Words and expressions

1. He didn’t know what to make of that, and he began to invoke the names of authors like Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow and William Styron, whom we surely regarded as literary giants. invoke: to make a particular idea, image, or feeling appear in people’s minds by describing an event or situation, or by talking about a person

仿寫: During his speech, he invoked the memory of Harry Truman.

2. It was one ofthe all-time lousy radio talk shows.

lousy: of very bad quality

仿寫: What lousy weather!

3. But the great preponderance of what writers now writeand sell, what book and magazine publishers publish and what readers demand is nonfiction.

preponderance:? a preponderance of sth 數量上的優勢，多數

仿寫: There is a preponderance of female students in the English department.

4. This is a person talking to the readerdirectly, not through the filter of a? writer.

filter: pass through

仿寫: The news filtered through the town.

5.? If they stray hopelessly off the subject, drag them back.?

stray: to begin to deal with or think about a different subject from the main one, without intending to

仿寫: This meeting is beginning to stray from the point .

Reflection

今天讀了兩章，對作者的兩句話印象特別深作者提到Motivation is at the heart of writing. Writing is a public trust.作者說到的非虛擬寫作并不是一種低等的 bad writing, 好的寫作無論采取哪種形式，都是好的寫作。不斷提醒自己要培養寫作的motivation，才會有將關于writing about people的方式方法作用。