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Writer Ye Zhaoyan

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A writer can keep his writing for a long time. He is grateful. I am like athletes. I am always in the season, and I am always writing.

Guo Muqing: The outside world commented that you are a "high -yield writer" and praise your diligence. What do you think of your creative path and writing status for so many years?

Ye Zhaoyan: I like writing. I am like athletes. I am always in the season. I am always writing. Because many writers in the literary world have stopped writing, they will feel that I write more. If you count it, if you write five hundred words a day and how much you can write a year, I don't seem to reach this level. As a professional writer, I feel that I have not written much, although I have written for thirty years.

Guo Muqing: Thirty years is a very long time.

Ye Zhaoyan: Calculate it carefully. From the beginning to the beginning to this day, it has been more than thirty years. Those who have really been writing are almost thirty years.

Guo Muqing: What is a state of writing a fate?

Ye Zhaoyan: Writing life is to take writing seriously. I basically do not do other things and become a professional writer. Over the years, 95%of my energy has been used in writing. Imagine that if 95%of a person is doing one thing, should you create more and better works, and I write too little.

Guo Muqing: I remember that you wrote in an article that your grandfather Ye Shengtao, in his 80s, still insists on writing every day.

Ye Zhaoyan: But he didn't actually write too many works. He also did something else, for example, to reply to others, change the manuscript, etc. If he compared him with me, he may only use 5%of his energy to write. And I am writing with 95%of energy, or even 98%of energy.

Guo Muqing: Yes, Mr. Ye Shengtao is an educator, and you are writing with life.

Ye Zhaoyan: A writer is very important to keep writing. Writing is life. Just like a person has a death, the writer will not be able to write it in the end. Therefore, when you can write and want to write, write as much as possible! It is a day to write a day, which is a bit nice. This is called "life is endless, fighting is not just". What is not good to say is that it is better to live in the literary world.

Guo Muqing: You said, I suddenly remembered that Kafka said that the most ideal lifestyle in his mind is to write in a cellar. Some people give meals on time in three meals a day. Essence What do you think of this lifestyle?

Ye Zhaoyan: Writing is not only reflected in the suffering of the creative process, but also a kind of adherence to writing all year round. I think that the writer is like a prisoner who has been sentenced to life imprisonment. He was locked in the prison.

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Talent is not important. The most important thing is whether you can boil to one million words.

Guo Muqing: For young writers, after writing a book, sometimes there will be a very empty feeling. I feel that I use my knowledge and accumulation. What do you think of this state?

Ye Zhaoyan: When I first started writing, it was easy to write 45 million words. Why? Just like a person draws a piece of graffiti on a blank piece of paper, it is easy to write the horse, the sea wide sky, you can write it, you can write the energy, and you can write a lot. This bowl of "rice".

Guo Muqing: Why?

Ye Zhaoyan: Because at this time, he may take out the most precious experience in his life, and all his ability is used. However, when he finish writing 40,000 to 500,000 words, he will enter another stage. Just like we are so -called a "door" stage. It is very difficult to enter the "door". When he started writing, he wrote what to write. After gradually "door", he would find that he would have to write this way without wanting to write like this. There will be a lot of completely different feelings. The fine bottleneck is difficult to break through.

Guo Muqing: At this time, many people can't write it.

Ye Zhaoyan: Yes, especially when writing a million words, many people can't write anymore. The reason is simple, that is, he uses all his wisdom to use it. If a literary enthusiast does not write a million words, you don't have to evaluate whether you can write the way to writing. What I am telling is true. It is easy for young people to write articles. It is normal for a young man to have talents. Writing always needs to be a bit talented, but this is not important.

Guo Muqing: What is the important thing?

Ye Zhaoyan: What is important is whether you can boil to one million words. This is easy to say, but it is not easy to do it! why? Because when he wrote thirty or forty million, he would find a lot of problems. He could not always write love stories, always write spy wars, or a fixed subject matter or type! One million characters are a threshold for writing, not good and bad, just like athletes. He must play so many goals. He must practice shooting countless times, practice layup, countless times to win the game.

Guo Muqing: Some people say that if you want to be proficient in knowledge and craftsmanship, you must persist in studying 10,000 hours, which is the same as you.

Ye Zhaoyan: Yes! A young man's novel is well written. It is not unusual. If he wrote to play, this is okay, but if he wants to be a professional writer, you must enter this "door", you must have one million words to the bottom. This is a process of quantitative change. In order to find that you have no such talents, otherwise you will play. Guo Muqing: How many words do you write every year?

Ye Zhaoyan: When I was young, I was more than 300,000 words a year. This state lasted for many years. For a professional writer, it was not difficult to one million words at all.

Guo Muqing: What if I write so much, I suddenly find that I do not have this talent, what should I do?

Ye Zhaoyan: This is the same as falling in love. After writing for three or five years, you don't want to write. You broke up with writing and divorced. It is normal! Many people are like this! I always think that success is not important for writers. It is important to see if he can enjoy writing. If writing is unhappy, why write? Honestly, there are too many good things.

Guo Muqing: However, for those who really like to write, they can't write anymore, and have been sentenced to "death penalty", which must be extremely painful.

Ye Zhaoyan: No. At the beginning, most of them are written by instinct, but writers are not only instinctual, but also need a lot of training. They need to be cooked together and need to be repeated. There will be a leap in the quality change. At that time, he already had skilled text operation ability, and he could slowly know how to make the article pass. This has a series of techniques and a technical work.

