在今年五月份举行的第八次全苏青年作家会议上,我受托主持了一次散文作家座谈会。参加座谈会的有十五位不同职业的人。但是,其中近一半是区报、州报、地方电台和电视台的记者及工作人员。在结识座谈会的参加者时,我发现,在作自我介绍的时候,他们谈起自己在报界的工作,显得有点儿不自然,好象这是什么不光彩的事。在他们看来,这个工作无论如何都是和作家的活动联系不起来的。为了缓和一下这种感觉,他们几乎都申明要很快就脱离报社、电视台和电台的工作。我尽量劝说自己的年轻同行们不要走这一步,即不要脱离报社工作,至少不要在自己创作道路的起点上这样做。我觉得,我在道义上有权利这样做,因为自己曾多年在报社工作(中断时间不长),并且至今仍在报社工作。在当《农村生活报》记者的时候,我游历 At the 8th All-China Youth Writers’ Conference held in May this year, I was entrusted with the chairmanship of an essayist symposium. There are fifteen people of different occupations participating in the symposium. However, nearly half of them are correspondents and staff of the district newspapers, state newspapers, local radio stations and television stations. When I met the participants in the forum, I noticed that it was a bit unnatural for them to talk about their work in the press when they introduced themselves as if it were disgraceful. In their opinion, this work is in any case not linked with the writer’s activities. To alleviate this feeling, almost all of them affirmed that they should soon get out of the work of newspapers, television stations and radio stations. I try my best to persuade my young colleagues not to take this step, that is, not to leave the newspaper, at least not at the beginning of their own creative path to do so. I feel that I have the moral right to do so because I have been working for the newspaper for many years (the interruption is not long) and I am still working in the newspaper. When I was a reporter in Rural Life News, I traveled