On Writing Well-11-Nonfiction as

作者提到了如今美国文学界发生的变化：美国的读者群体越来越喜欢事实性的、非虚构类的作品，但是文学圈仍然贬低非虚构作品，只崇尚经典小说、诗歌的创作。

What I'm saying is that I have no patience with the snobbery that says nonfiction is only journalism by another name and that journalism by any name is a dirty word. ... While we're redefining literature, let's also redefine journalism. ... Historically, in America, good journalism becomes good literature.

Ultimately, every writer must follow the path that feels most comfortable. For most people learning to write, that path is nonfiction. It enables them to write about what they know or can observe or can find out. ... They will write more willingly about subjects that touch their own lives or that they have an aptitude for. Motivation is at the heart of writing.

我真正爱上写作也是从nonfiction开始的。虽然从小学就开始学习写作，但当时就是完成任务，被逼着写记叙文、写景状物文，我的内心是排斥的。尤其是上了中学，要开始写议论文了，老师教了我们一堆套路，于是我就开始依照模板批量制造没有真情实感的考试作文。写作仿佛成了一件煎熬而难产的苦差事，让我避之唯恐不及。

读研期间，我开始试着在阅读之后写一些读书笔记，把自己最真实的想法记录下来。这种自由表达的快感是前所未有的，我也就越写越长、越写越多。写了小半年的读书笔记之后，我开始重新把视角转向身边的真实生活，开始用文字记录我的日常生活、求职经历、经验总结等等，我还打算以后基于自己的职业生涯，创作职场故事。我觉得这才是学习写作的正确模式，先从自己最感兴趣的地方入手（比如我是喜欢阅读），然后再不断拓展到其他领域。

英语表达积累

The women were serious about their craft, and the books and articles they had written were solid and useful.

solid (工作、意见等)切实有用的，充实的，实实在在的；You use solid to describe something such as advice or a piece of work which is useful and reliable. 【柯林斯】所以这里solid 和useful 是一个意思，表示这些作家的作品都很实用。

造句：My teacher gave me a solid advice about career planning.

He didn't know what to make of that, and he began to involve the name of authors like Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow and William Styron, whom we surely regarded as literary giants.

make of 理解，看待 If you ask a person what they make of something, you want to know what their impression, opinion, or understanding of it is. 【柯林斯】

比如前段时间的加拿大扣留孟晚舟事件，你怎么看？造句：

--- What do you make of Meng Wanzhou's being arrested by Canada?

--- It's nonsense. They don't have solid evidence for Meng's misbehavior. They must be up to something.

The Saturday Evening Post, which had long spoon-fed its readers a heavy diet of short stories ... reversed the ratio in the early 1960s.

"填鸭"的表达 spoon feed sb. a heavy diet of ...

造句：Students in China are usually spoon-fed a heavy diet of textbook knowledge.

On Writing Well-11-Nonfiction as literature