Books to Improve Your Writing:
Book 1: From Idea to Bestseller: Revision and Self-Editing
By James? James Scott Bell
Author.
In The Courage to Write, Ralph identifies three questions that affect writing:
1. Will I be able to write successfully?
2. The fear of the page, that is, the fear of facing a blank page.
3. Fear of complete exposure to others.
Again, as a writer, these are three things I know all too well. But in the midst of writing, there is much more to be afraid of than these three. Writing is a process of wrestling with yourself and dancing with yourself. Once you've made up your mind to write, these problems will automatically disappear.
In the book, the author points out that there are still some preliminaries that you have to do before you start writing to get ready to write a piece.
For example:
One, read.
There is no denying that you cannot be a good writer without reading. Read different types of books.
ii. Observe + absorb and digest, scrutinize your life and write down interesting ideas.
Learn the good methods and expressions you learn while reading, and use them in your own writing.
Third, there is no end to learning.
Even if you do the above three points, you still have to keep learning.
Of course, the three points above are only a broad range of what it takes to complete a complete work and a great story. James lives up to his reputation as a good writer and a teacher who can teach writing. In his book, he breaks down and re-breaks down the process of writing, especially writing a novel, and breaks down the individual breakthroughs to come to the full bit to reach the writing goal. He breaks down writing a novel to include: characters, plot and structure, narrative point of view, scene, dialog, beginning/middle/end, show and tell, voice and style, setting and description, statement, and theme.
Characters: set up the types of characters for your story. Give your pen character a rich personality. Give him emotion and get inside his head. Give your character when the story can't be written? A gun? , that is, to create surprises.
Plot and structure: the most necessary features of any good storyline: to have conflict, to have oppositions, adventures, threats, and so on.
Narrative point of view: the narrative point of view is the third person that points to the character you are substituting for, best chosen by beginners.
Scene/Dialogue: The character's internal reactions can be shown in scenes and dialog, rather than by the protagonist himself.
Beginning/Middle/End: The beginning must attract the reader, the middle development process must keep the reader, and the end must satisfy the reader.
If a person can exercise this book as described above, he or she will be able to write. Of course, there is no guarantee that some techniques will enable everyone to write great and monumental stories. In other words, even if you use the techniques mentioned above, there is a chance that you may not be able to write, or you may feel frustrated halfway through. That's normal, and the important thing is that you have to start writing again and again.
Book 2: Your Writing Coach
By Jürgen Wolfe. Wolfe
At the beginning of the book, the author lists some of the reasons why writing doesn't work:
Worrying about rejection
Worrying that the work isn't good enough
Worrying about success
Worrying about over-presentation
Worrying about running out of steam
Worrying about being too old
Worrying about researching and overloading yourself.
The way to deal with these worries is to challenge them every morning.
I. What are we really writing about?
There are so many different ways to express yourself in writing that it can be a headache to know which part to start with. The simplest solution is to ask yourself this question: what do you love to read? What things attract you the most?
1, if you have already found your yourself what type of articles you like to read, find what interests you to start.
2. If point 1 is not found, start looking for it in yourself. For example, use your professional knowledge, you are studying law, or engaged in the medical profession, from the part you are familiar with to start writing what you have seen and heard.
3. If points 1 and 2 are missing, then look back at your own life experiences. Your life from childhood to adulthood is material to create.
2. Get your hands dirty and start writing!
In writing, we are often misled by one thing: inspiration. Some people think that inspiration can come through some special time, place or creating some special atmosphere. But the truth is that inspiration is never made or waited for, it is trained.
1. Brainstorming. Record the various ideas you have in your head about a particular event.
2. Open your curious mind and create more questions when something happens. For example, what would have happened if this event had occurred at a different time? What would have happened in a different place, could it have had another ending? Try to answer these questions, because the answers are the fodder for writing.
3. I've heard that many writers write because of their own dream stories, and this approach, too, applies to you.
3. The secret of story A vivid story is the life force of an article or a work.
Which can attract people to the movie, fiction works, all are not a vivid story, the story also has a vivid character, and a plot structure to serve the whole story.
