Chinanews.com, Suzhou, July 26 (Zhou Jianlin) In the Internet age where "everyone can become a new writer", what is the current status of young writers? What problems do they face when they are labeled as "personality" and "self"? On the 25th, two young writers, Ye Cheng and Li Lu, appeared at the Jiangsu Book Fair to share their creative experience.
Ye Cheng, who brought his new work "Wake Up in the South", said with a smile that he was a bit "split personality." "My work has nothing to do with my writing. At work, I need to survive, I need performance, and I have to say a lot of things against my intentions. This is not what I like in my heart. I started writing to solve my inner heart. The contradiction is relieved mentally." Ye Cheng said frankly.
Ye Cheng, formerly known as Zhou Feng, is a "post-80s" freelance writer. He is also an executive of a foreign company and reads more than 300 emails every day. The book "Wake up in the South" mainly records the fate and fate of various people that Ye Cheng went to work in the south, which is thought-provoking. Ye Cheng's writing takes into account both the era and the individual, exploring various possibilities of prose writing between lyric and narrative.
“To be able to come to the book fair today to share my story with you, I can only express it with'lucky' and'honour'. In the future, with busy work on the one hand and literary dream of love on the other, this state will continue forever. "Ye Cheng said that no matter how busy the work is, he will still insist on writing, and in the future will pay more attention to the living conditions of the new youth and the anxiety of the new youth.
How long does it take to go from a writer to an author? Li Lu spent more than ten years. Li Lu, whose real name is Gong Yihan, is an emerging writer of "post-90s". This time she brought her new work "All Rare Birds" to the Jiangsu Book Fair. In this novel, Li Lu began to abundance of realistic details, and tried to use the imagination that he was proud of sparingly. She puts her poetry and imagination where she needs it most, so that the novel bursts with amazing power.
"Many children have literary dreams, but they may not stick to it. Everyone thinks that my resume is very smooth. It has only been a few years since I started writing and publishing novels. But in fact, my inner struggle has always been my thoughts and opinions on literature. The change is through the experience of life, the change of human feelings, and even the painful understanding.” Li Lu believes that he made his debut very late. In other words, the time to start writing full-time is very close to the present. Two or three years ago.
Looking at Ye Cheng and Li Lu, Wang Yao, a famous literary critic who came to join in, called himself a "new youth in the 1980s." Wang Yao fully affirmed the works of young writers. He said that their creations are broader and more diverse than their predecessors, but at the same time they are affected by the impact of the informationization and fragmentation era and other unfavorable factors for creation. A message from Wang Yao to young writers: To settle down, not to be moved by the clouds in front of you, to study with great concentration, and to find a new path.
At the 10th Jiangsu Book Fair, the "New Youth" series is a landscape that attracts readers' attention. The first four books published are the novel collection "All Rare Birds" by the "post-90s" Shanghai emerging female writer Li Lu, the novel collection "Girls and Titanic" by Guangxi female writer Xu Xiaoya, and the collection of essays by Ye Cheng "The South Waking Up" and Duanmuci's collection of prose "The Burning Crane". They use fine brushes to explore life, use personal literary skills to deal with the intricate feelings and experiences of contemporary society, and show the complex and diverse spiritual space of young people. (Finish)