Chapter 51 writing experience

I have a child who is eight years old this year.Give her a big cake every year on her birthday.It was very large at the beginning, but it shrank after the Anti-Japanese War.After that, it became smaller year by year, and now it has become a little bit smaller.I seem to be the same as the child's cake. The older I get, the less courageous I am, not only the courage to create, but also the courage to speak. It is not by accident that I embark on the road of writing alone. I have always lived by the sea, and all I see are mountains, water, and natural scenery. I can’t find friends to play with. reading.When I was three years old, my mother taught me how to read, talking about "here are lofty mountains, lush forests and bamboos"; I read eight or nine characters instead of one, two or three. Sometimes when my family took me to the street, I would look at the signs in the shops, and I could remember them all.Also enjoyed listening to the servants tell stories.When I was six years old, I knew how to read novels, such as "Fengshen Bang", "Water Margin", etc., and I only half understood.Later, when I was a little older, I read Lin Qinnan's translations of foreign novels with great interest.Later, I practiced writing by myself, imitating the genre of ancient and modern wonders, and wrote a few stories, but no one bought them, so I sold them to my father, in exchange for a little unexpected income, to make snacks, and the highest price of each article was ten cents. , the lowest is only two or three copper coins, but this is already an encouragement for me.My father also asked me to match the couplet. I remember one time, the upper couplet he wrote was "Chicken Sings the Dawn", and the second couplet I matched was "Birds Singing Spring".My father thinks it's good, but I didn't come up with it myself, I saw it on a cigarette card.At the same time, I think that the right pair has a lot to do with the wording of the words. Some articles cannot be read loudly, and the writing cannot be casual.When I was ten years old, I moved to my hometown in Fujian, and my life changed completely at that time.There are many sisters in the big family, so I started to change into women's clothes, and started to learn to walk. I stayed with the sisters at home, imitated their speech, paid attention to the color of their clothes, and watched how they put on shoes and socks.It also has a big impact on me.

Later I went to school in Peking and learned to speak the Peking dialect, which was very useful to me.In the few years of school life, on the one hand, I learned a lot of scientific knowledge, and at the same time, I did not talk incoherently like in the past, and learned slowly and meticulously.After graduating from middle school, I really wanted to study medicine, because my mother was often sick, and women in the past were reluctant to be consulted by male doctors, so when I was pre-university, I studied medicine to prepare for my mother's medical treatment in the future.During the May 4th Movement, many of our classmates organized a student union, and they recommended me to be the clerical officer of the Yan University Student Union. From then on, I began to write propaganda articles.Then I thought why not write something I like?So I started to learn to write novels, and I used the word "Bing Xin" as my pen name because it was easy to write (much easier than Xie Wanying), but it had no other purpose.Later, a letter from the newspaper asked me to add the word "madam", saying that it would attract attention, but it was meaningless.At first, I wrote novels about social issues, such as the inequality between men and women, and women’s oppression; I felt that I was not oppressed, nor did I feel any inequality, and then I turned to childhood memories. When I first wrote "Fan Xing", I just picked it up casually to express my own inspiration, and I didn't know what style to write it in.Later, Mr. Sun Fuyuan saw it and said it was a new style poem, so I wrote new poems.The collections of "Stars" and "Chunshui" were synthesized, and some of them were written but not published, so they were thrown away.

After studying in the United States, I began to write "Send to Young Readers". Since the publication of this book, I have received many letters from young readers, hoping that I will continue to write. I am moved by their pure feelings. I hope there will always be One day can satisfy their ardent desire. School life in the past ten years.There are many works that can be said to be moaning without illness, and I feel very emotional.Now the older I get, the more emotional I feel.In recent years, due to illness and other reasons, I seldom write anything.After the Anti-Japanese War, I saw many facts about the war, joys and sorrows, and a lot of moving materials. I really wanted to write some novels about the Anti-Japanese War era, but this does not mean literature about the front line, because I have never been to the front line. I have never been willing to write what I have not seen. If I force myself to write, it will be impractical to write.

