"Gaowangzhuang has returned to tranquility again. Under the flower slope, the bustling commercial street, rows of beautiful villas, factories, and scientific research buildings are still so quiet and beautiful against the setting sun." At 9 a.m. on December 16, 2021, with Gao Wangzhuang's tranquility again, "Shanhe Zhi" (also known as "In and Outside the Village", click 
Get up at 6:30 every morning, sit in front of the computer and start creating until 5 p.m., Adao's mind is tight. When the alarm clock rings during lunch break, no matter how sound he sleeps, he will suddenly jump out of the bed, rush into the bathroom to wash his face, let himself wake up quickly, and continue to create in the afternoon. Such days have lasted for 8 months since the first chapter of "Shanhe Zhi" on the day of Tomato update.
Adao who went downstairs to throw garbage, sometimes when he met the old lady downstairs, he would always be persuaded with great sincerity. "Young man Don't always be idle at home. You are still so young. You have to work hard and go out to find a job quickly. You can't waste your youth!" "
What the old lady didn't know is that this young man who lives in the attic every day has produced works such as "White Sister", " Jiang Kiss ", and "Youthful and Promising". After entering Tomato Novel , Adao still continues his realistic theme style. The scores of two "Youth Travel" and "Shanhe Zhi" exceeded 9. 's monthly royalties in the Tomato Novel site exceeded 100,000 many times.
Now, Adao is ready to rest for a while - Every time after completing a work, Adao will give himself a few months off to travel with his family, draw on the inspiration that occasionally pops up in life, and lay the foundation for the next novel.
below is the conversation between us and Adao.
How old are you this year and how old do you think you are mentally?
I am 32 years old this year, born in the year of the snake, my mental age is that I always feel like an immature child. When Xiaoyu got married, many authors went there. It was the first time we met. They originally thought that I was a very restrained and unspeakable person, and it seemed that there was a deeper age beyond this age. As a result, after meeting, many people Is he really a Dao? It's completely different from what I imagined...
Is it because of your novel subject and the hard experience of the characters that will give people the feeling that the author needs to go through a lot of things before he can write it?
I don't know. Maybe I like to think about it, and then experience some things, and I like to be stubborn about some issues, and I have to explore them layer by layer. But I always feel that I am not mature in many aspects, like the parents of the previous generation, they feel very serious about work and life. Like my generation, especially like me, I always feel like a child, and I can't say that I don't have the pressure to support my family, but it seems that my life is not focused on this aspect.
You shouldn't have the pressure to support your family now, right?
Life has also experienced a period of no money. To be honest, the motivation for writing at the beginning was to make money. During that period, the pressure was indeed quite great and confused, but when those years passed, my income and other aspects of my pressure was reduced, I really didn't worry about supporting my family.
Now it's more about the pressure to think about the story itself. I feel that my work and life are inseparable. Life is the way I draw materials. When I encounter some problems in my life, I will habitually think deeply about the problems.
Please ask Do you communicate much with the editor in normal times?
Every time I write a new book, I communicate with Xiaoyu frequently, and I can't help but modify it at the beginning, which is very difficult... But the editor has really helped me a lot over the years, and I am very grateful to him. But in terms of updates, the editor is never worried because we have worked together for many years and know that I usually don't interrupt the update if I write a book.
often needs to modify the manuscript?
The previous book "Youth Travel" collapsed. In the past ten days, I handed over ten to the editor at the beginning. He said it was almost meaningful. In fact, when he said it was almost meaningful, I looked carefully and found that it was almost meaningful.(Laughs) It’s just that it’s written too much like a novel. In fact, a good novel, especially at the beginning, must not be like a novel.
Although my editor and I have worked together for many years, we have already had a tacit understanding between each other, and sometimes he asks me to change it, I am really a little reluctant. Because every author has a sense of pride, he always feels that what he writes is the best, and he will first feel rejected when he is given some advice.
But I want to remind new authors that you should correct your mindset at this time. I just thought that he asked me to change it was not to make my writing lose, but to make my grades better. It takes a lot of effort to polish every detail, but to be honest, we will be happy only if we have all corrected it, and everything will be difficult at the beginning.
is too much like a novel, which refers to routine?
means that you can see it. This is the novel, it is fake. Instead of saying that I opened a book and saw the first few lines of text, I suddenly felt that I was unconsciously attracted to it and kept following the plot. The beginning of this novel is the best, and you can feel this feeling.
