“武侠小说家的13堂课”第一课什么是短篇小说,想必大家都很清楚。在我眼中,这是一种最精粹、最没有废话的故事载体。事实上,一万字的篇幅也不容许作者添加哪怕一点点的闲笔。在短篇小说中,简练是一个最重要的前提。笔法不够简练,就没办法在短短几句话中把事情说清楚。以我写过的短篇《江湖》为例,在开篇里我是这样处理的: “Martial arts novelist 13 lessons ” The first lesson What is a short story, surely we are very clear. In my eyes, this is the most quintessential, most non-nonsense story carrier. In fact, a word length does not allow the author to add even a little bit of idle pen. In short stories, conciseness is one of the most important prerequisites. Stroke is not concise, there is no way to make things clear in just a few words. Take the short “rivers and lakes” that I wrote as an example. In the opening text I dealt with this way: