The first time I met Li Yun, it should have been at an essay awards event held by the Shengze Town Silk Capital Literary Society in the late 1990s, and she easily won the first prize, but it took me a lot of effort to win a third prize.
That time, what impressed me most about her was not that she won a first prize, but that her dignified and handsome appearance revealed a particularly confident beauty, and her beautiful face was full of the youthful vitality of a beautiful woman.
Later, after encountering each other in many literary activities, she learned that Li Yun was from southern Shaanxi, and according to her own words, it was close to Sichuan, and the mountains and rivers were beautiful. Our girls there are beautiful. But Li Yun may like to travel because of a "cloud" in his name, and he is full of curiosity about the world. After that, she came to shengze, the silk capital, carrying a backpack alone, this "cloud" from the mountains fell in love with the smoke and rain in Jiangnan and let her take root here, and the fertile land of Jiangnan planted roots in her.
Let's put it this way, Li Yun in Jiangnan is determined and beautiful, diligent in his work, and tirelessly creating. She said that she likes her current work, because she is responsible for attracting investment, she said that she can contact many people, "people" is the story, although it is not necessary to write, but it can promote learning, so that every day in the study, for writing has great benefits, at the same time, writing also helped her work, when the customer knows that she is writing, it is particularly respectful in the heart, feel different. But Li Yun is never arrogant, and when appropriate, he will meet up with three or five confidants to drink some wine. At first, Li Yun liked to drink Shaoxing yellow wine, because the yellow wine was both warm and beautiful, Li Yun said: Especially under the light, a glass of amber yellow wine is really charming. Li Yun drinks and does not act contrived, just like her life in the world, very temperamental. Wine is a catalyst for inspiration and emotion, and many of my works are completed after a little drink. Sometimes in her circle of friends, you can also see herself drinking at home, which is a bit of "who to sit with, the breeze and the moon I", and there is a flower or branch cut from the yard obliquely at the table.
"I know that women who drink are women who don't hurt men. What man would let his woman get drunk outside. Therefore, I generally don't get drunk, drink until I have fun, so that after work, find a chance to drink and write. Once, when I was on her side to persuade her to drink, she shrewdly and gracefully smiled at me: "I like men with a bold and capable temperament, even if I like it in my heart, but I never make emotional mistakes between men and women." 」 ”
Although Shengze is only a township in southern Jiangsu, due to the focus on steady growth, stable market mainstay, stable employment and people's livelihood, stable industrial chain stability, deepening the reform of "decentralization and management of services" to optimize the business environment, etc., the degree of economic activity is beyond the norm and it seems that a town has cultivated two super-large private enterprises of the world's top 500 companies of "Hengli and Shenghong". Therefore, talents from all walks of life from all over the country gathered in Silk Township, making Shengze's industrial economy reach its peak, and the foreign population reached more than 350,000, and Li Yun was one of them, and was an extremely outstanding senior management talent.
In Li Yun's novel creation, there will always be a vague glimpse of the context of the development of the times, I know that she loves Shengze, walking, walking, will think of some stories, will be local materials. Starting from the side of the times, it leads the style and emotional sustenance of the townspeople. Over the years, she has successively created a large number of works in "People's Literature", "Harvest", "Zhong Shan", "Rain and Flowers", "Works", "Yangtze River Literature and Art", "Youth Literature" and other domestic heavyweight literary professional magazines. However, few people know her fame outside, she said it was a spiritual sprint, and in Shengze, she still lived and worked steadily. I have read her novels "Palm" and "Spring", although from the mountains, Li Yun has established a good emotional relationship with the land of Shengze, and the novel creation has gradually entered a better state, and the daily Shengze, the Shengze we are familiar with, are reflected in the subtleties of the work.
But looking at Li Yun's creative process, I suddenly asked her once, only to learn that she liked to write since she was a child, and when she was reading, she had handwritten a long story "Mountain Soul", which was written about a village cadre and a mountain girl.
"When his first debut work was published in the story of "Friends of Marriage and Parenthood", it had the appearance of a novel, but when the story was published, he won a provincial third prize, which was purely blind cat catching mice."
