With the motivation to make money, Lin Chaoyang changed his past fishing habits. Not only did he write quickly at home, he also did not waste any time in the library. Catching up with the recent winter vacation, the library business was easy, and he was even more at home.
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Within a few days, he had used only one copy of manuscript paper.
That night, Tao Yushu discovered this shocking situation and asked with surprise: "How many words did you write?"
"I haven't counted." Lin Chaoyang changed a new manuscript paper, lowered his head and continued to write the novel.
What Tao Yushu has in hand is a large manuscript paper with 500 squares, with a volume of 130 pages. Even if the punctuation is removed, there should be 50,000 to 60,000 words.
She calculated and found it incredible. Her husband had only been writing for a few days. On average, it was almost 10,000 words a day?
Tao Yushu was afraid that Lin Chaoyang was too eager to make money and eager for quick success, so he put down the laundry in his hands and read the unfinished novel carefully.
After almost an hour, Tao Yushu raised his head and looked at Lin Chaoyang, who was still writing furiously.
Her eyes were flashing with light, and in addition to the aftertaste of being intoxicated with the content of the novel, there was more curiosity and confusion.
Tao Yushu couldn't figure it out. Her husband used to frown and look like he was working hard when he was writing a novel. He was just short of "two sentences that took three years to write, and one that made two people cry". Why has his writing efficiency suddenly improved recently?
so much?
Is it just because you want to buy a house?
But she also felt that this idea was very unrealistic. If writing a novel could be done through pressure alone, the writer would be too worthless.
So after thinking about it, she could only attribute it to the fact that her husband was naturally gifted, but he had never realized his potential before. This time, he was forced to realize his potential by buying a house.
Thinking of this, Tao Yushu began to reflect on himself.
It seems that she did not do enough to supervise her husband in the past. This is her dereliction of duty as a wife. From now on, she must fulfill her duty as a wife and let Lin Chaoyang devote all her energy to creation.
Life is only a few decades, and for a writer, the creative stage when creative ideas are flowing is even shorter, and must be cherished.
Lin Chaoyang, who was immersed in reading, didn't know what kind of thoughts his wife had in mind due to his efforts to buy a house.
Tao Yushu poured him a cup of tea and rubbed his shoulders. After working hard, he enjoyed the joy of adding fragrance to his red sleeves. He said: I can still write ten thousand words tonight!
After going to bed that night, Tao Yushu asked Lin Chaoyang: "Hey, do you think we should go talk to that Lin Fugui?"
"Are you afraid that his house will be sold to someone else?"
After Lin Chaoyang revealed his thoughts, Tao Yushu expressed shyly, "The house in the Overseas Chinese Apartment is indeed very good."
Lin Chaoyang smiled and said: "Of course the house is a good house. But don't worry, if he can sell it so smoothly, he won't reduce the price at a loss and make installment payments."
Lin Fugui is an overseas Chinese. When making installment payments, he does not need to worry about anyone defaulting on his debt. If someone dares to default on his debt, the state will help him.
Du Feng helped the couple buy a house for several months. Although many houses that did not meet the conditions were screened out, the current situation that had to be admitted was that although private house transactions at this stage have significantly improved compared to before, the seller was completely in a passive situation.
The huge inertia created by the welfare housing policy over the past decades has made the Chinese people accustomed to "waiting", "depending" and "demanding". In this environment where no one has any extra savings and no market regulation, 99% of the Chinese people have no idea. If you want to buy a house, what’s more, the selling price of overseas Chinese apartments has already eliminated the vast majority of customers.
If you want to sell a house like this, it depends 100% on connections.
Who is the richest person these days?
Overseas Chinese are a group, but since Lin Fugui can connect with Du Feng, it means that he has no connections in the overseas Chinese group, or that no one among the overseas Chinese wants to buy a house.
Among the Chinese people, the richest people are not the speculative small traders, but the cultural people.
For example, in the postal savings office located in Laohudong, the south gate of the school, most of the savings are contributed by Yanda professors.
Many professors not only earn a salary of two to three hundred yuan a month, but also receive manuscript fees for publishing books, and receive class time fees for giving lectures... They can easily earn several thousand yuan a year.
Another example is Wu Zuoren whom Du Feng mentioned before.
When was 1972? Not only did people dare to spend money to buy overseas Chinese apartments, but they did so easily.
Lin Fugui is an overseas Chinese student. Where can he meet educated people who can afford to buy a house?
Moreover, with the communication and work efficiency of this era, the process of private housing transactions is often complicated and time-consuming, and cannot be completed overnight, so Lin Chaoyang is not in a hurry to contact Lin Fugui.
