写书让你学会了什么经验教训？

Shitiz Srivastava
My experience has taught me many things about writing books. Let me sum them up in ten points -
There is no such thing as writer’s block. People who do not want to write but pretend to be creative has invented the term to hide their inefficiency to write.
There is no inspiration for writing. There is only routine and discipline.
No one likes writing. Even famous writers hated writing. But they write anyways because they love to read it later what they wrote and want the world to know their stories.
First drafts are always shitty so don’t worry too much about it.
Writing is rewriting. the more you will revise the drafts, the better it will be.
Writing what you truly feel and have in mind works better than trying to use fancy words and complex sentences.
You never know what will work.
Rejections might demotivate you but it helps to make your writing better as it helps you understand what works and what doesn’t work.
Writing is only 10% writing and 90% reading. You can't produce anything out of nothing.
Persistence is the writer’s weapon. The more he writes the better he becomes.

写书的经历教会了我很多事情，我把他总结为十点：
1、没有所谓的作家障碍。那些不想写作却假装有创造力的人发明了这个词来掩盖他们写作的低效。
2、没有所谓的写作灵感。只有常规和纪律。
3、没有人喜欢写作。就连著名作家也讨厌写作。但是，他们无论如何都会写作，因为他们喜欢稍后阅读他们所写的内容，并希望全世界都知道他们的故事。
4、初稿总是很糟糕，所以不要太担心。
5、写作就是不停重写。你对草稿修改得越多越好。
6、写下你真实的感受和想法，比尝试使用花哨的词语和复杂的句子效果更好。
7、你永远不知道什么会有效。
8、被拒绝会降低你的动力，但是，它有助于让你的写作更好，因为它可以帮助你理解什么是有效的，什么是无效的。
9、写作只有10%是写作，90%是阅读。你不能凭空生产任何东西。
10、坚持是作家的武器。你写得越多，就会变得越好。

John Hyland
Rejections don't come with a critique.
How do you know where you went wrong?

被拒绝并不意味着会提出批评意见。
你怎么知道哪里出了问题？

Shitiz Srivastava
True. Rejections don’t come with a critique.
This is how I know where I went wrong.
Send to a publication and get rejected.
Make changes to the draft and send it to other publication houses.
Do the process again and again till someone messages you that writing is good but they don’t publish such material.
Truth is that when people read what I wrote they always said that I write good but there is something missing. They would never tell me what was missing.
Christ said - “Those who seekth, findth.”
I kept seeking that X-factor again and again. Read more, write more and got more rejected. finally, I found the error and since then I am getting more praise for my work.
There is no exact method for how to find the right pattern for your writing but if you seek it for long enough time, trust me, you will find it one day in an epiphany.

当然，被拒绝并不意味着会提出批评意见。
这就是我知道我错在哪里的原因。
发送到出版社并被拒绝。
对草稿进行修改，并再次将其发送给其他出版社。
一次又一次地重复这个过程，直到有人告诉你写得很好，但是他们不发表这样的材料。
事实是，当人们读到我写的东西时，他们总是说我写得很好，但却少了一些东西。他们永远不会告诉我缺少了什么东西。
基督说：“那些寻找的人，找到了。”
我一次又一次地寻找那些缺少的东西。多读，多写，多被拒绝。最后，我发现了错误，从那以后，我的工作得到了更多的赞扬。
没有确切的方法来为你的写作找到正确的模式，但是，如果你花足够长的时间去寻找，相信我，总有一天你会在顿悟中找到它。

James H. Jenkins
Yeah, all of this, except I love the writing.
I like making maps and character sketches and everything associated with the production of a novel. Even gazetteers and a reference index.

是的，我同意所有这些，但是我喜欢写作。
我喜欢制作地图和人物草图，以及与小说制作相关的一切。甚至包括地名录和参考索引。

Mercedes R. Lackey
Shitiz Srivastava has basically covered everything I would, although I disagree with him on one point. I love to write. All of it, rough drafts, editing, all of it. I just wish I had the energy I had 30 years ago.

Shitiz Srivastava的回答基本上涵盖了我想说的一切，虽然我不同意他的第3点。我喜欢写作。所有这些，草稿，修改，所有这些。我希望我现在能有30年前的精力。

Debi Ennis Binder
How I agree, and can only add that I also love to research, and I wish I had as much time as I do now!

