…in the audience, so they share a lot of similarities. For me, learning to write poetry and explore has been great, although funny enough one of the best books to help me with the writing of poetry was Writing Better Lyrics by Pattison, as his advice helps a great deal with poetry (with the above caveat about forms still holding true).
On the Pattison one, out of curiosity did it use his Writing Better Lyrics for the material? I've read the book and love it to pieces even though I write prose, the way he explores words and phrases is sort of magical.
虽然严格来说这是讲语言的，但作为一个在写代码之余也写作的人，它给了我很多启发，我觉得还是算数的。那就是 Pat Pattison 的《Writing Better Lyrics》。他探讨调动感官的方式、如何构思隐喻、如何构建结构，为我观察许多不同的事物提供了全新的视角。我经常重读这本书，每次都能有所收获……
So this is technically to language, but as someone who writes on top of codes it gave me so much to think about I feel it still counts. Writing Better Lyrics by Pat Pattison. The way he explores using senses, how to build metaphors, how to construct things gave me new ways to look at a lot of different things. I reread the book pretty regularly and glean something…
…这听起来很疯狂，但不仅把词句输入进脑子，还通过手指将它们敲出来，会让大脑有另一条途径去理解它们。2. 物象写作（Object writing）。这是从 Pat Pattison 的《Writing Better Lyrics》里学来的，不过大多数技巧都是通用的。你选一个物品/想法，用上全部6种感官（标准的五感加上运动感），写上5到10分钟。你练得越多，你的……
…This sounds crazy, but pushing the words not only into your brain but back out through your fingers gives your brain a different avenue into them. 2. Object writing. Learned this one from Pat Pattison's writing better lyrics, but most of the techniques are generally applicable. You take an object/idea, and for 5-10 minutes write about it using all 6 senses (the standard five plus motion). The more you do this the more your…
…更深入地看待事物。这里有两本我觉得特别有帮助的书，一本是《Elements of Eloquence》（深入探讨了修辞手法，文章里提到的排比结构只是众多例子之一），另一本是《Writing Better Lyrics》，它提供了很多工具，不仅对写歌词有用，对各种形式的写作都有帮助。
…see things more deeply. A couple I really found helpful here are Elements of Eloquence (gets into rhetorical tools, parallel structure as mentioned in the article being one of many such examples), and Writing Better Lyrics which gives a lot of tools that helps for all forms of writing not only song lyrics.
…在听众群里，所以它们有很多相似之处。对我而言，学习写诗和探索的过程非常棒，尽管搞笑的是，对我写诗帮助最大的书之一居然是 Pattison 的《Writing Better Lyrics》，因为他的建议对写诗极其有用（当然，前面提到的关于体裁形式的注意事项依然成立）。
…in the audience, so they share a lot of similarities. For me, learning to write poetry and explore has been great, although funny enough one of the best books to help me with the writing of poetry was Writing Better Lyrics by Pattison, as his advice helps a great deal with poetry (with the above caveat about forms still holding true).
说到 Pattison 那本，好奇问一下，它里面的素材是用他的《Writing Better Lyrics》吗？我读过那本书，哪怕我是写散文的也喜欢得不得了，他探讨词句的方式简直有种魔力。
On the Pattison one, out of curiosity did it use his Writing Better Lyrics for the material? I've read the book and love it to pieces even though I write prose, the way he explores words and phrases is sort of magical.
虽然严格来说这是讲语言的，但作为一个在写代码之余也写作的人，它给了我很多启发，我觉得还是算数的。那就是 Pat Pattison 的《Writing Better Lyrics》。他探讨调动感官的方式、如何构思隐喻、如何构建结构，为我观察许多不同的事物提供了全新的视角。我经常重读这本书，每次都能有所收获……
So this is technically to language, but as someone who writes on top of codes it gave me so much to think about I feel it still counts. Writing Better Lyrics by Pat Pattison. The way he explores using senses, how to build metaphors, how to construct things gave me new ways to look at a lot of different things. I reread the book pretty regularly and glean something…
…这听起来很疯狂，但不仅把词句输入进脑子，还通过手指将它们敲出来，会让大脑有另一条途径去理解它们。2. 物象写作（Object writing）。这是从 Pat Pattison 的《Writing Better Lyrics》里学来的，不过大多数技巧都是通用的。你选一个物品/想法，用上全部6种感官（标准的五感加上运动感），写上5到10分钟。你练得越多，你的……
…This sounds crazy, but pushing the words not only into your brain but back out through your fingers gives your brain a different avenue into them. 2. Object writing. Learned this one from Pat Pattison's writing better lyrics, but most of the techniques are generally applicable. You take an object/idea, and for 5-10 minutes write about it using all 6 senses (the standard five plus motion). The more you do this the more your…
我现在正在练这个，还配合着他的书《Writing Better Lyrics》，非常棒 :)
I'm doing this one right now, along with his book Writing Better Lyrics, it's great :)
…更深入地看待事物。这里有两本我觉得特别有帮助的书，一本是《Elements of Eloquence》（深入探讨了修辞手法，文章里提到的排比结构只是众多例子之一），另一本是《Writing Better Lyrics》，它提供了很多工具，不仅对写歌词有用，对各种形式的写作都有帮助。
…see things more deeply. A couple I really found helpful here are Elements of Eloquence (gets into rhetorical tools, parallel structure as mentioned in the article being one of many such examples), and Writing Better Lyrics which gives a lot of tools that helps for all forms of writing not only song lyrics.