Knowing that girls like writing makes me feel a little better for no reason. The girl is tall and thin, with a ponytail hanging behind her head and a confident smile on her face.
I asked her if there was any charge for publishing her work. She said there were ten dollars.
I said that the county Federation of Literary and Art Circles has a quarterly magazine and also publishes students' compositions. You can try to contribute.
The girl replied cheerfully, and after the staff in the printing room helped her send the mail, she skipped away, her back full of joy.
I think that if this girl's contribution can be published this time, it may change her life, at least in writing, and then it is not impossible to embark on the road of writing. Even this article is a turning point in a girl's life.
I still remember that when I was the same age as a girl, I especially liked writing. Once, the teacher asked us to write "My Ideal", and the whole class was full of all kinds of ideas. I was writing about being a writer. At that time, I didn't know subconsciously that writers write by writing, because I like reading, so I think anyone who wants to be a writer can become a writer.
I love reading, I have loved it since I was a child, and I like it in my bones. When I don't understand all the words, I look them up in a dictionary. Even if I read slowly, I enjoy it and don't feel a waste of time at all.
Later, I learned more words and became more addicted to extracurricular books.
My cousin published several articles on tofu dregs in high school, and I was quite envious at that time. I think my composition is no worse than hers. Since what she wrote can be published, what I wrote can almost be printed.
Considering this, I also wrote a few short articles, carefully written on the manuscript paper, and sent them by post according to the address provided by my cousin. Then there was a long wait, but unfortunately the mail was like a stone, and there was no news.
Many years later, I learned that if you want to contribute to a magazine, you should write it on grid paper, word by word, and punctuation marks should occupy a grid. But at that time, I wrote it line by line with manuscript paper, and the format was not standardized. It is estimated that the editor is not even interested in reading it.
Sometimes I think that if the essays I contributed in those years can be published, it may directly change my fate. Maybe I will go back to the campus to continue my study, maybe I will bury myself in writing and take a different road.
Unfortunately, there was no news of that contribution, and I was greatly depressed. I didn't think I was suitable for writing, so I stopped writing.
The biggest turning point in my life should be to return to the county seat. At that time, I had no job. Playing on the computer all day, inadvertently playing with blogs, improved my interest in writing. It has been ten years since I wrote this article.
I spent ten years chasing my childhood dream. Although unrealistic, I still did it with great care and no regrets. Because I like words, the poor life also blooms warm flowers.
I often look at the high and low windows of buildings in the city in the dark. I believe that every dim window has a story. Maybe many people, like me, have a beautiful dream in their hearts.
I know an old man who started writing at the age of 70. He received a good education himself, and after decades of accumulation, once he came into contact with words, he became out of control. Because he can't use a computer, he writes an article in a note on his mobile phone. Every article seems to be in his mind. As long as he writes, he will twist it conveniently.
In order to write, he abandoned the carpentry he loved all his life, pushed off the position of village cadres, refused his son and daughter to take him to the city to support the elderly, and politely declined some jobs. Because writing with mobile phone is slow, I can write more than 2000 words every day. I have to take time to revise the manuscript for some literary friends.
The novel he is writing is tentatively about the same as "Muslim Funeral". It takes two or three years to write such a novel. He has always lamented that time is not enough, why not contact the WeChat platform earlier. His writing path originated from an official WeChat account published by the Municipal Writers Association. After reading other people's articles, I felt that my writing was ok, so I had the ambition of "an old horse forging ahead and aiming at a thousand miles".
After slowly going deep into the literary circle, he was no longer satisfied with writing essays, but set his goal on novels and masterpieces. He said that three books must be written in ten years. Although this speed is a little slower than that of online writers, it is undoubtedly a rocket compared with the early literary masters who wrote with pens.
I often take this old gentleman as a coordinate. Only in this way can we spur ourselves, not be lazy, not idle, cherish the present and plan the future.
A 70-year-old man can still erect an age-old ideal, seize every minute of his life and never let go of any turning point. I think this spirit is worth learning by anyone.
The old man will talk to me occasionally when he is free. He said in a low-key way that he would learn from my writing advantages and add them to his writing. When I read his novel, I was learning his attitude towards life.
On the Internet, I made many friends who love literature. I remember when I was playing blog, I had a literary friend in Sichuan. He was paraplegic because of a car accident and committed suicide several times in frustration. Later, I adjusted my mind and started writing. From the initial poetry and prose to the later novels, after years of hard work, unimaginable literary achievements have finally been made.
I like a novel by Alai writer, The Dust Settles. Needless to say, the content of the novel is fresh in my memory, and the name often makes me think a lot. A person is like a dust, no matter how you toss it, it will settle down one day. But when it is not decided, there will definitely be a turn to where we want to go.