Ten pieces of advice for poets

Ten pieces of advice for poets

Zeng Hong

1) Write poetry because of the need to be happy or depressed: If writing poetry makes your heart feel happy, makes you not empty, and feels that there is something to do, then you write, but don't hope too much. It is illusory to want to make a contribution to poetry. If you want fame and fortune, it is better to make money first, and then compile a book or publication, often rush to the meeting or simply make a prize, and soon you will have some false fame, and you can also satisfy some vanity.

2) Learn to abandon in reading and teaching: If you really write, don't forget to read more, because you need to understand how people wrote and wrote before you. You might as well steal some cheats from the masters, turn around and run. From one master to another, you will have many masters, and you will leave their imprints on you, but you cannot be confused by their tongues, you must know how to betray and be an ungrateful apprentice.

3) Not swayed by fashion and celebrities: The poetry fashion of the celebrities you see now, like the juggling performances in the square, you can squeeze in to see, applaud vigorously, but quit in time, don't follow people's butts, from one square to another, that way, you can only be a heel worm. Learn from others to take shortcuts, don't be afraid of authority, don't worship, don't let people occupy your way.

4) Always be full of confidence and ideals: Believe that you are the best, even if you know that your talents are few, but you have to believe that you can save more and more. Genius is hard to come by. Geniuses are as wandering as you are in the early days of writing, and after becoming famous, geniuses are often not confident, and more celebrities are stupid. A genius is a person like you, with a good head and a hard-working heart. The genius is yourself.

5) Be with the best people: If you can't find good people to be friends in reality, look for them in the book first. Whether your friends are good or not determines whether you are good or not. From not very good to generally excellent to very good very very good, your consciousness is constantly improving, the realm is getting higher and higher, how can people who are not excellent be parallel to you? In this process, you often feel lonely, but in order to be excellent, this is something that must be endured.

6) Make yourself more and more pure: you don't think about who you are writing for, not writing for a false name, not writing for applause, not writing for money, you are relaxed; only for yourself, only for the heart and life, only for your happiness and unhappiness, so that you do not worry about having nothing to write. Once you (sooner or later, necessarily) find a direction and a way of writing that suits your nature and desires, you make a lot of money.

7) Keep writing sharp and a certain number of works: writing well and writing bad is your own business, and writing is a matter of feelings. You have to have at least a certain number of pieces every year. It's a good thing to keep writing in shape. Language is a thing that becomes more and more tamed the more you play (genius is a person who has a special ability for language), and slowly you will have some ideas in it. Sometimes the revision of a poem is an experience and familiarity with language.

8) Keep your eyes in your life: If you have a unique perspective and feeling, you will feel that what you see and write is very interesting, which you have never noticed before. As long as you see enough, think enough, and feel enough, imagination and association will naturally lead you into a place you haven't been before. Every time you finish writing and reading it aloud, you listen to whether it is your voice that appears, whether it is suitable for you as a person.

9) Have something that is necessary: technology is not omnipotent, emotion is not unique, thinking is not a substitute for creation, but all of these are things you must have. Therefore, you must continue to improve your technical ability in training, obtain multi-directional emotional experience in life, think and reflect at all stages of writing, and then move towards the natural world as much as possible, using the simplest and most transparent language, with your own imagination and associations, to say things in this world.

10) Don't listen to these ten pieces of advice: Listen to your own inner voice. Calm down and then be full of creative vitality.

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