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Writing is all about accumulation and experience.
Anyone who works in the writing circle knows this unwritten rule: "One million becomes a god." If you don’t sit on the bench for ten years and write a million words, don’t expect to achieve anything!
Many great literary figures are people who produce a mountain of scrapped manuscripts.
For example, French writer Maupassant. It is said that he is the person who stands up on the scrapped manuscript.
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Writer Shi Tiesheng's short story "Life is Like a Piano String" tells a sad story. The old blind man and the little blind man made a living by playing the three-stringed harp. The old blind man's master told him that when you break a thousand strings, you can buy medicine with the prescription and hope to regain your sight.
Everyone knows the result. There were no words on the prescription at all, it was just a blank piece of paper. However, the old blind man knew in his heart that this was the hope left to him by his master. then. Before he died, he told the Little Blind Man: Said that he remembered wrongly, he should have broken 1,200 strings. Encourage the little blind man to continue, leaving him with a hope of living.
When the Little Blind Man really broke the twelve hundred strings. His skills must have been perfected. It doesn't matter whether he can regain his sight or not. His piano skills are enough for him to live a good life.
The reason is to intersperse this story. It’s because our writing is also a technical job, and not just anyone can write. Someone once said that an ignorant person can never write anything. Writing is a process of continuous learning and improvement. When you actually write one million words, it's like the little blind man who broke the twelve hundred strings. You are no longer the same as you were before. The vision, mind, and writing style have all reached a higher level. If literature is compared to a mountain, you are already halfway up the mountain.
Remember author Gladwell’s “10,000 hours” theory. He said that if a person can concentrate on studying his major for 10,000 hours, he will definitely become an expert. Isn’t it similar to what we say about “one million people become a god”?
"Tao Te Ching" says: "A generous person has no corners, and a great talent comes late." That's what it means. Great and grand utensils need to be polished for a long time.
There is a foreign proverb: Standing at the platform, you will definitely be waiting for the bus.
Liu Chuanzhi also said in a TV interview that as long as the phone number is correct, the call will definitely get through.
In "Ode to the West Wind" Shelley said, winter has come, can spring be far behind?
Mr. Lu Xun said in "Records of Talks": Hope is attached to existence. When there is existence, there is hope, and when there is hope, there is light.
The development of things has a process from quantitative change to qualitative change. When a certain threshold is reached, great changes will definitely occur, although this process is quite painful. For example, boil water. When it reaches 99 degrees Celsius, it won't turn on. It must reach 101 degrees Celsius before it can be called boiling water.
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Therefore, patience is very important, and persistence is also very important.
Individual people, such as Su Dongpo, Li Bai and other great talents and geniuses. It's the ancestor who rewards me with food.
I am an ordinary person with mediocre qualifications. You can only rely on hard work to make up for your shortcomings. Don't draw a line and say that you are not the person to eat this bowl of rice. Write a million words first, and then talk about it.
If you write one million words, you are not yet famous. Then please continue and write two million words!
I believe in the power of persistence. It does not take a day to freeze three feet of ice, nor does it take a day to penetrate a stone with drops of water.
I have always regarded Qu Yuan’s words as my motto, and they are excerpted here for the encouragement of all of us!
"The road is long and long, and I will search up and down."