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什么是“清晨写作效应”？
What Is The Morning Writing Effect?
2018 — 2020，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
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Gwern 考察所谓“晨间写作效应”：为什么许多作家和创作者觉得早上写东西更高效，并把这种体验与睡眠、记忆形成、创造力，以及写作和编程在作息偏好上的差异联系起来。文章汇总了大量作家轶事、调查和 RescueTime 数据，也讨论晨型/夜型、写作与编辑的分工，以及这些规律在什么条件下成立。
为什么经久不衰：它把个人作息经验放到数据与创作心理的交叉点上，既解释了许多人的直觉，也给出了可操作的写作节奏建议，因此多年后仍值得重读。
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夜间写作适合情感/经验驱动的内容，早晨习惯更适合需要长期理性推进的大项目。
这从根本上说是轶事性的：卡夫卡、乔伊斯、聂鲁达、艾略特等都在夜间写作。我的工作理论大致是“浪漫主义/情感主义 vs. 抽象理性主义”；如果你写的东西受益于即时经验和情感输入（比如卡夫卡在保险公司工作一整天后写噩梦般的官僚制度），那么最好在夜间写，等白天的事情已经发生、你的大脑已经运转了12个多小时之后。反过来，如果你在做大型、宽泛、需要长期持续努力和清醒头脑的项目，早晨的固定习惯更有利于一步步推进。
keiferski查看英文原文
It’s fundamentally an anecdotal thing: Kafka, Joyce, Neruda, Eliot, etc. all wrote at night. My working theory is something like “romanticism/emotionalism vs. abstract rationalism”; if you’re writing something that benefits from immediate experience and emotional input (e.g. Kafka writing about nightmarish bureaucracy after working all day in an insurance firm) then it is better to write at night, after the events of the day have happened and your mind has been operating for 12+ hours. Alternatively, if you’re working on a large, broad project that requires long-term, sustained effort and a clear mind, a morning habitual routine is better for making step-by-step progress.
睡眠参与记忆与创造性加工，所以早晨常有现成的好点子。
我写得很多：过去35年平均每一年半写一本书。关键可能是这句话：“睡眠本身也许才是关键：除了重置状态，睡眠还负责记忆形成，似乎也参与无意识的创造过程。”我发现早晨是我写作或设计、编写软件的最佳时间，好点子常常在早晨唾手可得。不过，如果我下午去休闲（比如徒步一下午），晚饭后也常得到同样的效果。
mark_l_watson查看英文原文
I write a lot: probably average writing 1 book every 1 1/2 year over the last 35 years. This may be key: “Yet another version might be that sleep itself is the key: sleep, aside from any resetting, is also responsible for memory formation and appears involved in unconscious processes of creativity.‘ I find the morning is my best work time for either writing or designing and writing software. It seems that often good ideas are just there for the taking in the morning. That said, I often get the same effect after dinner if I have taken the afternoon off for leisure (e.g., hiking all afternoon).
写作偏早晨、编程偏夜间，可能因为夜间干扰少且编程更怕打断。
我第一个问题是写散文和写代码有何不同。文章谈到了：尽管表面相似……有趣的是，写作与编程的刻板印象与 RescueTime 数据完美吻合。我很想进一步了解为什么这两种活动在刻板印象和实证上都处于相反的时间表。就我个人而言，写散文（主要是文档、博客文章和产品计划）时，我喜欢早起在早晨做；我更喜欢在晚上写代码。我的猜测是，晚上干扰更少，而写代码时干扰更烦人。还有其他人既是写作者又是程序员吗：你们对两者遵循同样的时间表吗？
sqs查看英文原文
My first question was about how writing prose differs from writing code. The post covers this: > despite being apparently similar activities (both mostly involve slinging text), the temporal timing of software development & writing are strikingly different. Thinking back, I don’t recall early-morning programming being a trend among programmers (programmers are infamous for preferring to come in late and late-night programming sessions which may wrap around the clock, especially in college). It’s fascinating that the stereotypes about writing vs programming line up so perfectly with the RescueTime data. I am very curious to learn/think more about why the 2 activities are stereotypically (and empirically) on opposite schedules. Personally, when writing prose (mostly docs, blog posts, and product plans), I prefer to wake up early and do it in the morning. I much prefer coding at night. My hunch is that this is because interruptions are rarer at night and more bothersome when coding. For anyone else who is both a writer and coder: do you follow the same schedule for both?
把写作分为清晨产出与稍后编辑，分开时间、空间和工具；但不适用于编程。
根据我的经验，写作（至少写小说）包含两种不同活动：正式写作，即产出文本；编辑，即主要删减文本。可以把编辑阶段想成从大理石中解放雕像，写作阶段则是生产大理石。这两种活动性质差异很大，最好在时间、空间和工具上分开。我在清晨用纸笔在客厅餐桌上产出。清晨你的梦还残留着，批判能力尚未完全清醒，这使它成为单纯产出内容的最佳时间。我很认真对待这一点，甚至不允许自己划掉词语。只管写，之后再整理。当天晚些时候，我在书房用文字处理软件编辑。顺便说一句，我不建议把这种做法用于写代码。
kieckerjan查看英文原文
In my experience writing (at least writing fiction) consists of two different activities: the writing proper, in which you produce text, and the editing, in which you mostly get rid of text. Think of the editing phase as liberating the statue from the marble, and the writing phase as producing the marble. These activities, since they are so different in nature, are best separated in time and space and tooling. I produce in the early morning, sitting at my dining table in the living room, using a pen and paper. In the early morning your dreams still linger and your critical faculties are not yet fully awake. This makes it an ideal time for just producing stuff. I take this seriously in that I do not even allow myself to cross out words. Just keep on writing, and sort it out later. Later on the day I edit, sitting in my study and using a text processor. As a side note, I would not recommend this practice for writing code.
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