Haiyan: The world of willing people

Twenty-two years ago, best-selling author Hai Yan was an unknown. He returned to his cabin at exactly eight or nine o 'clock every evening, and secretly wrote a long novel. Why write it in secret? Because Haiyan only studied for four years and didn't even graduate from primary school, he was afraid that others would call him "careless" and "ambitious".

It was in this state that Haiyan wrote his first novel, Plainclothes Police, with a total of 470,000 words.

One day, my father came across the manuscripts and asked, "Are you writing?" Sea rock had to admit. So my father became the first reader. A few days later, he asked his father, "How's it going?" The father said, "How about what? What the hell is that? I wouldn't watch it if I weren't your father."

Two days later, the father asked, "Where are the manuscripts in the back?" Haiyan secretly happy, it seems that his father is interested in, is to continue to see. Haiyan with the manuscript, hopefully found a publishing house of a deputy editor-in-chief. The deputy editor asked, "Have you ever written a short story? Have you ever written a novella? Have you ever written prose?"

Haiyan said: "Have not written."

"Have you attended any creative workshops in our club or any other club?"

"No."

"Have you ever written any newsletters or sketches for the newspaper?"

"Not really."

"Oh! If so, I won't watch it. You have to eat steamed bread one bite at a time. As for you, you should start from a small school and then write a long book. Don't you think so?"

Haiyan had to hold the manuscript back, but he did not give up, after all, this is their own stroke, a word written out of the 470,000 words! So he sent the manuscript to the editor-in-chief of another publishing house.

Haiyan waited for three months, but when there was no reply or rejection, he went to the editor. In spite of all the papers piled on the editor's desk, he could see that his manuscript was still sealed.

The editor asked, "What are you writing about?" Haiyan said: "I wrote about the police." "Then you can send it to another publisher. This is a literary publishing house. We don't do much about cops. The adoption rate of mail submissions is only one in 1,000.

"Isn't writing about cops literature?"

"Other publishers are more than happy to publish these things. Shall we mail it for you?"

"The manuscript has been lying here for three months. You know what? You look a little less. If you take a bite and you think it's a rock, don't bite down. If you think it's steamed bread, take another bite. After a chapter, when you feel you can't go on, you go back to me." The editor agreed.

A month later, Haiyan received a notice from the publishing house: The novel "Undercover Police" was published in 1985.

After the publication of Plainclothes Police, it caused a sensation and won the first prize of the first Golden Shield Literature Prize and the first National Detective Novel Award. The TV drama "Undercover Police" won the Flying Star Award, the Golden Eagle Award and the Golden Shield Award.

Since then, Haiyan has kept an amazing publishing volume of 800,000 words a year for eight consecutive years. His representative works are "A Romance", "Never close my Eyes", "What can I save you, my love", "Jade Guanyin", "Deep prison", "Die in youth" and so on.

After interviewing Haiyan recently, Ms. Yang summed up her most profound impression by writing: "His experience proves that nothing in life is wasted as long as you put your heart into it."

It is true that, fundamentally speaking, this world is not the world of the rich, nor the world of the powerful, nor the world of the people with sponsors, nor the world of the people with degrees, but the world of the people who will.