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Writing is originally bitter, like a love marathon, and you will taste sweet when you run.

Guo Muqing: I heard that a few years before you started writing, you can stuff the pillows with a reply letter. Is there so much?

Ye Zhaoyan: This is a bit exaggerated, but there have been a lot of refund letters. In the five years when I started writing, I was not smooth. I was always writing, but I couldn't publish it, but the experience of these five years is very important to me, just like a love marathon. Time tests my love with literature because of time. Many people experienced five years of frustration, and they were reluctant, but I didn't, I insisted, I tasted sweetness!

Guo Muqing: This is like a boy chasing a girl. He always wrote to send flowers to her, but the girl is not moving, the heart is not open, and the time is over, the boy may leave. If you did not knock on this fan at the time What do you do?

Ye Zhaoyan: I am very lucky. I persisted for five years. This door opened for me. If I have not made progress, I think I can cook until ten years. If I have n’t progressed ten years later, I may not write it. However, in the first five years, although I was often returned, I always insisted on writing. My enthusiasm did not decline because of being rejected, but increased.

Guo Muqing: Your persistence and enthusiasm deserves our learning.

Ye Zhaoyan: Because I love writing, in order to write, I have to bear what kind of grievances, and it is one of them. This is normal. I was very annoyed and very embarrassed. The novel can be retired six or seven times, seven or eight times, or even ten times. At the end, the skin is thick, and they are "shameless".

Guo Muqing: Do you teach your daughter Ye Zi's writing experience?

Ye Zhaoyan: Before, my daughter wrote a long story, and I forgot how many words I wrote, but because I was thrown away, I told her that I had to finish writing. If you lose it, it is difficult to complete without the writing emotions at that time. I always think that writing articles and writing badly is not important. The important thing is to finish writing. When writing, do not pull a work to how high a work is to say what this is your own masterpiece, handed down work, etc., that's the key, the key is finished, nothing is finished.

Guo Muqing: Do you have an article that you have started?

Ye Zhaoyan: I rarely have this kind of not finished writing. Once an article starts, I have to write anyway, and my life is basically in a state of writing anyway. Therefore, sometimes I feel tired and feel like I am always fighting. But when I finished writing, I felt very fun, just like fighting a war, breaking a hill, and winning a city, always winning the enemy.

Guo Muqing: In real life, most people like to be lively. Writers are often those who can be lonely and sit in the bench. Do you think it is painful?

Ye Zhaoyan: Clear? I am accustomed to this state, and the writer should be accustomed to painting and writing hard and desperately.

Guo Muqing: The creative life of many writers in China is not long. In a long stage of life, it is written. For example, Shen Congwen, what do you think of this phenomenon?

Ye Zhaoyan: Yes, like my father's generation of writers, or my ancestor writer, like Ba Jin, born in 1904, in 1949, it was only more than 40 years old, but basically not written. There are many reasons, many writers are different, and the reasons are different. I often think that I love writing so much. If one day I can't write it suddenly, I must be very uncomfortable, and that kind of uncomfortable is unimaginable.

Guo Muqing: Is there a sense of crisis in writing for so many years?

Ye Zhaoyan: There will be a sense of crisis, but it is more grateful. In such an impetuous society, writing is a kind of happiness, you have to write quickly, and you have to write time.

Guo Muqing: Yes, there are too many reasons for interrupting a writer. Ye Zhaoyan: There may be their own reasons in it. For example, they are old, they can't write, and there are also causes of social, political, and economic reasons. Maybe he can write, but the publisher is not published. Why? The publisher feels that such books are not selling well. In short, there are many reasons to interrupt writing.

Guo Muqing: Therefore, when you can write, you can write, when you like it, you must work hard.

Ye Zhaoyan: Yes! I can't do without writing. Writing is my lifestyle. I think about life and society by writing. I can't think about it without writing. Many people may also feel such a feeling. Oral expression is immature, falling into the pen, combing their own ideas into text, and often can be sublimated. Life experience.

【Interviewer's Fist】

In the early 1990s, Ye Zhaoyan faced a tangled but specific choice -whether to be a professional writer. He said that at that time, he bought a four -way printer and worked hard every day. As long as he had a chance, he felt that there were countless things to write, and dreaming was writing.

In November last year, I went to Ye Zhaoyan to interview in Nanjing's house. His wife Ms. Wang Yuehua "complained" with me: "My mother always says Zhao Yan bitter. Yes, they will always have a rest day, but Zhao Yan does not have. At about seven o'clock in the morning, he sat in front of the computer on time and started writing. "

From Ye Zhaoyan's entanglement, whether to be a professional writer to this day, time has passed away. In the years of 30 years, he has been working hard and tirelessly to create a lot of excellent literary works. Ye Zhaoyan said that his father grew up watching the back of his grandfather Ye Shengtao's late night case. He grew up watching his father's tireless back, and Wang Yuehua told me that their daughter's leaves were also diligent in Ye Zhaoyan's diligence. Writing the back of the writing, step by step towards the road of literature. Now she teaches literature at Nanjing University and is also a young writer who has emerged.

They were simple and unprepared, but evoked the long -lost movement in my heart.

The inheritance of the four generations of the Ye family's four generations is not only reflected in their efforts to create a large number of excellent literary works, but more importantly, they are full of love in the face of literature and the posture of writing. It is low -key, humble, in today's impetuous society, this is a very rare quality.

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