How to imitate other people's writing style?

Simply put, the style of writing is the style of the article. This style is manifested in two aspects, one is the author's habit of using words, and the other is the tendency of the content expressed in the article, that is, "the love and hate of real life revealed by the author in his works."

For Lu Xun's writing style, the first thing I noticed, or appreciated, was the novelty of the sentences. For example, the word "ba" was rare before, but "ah" and "horse" became "ha" and "horse" to him. Somehow, I always feel that they are heavier than "Ba", "Ah" and "Ma". As for the sentence pattern, the first thing that touched me was the sentence in Autumn Night: "In my backyard, you can see two trees outside the wall, one is a jujube tree and the other is a jujube tree." In addition, the word order of many words is contrary to what I usually see, such as "comfort", "introduction" and "glory". And I also like his words "great", "great sorrow", "great joy", "great sorrow" and "great honor".

Of course, there are more places in his writing that can make me feel novel and like. These different French styles give me different flavors. But this flavor is not only manifested in the novelty of language, but also in the tendentiousness of content and the depth of thought. It is said that Lu Xun's articles are profound, which I find profound and have great appreciation for real life. Such profound and rich things, expressed in these novel words and other fabrications, have a taste that I love deeply and can't explain clearly, and are clearly and secretly displayed in front of my heart.

As for what it is, or what Lu Xun's style is, I really can't say clearly. In Lu Xun's essay How Do I Start a Novel, there are some words like this:

"... so I try to avoid nagging in writing. As long as I feel it is enough to convey my meaning to others, I would rather have no foil. ..... so I don't describe romance, and the dialogue will never say a big article.

"After I finished writing, I always read it twice. If I feel awkward, I will add or delete a few words, and I must read them fluently; If there is no suitable vernacular, it is better to quote the old saying, hoping someone will understand. It's no use creating words that only you know or even you don't understand. Only one of many critics saw this passage, but he called me a stylist. "

I am an illiterate foreigner. The last thing-stylist-I don't know what it is and what it's called. I didn't delve into it before. I've always looked at things vaguely, and I'm too lazy to look up what I don't understand, but this time I looked up because I wanted to quote. It turns out that this thing has several meanings, including "stylist" and "person who attaches great importance to his own style".

From this point of view, Lu Xun's style was not formed unintentionally, but he created it himself, but he said it simply, in fact, it was just a kind of "smoothness". The so-called style refers to "a comprehensive overall feature shown by writers in their literary creation". A work can have its own style, a writer can have his own personal style, and the literature of a genre, an era and a nation can also have genre style, era style and national style. The most important thing is the writer's personal style. This style is the unique personality of a writer's works in the unity of content and form. "Style is people", only writers with the same ideological tendency or artistic tendency, or some similar artistic styles, but no writers with the same style.

Some writers have a unified writing style, which can be explained by the words "bold", "graceful", "beautiful" and even "faint melancholy". Although it is not necessarily complete, it can also be roughly expressed. But Lu Xun's style is really hard to explain at once, so some people have long said that he is a "stylist". Shen Yanbing once published The Sound of Reading, praising Lu Xun's innovation in novel form.

In China's new literary world, Mr. Lu Xun is often a pioneer in creating "new forms"; Almost one of the more than ten novels of Scream has new forms, and these new forms have a great influence on young writers, and most people are bound to follow suit and try. The obvious sense of style makes Lu Xun's words, even novels, poems, essays and essays, have completely different expressions. More importantly, there is obvious cultural concern behind this "sense of style".

These remarks are also true, which makes it difficult for people who want to understand his style. Some people say that he combines the characters of Dionysus and Vulcan, but when they meet in his works, it is also confusing. Since I can't give a concise summary and don't want to be vulgar, I'll try to talk about that different feeling.

In my opinion, the densest thing is "night air", which is like a mysterious coat. When I am in it, I can feel warm and comfortable. There is always a fire in the "night sky", sometimes like the ever-burning lamp in an ancient house for hundreds of years, and sometimes it is in the dark. Silence is like wine. When people are slightly drunk, there is a deep yellow fire in the Chaos Mountain standing outside the window, but in front of it, the sea and the sky are the same, and the night seems to be rushing to the heart. At this time, when you look at the stone fence, you will hear your own heart sound. Immersed in his "night air", it seems that there are countless inhuman sorrows, sorrows, broken and deaths in the four places, all of which are mixed in this silent "night air", making it into medicinal liquor, adding color, fragrance and taste. ...

Suddenly, I woke up from drunkenness and suddenly met me in high spirits. It's still at night, but it makes me calm and happy. "I can laugh, I can sing." These are also bloody songs: blood and iron, fire and poison, recovery and revenge. ...

But in high spirits, I suddenly caught a glimpse of him covered in injuries, like a wounded wolf. When he howled in the wilderness at night, his tragic injury was mixed with anger and sadness.

However, he still raised the javelin.

Of course, these are all Lu Xun's own words. I don't know if I made this feeling clear. In short, it is very profound. But it can also be used to show that our generation can't imitate such a profound style.

Here, let's look at this "imitation" again. Imitation is not the same as learning, but imitation is an important form of learning, and it is "a process in which individuals consciously or unconsciously repeat other people's behaviors". In fact, after birth, in addition to instinct, people generally imitate others. The first and most important thing is to learn children and language. These don't look like imitations. Why? Because we don't just learn a person's "style", people talk in the same way as people in the same place, at most there are some differences in their voices, but they are the same everywhere they walk. Talking and walking, these are common behavior patterns. Everyone comes like this, so there is no question of who imitates who. This truth, put in words, is also unified. When a writing style has become popular, there is no problem of imitation, because everyone does it back and forth.

This is the so-called "buzzword". In fact, there was no "popular language" at the earliest. Someone invented this form first, and when later people followed suit, it became "popular". Far away, it is the rise of vernacular Chinese. At first, it was just a few voices. Later, many people supported it and carried it forward. Just because many people felt good, they followed suit. Up to now, there is no problem of imitation, because it has become a road.

Lu Xun said, in fact, there is no road on this land. If there are more people walking, it will become a road. As a road, many people walk around it, and the people behind it will not be described as "imitation" by others. Since it's the road, I can still walk. If there is no road, it is just a wilderness, or a road in the wilderness. A person walks in front and you are behind, which is very suspected of "tracking". Therefore, the most important thing is to get out of this "road" first. Since Lu Xun's words are liked by many people, so they are good, then someone should follow his path. Even if the first followers will be judged as "imitation", as long as there are more people walking, it will become a road. After the road is completed, the good deeds we have done will be carried forward and the followers will be calm.

So I will still imitate it, or follow the kind initiated by Lu Xun, that is, the "style of writing" is concise and fluent, and it should be as deep as possible, preferably with a little flavor, some rich and some heavy. Of course, this means that for words, for the overall style, even if I want to imitate it, I can never imitate it, because the formation of style depends on many specific subjective and objective conditions. No two people can be the same, whether intentionally or not. So I think, in the end, there will always be its own "style", but now we might as well imitate it first, that is, take Lu Xun's writing attitude and method. All these can be done, but I can't do all of them. The way I just learned to express myself is the general direction of this road, and I have similar feelings. I will also be influenced by some tendencies, but

"In fact, there is no road on this land. If there are more people walking, it will become a road. " The reason why the road becomes a road lies in whether anyone wants to take this road. I hope this will eventually become a road.