Chapter 367: Difficulties for the Judges
"It's leaked, it's leaked, Su Da, it's bad, the answer has been announced." Chen Ning looked panicked, his thick eyebrows were entangled into a mohua, and hurriedly entered Su Shichen's room.
Su Shichen was stunned when he heard the sound and did not react for a moment: "What answer was announced? The final answer of the Hugo Award." In fact, Su Shichen won a lot of awards, just like in China, except for some literary awards, and other awards of all sizes have won one of them. However, Su Shichen was still eager for the Hugo Award, so he subconsciously thought about it.
However, when I said this, I felt something was wrong. If it was really leaked by the winner of the Hugo Award, it would definitely be the result of the event. However, according to the selection method of the Hugo Award, there was no possibility of such early leakage. So Su Shichen stared at Chen Ning with confusion.
"It's the problem that Su Da, you wrote in front of everyone at the book signing and sale. Someone solved it and announced the answer to the Internet, and the person who announced it also wrote a comment later that the murderer of "The Murder of Winston Street" was very far-fetched." Although Chen Ning was very anxious, his words were still very organized, "and this remark was also approved by many people."
The murderer is very far-fetched? Su Shichen was stunned. The question he asked, "The Murder of Winston Street" was derived from the interagency short detective novel "The Murder of Mog Street". The final murderer is even more logical, and beyond expectations and reasonable, how can he say it is far-fetched?
"what is going on?"
Chen Ning was very direct. He turned on the tablet he carried with him and clicked on the [Guessing Unit] of the official website of "Frozen Throne". It was a post published by an ID called Magic Laura. Chen Ning showed Su Shichen the comments from netizens below.
"How to say it, I feel that the final murderer is indeed a bit unreasonable."
"It feels so high-end, so what a madman experiment, but if you don't know about this experiment, you can't guess it at all. This is a bit unreasonable."
"No wonder there is a reward of up to 300,000 US dollars. It turns out that it was unfair from the beginning."
"It's not reasonable to guess."
"I read "Shelmes Detectives" and the cases in them are very exciting. I feel that this is not the final answer."
"I think so too, but thinking that this is just what Su Lin thought temporarily, it is already very good to be able to write to this level."
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"Unfair, high-end experiments, what do you mean?" Su Shichen quickly caught two keywords from comments one by one.
To be precise, the murderer of the imitation "Winston Street Murder" did show a little unfair, but the reward of up to $300,000 must be somewhat difficult, otherwise it would be so easy to make money?
And this model is also the best. If it seems like the Blizzard Villa model established by Quinn's "The Mystery of Twins", the classic is a classic, and it is even regarded as the most classic mystery novel model by many readers.
Su Shichen did not comment on this. But Su Shichen knew one thing that this model was not suitable for this kind of guessing.
Snowstorm Villa’s mystery novel model is actually simply put, that is, everyone is in a closed environment, and the murderer is among the crowd, just like works such as "Hyperbola Murder" and "No One Survived". Ayatsutsuki Yoshito defined this model in "The Kiritsuki Mansion Murder" in the "Kukitsuki Series".
This kind of murderer is one of the fixed people. This pattern is not good. Think about it, even if there are so many people together, you can guess right if you guess one or just guess it. It's like the famous Infinite Monkey Theorem. This kind of blind guessing is too technical.
"The Mowg Street Murder" is the most perfect large-scale speculation of the murderer. As long as you don't think of that aspect, not to mention tens of thousands of people, even hundreds of thousands of people cannot reason about who the murderer is.
It is undeniable that he is indeed a little clever here, but what happened to the madman experiment?
After taking the tablet from Chen Ning and turning it up, the first thing I saw was the last sentence of this magical Laura: "The Winston Street Murder" is very far-fetched as a short mystery novel. It is just that the character setting is good, but it is very good as the answer. Because it can make most people unable to infer it."
This is what Magic Laura commented on.
Pulling up further, after reading this magical Laura's reasoning, Su Shichen laughed and murmured: "This kind of person is too confident. I don't know what kind of expression this magical Laura will appear after seeing the correct answer tomorrow." Thinking about it, that expression must be very exciting. When Su Shichen thinks of this, he can't help but smile.
"Why do I have to thank this magical Laura? The answer posted on the official website has affected many people's judgments." He threw the tablet to Chen Ning and continued his work.
"Why would Su Da use the company or your account to post a clarification message?" Although Chen Ning still kept calm on his face at this time, he was very anxious. He had no idea why Su Shichen was still in the mood to laugh at this time.
"You don't have to worry about this matter. What you need to do is arrange the matter of announcing the results tomorrow. In addition, I'm going to start reviewing the manuscript. You can take the door with you when you go out." Su Shichen was already giving an order to expel the guest.
