什么是史特金定律

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史特金定律,是由科幻作家西奥多·史特金提出的。该定律认为:任何事物,90%都是垃圾。 引申到目前的社区网站的内容上的意思是:社区所有的作品中,90%以上的作品都是“垃圾”。因此要有能力去芜取菁。一般而言,社区中只有1%人在贡献,9%的人参与评价,而90%是大多数的沉默者。

我在这篇文章里读到:

The trouble is that Sturgeon’s Law—which approximates to “90 percent of everything is crap”—applies to the fields I know something about (SF and fantasy and horror and children’s books and mainstream fiction and nonfiction and biography) and I’m sure it applies equally as much to the places in the bookshops I don’t go—from cookbooks to supernatural romances.

书也一样,大部分都是无效的废话。

上面提到的文章里,结尾处作家 Neil Gaiman 提到自己的写作标准:

The only rule that can guide me as a writer is to keep going, and to carry on telling a story that will not leave me, as the first reader, feeling cheated or disappointed at the end.