1. Build your characters. Show your characters through scenes, reflect your characters through action, and reveal your characters through description. When describing, pick specific, interesting and vivid images to write about. You can't carry it off with broad adjectives.
2. Conceptualize your storyline in advance; it is not recommended to make up a story while writing.
3. Pay attention to precise wording and detail. Your work will be more realistic and believable when you provide specific, rich external details and behavioral details.
4. Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules.
1) Never begin a book with a description of the weather.
2) Avoid writing a preface.
3) Never use ? say? verbs other than ? to introduce dialog.
4)Never use an adverb to modify the verb ? said?
5) Control the use of exclamation points.
6)Never use ? suddenly? or ? mess? words.
7) Use less dialect or jargon.
8) Avoid unspecific characterizations.
9) Don't describe events vaguely.
10) Try to cut out parts that readers can easily skip over without reading.
5. Revise your work several times.
4. Create an environment and atmosphere that allows you to write consistentlyWriting is a job that requires a high level of concentration and energy.
Therefore, people who write from time to time must have their own inherent writing environment. For example, some people can only write late at night, some people only write in cafes, some people need to listen to music while writing. I, myself, for example, only like to write in a place that is scheduled during the day and to turn off the internet, turn off my cell phone, and a number of other devices that the outside world can hit to disturb. Whichever you are, find your most comfortable writing state.
1. Find an environment or state of being that is appropriate for your own writing.
2. Make friends with the same **** writing interests as you and influence each other.
3. Find a writing partner, attend a writing training program, or a sharing session.
4. Or, find a writing teacher.
5. Organize your writing time wisely. Set writing goals and accomplish one before moving on to the next.
5. Market your work.
Once an editorial teacher said to me very sincerely: ? The era of wine is long gone. After practicing the basics of writing and writing a good work, you must have the ability to recommend your work to others. The sales pitch mentioned here is not a kind of advertising-style hawking, but to make others interested in your work.
1. When talking to others about your work, there is the same ? elevator rule? Try to say what you've written in a limited amount of time.
2. Let others know the type of story you're telling, and let your story interest them.
3. Practice telling your work with enthusiasm.
4. The writers themselves and their work are, in fact, a brand.
5, embrace self media, learn how to communicate in the new age of writing, and create your own communication platform.
6. Finally, keep in mind that writing a story is sometimes a spur of the moment thing.
But to become a writer, or to become a writer in the future, leaving behind heirloom works for posterity. It's a long and grueling process. It is bound to encounter difficulties, blows. Sometimes it will write well, sometimes there is nothing to write, sometimes there will be no money, sometimes there will be criticized and accused. But writing, again, is a joyful and blissful process that elevates your spirit and cleanses your soul. Let us have one more vision to see the world, one more channel to feel others to understand themselves.
1, writing, please be sure to be loyal to themselves, do not cater to the momentary trend of popularity to write.
2. Stick to setting and accomplishing goals.
3. Be mentally prepared for all kinds of difficulties.
4. Remember what is most important to you in writing.
Book 3: "Harvard Nonfiction Writing Lessons How to Tell a Good Story"
By [U.S.] MarkKramer (MarkKramer), WendyCall (WendyCall) editors
The most difficult thing about writing is that you don't know what to write about and how to write it?
How do you find good stories to think about and avoid conventional tropes?
1. Talk to strangers
2. Skip class
3. Read the writing on the wall or anything else you can
4. Eat lunch alone. Listen to conversations around you and talk to each other when you hear something interesting, people are usually happy to.
