"David Gerrold - Worlds Of Wonder - How To Write Science Fict" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gerrold David)

Finding the Right Words................................................170
Paragraphs...................................................................173
Evoking....................................................................... 178
Metric Prose.................................................................181
Memes.........................................................................186
To Be or Naught to Be ..................................................195
Find Another Way.........................................................200
Style Redux..................................................................202
Who's On First?............................................................205
Tense ...........................................................................210
Pronouns......................................................................214
800 Words....................................................................218
Dialogue, Part I ............................................................220
Dialogue, Part II...........................................................222
Discipline.....................................................................225
The First Million Words................................................229
Be Specific....................................................................230
Why Write?..................................................................235
Ten Pieces of Good Advice............................................237
Recommendations........................................................238
Index...........................................................................239
 Start Here
Every great writer was once a beginner.
Remember that. Don't beat yourself up for not
knowing something. Go out and learn it.


The very best writing instructor I ever had was an incompetent.
A terminal alcoholic who could barely find the classroom
each day, he was a bleary-eyed, red-nosed, overstuffed,
walking elbow-wrinkle of a human being. Whatever writ-
ing ability he'd ever had, he'd long-since drowned it, and
the corpse was a layer of dried sediment at the bottom of
a bottle.
He didn't like me either.
His lectures were a waste of time. His assignments were
pointless. The class was as challenging as the hole in a
doughnut. Custard had more substance.
But one day he said to me the most important words in
my entire career. Had he not said these words, my life
would have been far differentтАФI probably would not have
become a writer. He looked me straight in the eye and said,
"Stop wasting my time. You're no good. You'll never be
any good. You have no talent. You'll never be a writer?'
His words angered me so much that I made a promise
to myself. It was very simple. I'll show you, you stupid old
bastard!
That was in 1963.
Within four years I'd sold a script to televisionтАФ"The
Trouble With Tribbles" episode of Star Trek. Within ten