Xue Ren called Wu Wei and asked, you are very good at refining and summarizing, what experience do you have in writing novels, tell us about it, let us share it.

Wu Wei, there is always an endless mission in life, and now he can finally calm down, and he doesn't have to launch new efforts again and again as before. Now I can take a break and rest, but I didn't expect to start a new trek like never before, and I began to write novels about what I wanted to write in the past but regretted not to write.

Wu Wei said again, with the intention of writing novels to read novels again, the feeling is indeed different, now reading some novels, only to know that Lu Dao novels can be written casually, write whatever you want, how to write, but I don't know how to write when I move the pen, this makes me realize that writing casually is actually a state that can be achieved casually, and it is a sign of deliberately following nature. After some hard work of thinking and trying, I gradually entered the state. My general feeling is that writing fiction can rejuvenate people. The Japanese writer Junichi Watanabe, the one who wrote "Paradise Lost", said that a 50-year-old man should revolutionize himself through love. I am in my fifties, but I have revolutionized myself by writing novels, and I have gained many new and novel experiences in the process of writing.

Xue Rendao, I listened to your feelings, and I also feel that your experience and perception of novel creation is indeed unique, you have achieved self-revolution through writing novels, and you regard the creation of novels as life, but I feel that it is difficult to achieve such a self-revolution, and you need capital to write novels as a life.

Wu Weidao, many people are writing autobiographical things now, and many writers also start their creative process by writing about themselves, I think this is an important continuation of their own lives, not just a review of past experiences. There are many new things that come out of this process. Writing the relationship is the most difficult to write, the pro-estrangement is the most varied, especially the love of love, the love of several people entangled together is more difficult to write and grasp, how to write subtle and bold subtle differences, all rely on the pen to grasp. The most taboo thing is to write about the poor and write about the jingle of the poor eggs, write about love and love to die and live and hate can not be integrated, write rich is rich and oily, write beauty is beautiful like a fairy, and write ugly is extremely ugly. Write it down smoothly. It's also too monotonous and boring, to write about the side of change, the rich in the poor, and the rich in spirit; Write about the rich, the poverty of the Tao. Wealth does not last long; Write about love, morning and evening. Evil at heart. Love is unpredictable; There is beauty in ugliness. But it's not the same, and the various collocations are not all the same, they evolve according to the logic of life, which is reasonable and reasonable, and there are sudden turns, which makes people unexpected. It means long. Write about the multifaceted character of the character, the complexity of human nature, the unpredictable fate of the character, and the difficulty of life to control.

Xue Ren asked, how do you feel after reading Dream of Red Mansions 40 times?

Wu Weidao. The skill is greatly reduced, the taste is lost, the knowledge is shallow, especially the language, the character is shallow, highlighting the fame of Baoyu, assimilation and naturalization, tampering with its nature, writing too white and too straight, and the poverty is so poor, what should Brother Qin write, the two are contrasted, there is no depth, if Brother Qin sees what to think, if Sister Fat criticizes, she will be unbearable and disdainful.

Xue Ren also said, I read an article in a journal titled "What is the difficulty of winning awards for urban works". What do you think about this issue?

Wu Weidao, now, our urban life is too troublesome, too worldly, too powerful, too utilitarian, what is missing? It is honesty, it is honest to keep and persevere. Is it the worldly strife that drains people's honesty, or is there a lack of honesty in the inheritance of culture, or is there a kind of honesty but a lack of tenacity?

It should be said that entrepreneurs are pioneers, warriors, generals and heroes who create modern business civilization, but I always feel that our entrepreneurs lack one thing. More than 20 years ago, the newspaper published an open letter from entrepreneurs, telling the world that entrepreneurs have the thinking of a philosopher, the mind of an economist, the courage of a politician, the decisiveness of a military strategist, the vertical and horizontal of a diplomat, and the vision of a strategist, which can be said to have concentrated the essence of mankind. However, in such a solemn and solemn statement and declaration, is it missing or lacking in the bones the soul that the market economy needs most? The subsequent flood of dishonesty proves a real lack of credit. In the business world, there is a popular saying that there is a saying that you don't borrow and don't pay back, borrow more and repay less, get back when due, rely on what you can rely on, and don't use it in vain, and use it in vain, so why not use it. Later, I said that the entrepreneur's statement should be given a banker's credibility. It should be said that bankers are the most trustworthy, and if the heads of credit institutions do not keep their promises, how can they be based on their roots, how can they open for business, and how can they increase their capital and expand their shares to solicit business? Later, however, there was also a situation in the banking circles in which major cases continued to occur frequently.

