The character story is always written as a resume?Teach you two tricks to get it!

Source | Ye Weimin Writing

Author | Ye Weimin

We usually see a variety of character stories articles. One type of editor is called "resume story". What do you mean? The general form is: A did the B of the B first, then done C, and then done D, and finally done E ...

Xiaobian really wanted to ask him: "This friend shakes the wrong story outline?"

What does it look like? Let's simulate a paragraph: his hobbies are drinking, especially Erguotou. Every time he comes to the store, he likes to drink himself. He was embarrassed and never saw him invited someone to drink.

Does it look like a resume, or the year -end comments of the teacher when you were a kid? If resumes are the syllabus of life, then such stories that "talk about end" are "resume stories". One of the people who should have been lively, but they are stiffly written into "forms".

However, readers are not interviewers and do not want to interview. They just want to enter the story, feel the story, and finally resonate and reveal.

To show, don't over -tell

Where is the question of "resume story"?

In the final analysis, it is over -"described" and lacks "display". Before we talk about the solution, we first understand what they are.

In the past tweets, Xiaobian has cited Stephen Kim ’s“ three -board ax ”many times:

In the opinion of the editor, short stories, or novels, are composed of three parts: narrative, push the story from point A to point B, and finally push to point Z, the story end; description, bring the reader to the scene to the scene ; Dialogue, gives people's life through specific words.

In other words, it is not difficult to text. It's not difficult, you just need to master three moves to go to the rivers and lakes; difficult, you have only three moves, just like the piano only gives you three keys, but you want you to pop up the flowers.

In comparison concepts, we are roughly available (although I don't think it is completely consistent): telling = narrative, display = description. For example:

[Tell] She is very weak.

[Show] She can't even afford chopsticks.

The description is highly summarized, making people feel generally vague, as if listening to a distant rumor. The display, through detail descriptions, let the word "weak" transform into life experience through chopsticks, pick up and other objects and actions, bring readers into the story, participate in and feel together.

Remember this ancient writing precepts -to show, don't tell. It is as basic as driving school coaches always want to be slow, but novices often forget.

Clarifying this rule, we compared the negative textbooks at the beginning -the stingy drunk. How to modify it?

I still ask the original text to make a good face. A paragraph in the writer Li Juan's "Aleuta's Corner":

But later I found that there are actually many people who are more willing to drink lonely. For example, Geyins Buick always quietly comes to the store to buy a bottle of two or two -out two pots, and slowly sip at the counter. Someone Leng Buding opened the door curtain and quickly twisted the bottle cap. In his pocket, he greeted him casually and waited patiently for the other party to leave. Then continue to take out to enjoy. Like a unique child.

Reading, I felt the alcohol was almost spraying on my face, and I couldn't wait to tease his careful thoughts. The sense of scene and substitution created by "display", no matter how "telling", is futile.

Mobilize the sensory: the details can also have a smell

To show good stories, scenes and detail descriptions are naturally indispensable, but it cannot be simply understood as stacking details. The secret is to fully mobilize the reader's senses, so that they can see, hear, smell, and even touch them.

At the end of "Outsiders", Camus pushed the story to a climax with a display of sensory experience. Another worldly Moorso refused to redeem the redeem of the priest before the sentence, thought of the mother, and then flashed the idea of ​​re -life:

After he left, I calmed down. I was exhausted and fell on the bed. I think I fell asleep because I found the starry light on my face when I woke up. There are thousands of fields in the field and passed straight to my ears. The smell of the night, the smell of the land, and the smell of the seawater make me cool. The wonderful quietness of this summer night dipped my whole body like a tide. At this time, the night was full, and the whistle was screaming. It announced that the world would start a new trip. For a long time, I thought of my mother for the first time.

See what our senses feel:

Visual: Starlight, field, night;

Hearing: Everyone sounds, whistle;

Smell: The smell of the night, the smell of the land, the smell of the sea;

Tenthistocracy: cool and cool, soake in the whole body

For the first time, Molso opened his heart. He died in the "outsider" of this world, but eventually saw happiness from absurd.

Why do you express it? Why is it displayed? The best way is to bring readers in. After the author retreats, it is not necessary to summarize, so that they can give them to smart readers, and they can naturally feel everything.

This writing method is also applicable in character reports. For example: In 1966, the "model of the county party committee secretary -Jiao Yulu" written by Xinhua News Agency Mu Qing wrote:

The wind and snow came over. The north wind rang the sharp whistle, and the snow was half a foot thick. Jiao Yulu faced the snow and snow, and there was nothing, and the ears of the locomotive hat flickered in the snow. At that time, his liver pain often occurred, and sometimes he was so painful that he used a pen to hold the liver with a pen. Now he didn't expect these. With a few young guys, he sang "Nanni Bay" while walking on snow.

In the end, everything is most afraid of overkill. Encouraging display is not that it is not important. Otherwise, the details are described, the details are long, and the plot is as slow as a snail, which is also terrible. "Telling" and "Show" each perform their duties. The former allows the plot to be compact and promotes it quickly; the latter brings the reader into the story, creating sensory enjoyment, and inspiring emotions.

When it should be fast and when it should be slow, it depends on narrative needs and authors style, but try to display as much as possible, restraint, and it will definitely not be a wrong choice.

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Original title: The writing is too straight, and only the event will not show details? No matter how good the characters are, they will write as a resume

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