It doesn't seem like talent did it, no matter how much I think about it.
- Hwangbo Reum

Hwangbo Reum, a writer who jumped into a full-time writing life even before publishing her first book, and lived like a writer, eventually became a writer. The writer said that writing a novel doesn't seem like something talent did. But looking at <Welcome to Huinamdong Bookstore>, which boasts immense popularity, some may wonder if she can really say that she doesn't have talent. Did she say this to look like she had talent, or did she simply enjoy the process and ended up creating a masterpiece?

After the phenomenal popularity of <Grit>, it seems like the myth of talent has faded a lot, but many people still get caught up in 'talent'. I too have been educated from a young age in the myth of talent, but I still sometimes ponder over the realm of 'talent'.

I haven't lived for 100 years yet, so I don't know what the right answer is, but if you say you can't write a novel because you don't have talent, then you really can't write. And if you don't believe in the myth of talent and just go your own way, then you'll really go your own way. Moreover, It is said that a genius cannot beat a hard worker, and a hard worker cannot beat a person who enjoys what they do.

People become what they believe they are.
- Anton Chekhov

People eventually become what they believe they are. As Anton Chekhov said.

▶ I just thought about finishing what I started writing. That is, completing the story. Completing the story is up to me, so I just had to believe in myself.

▶ At that time, I thought I was writing a story rather than a novel.

▶ Thinking of it as writing a story made me feel like I could do it. Stories, I love stories.

▶ Seeing and reading stories was like following a person's life.

▶ I think writing novels was an extension of this kind of play for me. The difference between this play and the previous ones was that this time, the story started from me.

▶ As I have always done, I will create various versions of the story by rolling the ball around. I chose the version I liked the most and wrote it down in Korean. The process of clearly revealing the vague images into words, this is how I came to write a novel. No matter how much I think about it, it doesn't seem like talent did it.

- Hwangbo Reum, simple life person, Yeollimwon