"Until now, I dare not say that I am writing novels in Zheng'er Bajing, because my state is unstable, sometimes I make a decent one, sometimes I am impatient, but I am white skin for a month or two, I have always been a bit acute, this is a taboo in writing novels, last winter to now, slightly better." 」
"Among them, I have written essays for several years, although my essay "From This Side to That Side" is full of true feelings, praising the great changes in my second hometown, Shengze, and also winning a good award in that essay contest. But I understood that because I did not have enough cultural background, I felt that the prose could not be written to a certain level, so I returned to the story. It should be said that I like novels and like to make up stories. ”
"On the evening of December 2 last year, the fourth "Zhong Shan" Literary Award was announced in Nanjing, and my novella "Palm" won the award. This is also another major breakthrough for me after winning the Guangzhou Literature and Art Urban Novel Biennale Award and the Ye Shengtao Literature Award. ”
"My 'Palm' uses the beautician's hand as a medium to explore the relationship between the body and the world and life. Beauticians use their hands to soothe and repair the body, unfolding the stories of the world that they carry. The extinction of desire, the flow of worldly conditions, and the skills of the human heart are all hidden in the form, texture, and gully of the flesh, and the 'hand' becomes a language that transmits and translates the subtle and ambiguous meanings in it. The flesh wanders in the world, the emotions rise and fall in the flesh, and the language flies between the fingers. Li Yun used restrained and calm language to narrate the terrifying waves of the world's Taoist hearts in the heavy flesh. His unique perspective explores a hidden path for the writing of love novels.
"In fact, literature comes from life, life is far more wonderful than fiction, and human nature is unimaginable." Li Yun said with a smile: "I write at night, what is not denied is that during the day I will secretly brew and speculate, which means that this matter has never been put down, and I will selectively write down what I see and hear during the day, of course, the memory is getting lower and lower, and it can only be bad when I am older." My job contacts more people, what are people? It's the source of the story, and I need to create fictional characters. So, because of a sentence, because of an event, it is possible for me to ask in my heart: Can this be written into a novel? And I also work hard, which is the attitude towards work and the trust given by the company. I will rationally distinguish between work and writing, but I also feel that there is a thin red line between the two, let's build together, because being able to write, it will help me a little, and the client will therefore have trust in me personally first - as if the people who write are literate people, haha. ”
"About the characters, about the story, before writing a novel, I will make some preparations, such as "Looking for a Father" published in Qingming magazine, which is about a father and a cow, which mainly writes a scene of the father delivering the cow. I firmly believe that people born in the 70s, if you are rural, must have herded cattle, and how important a cow was to a family at that time, I am afraid that I know that if you sell a cow, you may make a college student pay tuition. Just like The Jiangnan beauty of Li Yun speaks quickly, does not swallow and spit, and should say it, reflecting the bold character of a great northwestern person. However, what yellow beef restaurant bloody hanging beef at the door of the shop, I am very sad, not to mention to eat, I will always see a pair of tearful cow eyes in that flesh and blood blur, so the story is like this, with compassion to write a father to find the big black bull process, and the title is called "Looking for Father", what is really looking for, not to say that it should also be understood. ”
"Spring" was published in the 2nd issue of "Zhongshan" magazine, Li Yun said: "This novel was written for a full winter, and I treated it patiently, because the characters in it have prototypes, I have to treat her well, I don't want to hurt her, I don't want to pity her too much, this is very difficult to deal with, I have to understand and respect her, of course, I also have to love her." Loving a lovely life is worth it. Later, reading the readers' comments, they also saw my tenderness and difficulty as an author, and when I created a character, I still chose to devote all my feelings to describe. Only when you are emotional, good sentences will come out. Li Yun was very satisfied with his work "Spring".
"Relatively speaking, these are not two works without flaws, but they can move you a little bit in detail." Li Yun was very humble.
"Before writing, I will first take the name of the novel, the names of the characters in it, and roughly sort out the structure of the text, how the story begins, and write the meaning of this. Very simple. ”
Writing can make me more rational, and after making up so many twists and turns, I always have to know the wonders of twists and turns, that is, to accept all the good and bad.
"There are many people I want to thank for writing novels, first of all, I want to thank Teacher Xu Feng for his leadership, he has been working tirelessly, which is the biggest driving force for my creation." And now the editing teacher is also very responsible, even if the manuscript is returned to me, it will get sincere guidance, which is very rare. Such as The teacher Cui Xin of "Shanghai Literature". "Li Yun is a person who is emotional and knows how to be grateful.
"The short stories of Chekhov, Maupassant, and O'Henry are all my pillow books. There is also the "Novel Appreciation" sent to me by Teacher Jia, which is a good book and worth recommending. ”
Li Yun said: "Today's young people are very powerful, their knowledge is better than mine, I still believe that the accumulation and richness of knowledge is very important when writing novels, and their reading is also earlier than our contact, reading more, I want to learn from them." ”
Although knowledge is very important for writing, there is an old saying that "it is better to read ten thousand books than to travel thousands of miles." "The experience of life, the accumulation of knowledge, the flow of clouds Chinese the talent for perfect expression in words, the determination of themes, and the ingenuity of the ideas in chapters can not be less.
The author is convinced that Li Yun is the "golden phoenix" lurking in the silk township.
Li Yun is an indispensable young writer!
The actual "lurking" Li Yun has now made frequent appearances, bringing constant surprises to the literary circles in Suzhou and even Jiangsu.