不能更同意了，只是还要补充一点，我同样喜欢研究，我希望我有足够的时间让我去做这些！

Robert Cameron
My experience is odd.
For more than 50 years I have been writing scientific papers for learned journals. In my experience, I have had few outright rejections, but there is a pecking order of journals. I have always aimed for the middle range. One paper written in 1967 has been cited three times in the last 12 months.
Nevertheless, even scientific papers are a buyer’s market. There is more stuff than the top journals can take.
Then, I wrote a big (500 pages) non-fiction book for a general readership (Slugs and Snails, HarperCollins, 2016). A lot of effort, but once the specimen chapter is in, success in getting published is near certain if you finish the job.
Fiction is a whole new world. Just finished a 200,000 word blockbuster.
I am no longer a fiction virgin> just had my first rejection, even if it was merely time running out with no reply.
From every thing I have read, a new author has as much chance of success as Satan has of getting frostbite, particularly if your novel and your synopsis are too long. You are also told that your first novel is bound to be rubbish.
While I wait to get f*cked over by the 15, and any more I can dredge up, I am well into a chapter of novel number two.
But the clock is ticking. At 78, I don’t have decades left to perfect my writing.

50多年来，我一直在为学术期刊撰写科学论文。根据我的经验，我几乎没有被直接拒绝过，而且在期刊的排名很靠前。我一直瞄准中间的层次。1967年写的一篇论文，在过去12个月里被引用了三次。
然而，即使是科学论文也是买方市场。大家写的篇数比顶级期刊能承受的还要多。
后来，我为广大读者写了一本大的（500页）非小说类书籍（蛞蝓和蜗牛，哈珀柯林斯，2016）。虽然付出了很多努力，但一旦完成了样本章节，如果你完成了这项工作，就几乎可以肯定会成功出版。
小说对我而言是一个全新的领域。仅仅只完成了一部20万字的大作。
现在，我不再是一个处女小说家了，但是，我第一次被拒绝了，虽然我投递出去的时间还不太久，但是现在还没有回复。
从我读到的每一件事来看，一个新作家成功的几率和撒旦被冻伤的几率一样大，尤其是如果你的小说和大纲太长的话。你还会被告知，你的第一部小说肯定是垃圾。
好吧，我会继续缠着编辑。谁知道呢，我甚至可能会得到一些反馈。
但时间在滴答作响。78岁的我已经没有几十年的时间来完善我的写作了。

B.A. Mealer
Interesting question. Some of these may be repeats.
Writing is easy. Revising is difficult, long, and tedious but that is where the magic happens.
You don’t know what you don’t know when you first start writing. It takes years to learn the craft and you can’t rush it.
Writer’s block doesn’t exist. All you need to do is write, even if it’s drivel.
If you can’t complete one full book draft or article or short story, then you might want to rethink trying to be a writer.
You need to have a thick hide. Criticism hurts. As does rejection and bad reviews. Suck it up and learn from it.
You are never finished learning how to be a better writer. The more you practice the better you get. The more you learn the better your writing.
Ideas are like bunnies. They keep multiplying but some are better than others. Learning how to put a couple together to make a good book is an art you can learn. Ideas come from everywhere. You just need to open your mind and see them.

有趣的问题。其中一些可能是重复的。
1、写作很容易。修改是困难的、漫长的、乏味的，但这就是神奇的地方。
2、你不知道什么是你第一次开始写作时不知道的。学习这门手艺需要很多年，你不能仓促行事。
3、写作障碍并不存在。你所需要做的就是写作，即使是胡说八道。
4、如果你不能完成一整本书的草稿、文章或短篇小说，那么你可能需要重新考虑一下，是否真的想成为一名作家。
5、你需要有一张厚脸皮。批评是有害的。拒绝和糟糕的评论也是如此。吸取教训，从中学习。
6、你永远也学不完如何成为一名更好的作家。你练习得越多越好。你学得越多，你的写作就越好。
7、想法就像兔子。它们不断繁殖，但有些比另一些更好。学习如何把一对夫妇结合在一起，一本好书是一门艺术，你可以学习。想法无处不在。你只需要敞开心扉，接纳它们。

If you can’t find time to write, you will never make it as a writer. There is always time if it’s really something you want to do.
Procrastination is a way of letting ideas and scenes and characters and stories ferment into a whole ( the boys in the basement are working while you are putting off the work). The boys in the basement will work faster if you have an unmovable deadline.
The first draft, and the second and third and forth are usually crap. Revision is where the real writing begins. Embrace it.
You can work on more than one project to keep the boys in the basement busy. (Asimov had 7 going at one time.) ( the boys in the basement is your subconscious working on the problem.)
Writing is hard work. If you don’t enjoy it, you might want to do something else.
Reading is part of writing.. From reading you learn what is good, bad, mediocre and the best.
There comes a time when you have to say a work is as good as you can make it and kick it out into the world. That first one won’t be your best, Move on to the next. Practice is the means of getting better.
Have fun. Create what you would want to read. Enjoy doing it but remember it is something you have to do on a regular basis to get better.
If writing is only a hobby for you, ignore everything above and scribble words when you want and don’t worry about it. It’s for your enjoyment.