Indeed, the public ownership system and the modern enterprise system have provided us with an opportunity to directly become senior managers without going through the difficult process of starting a business, which is a kind of historical luck, and as a result, such luck has made people unable to experience the hardships of the original entrepreneurship and the value of honesty and the importance of adhering to honesty. Urban life that lacks the smelting of honest business, no matter how wise and brave and tenacious it is, it is difficult to smelt and smelt that kind of inner aesthetic qualification, and it is naturally difficult for our writers. Writers may feel wandering, confused, and dazed in their seeking, observing, scrutinizing, experiencing, and savouring. In our deep expectations for writers, let's be a little more understanding and considerate, and don't be difficult for our writers. Or return to our reality, to forge an urban life that can flash aesthetic value.

A few years ago, I read a conversation in a journal about the difficulty of winning awards for urban literature, and naturally, the language of literary critics is very professional and in place. I am a lover of literature, in the past, I used to browse those large literary journals on a regular basis, especially like to read novellas, many years ago, even for literary and art appreciation books, class-by-category, paragraph-by-paragraph, or even line-by-line, word-by-word. Through such work, I have increased my interest in appreciating it a little. Through this topic, I would like to talk about my thoughts on urban life and my expectations for writers.

In retrospect, over the years, the literary works that can leave a deep impression and feeling on me mainly belong to scar literature, educated youth literature, and reform literature. For example, Lu Yao's "Life". The phenomenon of difficulty in winning awards for urban works, which has attracted great attention from literary critics, is indeed worth pondering. It is difficult to win awards, naturally there is a lack of the work itself, and is there any problem with the theme of life? The accumulation of life itself has formed a rich mineral deposit that writers can pay attention to digging and refining? Just like petroleum and coal, which have been forged by thousands of years of natural power, our urban life not only lacks the depth of accumulation, but more importantly, in the process of urbanization. The cultural ecology that grows by the blending and mixing of multiple factors brings people the feeling that due to the negative experience associated with competition for fame and fortune, there are too many and too heavy aesthetic qualifications and aesthetic cores that can be appreciated. It is difficult to generate and develop in such an environment, and most of the elements that are lucky to sprout will also be tragically destroyed in reality. Urban life. Loss of simplicity and sincerity. Naturally, it is difficult to be tempting, that is, there is really a simple and sincere life prototype, but it is considered too tun, too off, and too worthless. In urban life, it is necessary to find aesthetic experience and establish an aesthetic model that is different from that of the countryside. For example, a master's degree gives up his studies and a bright future to teach in a remote mountainous area. After graduating from Peking University, he went to fry fritters and promised to use only fresh oil, which would trigger a moving touch, but after being moved, he was washed away and dissolved by rational trade-offs, and the too rational aesthetics diluted the aesthetics. It is also difficult to produce a shock due to aesthetics, just as it is difficult for a cold beauty to make people emotional.

The aesthetics of urban life are indeed somewhat rational, but rationality alone, such as having power and money, seems too powerful and rigid and worldly; Aesthetics also need emotion, and without emotion, the theme of life and emotion cannot move people; The complexity of modern urban life requires spirituality, and the lack of spirituality also lacks epiphany and instantaneous explosiveness and breakthrough, and it is difficult to produce penetrating power that shocks the soul. Urban life needs to be tempered and cast into a prototype of aesthetic qualifications with so many requirements, it takes time, it needs to endure, and it needs to be purified and persistent, and there is a kind of perseverance and perseverance. Perhaps, through such a process, the soul of urban life can be cast. As Mei Baojiu said, I really like the beauty of the soul, and the beauty of the soul is so ethereal, so difficult to understand and difficult to grasp, so it is necessary for high-level writers to skillfully create a beautiful image of the integration of the human soul through the portrayal of the details of the character, so that people have a strong aesthetic experience. It is not difficult for a work of art that shows such the power of urban life to win a literary award of one kind or another.

