When writing in English, she strove to translate freely into Western speech habits and thinking patterns to make the book more accessible. Furthermore, she rewrote the book five times in two years: the first three times to get her thoughts down and put them in order, the fourth time to revise the grammar, and the fifth time to abridge.
鄭念表示，事過多年，她並不能確切記得每一個人說過的每一句話，僅能掌握大意。在英文寫作時，她刻意按照西方人的語言習慣、思考模式來意譯，因此較能讓他們接受。