You must write for yourself

"Who are I writing for?" This is a basic question, and there is a basic answer: you are writing for yourself. Don't expect who is your major reader group. There are no readers -every reader is different. Don't guess what kind of thing editor wants to publish, or what you think of Chinese people have emotions. Edit and readers do not know what they want to read, they only know after reading it. However, they have been looking for new things.

If you want to make some humor, don't worry about whether the reader can "understand". If you feel the humor in the process of writing, put it in. (Humor can always be taken out, but only you can put it in.) You are mainly pleased to please yourself. If you feel a kind of enjoyment to write, you will also bring happiness to readers worth writing. If you lose the love of ordinary people who are dumb, then you don't need them.

This seems to be contradictory. I began to warn that readers were impatient birds and inhabited the dangerous edge of interference or trap. Now I say you must write for yourself, don't worry about readers.

I talk about two different issues. One is skill, and the other is attitude. The first is to master the exact skill. The second is how you use your skills to express your personality.

In terms of skills, it is unforgivable if you lose your reader because of bad writing skills. If the reader read half of your article and doze off because you neglected some technical details, it is your own fault. But on the big question, such as whether the reader likes you, or what you say, or what you like, or agree with you, or agree with your sense of humor or your outlook on your life, you don't need to be right for a moment. Readers are annoyed. You are you, he is him. You either you get it with the reader or not.

This seems to be contradictory. How can you be careful not to lose the reader, and at the same time, you still don't care about the reader's opinion? I know it clearly to you.

Picture of this article-the movie "Two Flowers"

First, work hard to master the tools. Simplify and trim, go all out to seek. Think of this as a mechanical behavior, so that the sentence you create will become more concise soon. This activity will never become as mechanical as scraping or shower gel. You always have to think about using various tools. But at least your sentence is built on the basis of solid principles, and the chance of losing the reader will be greatly reduced.

Then see another question as a creative activity: how to express who you are. Relax, say what you want to say yourself. Since the style is who you are, you only need to be loyal to yourself, so that your style will gradually emerge from the accumulation of repellent and rubble, which becomes more distinctive every day. Maybe this style takes a few years to implement your own style and your own voice. It's like you need time to discover yourself. As a person, it takes time to make yourself unique, and your style will change with age.

But no matter what age, you must be yourself when writing. Many old writers still write with their enthusiasm at the age of 20 to 30. Obviously their thoughts are still young; other old writers talk nonsense and keep repeating themselves. Their style prediction has become a disgusting ghost. Essence Many college students are like they are boring 30 -year -old alumni. Never say that you are not used to saying in writing in writing. If you are usually not used to saying "true" or "more", and not used to calling others "individuals" ("he is an excellent individual"), please do not write like that.

Let's take a look at how the following writers have put their enthusiasm and want to be happy and happy, instead of carelessness whether the reader has resonance. The first festival was selected from "Hedes: Appreciation", which was written by White in the Second World War in 1944:

The chickens do not always have a glory status in the city, although I noticed that eggs are continuously real estate. The hens are favored now. The war deified her, making it the darling of the rear, praised at the conference table, and praised in each smoking carriage. Her girl -like temperament and strange habits became the topic of excitement agricultural experts, and yesterday hens were strange to them, without glory and temptation.

My personal feelings for hens have begun as early as 1907. Since then, no matter whether it goes by or adversity, I have always been loyal to her. Our relationship is not easy to maintain. At first, I was a child. I lived in the suburbs of carefully planned. I had to count on my neighbors and police. My chicken was like a underground newspaper. Later, I grew up and lived in the countryside. I had to count the old friends in the city. Most of them only regarded the hens as a comedic prop that appeared in a funny drama ... their contempt would only add me to my mother to mother Chicken's loyalty. I have a loyalty, just like the groom treats the bride who has just been taunted by his family. Now it's time for me to smile. I listened to the people in the city giggling, and they suddenly picked up the hens as a social topic. The air was full of their newly discovered obsession and knowledge. At the point. From their abnormal excitement and praise, you will feel that those hens have hatched in the suburbs of New York yesterday, instead of in the Indian jungle distant.

For the hens, all legends about poultry are exciting and unlimited. Every spring I calm down to take out my farm logs, and read the ancient story about how to prepare for the heating room with the same obsession with the same obsession ... Someone is writing the topic I am not interested in, but I love this article very much Essence I like the simple beauty of its style. I like its rhythm, I like its unexpected but refreshing words "deity", "temptation", "giggling", and those details, such as Wyen Dorge gallery chicken and the heating room. But what I like is that there is no hidden manner here that he and poultry have begun to love the history of love since 1907. The article is full of humanity and warmth. After three paragraphs, I know who this hen lovers are.

Choose another writer who is different from White. This person's hobby of luxury words is not divine and concise. But they are brothers in insisting on their personal opinions and what they want to say. This person is Ken. In the summer of 1925, he reported the infamous "monkey trial case", and the trial was a young teacher named John Sclergus because he taught evolution in his own classroom in Tennesi. The following is the exception of the report:

On a hot summer day in Tennessee, they tried the rebellious Scott, but I went there consciously and voluntarily, because I wanted to see the situation of the gospel Christians who were still in the event. In the large cities of the Republic, despite the continuous efforts of the devout saints, the development of the denomination was stagnant, and the inner vitality was exhausted. Even the school supervisors of the main Sunday school secretly listened to the jazz from the radio, shaking the fireproof legs (religious metaphor, and the advice from the puppets need to go to the fire to reach the heaven through purgatory.); He no longer signed up for preaching in Africa, but hugged and kissed with people. Although the guy tried to punish Sclergus in Jicus, I found that even in Donald, there was a smell of anti -rhythmism. The nine churches in the village are all over the air on Sunday, and the yard is full of weeds. Only two or three local pastors used their weird theological knowledge to maintain operation; the rest of the pastor had to receive orders for mailing pants, or to work in the nearby strawberry fields; I heard that there was another barber ... ... Twelve minutes to enter the village, I was pulled by a Christian and took me to drink Khaubland ranch wine. It was a half corn wine and a semi -cola mixed wine. The wine was like a difficult medicine for me, but I found that the prophets of the Donett drank with great interest, grabbing the belly and flipping the beads. They are all keen on the "creation", but their faces are too red, obviously not the liquor forbidden, and once a girl walks across the street lightly, they will reached their hands to their collar, as if they are like I should talk to those movie stars who are good and love.

This is the pure door, full of rush -like motivation, and at the same time, it seems careless. Opening his book, almost every page, what he said will anger his compatriots' self -reliance. Americans have their own heroes, churches, and education -especially bartenders -all bathed in divine nature, and these are just a hypocrisy well.

Menyen's popular secrets -except for his dazzling American language usage -that is, he is writing for himself, and he doesn't care what the reader will think. People may not have to share his prejudice and appreciate his highly expressed and enjoying expression. But the door never scared or vaguely; he did not scratch or please anyone. When such writers need courage, but respected and influential reporters are born of such courage.

This article is selected from "Writing Method"

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