5. Live life to the fullest. Pay attention to interesting stories in your daily life.
6. Ignore the big guys
7. Praise the losers
8. Hang out at the bar
9. Give your number to people you meet. When people have a story they will call and talk about it.
10, Write about holidays
11, Pick up stories other people don't want
Book 4: The Writer's Handbook of Creativity
By Jack? Heffron
The Writer's Handbook of Creativity opens with the statement that writing is a form of courage, a practice of hope. Writing seems like a job that can't be taught, but in this book, author Jack Heffron accomplishes this difficult task. Why did Jack Heffron write this manual? Take a look at his resume: Writer's Digest Publishing, Story Press, Associate Director of Story Magazine, Contributing Editor of Novelist. and has always had his own creative writing workshop programs. Undoubtedly, with all this experience and background, this book is well worth reading. The title of the book, since it is called a manual, must have its guidelines.
The author divides writing into the following sections:
I. Warming Up
1. The author points out that the preparation for writing is to think clearly, if you want to set the fear of writing, you must have to start writing, then you have to keep on writing, writing constantly.
2, write a diary, record the experience of life scenes.
3, more observation of their own lives, all the scenes can be applied to the key words are brainstorming list or guide map type connection.
Second, explore
1, a writer mentioned in the book, Peter DeVries, said: the author can only explore the inner world of the characters if he or she grasps himself or herself keenly.
2. The first point suggests that in order to know what you are writing about, you need to know yourself first.
3. Start by writing about something you like, or something you remember fondly. Develop that sense of rhythm. That is, you can write about things you don't like and express your emotions.
4. Writers need to keep their minds open to the flow of ideas.
Third, find the form
1, the book said an example: the writer Jane Smiley in a lot of interviews, she often will be several ideas together, as a way to write a short story. She likened the process to putting three or four things on a table and moving them around.? until you can see the correlation between them.?
2. Try the process yourself, don't think too hard about your choices, and start by grabbing just three things? A potato, a jacket. Write about them as you go. Look for connections between them.
3. Or write down a story about a dream you remember vividly.
You want to write must be read in advance about the six good books recommended:
01, McKinsey taught me to write weapons
(Japan) Takasugi Shokutaka, Zheng Shunlong translation
Beijing Joint Publishing Company August 2013
This book has four points that impressed me a lot, was actually trying to recommend the Pyramid Principle, but it seems that this book was too classic and too typical, so I went outside the box to find this book, which is also what I've been reading recently.
The first is logical thinking, this thing is what I have been practicing, used to write a long article, now it is writing before the completion of the logical level of the building, so it is generally the first to write the framework, and found that this will be very much, but also easier, basically the framework to build the completion of the eighty percent of the work on the end.
The second is fluent writing. This is the second part of what I tend to do, which is the remaining ten percent, will be in this part, and fill it out in this way.
The third one is problem solving. The reason why I bring this up is because I've actually been thinking about it in the early stages, but when the line is almost over then I go back and look at what we're actually doing, what problem are we actually trying to solve?
The fourth is super persuasive. This is the effect we want to produce after reading the article, what do we want to say? What are we trying to say? What are we going to persuade?
So these days I tend to think about these things when I'm writing.
02, story
(U.S.) Robert McKee, translated by Zhou Tiedong
Tianjin People's Publishing House, September 2014
One of the things that I didn't mention earlier is that storytelling and ****tweeting, which is what this book will talk about, is also equivalent to a complementary level of knowledge.
No matter what, a good storyteller must have good communication and presentation skills, and exactly how to tell a good story becomes something we need to explore and improve.
Those few points about good storytelling, about all that's behind the story, basically we are able to understand in this. And those are the reasons why I'm reading this book over and over again today.
How do you frame a story? How do you frame a story? How do you structure the background of a story? These are the things that everyone who tells a good story needs to practice, and this book touches on them.
Let the story trigger ****, let the story make more stories, let the story become a legend forever. How do we want the characters we want, the ideas we shape, to be good? Recommended reading.
03, communication bible
Nikki Stanton
Beijing Joint Publishing Company, November 2015
If a book is recommended on the level of communication, then I would recommend this one, because it is more comprehensive, and the quality is relatively high, so as long as you repeatedly read the book basically able to deal with these issues.
It tells us all about the communication level from four perspectives, listening, reading, and writing, and shows us once again the skills of communication and what it's like to have good business communication skills.