Chen Ning didn't understand what Su Shichen was thinking at all. He seemed to be indifferent after all this situation, and he still wanted to continue to give an answer. He sighed slightly. An original very good publicity plan was destroyed like this. But what could he do if he was just an assistant role? This was completely the emperor was not in a hurry, and he no longer wanted to leave the room.
Su Shichen in the room was working hard to review the manuscript, and he could finally understand Wang Ni's hard work now.
"This is not really because I admire foreign countries and fascinate foreign countries. The level of American literature is really higher than that of domestic ones. You can see the level of these articles, and there are many highlights."
In the Morest Short Stories Competition, Su Shichen is one of the judges, so reviewing manuscripts is also a must.
Chen Ning made a mistake, of course, not a time mistake. This short story competition was indeed held today, but the problem was that when the selection started, there was no need to go to the scene at all, but directly reviewed the manuscript at home. Of course, this is the initial preliminary selection.
The requirements for the primary election are very low, so there are basically only two points. First, the short story is basically as long as it is smooth; second, the meaning expressed is legal, and you can pass the test. In fact, the latter point is even more important. It is definitely not possible to say that it is to promote dictatorship in the short story.
According to the manuscripts Su Shichen bought, at least seven out of the ten articles passed. He felt that it was a bit unreliable. The Morest Short Story Award was a completely award for literary novels, and Morest was equivalent to a role like Maupassant on Earth in his previous life. Although he also looks like some international writers, this has nothing to do with literature, which is quite strange.
Just report the articles in this primary election directly, without writing comments. As for those who fail to be selected, they need to write comments, which is the more troublesome place. Comments can be written very well, although there is no such example before. If there is a wonderful short story that is eliminated and exposed to the media, it will be a lifelong heroic reputation. So basically, every article that is not qualified almost has to be read more than twice to see if he has not realized anything.
This is the first time that Su Shichen has been so serious.
"By the way, this event has a great influence. The contestants not only include the United States, but also island countries, Germany, Britain and other countries. It is also true. Morest is a world-class short story master. It would be unreasonable to have an event held under his name to be influential in the United States." This can understand the role of this primary election, because the contestants belong to various countries and have great cultural differences.
Su Shichen reads one by one, and reads it seriously, just like short literary stories like "Chameleon", "Fat Ball", etc. You have to carefully read the meaning of the author to express, otherwise it would be as exciting as reading online novels. Then it might not be qualified.
Open a website specially established for this event. As a judge, Su Shichen has a management function. In addition to being in a fixed place, the contribution method of this event is also possible on the Internet. This is also certain. If you don’t do this, if contestants outside the United States participate in the competition by mail, it will take too long.
Of course, the contributor needs to fill in some detailed information. At the same time, both the website and the submission must ensure that the manuscript submitted is written by himself and cannot be plagiarized. At the same time, the website must ensure that the content of the novel cannot be disclosed without the author's permission. No matter which party both parties violates the agreement, the other party has the right to sue.
"This article is obviously a bit awkward, and it is intended to express a kind of help between people in the economic depression. Some are too deliberate and superficial. In addition, some of the words and sentences are not smooth. I don't know if it is caused by the relationship translated from Japanese to Chinese." After a busy inspection, I sent back comments to unqualified contestants, pointing out the shortcomings of the novel.
He wrote very seriously, but suddenly this thought rose in his mind: "Will any authors disagree with the comments written by Xin Ding, a literary field, believing that?"
As soon as this idea appeared, it grew in his heart like weeds. The thought that originally came suddenly has turned into concern.
Touching his chin, "I have to think of a way to make these contestants agree with my comments willingly." Then Su Shichen, who was thinking hard, thought of it, thought of it, "By the way, I can reply to a novel and then compare it with the two, which will be more convincing."
There were three people who Su Shichen thought it was necessary to do this, one American, one islander, and one Frenchman. In fact, these three people could pass if they insisted that they could pass. Perhaps they could pass the rhythm of the selection in the hands of the other judges, but Su Shichen didn't know why he was disliked by others for some reason, so he eliminated these three.
Then Su Shichen was troubled again. Simply put, Su Shichen was just causing trouble for himself. If we take the standards of ordinary people, it would be a pity and make him feel uncomfortable.
But even Su Shichen himself did not notice it. It was because these three short stories had highlights and the author had a lot of room for improvement that he would be idle and write hundreds of words of comments and post them together with the sample essay.
The computer screen shows that Su Shichen replied to the three contestants with three articles like this—
"My Uncle Yule", "A Bowl of Soba Noodles in Clear Soup", "Chameleon"...ps: It means that the company holds an event in Zhangjiajie. However, the kitten is self-aware and knows that if he goes, it may be a problem to update it, so he didn't go...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
Chapter completed!