reading experience by punching in the book.
Step 3: Listen to the intensive reading class, follow the lecturers to peruse the text again, and learn the principles of writing hidden under the text.
Step 4: Ask questions in the course, and the instructor will answer questions and answer questions through audio/video live broadcast.
Step 5: Practice writing, apply the writing methods learned from reading to your own creations, and the instructor will select representative assignments for comment.
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In this issue, we have deliberately upgraded the Q&A method to audio/video live broadcast, hoping to give everyone the opportunity to interact with the lecturers in real time and discuss reading and writing methods.
More importantly, at the end of each book, the lecturer will assign homework training and comment on representative homework, and the teachers of Southern Weekend and Southern People Weekly will also join the teaching assistant group to comment on the homework, allowing you to use the master's writing skills to consolidate the learning results. Excellent homework will also have the opportunity to be published on the Southern Weekend APP, the new media "True Story Project" or "Gu Yu Lab".
Similar courses with homework review services on the market often cost 750 yuan + , and our courses are less than 1/2 of the market price, and now order, you can also enjoy the early bird price of 339 yuan!
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Highly rated non-fiction classic
Let you salvage the writing secrets of the global story masters in one stop
In this issue, we will read 5 non-fiction classics: "Jiangcheng", "Dark Country", "Looked Up and Forgotten", "Control of Nature" and "China in Liangzhuang", some of which may not be best-selling, but each is a milestone work with a Douban score of 8.0 or above, which cannot be bypassed in the field of non-fiction.
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And the skills of these writers are also worth the repeated practice of writers:
"River City" has set off a non-fiction boom, and many people's non-fiction reading and writing have started from this.
The author's teacher, John McPhee, is a recognized structural master in the field of non-fiction, and his method of using card methods to organize materials and build structures is still used by many media people.
Guy Tris
Wang Tianting's "After Zero Point in Beijing" pays tribute to the style of "presenting hundreds of co-protagonists in an essay with a symphonic brushwork" that has influenced a generation of writers.
In "Dark Country", Naipaul uses the talents of novelists and the acumen of journalists to fuse narrative, lyricism, argument, literature, and history into a classic travel literature.
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High-quality reading writing circle
Help you link industry resources
Many people think that reading and writing is a very personal thing, but in fact, reading and writing is also something that needs to communicate with each other and collide with sparks.
When you read and write alone, you can only think of an angle within your cognitive range; but if you read and write with the industry's first-line journalists and writers, you can emerge from a professional perspective and think of the height and depth that you could not see before;
And by reading and writing with hundreds of students, you can see hundreds of perspectives from different knowledge systems, broadening your horizons and enriching your mind.
The first batch of students exported 4,000+ reading and exchange notes together:
This not only allows them to sort out the inextricable ideas in reading, but also to gain new inspiration through the perspectives of different students.
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So, if you:
Fragmented reading into a habit, it is difficult to adhere to deep reading;
Or are experiencing the bottleneck period of writing and can't find a breakthrough in creation;
Or maybe the writing is disorderly, and I want to systematically learn the creative skills of the master.
Then we extend a cordial invitation to you.
25 audio recording lessons + 5 audio Q&A lessons + homework reviews
Course outline
Great value benefits
1. Course Information Pack: Course handouts, mind maps, and extended book lists are given away with the class, which efficiently assists in obtaining dry course goods.
2. Typical assignment correction: The instructor will select representative assignments for review.
3. Writer incubation: Students can submit a long work after the class, and the excellent homework will have the opportunity to be published on the Southern Weekend APP, the new media "True Story Project" or "Gu Yu Lab".
4. Group purchase discount: Southern Weekend subsidies tens of thousands of yuan to open the "Control of Nature" group purchase, and now the order is reduced by 22 yuan!
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(The photos in the article are all taken by Feng Fei)