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This article is selected from Ding Bohui, "Creative Writing Thinking Training"

China Renmin University Press

Published in June 2022

A few years ago, I took a student of the writing project team to go to the ancient town of the ancient town of Hechuan, Chongqing. We try to write a novel with the ancient town of the beach as the background or material. Most of the students in this project team are freshmen who have just entered the university. They are novel about everything, and they have shown very high enthusiasm for the teacher to take them to an ancient town. However, when I took them in the ancient town and asked them to prepare for a novel, the smile on their faces disappeared and became sad. Their faces are like the yellow trees in the beach spring, and they take off the old leaves and put on the new leaves in a blink of an eye. I asked them: Shouldn't writing a thing that makes you more excited and happy? Why are you frowning? Students began to pull their fingers and say that they must first find the central thought, then prepare a good person worth learning from others, but also conceive a story with positive energy ... All of this, think about it.

I immediately understood the reason why they were worried: they returned to the Chinese classroom in middle school and planned to write an article in accordance with the composition mode of middle school. At that time, I realized a question: Compared with writing skills, the problem they needed to solve was about the thinking of writing, the understanding of writing, and how to have the correct writing psychology. At that time, I had the idea of ​​opening a class "Creative Writing Thinking Training". Creative writing has entered China for the last ten years. In the past ten years, there have been more and more people who have paid attention to creative writing on the university campus.

Creative writing has changed from no one to the original, and changed to the "Xue Xue" in the eyes of literary educators. However, in the beginning of this field, Chinese creative writing workers faced a big problem: a lot of creative writing courses were taught by people who have no experience at all. This is like a person who can't swim to teach others to swim. It is very embarrassing. We know that the beginning of creative writing is the United States, and the biggest feature of American creative writing is that teachingists are both scholars and writers. They have rich creative experience, and at the same time have deep theoretical thinking about writing. In China, the teaching mode of traditional Chinese language and literature is like a person standing in the past to introduce what kind of animal is Niu. They can only introduce the appearance of cattle.

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As a writer, it is not enough to relieve the appearance of the cow. You also need to understand the internal structure of the cow. Many peers realize that the training of thinking ability is the core part of creative writing. However, they are just as researchers to understand writing thinking, which is like standing only in the cow and introducing cows.

Our "Creative Writing Thinking Training" class is opened in this context. As the creator of the three universities and the pioneers of this course, I have clearly knew from the beginning that the main purpose of this course is to change a writer from a writing person to a creative person.

The so -called creation, as the name suggests, is creative writing. Creativity was originally the right meaning of writing. However, for a long time, traditional composition education emphasizes modelization, forming a model of "high score", turning writing into a vulgar activity. This not only makes the writer lose the joy of writing, but also solidify writing and lacks creativity. Creation was originally one of the fun of human exploration of the world and interpreting the world. Writing activities are the same. Only by allowing creative ability to become the basic ability of writing and allowing all the processes of creating through writing can the writer find the fun of writing. The key to creative ability lies in thinking ability.

In a sense, the thinking ability of writing is not only the ability to master the law of writing, but also the creative ability in the writing process, but also the ability to understand the psychological understanding of the creator before and during writing. Therefore, this course is mainly based on these parts. We divide creative writing thinking into three major stages.

The first stage is "Before writing: How to make yourself a" writer ". This part is mainly to let the writers understand the writing and creativity itself. The way we let them understand is not to preach, but through specific cases, let them find what should be written in the discussion.

The second stage is "writing: skills and those things that are more important than skills." In this part, we continue to open the cow's body, and even drill into the cow's belly, to explore the language of literature, the source and processing of the material, the discovery and expression of ideas, the direction of the story, and the direction of our writing direction. hand". This part is the main part of the course and the core content.

The third stage is "beyond writing: what is affecting your writing". The traditional statement is "the kung fu of poetry is outside the poem", in fact, all writing is the case. However, here, we have not intended to repeat those arguments, or explain the truths that predecessors have summarized. We need to explore a series of related issues related to writing: how to determine our writing direction; the dilemma encountered before and after writing, this dilemma is both material and spiritual. In order to be a better writer; what is the key factor of a writer's high and far away. Now, we have seen that as a course in the field of creative writing, this course and traditional Chinese language and literature courses and the differences between writing lessons: this course is initiated from students, and students will solve the problem by themselves. The students are mutually mutual. Stimulate and achieve the goal of joint reconstruction of creative thinking. Even in a sense, students can learn by themselves with the right way.

In the first year of this course, it was warmly welcomed by the students. At the beginning of the first lesson, I opened the door and told the students: In this course, don't expect me to "give" something; on the contrary, my purpose is to "take away" things, you must take you to you The thinking mode developed in composition education for a long time has been "taken away". Subsequently, the other teachers of the Creative Writing Academy we were responsible for also started this course. Our class has become a brainstorm. Students responded positive in class and discussed enthusiastically. Regarding this course, I put forward a basic requirement for the teachers: the teacher can speak as little as possible and let the students talk more. Let them inspire each other, discover themselves, and finally awaken themselves.

We later discovered that this course is more effective than traditional fictional writing, non -fiction writing and other courses. Students, as saying in martial arts novels, were "opened up the second pulse of Ren Du", and suddenly they were suddenly cheerful. Many students will be enlightened soon. In the subsequent reading classes, story lessons, and workshop courses, they had more than more work, and they were very handy and enjoyable. They finally started to learn writing happily and writing happily. Their enthusiasm has been stimulated.

After several years of teaching practice, we feel that this course is like the summer watermelon, which has reached the time of Guushui. At this time, the President of the World Chinese Creative Writing Association, one of the pioneers of Chinese creative writing, Professor Ge Hongbing of Shanghai University, and Professor Ge's high -footed, and Dr. Liu Weidong, who has long been committed to creative writing, talked about this course. Essence They said that there are many creative writing industry who want to issue this course, but I don't know how to issue it. They encourage me to write a training guide for creative writing thinking, saying that this is conducive to the promotion of creative writing in China. I was moved by them, so I started to shake the spirit of the busy teaching and creation to complete this difficult and valuable work.

I look forward to this book for teachers who intend to open the "Creative Writing Thinking Training" course, college students who need to improve their writing ability, and all those who love writing.

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