英文写作是松弛的，文字和记忆都是独属于我的

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英文写作是松弛的，文字和记忆都是独属于我的 | 2月每日书英文班

三明治

2025-01-20

导读：英文写作是松弛的，文字和记忆都是独属于我们的

2024年，每日书一共开设了三期英文写作主题班，吸引来一群以英文为第二语言写作的朋友。其中有几位一期不漏地参与了每一期英文主题班。用英文写作的魅力何在，在英文每日书班里收获了什么，来听听她们的感受吧。

Mel

喜欢参加英文每日书的原因

用第二语言创作是件有一定“风险”的事情：一个介词不对或者时态错误，可能就会把“被困难打倒”写成“被困难打伤”、或者把逝者写到现在时。严肃文学秒变段子，煽情时刻瞬间泄气；真得很容易闹笑话。但是在英文每日书，这个很友善和相互支持的群体，英语基本功并不是一个批判标准。大家总是抱有学习和相互欣赏的态度，去认真对待每一个故事。

英文班给了我一个机会，把很多母语中出于种种原因难于表达的情感和事情，通过转换语言的方式而倾诉出来。英文班作为一个安全空间，也允许了这样的倾诉不被骚扰和评判。重要的是，班主任和同学都很支持；无论你是想要把这个地方当作一个发泄情绪的窗口还是新的文学尝试，你总会找到几个相互欣赏的朋友，创造自己的“writing community”。

在往期英文每日书中写了什么

写了很多主题，因为是英文班我就用英文列举了，比如“love and loss”, “trauma and recovery”, “a woman and her body”, “family feud”, “Asian diaspora”。有用日记的形式、小说的形式、散文形式写的，也有直接用长篇对话水字数的时候😅

写作内容摘录

We loved the kaleidoscope with a glass attached to the end of the cylinder. It turns everything kaleidoscopic. I’d hold it to remake the bustling night street into a shimmering constellation, or to call a vending machine downstairs in our dorm a mini-Yayoi Kusama. We’d hold it against each other and see if we’d still recognize; but your eyes, nose, lips, when I tried to identify at the corner of each triangle, rhombus, pentagon, they escape. You became cubic, identifiable but unrecognizable. You’d ask me who I was, I’d say my name and you’d shake your head. How strange it is that you could deny it, but I wouldn’t feel the urge to reclaim my name. I was more of a self in the way you’d look at me. I was so shattered and waiting to be pieced together by someone like you, who turns out, doesn’t known me at all.

wicked

喜欢参加英文每日书的原因

从英文班第一次集结的24年7月份以来，我意外地发现自己处理创伤的进度在保持英文自由书写的习惯下飞速加快。可以说，英文是将我和过去分离的工具。虽然我没有什么出勤意识，不过几个月下来随性的journal entries也允许我清晰地梳理了叙事与语言的关系。这也是我第一次加入完全由母语为中文的写作者组成的创意写作社群，因此可以大胆地用英文梳理在中文语境下发生的事情，吐槽ESL learner的焦虑情结，也不用担心观众会lost，在选题和phrasing上有了更大的自由。

在往期英文每日书中写了什么

过去几个月的创作状态都处于一种“写了就扔”的酒神状态，通常是睡前或者睡不着。和用中文书写不同，我总是想要去打动甚至惊艳，最终动不了笔；但，英文写作是松弛的，文字和记忆都是独属于我的。

写作内容摘录

I walked down the street, viewing and processing everything like a thinking machine made by the eyes of a travel writer, instead of an anthropologist.

Being a travel writer is about to record, to document, to jot down, to remember, to feel and sense, to walk, to worry about her income, and to get stranded in time and task management, and to reach out 'efficiency' that doesn't even exist...

But being an anthropologist, as someone suggested, is only to interact.

I need to write, I promised myself. However, when I say I need to sleep, I absentmindedly want to seek distraction before getting ready to close a day, which usually disrupts all my plans. I end up staying up until 4 a.m.

When the troubling moments take place, 'it might be the perfect material for my writing tonight' is a versatile coping strategy. Maybe it's not writing that patches, but the possibility that you might actually write something down somehow boosts my confidence in handling this procrastination mess.