The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.

  • -- George Stephen 乔治·斯蒂芬

这样做的好处是,在花大量时间写初稿之前,你就能发现故事的缺陷,而且你几乎不可能在一个困难的章节卡住,因为你已经做了很多工作来克服这些障碍。

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A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.

有一天,我的一个朋友拿着一把旧吉他出现了,我认识他已经有一段时间了。我不知道他从哪里弄来的,我不知道他有多久了,但他知道上面有两个和弦。他继续教我,然后我们开始为音乐疯狂。

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

我一直想演圣女贞德。我一直想这么做。现在我在想,‘也许圣女贞德的母亲有个故事!“如果我不快点,她奶奶!”

Words are contact with other beings. I see a word that says something I've noticed, seen, felt, obserevd, and I capture it; "I need that word!"

语言是与其他生命的联系。我看到一个词,它说的是我注意到的、看到的、感觉到的、观察到的东西,我把它捕捉下来;“我需要那个词!”

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

创造的过程不是由一个开关控制的,你可以简单地打开或关闭;它一直伴随着你。

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

现在电视上有这么好的剧本,但遗憾的是,我没有在电影上看到太多优秀的剧本。

The only people who can truly know your story are the ones who helped you write it.

只有帮助你写作的人才能真正了解你的故事。