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The characteristics of a good writer
1. The best writers spontaneously produce from three to twenty times as much as the average writers and from thirty to fifty times as much as the poor writers.
2. The best writers think their problems over from start to finish much oftener than the average writers do. And the poor writers are almost all constitutionally unable to repeat the intellectual effort.
3. The best writers keep extensive notes and most of them test out ideas for stories or articles or essays in fairly long rough form before deciding to use them.
4. The best writers tend to change their first ideas extensively, while they potter over them; and the poor writers almost invariably cling tenaciously to the original 「inspiration」.
5. The best writers have many ideas and hence hold them cheap, while the poor writers have few ideas and hence cherish them.
6. The ideas and first sketches of the best writers show an enormous range of quality. There is more unmitigated rubbish in their notes than in the meager documents of the poor writers.
7. The best writers can accept both criticism and new ideas from other people much more readily than can the poor writers.
8. Average and poor writers who produce large amounts of writing, finished or experimental, usually do one of two things: either they unconsciously imitate something they have read and admired, or else they grow verbose, saying in a thousand words what might have been telescoped into a hundred properly chosen words.
9. The best writers are almost wholly wrapped up in saying what they have to say. They are absorbed in sheer expression of ideas. The poor writers dawdle over words lovingly. They spend an hour over a single sentence, striving for exquisite rhythm, for alliteration, or for poetic figures. They become engrossed in the parts of the picture which they wish their words to depict. They can neither see nor manage the whole. |
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