Maupassant's novel "The Necklace", now reading it, for what else can bring people a strong aesthetic experience? The heroine of the novel, from the vanity of life, dramatically returns to a simple life by losing the fake necklace borrowed from the noblewoman, and through a full decade of hard work to repay the debt owed by returning the true necklace, and finally the story ends intriguingly because the noblewoman's Tancheng tells the truth of the fake necklace. The honesty hidden in the story is worth pondering.

Xue Ren said with a smile, I've listened to you for so long, and I'm really attracted by your ideas, I still have to digest it slowly, okay, I've been talking for so long, let's find time to chat.

The drought was only May 13. The rain finally began to fall, hoping that the rain would not be hot. Wu Wei, who was born in a farming family, is very close to rain, especially after a long time of drought, and there is no one who is more thirsty for rain than for crops. The rain finally kept falling, first it was dripping down, and it was shallow and shallow by the thunder and forced for a while, like a rumbling sound, the sky was darker, and the rain seemed to have a stronger boost to spread joy and smoke, and my heart was extremely happy, and I repeatedly ran to the window to see the flowers and trees in the rain vigorous and lush, especially loved, excited by the coolness and suitability brought by the rain, and more happy that the crops and flowers and trees were moistened by the rain.

Wu Wei read "The Golden Vase of Plums", read the teacher-student relationship with "A Dream of Red Mansions", read "Love in a Fallen City", and saw the shadow of "A Dream of Red Mansions". "Love in a Fallen City", writing about the internal strangulation of large families, the more the tassel has no way out, the more it is run, it can't bear the run, and the squeeze is cold, and the brother and sister-in-law betray their sister to relieve the family's financial pressure, the room is tight, and the room is arranged where no one lives, and the development is so that they don't have to pay for food; wanted to be widowed, and the mother said that she would rather her daughter be widowed than become a courtesan. Tassel because of remarriage to deal with an object, that object is also too stingy, the two just got acquainted and remembered the accounts, recorded family expenses, their own expenses to the centi, sent a letter 4 cents also remembered, the door to death, inevitably let the tassel too disappointed, so stingy that he can't expect him to fight for himself, but the tassel thought about it, stinginess also has a lot less bad problems, lenient men's problems, but in the end it is still too inferior to dispel the idea of continuing to deal with. When it comes to the strangulation between sisters-in-law, it is actually a matter of talking, and the little citizens are not just this life, and they don't necessarily have to do anything to whom. "Love in a Fallen City" also describes the fate of women, but unlike the women in the pen of Shizu, they have become lowly playthings, almost all of them are miserable, except for tassels, they make their own ideas when they encounter problems, seize the opportunity to express themselves, and modern women in the enlightened era finally get a good home.

How to write for hundreds or thousands of people? Which typical characters to choose to write about? Several types of people with outstanding personalities. How to write, according to the logic of doing things, gradually form an intimate circle of talking and discussion gatherings, a career chain of four beams and eight pillars, expand and extend the customer circle and circle of friends in all directions, spread out layer by layer, writing a book is a copy of reality is a reproduction of art, not a general reproduction, everything is there to get a beautiful promotion and transcendence, the natural aesthetic experience will be richer and stronger, the words you write down do not produce a beautiful and pleasant experience, that is the performance of failure, as if the director feels boring and not interesting at all, and even spoiled appetites.

Writing novels is like doing things, asking you to do that, you can write how you want to do it, and gradually enter the role.

There are things that must be done, and there are people who must be written

There is a writer from Peru who came to China to give a lecture, and the testimony of a writer about the importance of self-confidence in creation, inspired by Flaubert, it seems that he is not a genius writer, but through hard work, through perseverance, his talent is created, a work may be very poor and colorless at the beginning, but gradually perfected, until it becomes a masterpiece, the act of genius. Talent can also be generated through hard work, through perseverance, which is a very basic concept.

The thinking and penmanship of the novel, reporting historical themes, breaking and crumbling and the long river of history, becoming a trickle of water flowing in people's hearts, and like a great pregnant woman, the characters are like freshly baked newborns, endearing, entrusting people's ideals and expectations, having a sub-blood relationship with people, implicating people's emotions, and the joys and sorrows of the characters, causing people to have a strong emotional resonance. (To be continued......)