Day 8 On Writing Well C11&12

Words and expressions

1. He didn’t know what to make of that, and he began to invoke the names of authors like Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow and William Styron, whom we surely regarded as literary giants. invoke: to make a particular idea, image, or feeling appear in people’s minds by describing an event or situation, or by talking about a person

仿写: During his speech, he invoked the memory of Harry Truman.

2. It was one ofthe all-time lousy radio talk shows.

lousy: of very bad quality

仿写: What lousy weather!

3. But the great preponderance of what writers now writeand sell, what book and magazine publishers publish and what readers demand is nonfiction.

preponderance:  a preponderance of sth 数量上的优势，多数

仿写: There is a preponderance of female students in the English department.

4. This is a person talking to the readerdirectly, not through the filter of a  writer.

filter: pass through

仿写: The news filtered through the town.

5.  If they stray hopelessly off the subject, drag them back. 

stray: to begin to deal with or think about a different subject from the main one, without intending to

仿写: This meeting is beginning to stray from the point .

Reflection

今天读了两章，对作者的两句话印象特别深作者提到Motivation is at the heart of writing. Writing is a public trust.作者说到的非虚拟写作并不是一种低等的 bad writing, 好的写作无论采取哪种形式，都是好的写作。不断提醒自己要培养写作的motivation，才会有将关于writing about people的方式方法作用。