All dreams will bloom

 

By Lin Keyi

 

She is a Miao daughter from Hunan Province. Because of the poverty of the family, can not afford to pay tuition, on the high school, he dropped out and came to Shenzhen, with my cousin in the hotel as a waiter.

 

With a junior high school diploma, four hundred and thirty-seven dollars, several sets of clothes, a pair of artificial leather shoes, a dozen books. Other than that, she has nothing.

 

Ill, standing in the doorway of the hospital, but afraid to enter; On the bus, use the phone IC card as the bus IC card but can not pay; Drooling over snacks in the supermarket; Walk from the east gate to Huaqiang North, just to save two yuan. Even in the young girl's most beautiful age, she has never bought a piece of more than 100 yuan of clothes, all in the stall to Amoy twenty or thirty pieces of clothes. Can not afford to buy cosmetics, use anti-mite soap instead of facial cleanser, after washing, squeeze orange water on the hand as a lotion pat.

 

What is more terrible than material distress is that dignity is trampled on. Because I work in the service industry, I have to deal with all kinds of people. She has been singled out by some people of low quality, and has been wrongly accused of stealing someone else's diamond ring. She had suffered so much anger that she did not want to remember it, to say it, or to cry any more. She finally realized that complaining can't change the world, and since you can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

 

For her who has no skill and no academic diploma, to change her fate, the lowest threshold is only writing this road.

 

At the time, she lived in an eight-person staff dormitory, where there were always people sleeping or talking because of inconsistent work hours. At that time, computers were a luxury that no waitress had, and she never dared to think of owning one. She did not have a desk, only a communal table, which was full of food and daily necessities, and wanted to write only by climbing into her bed, pulling the curtain down, turning on the small lamp and sitting there.

 

And she was afraid to let her roommate know what she was doing, because she would be laughed at. Although she had seen in some magazines on the ground that some magazines had stolen her articles, and their colleagues had bought them back and put them in bed, she did not say anything - she was afraid that others would think she was crazy.

 

Because she has suffered such humiliation before. She always carried a small notebook, and whenever she had time, even in the lobby, she would write on it. Because she's on her feet nine hours a day at work with her colleagues. But she kept writing thousands of words a day. There are ideas, there are sentences, there are descriptions. Gradually, her small books grew, and many years later, she was still writing with the material and knowledge accumulated in these small books.

 

She held on silently. Every day after work, she would go to the city village in the black Internet cafe, the idea of a day's article to write out.

 

Because she was very poor at that time, if the typing is not fast, it will waste the network fee, so an article of three or four thousand words, she only wrote in an hour.

 

In fact, when she first started writing, her level was very average, full of typos, no rhetoric, no technique, no main line.

 

But she has a stamina that most people don't have. This is the Internet cafe writing, she wrote five or six years. She spends all her time writing. While others were playing video games, she was writing. While others were in love, she was writing; While others were shopping, she was writing. When others chat on the Internet QQ chat in full swing, she is writing; While others were traveling, she was writing; While others were complaining about life negatively, she was writing... For about five years, she did not earn a penny from her writing, but she did it all the time.

 

Many people who are more talented than her, who used to be passionate about online literature, eventually stopped writing and silently withdrew. She, on the other hand, persevered. Because she knows that her qualifications are mediocre, and there is no help from the distinguished person, the only thing she can rely on is her own unremitting efforts and diligence.

 

When she finally made a name for herself on the Internet and had a lot of editors asking for work, she made the decision to quit, bought a computer and returned home to write full-time.

 

She took great pains to convert her online articles into magazine articles that could be exchanged for contributions.

 

Because the market text has never been in contact with, in order to write a good magazine, she rides a bike to the library every day, reading magazines and copying magazines. I sit there all day, and I eat my own lunch at noon. She read it for about three months, took several large notes, and knew exactly what articles would fit in which magazines.

 

In this way, while reading and writing, because the foundation is good, and willing to listen to the editor's words, unconditional revision of any editor's opinions, half a year later, every magazine can be over the draft. When she is often found by the editor to write, it is the big name that put the editor's pigeon, the editor is looking for someone who writes fast, to write this column immediately. The editor woke up in the middle of the night to catch up on the manuscript, surrounded by a sheet, and began to type with his eyes half-squinted. Because of her sincerity, she gradually gained a reputation and contacts in the circle. Naturally, many people began to help her.

 

Finally, in 2006, her first novel was published. The day she got the book, it was her 24th birthday.

 

Since then, she has published an average of four novels a year. Each novel has a traditional version, and several have foreign versions. For such a result, her own evaluation is that I did not do anything ah, is very focused on writing something every day.

 

Many people are envious of what she has achieved. But she said, to this day, I still think that I am not good enough, not good enough, many people are good, so I have to work harder. I am not a capable woman, I just in their chosen line, insist and work hard.

 

Her name is Yao Di, her pen name is Red Maiden, and she is known as the "Queen of horror". Her seven-color horror novels have become a must-read for Chinese horror readers. His work "Blue Hair" was selected as one of the top ten mystery novels in 2008. So far, he has published 16 novels, 7 essays and 7 collections. His works are exported to Italy, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.

 

Her story is very inspirational, as she said: "This city, there are many industries, I think, as long as people specialize, pay a lot, there will always be a return." May every striver in this city not be discouraged, many people work as hard as you in places you don't know, and all dreams will blossom."