As expected, less than a week later, Du Feng came to him and said that Lin Fugui had contacted him.
"He shouldn't be short of money, right?" Lin Chaoyang asked.
That day at the Overseas Chinese Apartment, Lin Fugui acted very calmly, and with his shrewdness, he should have known that if he took the initiative to contact Lin Chaoyang and the others, he would definitely get a bargain.
"I guess he also has a house in mind."
Du Feng's words won Lin Chaoyang's approval. The overseas Chinese apartment is located in the West Third Ring Road. If Lin Fugui wants to buy a house, he must go to the courtyard houses in the East City and West City.
What he wants is future investment potential. There are only so many houses in central areas, and it is even more difficult to find one that suits your needs. The urgency is certainly stronger than that of the couple who want to buy and improve their house.
In fact, Lin Chaoyang also wants to stock up on courtyard houses like Lin Fugui, but at this stage, he still focuses on solving the most basic housing problems. It will not be too late to invest when he has spare money in the future.
Lin Fugui put forward the condition of installment payment, maybe because he wanted to get part of the money first to buy the house of his choice.
"Tell him, we are hesitant now because we are worried about not being able to pay for the house."
Du Feng nodded, "I understand, hang him first."
Fast forward to more than half of January, and Lin Chaoyang has received two more payment bills in the past few days.
One was the 270 yuan royalties for the script of "The First Floor in the World" published by "Yanjing Literature and Art", and the other was sent by "Harvest" and was the royalties for the novella he wrote. Li Xiaolin promised at the time that
The new regulations on royalties gave him a royalties, and she did not break her promise. This time the royalties reached 1,210 yuan.
Tao Yushu happily accepted the money. After careful calculation, the two of them had saved more than 4,100 yuan.
She turned her attention to the man who was concentrating on writing, with a look of anticipation in his eyes.
"Done!"
While Tao Yushu was stunned, Lin Chaoyang threw away the pen, leaned back on his chair, and shouted loudly.
"Did you finish writing?"
"Um."
Lin Chaoyang stretched and stood up. Tao Yushu stepped forward and grabbed the manuscript paper and looked at it carefully.
Tao Yushu, Lin Chaoyang's new novel, read it from beginning to end because she was afraid that her husband would write something hasty in order to make money.
However, after these few days, she has gained great confidence in the quality of the new novel. This is by no means a perfunctory novel written to make money, but she is writing something very new.
The origin of China's modern and contemporary literature is the popularity of vernacular literature. Its foundation does not come from traditional Chinese literature, but from Western literature.
Traditional Western novels require copying nature and reflecting life truthfully.
The writer is in a dominant position in the work. The novel uses a series of plots arranged in chronological order as clues for development. It may be a single-line structure, or it may be double-line or multi-line. In the end, the novelist combines each clue.
Summarize to form an ending.
In the late 19th century, this traditional novel began to change, and many writers such as Dostoevsky and Henry James began to innovate in narrative perspectives.
In their writing, the novel is no longer a copy of nature, but an independent organic whole that develops according to its own internal laws.
Henry James believed, "Human nature is infinite, and reality has countless forms."
Therefore, he advocated that writers should withdraw from novels and let the characters in the book act as narrators. The combination of the narrator and his supporting characters can reflect various forms of reality from different perspectives. This theory is the basis of the Western stream of consciousness in the 20th century.
The development of the novel provides aesthetic basis and creative motivation.
Stream of consciousness novels were introduced to China very early. In the 1910s and 1920s, a large number of Chinese students studied in Japan. It happened that at that time, Western stream of consciousness novels entered Japan.
These people brought their understanding and knowledge of Western literature and stream-of-consciousness novels back to China.
But after the founding of the People's Republic of China, our country promoted socialist literature. In terms of introducing foreign literature, it mainly introduced classical literature, revolutionary romantic literature, and realist literature, focusing on introducing Soviet literature and literature from small and weak countries, such as Vietnamese literature and Korean literature.
wait.
It was very repulsive to the literary classification of Western modernism. After the 1960s, the criticism and criticism became more serious. As an important genre in modernist literature, "stream of consciousness literature" was naturally not immune.
It was not until the end of the buzz that the literary world finally ushered in spring, that the stream of consciousness genre was able to see the light of day again in China. In the past December, several representative foreign stream-of-consciousness novels were published in "Foreign Literature and Art"
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However, after being suppressed in the past few years, stream of consciousness has become less popular in the domestic literary world.
