Text/Huaizuo
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Last April, I made a phone appointment with Yang Ke downstairs in the Nanhu dormitory of the Chinese Division. She said that she wanted to go to graduate school, and after asking me some key questions, she turned around and joined the big army of graduate school. In the months since, I haven't seen any more from her.
After the graduate school, she immediately enrolled in my first private class. I asked her what the results of the graduate school were, and she said: I don't know, look at the results, good or bad is like that.
It was the first time I felt her big heart.
When I first started learning to write, she actually had completely zero ground, and the first manuscript she handed me almost broke down.
But she still wrote a lot, writing more than 8,000 words in one go. When I looked closely, there were hundreds of typos, and there was basically a point in every two sentences that didn't make sense. I admired her mobility, but I was also amazed at her (blind writing) writing ability, and I wanted to dissuade her, otherwise my eyes might be blind.
She didn't say anything, just said I could write.
After that, the article has maintained a high level that made me crazy and collapsed, and after I couldn't bear it, I finally began to spray her: "Can you not write so many typos, can you not have so many colloquial things, can the sentences be smooth, can you use a little snack?" ”
Typos include: Murakami Murakami (OMG's favorite writer), specialization, plucking teeth...
Of course, the most powerful thing about her is that she is not afraid of criticism, her psychological quality is extremely strong, no matter what you say, she will listen, and then change, to rewrite.
At that time, she practiced six headlines a day with three thousand words a day, and changed each article four or five times...
Two months later, she won the Qingyun Plan, took the prize money, and the level of the article also showed a straight upward trend. After the first private class, I admired her resilience and mobility, and then decided to continue to write with her.
From my many years of experience in writing, writing is actually a marathon, and people who can write well are not the kind of people who are very explosive at the beginning. The process of writing transformation actually requires staying power.
Now I continue to teach her to write, take her one-on-one, and want to take her all the way, occasionally sending her some money because she's a bit tight financially at the moment. Maybe this is the distant similarity, after so many years, I rarely meet people who can continue to write and resist setbacks.
Met, I had to do something.
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She was sometimes very embarrassed, and the results of the graduate school were not very good, she said: Forget it, I have become a different version of myself, and successfully grabbed the leg hair of the senior.
Others were going to die or live, but she recovered in a day or two. I didn't see her depressed, nor did I see her complaining about anything, but I continued to do what was at hand and learned things silently. I also called her those days to ask her about her graduate school and asked her to look at the transfer information.
She said: "I will do my best to see it, but whatever the result, I can accept it."
To tell the truth, she is a very careless person, which can be seen in her countless typos. In addition, from this point, I can also imagine her state when she was in graduate school - extremely hard, but not serious enough.
In fact, many exams, spelling is the details, because a lot of fundamental things everyone will know, then the place to raise the score is in the details. The devil is in the details, and in the exam, one thing is true.
I pointed this out to her, and she gladly accepted, saying that she was indeed a person with thick lines, who would only work hard when she went to graduate school, and did not pay attention to many detailed problems when looking back.
How to say it, good habits can be migrated, but bad habits can also be migrated.
Setbacks one after another, during that time, she failed to go to graduate school, and at the same time, she also encountered setbacks in love, she disappeared for two days after the breakup, and returned on the third day to change a WeChat avatar. Asked her what was wrong, she said simply, and then said she wanted to start over.
Young age, not alarming.
I want to give her these eight words.
During the period of writing, many people will be anxious in the middle of the period, wanting to get results quickly and trying to prove themselves as soon as possible. I also asked Yang Ke at that time: Seeing that everyone is very anxious, why do I feel that you are working very hard, but not in a hurry?
She said: Everyone is better than my foundation, so they should do the results, I am too bad, I will take it slowly, not in a hurry.
No way, sometimes when I want to scold her, I feel embarrassed.
To be honest, in terms of mentality, I'm not as good as her. When I experience great setbacks, I also doubt myself, it will be uncomfortable, and it will take a long time to recover. But people like her who are like no one in two or three days, basically do not affect normal life and work, too few and too few.
Perhaps, she learned to face up to setbacks and then move forward with the dilemma.
03
Last month she sent me some green plants, big and small, flowers and grasses. At that time, I was still a little confused, and I didn't expect that she would send green plants with thick lines, so I also called to confirm it. She sent me the care method of each plant, saying that there are some green plants in the house, which will be full of vitality.
My daughter-in-law liked it, and I began to learn to water the green plants, and when I was tired, I got up and walked around, sometimes staying next to the plants and watching quietly for half a day.
In the past, my mother liked to raise flowers, when I was a child, our yard had many monthly seasons, and although there are not many flowers now, she still cherishes them. Sometimes I would move the pots and bask the flowers, and sometimes I would take a small pot and water the flowers carefully. Flowers and plants are also alive, need to be accompanied by people, and also need to be cherished.
Yang Ke's family also grows vegetables and raises small animals.
One day in the group with us: This afternoon I went to the back mountain to pick some vegetables. As soon as this sentence was uttered, I began to fantasize about her family's garden, the front yard and the back hill, the rows of houses...
Since she started learning to write with me, there has been almost no interruption until now, and at the beginning I trained her topic awareness, let her find two topics a day, and then cut three titles for each topic. During that time, she did not have a lot of things, basically in addition to the topic, she could write another article every day.
Recently she just got a job, the job is not very smooth, so I gave her a reduction in training, the topic can continue to practice, but the article can be written in a few days. Keep feeling and go with the flow.
I have to say that she has made great progress, from a zero-based little white to now be able to produce independently, that is, in a few months.
For a while I asked her to comment on the article to others, she from the topic to the title, and then from the outline to the details, an article gave people a thorough comment: the topic awareness is not enough, a little self-deprecating; the title can actually be optimized; the subtitle is a bit literary, and does not say the point; the connection between the paragraphs is not very good...
That day I watched her just comment and wrote a bunch of bosses, I read some of them myself and said to the point, I don't know what I feel, a little moved, and a little relieved, I think people have really made progress, and I have learned something.
Teach others things, always hoping that others can learn more.
She sent me a topic late one night, when she had just arrived in Chengdu and had not yet started looking for a job. I conveniently ordered her a set of overlord anti-off, whether it works or not, I don't know, first arrange for the child, it is more important.
My ideas are more casual, thinking of a play is a play, thinking of it will be arranged.
【Summary】
The other words were gone, just hoping that she could continue to shine and insist on doing one thing well, and the rest was left to time, and time would tell.
Best wishes to Yang Ke.