Chapter 15 The first additional requirement
Since the special requirements of each story will only be known before writing, Yue Qingyan cannot plan anything and can only deal with it passively. The first additional requirement is: write a love story that cannot be together.
Yue Qingyan wrote down the request, but couldn't think of what to write at once, so he simply put it aside.
Faust advanced the writing requirements to the second stage, and Yue Qingyan really needs to sort out his experiences during this period and other aspects of his income. If you want to talk about money, you have more than 100,000 yuan in hand now, plus the royalties you will definitely get back, maintaining a relatively wealthy and wealthy life should not be a problem. But the biggest change is that his address book is finally not empty. This makes Yue Qingyan feel like he is connected to the world again.
Although there are still no peers. At present, if you have your own boss and work partners, and industry leaders, you may be able to become friends. Some of them. But peers may not have a chance to meet them. The tone of his writing is too gloomy. A Pujie online writer has now entered the small circle of traditional literature. If you continue to operate, you may be able to do a good job. In this circle, most people are quite old. The youngest person I met in the past few days is Xu Yingying, who is two years older than him. Others are not a big problem if they are of seniority.
This may be a problem, or maybe it is not. For an author, the most important problem that needs to be solved and the easiest problem is to be alone. Get used to being alone and enjoying oneself, and only when you are alone is yourself. You often need to wear a mask, pretend to be kind or indifferent to face others. When he was a writer, he was too used to staying in his place all day long. Apart from ordering takeout and receiving express delivery, he basically didn't have to deal with anyone. If there are some friends, it could relieve stress and have an outlet for catharsis. If you have a girlfriend, you can have a softer way of getting along. However, for an author, in fact, everything must be just yourself and your works. The others are appendixes to life.
Yue Qingyan probably can't live such a cold life, and he will still feel lonely. Basically, it's not much different before or now. He feels lonely and finds people to have fun together. He feels even more boring than being alone, and returns to his own small space and goes back and forth.
Yue Qingyan was not in a hurry to write a novel. This time Faust said, the amount of 10 stories. What after that? There is no time limit yet, and it is difficult to say it later. Yue Qingyan felt that his ability may not be able to control these 10 stories well, and he was even less sure to deal with increasingly difficult and complex story requirements. Before he was fully prepared, it is best to slow it down. The main challenge of increasingly complex story requirements is not the simple writing style, but the depth of thinking. How to understand and digest the requirements, so that all the inexplicable additional requirements for the story are not abruptly integrated into the story, or to plan the entire story in combination with the story requirements. This is really very, very difficult. The conditions are relatively simple and broad now. What will happen in the future? If seven or eight additional conditions are accumulated in the future, the requirements of the arrangement and combination will make people want to die? Innately, the creative space has been compressed to the minimum limit, and it is really hard to say whether the story can be composed at that time.
Instead of racking your brains and being at a loss at that time, it is better to practice your internal skills first and comprehensively improve your writing ability, knowledge accumulation and thinking depth. Then there should be more means to meet various requirements at that time.
When he was in Yuanshan Club, Jin Chen gave him contact information, asking him to go to school to find him at any time when he has time. If he is interested in some courses, he can transfer to class and listen to lectures. Anyway, he shouldn't care about academic qualifications or the like. This flexible teaching method should be the most suitable for him.
The next morning, Yue Qingyan called Jin Chen. Jin Chen seemed quite happy.
"I didn't expect you to look for me so soon. Why? Interested?"
"Yes, Teacher Jin, what are you teaching? I didn't study very systematically before, and I wanted to learn more deeply and systematically about the literature field, rather than the purely language field. This..."
"Haha, I understand. I have studied "Literary and Art Theory" and "Philosophy of Art", which is relatively more inclined to theoretical research. However, since you are studying linguistics, you are considered your own people, and literature, history and philosophy are not separated. You should also have some understanding of these."
"Teacher Jin, I'm very interested in your class. I've been quite idle recently. I'll send me a class schedule, and I'll follow the class schedule to go over and follow it."
"No problem. Come here first, and I'll take you to meet teachers in other subjects."
Jin Chen quickly sent a class schedule to indicate the course time, progress and classroom. Because Jin Chen only taught and did research, he was relatively difficult to take more classes. He actually had to attend three classes in a week, but the students were not very different. The two classes were Chinese language courses with relatively high professionalism, and one class was a public class. The literature theory in public classes was actually not good, and the content was relatively watery. Literature theory is a very specialized course. If there is not enough reading foundation, I guess I don’t even know the source of the content cited by the teacher. After all, literary theory research is not popular literature, and a large amount of research materials are very unpopular.
