213 [Ten Outlines]
Parked the car, Huo Yaowen asked Anna to wait in the car for a while, he ran out of the car by himself, took out an umbrella from the trunk, stretched it out, and then walked to the co-pilot's side, took Anna's hand, and led her to the building not far away.
"It's raining so well today!"
When he arrived downstairs in the building, there was a place to shelter from the rain, Huo Yaowen put away his umbrella and poked his head out depressedly to look at the dark clouds in the sky.
"The weather in England is really bad, and the month I've been back, there have been several rains. "Anna is used to rain without warning, and who makes the weather in England weird?
"Yes. Huo Yaowen nodded, turned to Anna and said, "Let's go up." ”
Anna was puzzled: "Go there?"
"I'm going to start a new magazine, and that's where the office is. ”
After more than half a month of preparation, most of the employees of Kyushu Magazine, Yao Wenjie, have been recruited, and the office is located in Hing Mao Building on Nathan Road, Kowloon.
The reason why I moved here is that on the one hand, there is no extra place for the employees of Kyushu Magazine in the original office space, and on the other hand, it is to stay at the current residence of the chairman.
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The two went upstairs and soon arrived at the office of Kyushu Magazine on the fourth floor.
At this time, Yao Wenjie had already rushed over, and with him, there was also the newly recruited Lin Xiaotang, the editor-in-chief of Kyushu Magazine.
"Chairman. ”
Seeing Huo Yaowen coming, Yao Wenjie hurriedly stepped forward to introduce the people around him: "This is Mr. Lin Xiaotang, the editor-in-chief of my newly recruited Kyushu magazine, who used to work in the New Evening News, but Mr. Lin was finally invited by me." ”
Lin Xiaotang is about forty years old, his hair is very shiny, he is wearing a gray suit and a pair of round-framed glasses.
Huo Yaowen stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Hello Mr. Lin, I have heard Editor-in-Chief Yao mention you a long time ago, and it is a great honor for our magazine to invite you to be the editor-in-chief!"
Mr. Huo was polite. ”
Lin Xiaotang shook hands with him, said modestly, and continued with a smile: "I am your loyal book lover, and I like to read your "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" the most. ”
"Haha, Mr. Lin, don't worry, I'll be the first to show you after I finish writing. Huo Yaowen grinned, regardless of whether Lin Xiaotang was really his own reader or not, since he was complimented, he naturally had to respond.
Yao Wenjie glanced at Anna beside Huo Yaowen, although he was curious about who this ghost sister was, he didn't say much, just opened his mouth and said, "Chairman, I'll take you in for a visit." ”
"Good. Huo Yaowen nodded, and when he was about to follow, he suddenly thought of Anna, and he introduced: "Editor-in-chief Yao, Mr. Lin, this is my girlfriend Anna Isabel, who is a philosophy teacher at the University of Hong Kong. ”
As soon as he heard that it was the proprietress of the proprietor, Yao Wenjie hurriedly said: "Hello Miss Isabel, my name is Yao Wenjie, you can call me Mike." ”
Lin Xiaotang said: "Hello Miss Isabel. ”
"Hello. Anna smiled.
Looking at the beautiful Anna, Lin Xiaotang smiled and said to Huo Yaowen: "Miss Isabel is so beautiful, Mr. Huo is so blessed!"
Huo Yaowen hugged Anna's waist and said with a smile: "Who said it wasn't!"
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At this time, in the office of Kyushu Magazine, although the employees have not yet been arranged, most of the office equipment such as tables and chairs have been prepared, and many of them are left by the previous company.
This office is not very large, only about 200 square meters, but there are three or two independent offices, one is the financial room, one is the editor-in-chief's office, and the other is the conference room, so the space left for the staff office is only more than 100 square meters.
For the start-up of the magazine, there are not many employees needed, and the place and area are just right.
After Huo Yaowen visited for about ten minutes, Chen Fan, Zhang Menghuan, Li Qinhan, Yu Yangxin, Wu Yunsheng and others also hurried over.
"Mr. Chen, Mr. Zhang, why are you here too!" Lin Xiaotang looked at the two martial arts writers in front of him with a surprised expression.
Chen Fan noticed Lin Xiaotang and was overjoyed: "Mr. Lin hasn't seen you for a long time!"
"Haha, Brother Lin is also going to work in Kyushu Magazine?" Zhang Meng is also an old acquaintance with Lin Xiaotang, in the early years, when he wrote martial arts manuscripts for the New Evening News, Lin Xiaotang was just an ordinary editor, and he used to be a proofreader for a while.
"You know?"
Huo Yaowen was stunned, he didn't expect these three people to know each other.
Lin Xiaotang said with a smile: "Yes, I am an old friend with Mr. Chen and Mr. Zhang, when I used to work in the New Evening News, I used to be Mr. Zhang's proofreader, and I also urged Mr. Chen's manuscript. ”
Zhang Meng and Chen Fan nodded at the same time and said happily: "Yes, they are all old friends." ”
"This is just right, and it will be much easier for everyone to work together in the future. ”
Huo Yaowen smiled, since the three of them know each other, they will be able to work more effectively in the future.
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Moment.
Huo Yaowen asked Anna to wait for him in the office, and he led everyone into the conference room, ready to discuss the main work and content of "Kyushu" magazine, and by the way, handed over the previously written manuscript to Chen Fan, Zhang Meng and others.