I found many new authors who think that the writing style of novels is very important. When writing novels, they like to pile up a lot of gorgeous rhetoric and use a lot of rhetoric techniques. In fact, this is more suitable for writing prose. In the more popular novels, you often don’t find too many gorgeous words and sentences, such as "Ordinary World", including the Murakami Haruki book I am reading recently. But they can first explain something clearly, which makes people want to turn it over, and then the story structure is also very rigorous, and some foreshadowings and conflicts are handled just right.
Can your story catch others as soon as possible? This is the first priority to judge whether the story is good or not. Then use some rhetoric and good writing style to embellish it, which will add points to the novel. Written in this way, this novel is relatively more enjoyable.
, and the creation should pay attention to the best state. When is the best state of creation? For example, I suddenly thought of a story, or something emotional came to my heart. At this time, I had an impatient desire to turn on the computer and start expressing it. I wanted to tell others that I thought of this story!
pair, you should be very excited at this time, but will there be times when you can't continue writing?
I have been to Tomato for the past two years and have not invited me for a day off. Don’t you have a day off every month to take a tomato? I have never used it before, and I think it doesn't mean that I have to ask for it if there is one. Readers are waiting for me. If I don’t update this day, then many people will definitely be disappointed.
I rely on my own passion every day, and then adjust my mindset to write. Of course, I have been writing books for so long and have indeed appeared in casinos or when I feel that I am in a bad state, I will have my own way of solving it. When I am most painful, I hit my head against the wall, which is really uncomfortable.
Sometimes when you meet a few readers, and then your mentality will explode. I used to be very slim, but now I have become thick-skinned. If your heart is not strong, it is best not to engage in this industry. You really need to have a strong heart. You need to take care of the readers' emotions and adjust your emotions.
Will readers urge them to update?
is urging very hard. Once when I was playing a game, a reader actually came to the game and left me a message and urged me, which made me dare not log in for a while. It was really exaggerating. Now every time I go to the game, I am invisible first, for fear that I will be discovered and you will not write a book, so I am playing here again. But in fact, this is also an encouragement to me, at least it is needed by others.
Will you show what you are writing to others? Or did you just send it if you think there is no problem?
usually check the typo after writing it, and then it is sent without any major wrong sentences because it is too late. I write a book about 10,000 words a day. If I finish reading it for a few people and I give you a lot of suggestions, I don’t need to write it.
You are more persistent in what you wrote, right?
is mostly sticking to your own point of view.But sometimes, for example, when the novel is written in the middle, I feel that it may not be very good to write any piece, but there is no way, and I can't change it anymore, and I have to update it tomorrow. Hundreds of thousands of people are waiting to read your writing, you said you can't let so many people wait and listen to you, "I haven't thought about this yet, why don't I take it back and change it."
Hundreds of thousands of people are watching, will it put a pressure on you?
will definitely be stressed, and the first one is often the issue of values. What if you can’t write well and you really teach others badly? I can't take such a big responsibility. I have some readers who sometimes give me some opinions and I will listen carefully. I will wonder if what he said is right or what I wrote is right. If I think what he said is more correct than what I wrote, I will quietly change it back.
Do you think you are a more optimistic or pessimistic person?
I think I am an optimistic person. The more optimistic a person is, the more thorough the pessimistic heals. Otherwise, how can I understand happiness?
If a person suffers every day, he must write about optimistic things because he lacks them. When I wrote my first book, my real life was not very good, I was very painful and confused, and when I was writing, I wanted to write some optimistic stories. Because I am very painful in reality, I cannot be more painful in books. It can be said to be a kind of spiritual sustenance.
It feels like writing a book to heal your own trauma?
pair, that's it. I just wrote that at that time, and later when my income gradually increased, I began to think about writing something profound and profound.
Do you need to have a clear story before writing before writing?
A novel costs one or two million words, and the specific content will definitely not be thought of so much. But in fact, in recent years, I have developed a habit for myself. When I write a book, I have to think about what kind of spirit this book should convey before I can write it.
What you write must be a bit valuable, which is the responsibility of being a literary creator. If the views in the book are conveyed incorrectly, they will have a bad impact on some teenagers. Sometimes when I write a point that I personally think is very correct in my book, I will repeatedly guess whether this point is right? Don’t write if it’s wrong, and don’t write if it’s not sure. Readers will be more or less affected by the story when reading books, whether it is entertainment or entertainment.
Do you think literature should actually bear certain moral and social responsibilities, right? I can absolutely be sure of this
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So what social issues do you usually pay attention to or think about, and write them into your own book?
I often browse the headlines, read some national policy news, and think about where the country will develop next. However, what happened around me often resonated with me and thought more.
