有不少青年学生学了语文课,读了一些文学作品之后,想搞文学创作的兴趣很高,有的甚至已在埋头写作三四十万字的长篇巨著了。记得前年《文艺学习》发表过一个十八岁的学生夏可为给作家茅盾、赵树理的信,谈到他正在写预计四十万字的长篇小说,要求两位作家给些写作方法上的帮助。赵树理同志曾经两次公开复信给他,说他功课还没学好,语文也不够通顺,在政治水平、生活经历、文艺修养都很差的情况下,是不宜急于搞创作,写长篇巨著的。最近有 Many young students have learned Chinese lessons. After reading some literary works, they are highly interested in pursuing literary creation. Some have even been writing long, long book of 34,000 words. I remember the year before last year, “Literature and Art Studies” published an eighteen-year-old student, Xia Ke, in writing to writers Mao Dun and Zhao Shuli. He said he was writing a novel of 400,000 words and asked the two writers for help in writing methods. Comrade Zhao Shuli once publicly replied to him twice in an open manner, saying that he had not learned well in his homework and that his Chinese was not smooth enough. He should not rush to writing or writing long works if his political level, life experience and literary accomplishments were very poor. Recently there