From the process of communication, to speaking, listening, non-verbal communication, and then breaking it down to every little point behind, it really helps us to learn everything about communication better.
About team management, about self-improvement and development here are all, recommended to read carefully.
04. Becoming a Writer
Dorothea Bland, the author of the book Being a Writer, is the author of the book. By Dorothea Brande
People's University of China Publishing House, January 2011
People who like to write may have a dream of doing so, so how to realize this dream? Why not read this book and learn all about writing through it.
What kind of person wants to be a writer? What does it take to become a writer? What should a writer learn? When I saw the beginning of the book that talks about the difficulties writers have to encounter and summarizes what a writer is like, I knew it was a book worth reading because not only does it tell us on a simple level where to aim for, but it has also helped us to dissect the difficulties, we just have to learn them and learn to break through.
Read, write, practice, revise, check, and revise again. That seems to be my life right now, are we on our way to becoming writers? Actually, it does count as such, but it's also possible to disregard all that, while we just have to be good at what we do.
So for those of us who want to make a breakthrough at this level, we might as well practice more. Especially in terms of awareness and skill, so writing is really a practice, and so is becoming a writer.
So let's get our feet wet and find the magic about writing and then get better at harnessing it.
05. Essentialism
(English) Greg McGivern (English) is a writer. McKeown (Greg McKeown) by Shao Xinfang translation
Zhejiang People's Publishing House April 2016
The book says: less, but better. Actually, I would say less, but better.
This is a book I recently read and am writing book notes on. I put it inside the list of books for writing practice because I did get something different out of it.
Earlier we shared the weapons of writing, with stories, and a lot of things on the communication level, and more on the path of practicing to become a writer, it actually requires this kind of elitism, that is, we need to understand that less is better than more, so we need to keep practicing and keep going out of our way to produce explosive work. Just do what you do best.
So a lot of times we just need to specialize, we just need to be singular, and just do one thing for a period of time, like my goal this month is to practice writing, so basically I'm going to be writing at least 5,000 words every day, and then I'll also keep revising. Also rejecting everything else and just doing this one thing.
So here's where it's important to break out of that I-can-have-it-all mentality, and to let go of that choice that I can do two or three things well at once. We're just going to do one thing and we're going to have to keep systematizing that pattern and then upgrading it.
So focusing on the meaningful few and accomplishing a meaningful, purposeful life is what we need to prefer.
In this era of busyness, we don't need to be busy for the sake of being busy, we need to know how to constantly improve our value, especially the value per unit of time.
06, 30 days to write a novel
(U.S.) Batty by Hu Ting, Diao Keli translation
People's University of China Press May 2013
It is very interesting to see the title, and this is why I put it in the last place, and I hope that every one of you who has finished reading this list of books can be put into writing immediately.
Just take a month and immerse yourself in writing, let yourself talk to yourself, let yourself race against yourself.
Then we might want to set a writing deadline together, like a month, or a specific period of time, and then we can make a public commitment to get a lot of people to come together to see us realize that dream. In the real commitment to the writing period, I also want to choose a good platform, of course, at present the Internet is more, if your writing is available to the public, then it may as well release to some platform, so that can also be better to test our level.
Know how to plan, in addition to planning at the level of writing progress, but also to learn to structure more space and color for the characters and the story, and to conceive different plots and characters.
So if you want to really practice writing guys, then get down to business!
丨 Write in the closing words 丨
The above is my recommendation of the six books on writing, but also look forward to helping more partners, I am interested in the writing and I am practicing writing is actually from such aspects, that is, in the logical thinking to learn to tell a good story, that is, to see how to become a writer and then began to use the essence of the main way to practice, of course, very Thankfully I've done all of these. And communication is actually the most important thing to practice in writing, of course I am still improving, and 30 days to write a novel, so I see more possibilities, so what else is impossible for us?
Anyone who wants to write is advised to read these six books in advance, really the sooner you read them the better!
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