"Shanhe Zhi" ends up talking about the contradiction between economic development and environmental protection. This is something that happened to me. There is an island where we have a project to build a large chemical enterprise industrial park on the island. The villagers on the island were afraid of pollution and began to object because it was their survival home. However, this project can promote the transformation of new and old kinetic energy and provide energy security to the whole province. In a broad sense, it is a good project. Each person has different perspectives and interests. There are no bad people in it, but there will be conflicts.
actually has many novels written in naive ways. Why? Because it is either black or white, or good or bad. This is not the case with the real world, the real world is complex. Different perspectives, different human natures. Later, many of my readers felt that the book I wrote was in-depth, and this is the reason, because the characters in the book looked at the goals that both parties wanted to achieve and what they undertake from the perspective of different interest groups, and they understood it. After understanding it, although no one can solve it and there may be no answer, at least everyone will look at these problems more objectively. Technology is becoming more and more mature, and some problems may not be solved by our generation, but the next generation may be able to solve them.
I saw that you mentioned in your previous interview that the inspiration for the novel "Shanhe Zhi" came from the entrepreneurs I came into contact with when I was a director?
pair, I think writing novels requires a lot of things to enrich myself, and many of the experiences in the book are also derived from my own real experience. I used to do TV shows and interviews with characters in Beijing, and I was also in contact with relatively rich bosses. Interviews will often be circling in the workshop, and I will observe the processes of equipment, machines, and production lines. Some of my readers are workers in factories. Sometimes they ask me, "Brother, why did you write the workshop so detailed? Have you really done it here?"
Many people are in it, but they may not be able to write it out. You can describe these truthfully. Do you prefer observation and records in your life?
Like to observe is one aspect. Another point is, why do people in it often cannot write it?
because creation is fragmented. If you just experienced something very interesting to write down, but when you turn on the computer, you often don’t know where to start because the impression it forms in your mind is so perfect. This matter is often left for many years and then thought about it. Some things can’t be remembered, but some things can still be remembered. I think it’s the best state to create it at this time.
Why? Because the book does not need to be comprehensive, what it needs is a main line, and what needs is important information that can attract readers . It is equivalent to a book, and the content of the story must be condensed into the most core thing. This core thing is often the part that precipitates our memory, and I can still remember this and prove that this is important. When we just experienced something that you remember clearly, it is often not the most important thing. Of course, this is my personal understanding.
We know that "Youth Travel" actually tells the story of a young man who grew up in suffering. What qualities do you think young people should have if they want to grow up, or what qualities do you usually have in the protagonists you write?
"Youth Travel" story introduction
I think it is a hard work. Readers often ask me if the protagonist in the book has golden fingers or special abilities, and I will reply to them. The special abilities of the protagonist in the book are hard work. Every young person needs to work hard. Maybe your direction of hard work is wrong, or you may not succeed, but you must work hard. Why? He will not regret anyone who works hard. From this scale of life, striving to realize one's own value is a kind of success in itself.
. I think whether a person can succeed early is due to his ability to recognize the truth.
I think children with good social and family resources are more likely to succeed because they are closer to the truth of society and a certain truth than ordinary people’s children. After I went to college in my 20s, compared with some children with good family conditions, I found that they know much more than me.
Will you feel affected at that time?
will, will feel inferior and will impact. I think they do things and speak better than me, and can show their abilities better. This is the cognitive gap.
Many young readers, especially young people who have just graduated, will tell me after reading "Shanhe Zhi", that I feel that I understand a lot of things, about the logic of this society and my thoughts on life. They can get closer to the truth of the world by reading a book. In a sense, I am also pushing their lives forward, which is also the value shown in my book.
Then will you always stick to urban reality-oriented theme creation in the future, or will there be some new themes you want to try?
Any form of literature is just a shell, and the most essential thing is to write about human nature.There are many different ways of creating human nature. Some people write scar literature , and some people write some more heartwarming words. When you look at the small details in life, you suddenly feel warm in your heart. I am now heading towards this direction that makes people feel warm in your heart.
So even if I want to try new topics in the future, I will definitely not be very imaginative, but it will come from real life more. Maybe I will even write science fiction in the future, but the spiritual core of the book will never change. This book will definitely touch people's hearts at certain points and provide readers with some spiritual motivation in their lives. When people see a certain passage or a plot, they suddenly get goosebumps. There is a way I must make changes to make myself better. This is the spiritual core I pursue.
Neighbor grandma later found out that Adao was a writer, and now she would praise him as soon as she saw him, "Xiao Wang is good, she is a great writer." Adao felt even more embarrassed than she said she was idle at home, and she was under a lot of pressure. But with the creative ideal of "let more people develop a more romantic pursuit of life", Adao said that he would persist in creating Tomatoes and let good stories influence more people.