In addition, I also want to write an "autobiography".Everyone has a problem.I think that to write an "autobiography", you must have a great person, so this "autobiography" is valuable. But I don’t think it’s an exaggeration for foreigners to write “autobiographies”. Why are the “autobiographies” of foreigners often very valuable? , I think "autobiography" is a literary style worth advocating, no matter who it is, it is worth writing his life as an autobiography.So I feel that I was born in the world for more than 40 years, which is a time when China has undergone many changes. If I write it systematically based on what I have done personally, as well as the relationship between the country and society, it can also represent an era. background.But I don't know when this idea will come true!

Now I want to talk about my writing experience. Someone asked me: "When will you write an article?" I think that if I want to write an article, I must write it in a very quiet environment.So I don't like to live in the city, and I don't want to write in the city. I like to live in the countryside and live a quiet life.At the same time, I prefer to write when it is raining and snowing, because no guests will come when it rains or snows.I also like to write at night, but I often suffer from insomnia.I also like to write when I am sick. I think about it when I am lying down. I think about every word and sentence.I often like to be in contact with nature, and there is a lack of natural scenery in big cities.If you are not on the mountain, you can't see the sunset, and even these colors are not easy to imagine.So I would like to take a vacation, I can go outside, get close to nature, and enjoy the scenery of nature.

Regarding cultivation.I think a good writer should always maintain an objective and detached position, and at the same time must penetrate into that environment, but cannot speak from a certain aspect.For example, when describing a fight between two people, you cannot join Party A and help Party A speak, and at the same time, you cannot stand on Party B and help Party B speak. It is best to put yourself in a detached position, observe things calmly, and be rational without emotion. He described it. Secondly, we must train ourselves, whether it is vision, smell, hearing, or all aspects, we must pay attention.If you can't hear its voice or know its color about an event or object, then what you describe will definitely not be profound.For example, when we describe the pomegranate flower, "Liuhua shines on the eyes" is better than "Liuhua shines on the eyes", why is the word "bright" better than the word "red"?

Because the word "red" is very common, "ming" It has "bright" in "red", so it is more meaningful.Therefore, you have to practice yourself when using words, and consider which word to use to be more obvious and appropriate.At the same time, syllables are also very important. Vernacular writing must be written in accordance with natural syllables before it can be read and read.Chinese dictionaries pay great attention to this point, such as flat, up, go, into the tuning, always make each article read smoothly.Today's vernaculars don't pay much attention to this point. I saw a sentence in a child's textbook, "I have time to buy you two books." How ugly is "two books"!Why not use "two books"?So I hope that you will pay attention to writing in the future, and you must practice your words well, so that your writing will be moving.

Also, I like reading books the most in my life.Lying in bed when sick, no matter what books, good books, bad books, Chinese books, foreign books, as long as there are books to read, sometimes we find many things we don't know.The problem with all of us now is that we don't have time to read, but we still have to find time to read.At the same time, in terms of choice, I advise you not to read the translation, it is better to read the original.China also has good novels, such as A Dream of Red Mansions, Flowers in the Mirror, Legend of Heroes, Water Margin, Fengshen Bang, Journey to the West, etc. are all very good. Unfortunately, Chinese people like to talk about integers, complete sets, and how many chapters they make up. Make up one hundred and eight generals, and it will inevitably become dull sometimes.Journey to the West is very good, it is moving forward.Fengshenbang, Dream of the Red Chamber is also a very good exercise.In addition, we all have different styles. In short, we talk to people who can speak, listen to his words, listen to the speeches of learned people, see his structure, and watch his sentence making, because talking more will give us the opportunity to train ourselves .

In the end, I feel that writing an article depends on genius to one point and oppression to nine points.I have to be forced by friends to write fast, but now because of financial pressure, I will write faster. Some of what I said today is unreasonable, but everyone has their own experience, just like the jugglers at Tianqiao in Beiping said, "Everyone can change a juggle, and each has its own ingenuity and difference."My style is the same, nothing special, but that's just my ingenuity. (Records of Shen Wan)