林清玄曾在台湾多个报纸担任过记者、主编等职务。有几年,好友古龙在林清玄编辑的一份报纸上刊登连载小说。可是,古龙的小说已经登了800多天,还没登完。作为主编的林清玄着急了,于是打电话问古龙:“这个小说什么时候会写完?”古龙回答说:“可能永远也写不完了,因为小说里有100多个主角,他们都有自己的个性、有自己的生命,我不知道要让他们怎么死才好。”林清玄无奈地说:“既然你不能让他们死,那就我让他们死吧。” Lin Ching-hsun has served as a reporter and editor in a number of newspapers in Taiwan. For a few years, my friend Cologne published serial novels in a newspaper edited by Lin Qingxuan. However, Cologne’s novels have been posted more than 800 days, not yet finished. Lin Qingxuan, editor-in-chief, was in a hurry. Then he called Cologne and asked: “When will the novel be finished?” Cologne replied: “It may never finish because there are more than 100 protagonists in the novel, all of whom Have their own personality, have their own lives, I do not know how to let them die. ”“ Lin Qingxuan reluctantly said: ”Since you can not let them die, then I let them die. "