Chapter 103 Ditch the trite rhetoric

Another basic element of retouching language is to strive for fresh style and novel expression.You must have the courage to express your unique insights.Because "horizontally, it looks like a mountain and a side becomes a peak, and the distance and height are different." Different perspectives will produce different effects. We can't be satisfied with the same, otherwise the world will no longer be colorful.For example, after a storm, someone described the freshness after the rain, and created "cool like a cucumber".This expression is very unique, because "there is no one before".

Years later, if you use this sentence to describe the impression left on people by the speech made by Belshazzar, the last king of Babylon, after a feast, it still retains that freshness and vitality, and it has not fallen behind. conventional.However, it would be unreasonable for those who embellish their own words by copying the famous sayings of the predecessors to flaunt their own innovations. Different situations call for different rhetoric.Even when describing the same feeling, the angle must be changed to be more appropriate and natural.For example, to describe the feeling of "cold", you can use autumn rain, earthworms, salt, turtles, bases, flying snowflakes, icebergs in Greenland, dawn, frogs in the water, etc. as analogies.These things can make you experience the ever-changing "coldness" from different levels, and it can be said that the subtleties can see the magic.

As a daily accumulation, when a certain object touches your "cold" nerve, you can put these two related things side by side.Your perception may be unique, so your expression will also be original and unique.Believe in your own feelings, express and create boldly. I once asked Catherine Norris how to develop a unique style.She replied: "Read more classic prose, poems and novels; secondly, when writing, you must resolutely abandon rhetoric and stale expressions." An editor also told me that when he found two or three banal expressions in a work submitted for printing, he did not hesitate to send it back to the original author.Because he believes that those whose language expression is not novel are destined not to have any unique insights and propositions.