Words:
1.Drudge
If you describe someone is a drudge,you think they are not doing an important and interesting job but works very hard.
苦工/作苦工
原文：Professional writers are solitary drudges who seldom see other writers.
例子：Factories and coal mines are full of drudges
My father is out on a vocation,leave my mother to drudge.
2.Baggage
(1).bags that you will carry when travel to other places.
##uncountable noun
A piece of **
美国用baggage 英国用luggage
(2).emotional baggage
Under emotional burden
例子：She’s still carrying all that emotional baggage from her first marriage.
原文：What emotional baggage did he bring along?
3.strangle
(1).strangle means to kill someone by squeezing their throat
Eg. He was almost strangled by his parachute harness straps.
Syn:stifle
(2).Be strangling in
strangle means to prevent something from succeeding or developing.
Eg. His creative drive has been strangled by his sense of political guilt.
原文：We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
4.Hassle
1.[informal-noun ]
Hassle is a situation that causes a lot of troubles,efforts and money.
Eg.I don't think it's worth the money or the hassle.
2. 1.[informal-verb]
If someone or something hassles you,they get troubles to you and keep annoying you.
Eg. Then my husband started hassling me...
原文：He meant that the students had been hassling them about different things.
5.clear-headed
If you describe someone as clearheaded,you mean they think clearly,especially in difficult situations.
例子：his clear-headed grasp of the laws of economics.
原文：I don’t mean that some people are born clearheaded and are therefore natural writers, whereas others are naturally fuzzy and will never write well.
6.beard
1. to confront and oppose with boldness, resolution, and often effrontery : defy
原文: Professional writers are constantly bearded by people who say they’d like to “try a little writing sometime”
感悟：
1.第一章中，作者首先介绍了他与一名本职工作为医生的业余写作者之间对于“写作”这一话题的诸多不同观点。doctor对于写作的看法，比较freestyle，他认为写作非常有趣，而且重写没有必要，当状态不好的时候就可以停止写作，和写作圈的人一起也比较有趣。但是作者的观点和他截然相反，他认为写作使犹如苦行僧一般的差事，适合独自精进，且会严格安排时间，不会因为其他事而受到影响。作者认为两人对于写作的观点很不同这很正常，也没有一个关于写作绝对正确的方法。在此，我觉得，doctor确实是比较业余的写作者，想写就写，用于调剂生活，但是white是将其看作是自己的一个需要不断精进的职业。说白了两个人对于写作这件事的需求不同吧。
2.white最后抛出了三个他认为的写作“技巧”
1）关于personal transaction：我所理解的是，每个人对于写作的需求不同，所以就会产生不同的写作者，二是，每个人的生活背景，知识储备，情感包袱不同，总结就是每个人都有自己不同的特质，所以会产生不同的写作风格和观点吧。
2）第二个是，white觉得人性和温暖非常重要。这确实非常重要，很受启发，写作也不是为了炫技，有人性和温暖的文章会更有生气。
3）achieve the greatest clarity and strength，rather than“personalize”the auther
要用最清晰的表达，传达有力的文字，而不是想“表现自己？”，我是这样理解的。
3.第二章，white主要强调了，写作要简洁明了。这点深有体会，因为大学中学习写作时有哥误区，尽量使用高大上的词汇，和句型，才能得高分。但是真正的写作永远是逻辑与内容占第一位吧。重要的是阐述自己的观点，而写作技巧都是为了让你更好得做到这一点。
