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【Writing Circle】Is it reliable to copy books and practice writing?
I asked a question on Google+:
【Writing Circle】2011-7-7 7:52 am
Anyone ready to copy the book?
There is a non-mainland writer named Luo Yijun, famous for his book “Xixia Hotel”. His method of training writing was very old and clumsy: copying books.
Whenever he saw a good book, he copied it. It is said that he copied many translated novels.
Is this method reliable?
A selection of answers from G+ friends:
Kelly Wu – It should be possible, didn’t the ancients write couplets and poems by memorizing hundreds of thousands of poems in their stomachs?
Hongbo Bao – I don’t know if copying books is useful, but the translation exercise is good, and it is helpful for both Chinese and English.
Ziqian – Translation has many functions. Every word is carefully considered, and over time, the words and sentences have become their own. But it doesn’t seem to have much effect on the overall plot.
Tan Bo Niu – Gu Yanwu said earlier: It is better to copy books than to write books. Of course, there may be a difference between getting in and out of bed with the situation you introduced. Contribute a move. Not copying literature is probably the way to improve literature
Lee Adama – The ancients said that when you read thousands of volumes, you can write like a genius. People’s reading is carefully broken and read, and now people do not have so much patience, they can only rely on copying to deepen their understanding.
It feels that it is easier to remember a truth when you copy it several times before when you have to memorize it.
Lucifr Liu – The effect is hard to say. The pace of modern life is too fast. It is estimated that no one can step down and copy books. At least I don’t have the patience. Good books can be read intensively.
Joeenie C – After reading a paragraph and then writing it down immediately, it should exercise the interaction between the left and right brains, so that the areas that control speech and the areas that manipulate behavior have some inertial communication, but it may not be effective for innovative things.
in conclusion:
According to the answers contributed by G+ netizens, conclusions can be drawn. Copying books is useful for exercising the coordination of the left and right brains, and is useful for impetuous modern people, but it has no significant correlation with the improvement of writing ability. If you want to improve your literary writing ability by copying books, try not to copy literature books.
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