8、如果你找不到时间写作，你就永远无法成为一名作家。如果你真的想做某件事，总会有时间的。
9、拖延是一种让想法、场景、人物和故事发酵成一个整体的方式（地下室的男孩在工作，而你却在拖延工作）。如果你有一个无法改变的最后期限，地下室的男孩们会工作得更快。
10、第一稿、第二稿、第三稿和第四稿通常都是垃圾。修改是真正写作的开始。拥抱它。
11、你可以做不止一个项目，让地下室的孩子们忙个不停。（地下室里的男孩是指你的潜意识。）
12、写作是一项艰苦的工作。如果你不喜欢它，你可能会想做点别的。
13、阅读是写作的一部分。从阅读中你可以了解什么是好的，什么是坏的，什么是平庸的，什么是最棒的。
14、总有一天，你不得不说一件作品是你能做的最好的，并把它推向世界。第一个不会是你最好的，继续下一个。练习是变得更好的方法。
15、享受写作，创造你想读的东西。爱上写作，但要记住，这是你必须定期做才能变得更好的事情。
16、如果写作只是你的一种爱好，那就忽略上面的一切，在你想写的时候随便乱写，别担心。这是给你的享受。

Stanley Moss
Mostly that it takes a lot of time and cannot be rushed.
Not everyone writes like Jack Kerouac, on a roll of wallpaper, keyboarded automatically onto a continuous sheet, with little revision.
Writing is an arduous process which takes a methodical approach to do well. Your first draft is simply a download. It takes additional attention to refine, and it cannot be rushed. The easiest way to get a bad result is to race at the conclusion.

大多数情况下，这需要很多时间，不能仓促行事。
并不是每个人都像杰克·凯鲁亚克那样，可以在一卷墙纸上书写，键盘会自动输入到一张连续的纸上，几乎不需要修改。
写作是一个艰苦的过程，需要有条理的方法才能做好。你的初稿只是下载。它需要额外的注意力来提炼，而且不能仓促行事。要想得到一个糟糕的结果，最简单的方法就是在比赛快要结束的最后一刻加入比赛。

Will Greenway
What has experience taught you about writing books?
Writing isn’t magic it is pertinaciousness.
Narrative is a window, and more accessible and connected you make that portal… the more people will buy-in and enjoy it.
Good writing in a promise to do whatever it takes to captivate the reader.

写书让你学会了什么经验教训？
写作不是魔法，而是坚持不懈。
叙事是一个窗口，你可以让这个门户更容易访问和连接……更多的人会购买和享受它。
一篇好文章，会承诺尽一切努力吸引读者。

L. Stewart
The more you write the better chance you have of succeeding.

你写得越多，成功的机会就越大。

Cricket Lynn
That writer’s block isn’t an excuse to quit writing. Some days you just don’t feel like it and you still have a job to do. If you can’t write that day, research, outline the next day’s work, do a character background, setting descxtion. Do something. But if you stop, you end up with a ton of partly finished manuscxts that never go anywhere.

所谓作家的写作障碍不是放弃写作的借口。有时候你不想写，但是，你仍然要去完成工作。如果你那天写不出东西，研究一下，勾勒出第二天的工作，做一个人物背景，设定描述。做点什么。但是，如果你停下来，你最终会得到一吨半成品的手稿，这些手稿永远到不了任何地方。

Gabriel Woods
It is helpful for a creative person in the beginning to be given positive feedback so they grow to have confidence to create. Successful creative people learn, myself included as an author of seven very favourably reviewed books, that the judgement by others on creative works is not important. If an author is happy with how and what they create that shows passion and passion sells, that is my experience.

对于一个有创造力的人来说，在一开始得到积极的反馈是很有帮助的，这样他们就会有信心去创造。成功的创意人士（包括我本人作为一个七本好评书籍的作者）注意到，他人对创意作品的评判并不重要。如果一位作者对他们创作的方式和内容感到满意，那么他们将表现出的写作热情和销售热情，这就是我的经验。

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