Chapter 11 Candle Wick Postscript

I am often asked about the time it takes to write, and they ask me: Excuse me, how many words are there in the novel The Pleated Skirt of the Golden Carp? About seven or eight thousand words. How long does it take you to write a piece like this? It seems like one night. one night? The person who asked the question had no writing experience, so he was intimidated, and then said enviously: How wonderful that is, writing seven or eight thousand words every day, the manuscript fee is considerable! It is always a good thing to be envied by others, but how do they know how long these seven or eight thousand words have been brewing in their hearts before the night of writing?Take the golden carp, for example, she is one of the many concubine characters I have seen since I was a child, the times I passed by, and the things I heard, but that kind of emotion was beyond my age at that time. up.I just saw and heard, one after another, more or less, just like dust, layer by layer, falling into your memory.When you are engaged in writing, those characters will dust off their bodies and come to you.You have grown up at this time, and you can also understand the meaning of that era, that kind of character, that kind of thought and action, and that pleated skirt embroidered with plum blossoms.

In this way, although this piece of work is just an overnight book, how much time did they spend on you! The works in Candle Wick's collection are all shabby newspaper clippings, and now I'm really happy to be listed in the Wenxing Series.