"Huo Sheng, where is the outline?!" Li Qinhan couldn't wait.
The same is true for Yu Yangxin and Wu Yunsheng.
Facing the anxious five people, Huo Yaowen smiled: "I brought the outline, and I'll hand it over to you later, I'll talk about the content and situation of our magazine's work first." ”
Huo Yaowen glanced at Lin Xiaotang and asked, "Mr. Lin, you should know the main purpose of our Kyushu magazine, right?"
"You know, Editor-in-Chief Yao talked to me before. Lin Xiaotang nodded, Yao Wenjie told him something about Kyushu Magazine before.
"Well, that's fine. ”
Huo Yaowen continued: "Our magazine does not accept any contributions from outsiders, but if you are interested in writing for a writer in our magazine, you can invite him to come and see how his writing is, and if it is good, you can hire a long-term columnist for our magazine." ”
"I have ten outlines here, representing different eras, different characters, different regions and races, which are the foundation ...... to create our Kyushu Oriental fantasy world."
While speaking, Huo Yaowen distributed the ten outlines separately.
"Jizhou?" Chen Fan, who took the outline, glanced at the two big characters on the outline and read it out curiously.
Zhang Meng also said: "I am Yanzhou!"
"I'm Qingzhou!"
"I'm Xuzhou!"
With everyone's words, Huo Yaowen nodded and said with a smile: "That's right, nine of the ten outlines in your hands represent the names of the ancient Chinese Kyushu division, namely Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yuzhou, Liangzhou and Yongzhou!"
"Although these nine states and counties are divided by my ancient geographical names, the actual area is much larger than in the real world, and at the same time, in addition to the common people in each state, there are countless different races, such as demon races, demon races, ghost races, etc., you can look through them yourself. ”
Immediately, the sound of flipping through the outline sounded in the room.
"These nine outlines represent nine states and counties, as well as nine different cultures and developments, although it shows that there is an emperor who governs Kyushu, but at this time the empire is already withering......
"Each state has its own cultural characteristics, and at the same time, there are hundreds of schools, people, gods, ghosts, demons and demons are chaotic in this Kyushu, there are sects that practice immortal law, there are also martial arts masters, and there are more disputes in the rivers and lakes, and the enmity of family and country ......"
"There are a lot of details that I haven't written because I don't have time, and it will take your efforts. At the same time, there are many stories experienced in each state, and there are many characters and races that need to be portrayed, so my suggestion is to write one together after reading the outline. ”
These nine outlines are the content of Huo Yaowen's collection of multiple ideas in later generations, which can be said to be nine different stories, but because they are in the same world, they will still communicate in the end.
"As for this last outline. ”
Huo Yaowen raised the last outline in his hand and said: "This is the almanac of Kyushu from scratch, and the general outline of all different races and hundreds of schools, immortals, demons, gods and demons, etc., and outside of Kyushu, there are also several different continents, each continent has its own characteristics, because of the problem of time, I didn't write much, for the time being, I only mentioned it slightly in the outline, if you have ideas, you can improve them yourself." ”
These outlines are just outlines, only the setting does not have too many storylines for the time being, not that Huo Yaowen is afraid that someone will steal the idea, mainly because there are too many things to think about, and he can't write it alone, so he can only let five people write an outline story first, and then slowly let them and the editorial staff of Kyushu Magazine work together to improve this oriental fantasy world.
"It's amazing!"
Chen Fan looked at the "Jizhou" outline in his hand, and the whole person trembled with excitement, although the outline was written in one stroke, but it can be seen how huge this fantasy world is!
How big is Jizhou, how much land there is, how many different races are there, how many counties are there, how many different sects are there, how many dialects are there, and even how many people are written, and Huo Yaowen also drew a very simple map of Jizhou, which can be said to be scribbled, with geography, climate, and so on......
Huo Yaowen is just a question mark about these things, and they still need to be discussed, but no matter what, if you can give examples of these settings, you can see how terrifying the worldview of this book is!
No wonder Huo Yaowen said that he couldn't write alone, and he had to find someone to co-write!
"Huo Sheng, your outline is too huge, it seems that our big guy must sum up the total before writing it!"
Zhang Meng was also surprised, the Shushan Xianxia setting that was the owner of the Pearl House shocked Chinese at home and abroad, but it couldn't compare to the outline in his hand now, and there was more than one outline, and there were nine books!
"Awesome!"
"If this is to be written, it needs to be carefully discussed. ”
Listening to the exclamations of Chen Fan, Zhang Menghuan and others, Huo Yaowen grinned, in fact, there are many contents in the outline that are insignificant, but if you want to improve a complete world, then these things are very necessary.
Readers may not value these things, but writers must understand the complete worldview before they can start writing, and only then can they write about a fantasy world that is different from the real world.
The terroir and culture in these books can also be published separately in the future, so that readers can better understand and understand the story of "Kyushu World".
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Guantai company.
Huo Guantai walked around the office anxiously.
"Jingle Bell ......"
At this moment, a rapid phone rang.
Huo Guantai hurriedly pounced, picked up the phone, and listened to the words of the person on the other side of the microphone, the smile on his face became brighter and brighter.
After hanging up the phone, Huo Guantai leaned back in the boss's chair, his smile was still undiminished, he squinted slightly and looked out of the window, muttering to himself: "I didn't expect that there would be other people pushing you behind your back." ”
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