此文论述当今小说创作中最常见也最容易被人忽视的几种弊端。其一为时代精神的弱化导致了文学在整体上精神萎顿；其二辨析了当今小说创作中使用频率很高但又混淆不清的几个概念：故事、小说、情节；其三就小说和散文文体特征的界定及创作规律指出散文化并非小说的出路；其四，小说绝不能“纪实”，“纪实”就不是小说。 This article discusses several shortcomings that are most common and often overlooked in contemporary fiction. First, the weakening of the spirit of the times led to the spiritual doldrums of literature as a whole; second, it disscussed a few concepts that are frequently used but confused in contemporary fiction creation: stories, novels and plots; The definition and creation of essay stylistic features point out that essay culture is not the way out of the novel. Fourth, the novel must not be “documentary” and “documentary” is not a novel.