He never plans his plot in advance. "To me, writing isn't painful at all." Liao Hung-chi never writes for the purpose of writing, but instead is driven by the sea. He simply cannot not write.
沒有預先大綱，沒有事先的醞釀，「寫作對我來說一點都不苦」，因為廖鴻基從來不是為了寫作而寫，而是海洋的驅動，叫他不能不寫。