The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.

  • -- Vera Nazarian 维拉·纳扎里安

现实生活和故事的区别在于生活有意义,而故事必须有意义。前者并不总是显而易见的,而后者总是必须在结束之前显现出来。

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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.

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。

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

现代艺术中另一个令人不安的因素是不成熟的常见症状,害怕做以前做过的事。