As a student of the Chinese Department, Tao Yushu is familiar with the development and spread of stream-of-consciousness novels in China. The reason why she can think of so many things is because the novel written by Lin Chaoyang this time has a strong color and technique of stream-of-consciousness.
Tao Yushu has not read many stream-of-consciousness works, and her experience in judging this type of works is also very limited.
But she knows that the most basic technique of stream-of-consciousness creation is that an objective thing triggers the subjective association of the characters in the book, releasing a series of consciousness processes, forming the character's inner monologue. Lin Chaoyang's new novel has a typical
of such characteristics.
Tao Yushu put down the novel and asked Lin Chaoyang: "Why did you think of writing a stream of consciousness novel?"
Of course, Lin Chaoyang couldn't say that stream-of-consciousness nonsense was a way to defraud royalties. He said, "I just read a lot of novels of this type and want to give it a try."
"My novel is about a journey full of hope and humanity, and it takes place in the summer.
The sun is hot, dazzling, and under the strong light, the story is not only warm, but also has a certain psychedelic and fairy tale color. I think the writing method of stream of consciousness is very consistent with this style and atmosphere."
Tao Yushu couldn't help but nodded after listening to Lin Chaoyang's words. It was indeed a matter of careful consideration.
"I can feel the atmosphere you mentioned when reading the novel."
Lin Chaoyang smiled and said: "That means this novel is successful."
Tao Yushu was not only happy about the quality of the novel, but what was even more rare was that her husband could finish it in such a short time. She said with an exclamation tone: "It has only been more than half a month, and your novel has two...
One hundred thousand words, right?”
These days, as long as Lin Chaoyang finishes writing part of the content, she will read it, which has become a required course for her every day.
Although she hasn't counted the word count for the ending she wrote today, the overall word count shouldn't be much different.
"It would be better to have more words, as you can earn more royalties."
Tao Yushu laughed and said: "But this kind of novel has a certain reading threshold. If it is published, the response may not be so good?"
"It doesn't matter, as long as you have the royalties." Lin Chaoyang said nonchalantly.
The next day, when Lin Chaoyang was thinking about which journal to send the manuscript to, Li Shuguang from the Humanities Society found the library.
He was responsible for the publication of the single volume of "Little Shoes" by the Humanities Society, and he also attended the symposium held by "Yenjing Literature and Art".
Lin Chaoyang was curious about the reason why Li Shuguang came to see him today. When he asked, he found out that Li Shuguang came to give him time to go to the Humanities Society to sign a new publishing contract.
"What contract?" Lin Chaoyang asked.
"In the contract for "Little Shoes", haven't the new regulations on royalties come down? From now on, royalties will be paid for the number of prints." Li Shuguang explained.
Lin Chaoyang didn't expect that there would be an unexpected surprise. The Humanities Club was really kind in doing things.
After talking about re-signing the publishing contract, Li Shuguang continued: "I watched your "The First Floor", and I didn't expect you to write such a good script. Such a script is not something ordinary people can write.
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At this time, the Yanjing Normal University version of "The First Floor in the World" had already stopped performing. Li Shuguang was talking about the script of "The First Floor in the World" that had just been published in "Yenching Literature and Art" this month.
Lin Chaoyang said a few polite words, and Li Shuguang asked again: "I heard that your script has been given to Renyi?"
"right."
Li Shuguang nodded, "When this play is performed at the Capital Theater in the future, I will definitely go and see it."
"Thanks."
"Have you written anything new recently?" Li Shuguang asked casually.
"I just finished writing a novel."
Li Shuguang's eyes lit up. He didn't expect that he would get something unexpected today, "What are you writing about? A novella or a full-length novel?"
"A long novel, written about summer."
Li Shuguang wanted Lin Chaoyang to show him the manuscript, but Lin Chaoyang hesitated.
He planned to submit the novel to a literary magazine first, so that he could publish it later and earn two royalties.
If the manuscript is given directly to Li Shuguang, it is equivalent to losing the manuscript fee for publication.
"My novel will be submitted to a magazine." Lin Chaoyang said cryptically.
Li Shuguang immediately understood what he meant, and laughed and said: "What a big deal, I guarantee you can earn publication fees."
Lin Chaoyang thought he was going to submit the novel to "People's Literature" and said: "Last time, "Wreaths Under the Mountains" was originally promised to Lao Liu of "October", but in the end, he had no choice but to give it to "People's Literature".
I can’t give it to them this time.”
"Don't give it to them." Li Shuguang also echoed.
Lin Chaoyang gave him a confused look, what do you mean?
"How about "Contemporary"?" Li Shuguang asked.
Chapter completed!