Seeing that there was a professional course on literary theory in the afternoon, Yue Qingyan quickly sent a text message saying that it would be over in the afternoon. Calculate the time. The place he lives now is still far from university. He cleaned up a little and went out. Yue Qingyan had to buy a bunch of stationery and a backpack that he could usually use. Otherwise, it would be inconvenient and too conspicuous to sway around all day. By the way, time would be even more tense.
The class started at 1:00 pm and went straight to the whole afternoon. It was divided into the first and second half, and it was a total of three hours. It can be said that it was a very difficult and long course. When Yue Qingyan arrived in the classroom, he found a corner to sit down. His outfit and temperament were quite student, and did not attract the attention of other students.
Jinchen arrived at the classroom about 10 minutes in advance, and only half of the classroom was full at this time.
Jin Chen even greeted Yue Qingyan before starting class. Yue Qingyan, who had been completely seamlessly integrated into the classroom, has become very eye-catching now. However, now when dealing with different people, it feels less cramped.
Today’s class talks about the relationship between the author and the text, as well as the relationship between the author and the story. This is also something that Yue Qingyan is very interested in.
"The author is good at hiding himself behind the text. Moreover, the author and the narrator are not the same. For example, when the author uses the first person, the self-proclaimed me is usually quite different from the author. Everyone knows it, but when reading and judging, sometimes it is not easy to distinguish. The "I" in the novel works participates in the plot interaction as a character. When the world in the novel is closer to the environment in which the author lives, it is actually difficult for readers to judge, or they are deliberately confused about the difference between the two." After Jin Chen talked about a few cases, he was still unsatisfied. For literary researchers, there are too many details to dig into. But there is no way to explain it too deeply at this moment.
"Yue Qingyan, tell me what happened. How did the personality name affect your writing?" Jin Chen felt unsatisfied and burned the war on Yue Qingyan.
Yue Qingyan was helpless: "Teacher Jin, I'm here to listen to the class. You..."
"Tell me, you are the author, I have never experienced this angle. I can't explain it well."
Yue Qingyan thought for a while and said, "The author decides what person a novel uses to use, but actually depends on what he wants to write. And how to write it? The key to writing in the first person is not what he tells the readers, but what he hides from the readers. The plot that readers observe through ‘I’ and the character in the plot are inconsistent. In addition to the story itself, the author who likes to use the first person is mostly in two situations. One is to be able to master the story, and the other is to be immature and unable to master the story. The latter requires the first person because he can write psychological activities to supplement his narrative and descriptions. But when you can master the story, you can exert more power in the first person. That is, information is ambiguous. Although readers understand the whole story through ‘I’, the ‘I’ in the story is not omniscient and omnipotent.”
Yue Qingyan didn't say it deeply, but it was not shallow. Many of what he said were skills and his own thoughts that would be used in many stories.
"What if the reader has seen the whole story through this 'me'? And then watch the protagonist inevitably slide into the abyss?" Yue Qingyan asked.
If this question is in other majors, there may be no reaction. But everyone present is in Chinese. Don’t be proactive or passive or happy, at least the reading volume will not be too bad. Yue Qingyan’s question immediately made everyone feel shocked.
"Damn, this way, the first person usage is so advanced." A student felt the power of this question.
"The third person is also. Many authors like the third person God's perspective, but the God's perspective itself will make the story seem boring. If the third person characters are also limited by the perspective of observation? Will the way of narrating the story be different? If multiple third person perspectives are interwoven to construct a complete story and write it from different aspects? Of course, this will appear chaotic. If multiple perspectives form the same story, it is best to be the first person. In this way, there will be more resources available in your hands."
Resource? Jin Chen was also a little dazed: "Oh? What does this resource mean?"
"It's not just the information that constitutes the story. The first-person way of thinking, narrative style, speech, thinking grammar, and the small details that constitute these texts, all these words constitute narrative? In the simplest way, when a character speaks, different tone words, auxiliary words, and other small changes, it will immediately be recognizable. Readers' reading will not be confused." Yue Qingyan said: "Of course, this seems not to be a category of attention in literary theory, but a question of how the author writes it."
"Alas? Are you saying that those pheromoneless are actually forming narratives?" Jin Chen understood immediately, and then immediately spoke it in academic language.
Chapter completed!