记者：曾静琪

10月15日晚7时，外国语学院本学期第一场外教讲座在丽泽D106成功举行。本次讲座的主讲人是Mr. Alex Doubinin，主题是“小说写作技巧”。 Mr. Alex Doubinin不但在美国获得艺术硕士学位，还擅长撰写小说，并在小说写作方面造诣颇深。讲座当晚吸引了不少学生参与互动，座无虚席。

开讲伊始，他先是为大家朗读了几段他的原创文章。在朗读的过程中，他详细地为同学们介绍在写作过程中需注意的关键要素。首先，要赋予主要人物对事物的决定权，这样能使人物形象更加生动。其次，要让小说里面的情节有高潮迭起，甚至可以有令人意想不到的结局。在讲座的过程中，他也不忘与同学们积极地进行互动。在现场，他了解到多数同学都喜欢阅读小说，但每个人喜欢的类型都有所不同。

在讲座接近尾声时，同学们踊跃提问，Mr. Alex Doubinin一一解答了同学们的疑惑。首场外教讲座也在热烈的掌声中圆满落幕。

审稿人：马菁远

A Lecture: The Craft of Fiction

By Zeng Jingqi

At 7:00PM on October 15th, the first lecture of the SFL entitled The Craft of Fictionwas held successfully in Lize D106. The teacher who hosted the lecture was Mr. Alex Doubinin from Iowa Writers’ Workshop, with a master’s degree in Fine Arts of Creative Writing. Many students participated in his lecture.

At the beginning of the lecture, he read a few of paragraphs from his original novels and introduced some important elements of fiction writing as well. Then he told the students main characters in novels should be endowed with power, which made them more dramatic. Besides, he said, both good plots and bad plots should be written in the novel. However, some writers also gave readers surprising endings, because it could leave readers a deep impression of stories and make the novel close to perfection.

In the end of the lecture, many students raised questions and Mr. Alex Doubinin gave answers to them in details.

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