introduction
Writers have their own small habits when writing, there is a famous writer abroad to coffee as their source of inspiration, a day need to drink more than twenty cups of coffee, and even he bluntly said that without coffee can not write even a word.
Coincidentally, there is also a writer in China called Lu Yao, who needs to smoke when he writes, smokes three packs of cigarettes a day, and must also be a good cigarette, and cheap cigarettes are not OK.
Speaking of Lu Yao, I believe that many people know the works written by this writer, such as "Life", such as "Ordinary World", his characters are struggling with fate, and the spiritual power contained in them urges readers to be motivated and affects generations of readers.
However, it was such an influential writer who spent more than three or five apartments in smoking alone in six years, until 1992, when Lu Yao died of cirrhosis, saving only 10,000 yuan in his lifetime.
01
We know that "Ordinary World" is undoubtedly a very valuable novel, the characters in the book have their own flesh and blood souls, Lu Yao uses his real and vivid brushstrokes to portray the characters to life, through the plot of the novel, to the readers at that time and the readers who will see this book in the future, unfolding a group portrait of the sentient beings in the historical process of the great era.
However, most people only know that the book "Ordinary World" won the Mao Dun Literature Award, and few people know that at the beginning, Lu Yao took the complete manuscript of this book to the publishing house, and everyone questioned it after reading it, thinking that Lu Yao had already exhausted Jiang Lang.
However, in December 1986, for "Ordinary World" for Lu Yao himself, this month in addition to resigning the old and welcoming the new, Lu Yao also ushered in a new day. As soon as the new book was published, it was sought after by a wide range of readers, and each of the characters in it had their own shining points and dark sides, fighting against their own destinies. In the process of writing this book, Lu Yao himself is also fighting the same struggle with life and himself, because of the inspiration for writing the book, his daily schedule is reversed day and night, falling asleep at dawn, and getting up to work in the dark.
Day and night are upside down, work and rest are chaotic, lack of inspiration can not write the next paragraph of the novel, no spirit can not lift the energy, Lu Yao used cigarettes to find inspiration and use this to refresh. Eating, drinking, gambling and smoking, the elderly often painfully advise the juniors that prostitution gambling and smoking is the root cause of the losers, which refers to the harm of these three things to the spirit and reality. Under the reversal of day and night, a person's mental state will become very bad, coupled with the reason of poverty, Lu Yao often can deal with a few bites of food every day, and most of the writing fees are used to buy good cigarettes and smoke.
02
Under the pressure of critics and critics, Lu Yao insisted on publishing "Ordinary World". Just a few years after its publication, this book won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, after learning about this, Lu Yao was very happy about it, but he was very upset because the Mao Dun Literature Prize was awarded in Beijing, and he needed to go from home to Beijing, but how should these road expenses be good?
In desperation, he had to look around for someone to borrow money, and finally his brother came forward and found a leader in Yan'an who borrowed 5,000 yuan, which allowed him to leave for Beijing to receive the Mao Dun Literature Award. From this matter, we can see that Lu Yao's assets have a huge gap.
It is worth mentioning that the prize money of the Mao Dun Literature Award is only 5,000 yuan, and the two are added and subtracted, and Lu Yao, in addition to winning the title of "Mao Dun Literature Award Winner", has not improved at all, and even more depressed than ever.
As the author of "Life" and "Ordinary World", Lu Yao's living conditions, even if not very good, should be much better than his family conditions when he was a child, but from the perspective of his life in writing, this is not the case. Many people deliberately observed Lu Yao's lifestyle after this was puzzled, and found that his expenditure and income did not reach a balance, but he did not spend much on his earnings.
At that time, the living conditions of Lu Yao, who wrote, were not very good, and he was born in a poor peasant family, relying on his writing and the previous "Life" to be known to the world, so that he had a certain amount of writing fees to support his life. Most of the lives of the authors of his contemporaries were in the upper middle class, not poor, but not rich. Lu Yao's poverty may stem from his lifestyle, he loves to smoke, and he does not smoke well, and he must smoke at least three packs of good cigarettes a day.
Therefore, the fee he earned was spent in packs of cigarettes, and people who had a heart once counted the value of the cigarettes that Lu Yao had smoked in six years, and came to a conclusion that people were silent: it was worth three or five suites.
epilogue
Throughout Lu Yao's life, in just 42 years, he has written a number of books that have impressed countless readers and are extremely valuable, and he has integrated what he has seen, heard, thought and thought into his own words. Reading Lu Yao's books, we can find that although his words are almost white, there are not too many gorgeous words and elaborate bridge arrangements, but it is such a text that has the power to shock people's hearts, which is the power that a good book and a good author can have.
Through the birth of "Ordinary World" introduced above, we can see Lu Yao's usual writing state, his high-intensity smoking, his work and rest day and night upside down, and his living conditions are difficult, even so, he has not given up writing. People sigh that the money this person earns from writing books is not enough to buy cigarettes, perhaps because he smoked too fiercely, he died at the age of 42 in his prime, and also took away the story that he still had in his mind that had not yet flowed in the tip of the pen.