Chapter 148: Fill in the Gaps! [Ask for a subscription and ask for a monthly pass]
Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated.
Qin Chuan didn't start writing directly, but planned to look at the level of suspense and reasoning in this world before starting.
In the name of controlling market dynamics, it is actually lazy.
Reasoning has developed so far, and the works are vast. It's just that after Qin Chuan searched around, he found that there were very few excellent masterpieces, and there were a lot of bad works.
In the list of best-selling books published on the official website of the Writers' Association, there is not a single reasoning in the top 100 categories, and it has been slowly seen that more than 300 have appeared before the first part appears.
It is estimated that many people find a random reasoning, but what they see is a bad work that is unappetizing, and they have lost interest in reasoning since then.
Anyway, there is very little discussion on the Internet about the big genre of suspense and reasoning, and it has become a niche within a niche!
When readers don't bother to spit out bad work, it proves that this type is really not good.
It's just that many works naturally have some suspenseful reasoning elements.
"Is it so miserable?"
Qin Chuan knew that the general public was very enthusiastic about martial arts and history, but he didn't expect the reasoning to be so bleak.
I guess the good writers have switched to writing the rest of the genre.
The suspense reasoning class is basically the most difficult of all genres to write, requiring novel techniques and novel overall plot development, and there is no attraction like others.
It is a great challenge for writers, to be innovative, to think flexibly, to be highly logical, it is simply a newcomer's grave!
Writing romance, writing about the city, writing about thrillers, writing about fantasy upgrades, which is not easier than writing suspenseful reasoning?
Although it cannot be said that bad money drives out good money, but if you can write a more popular genre in a simpler way, what writer is willing to ask for trouble!
Reasoning is a kind of foreign product, and in today's stage when Chinese culture is particularly strong, this kind of foreign work is actually not valued at all.
Now not only the reasoning of China is not much watched, but the same is true in Europe, America, Dongying, and South Korea, all of which are occasionally masterpieces, but they are still in the relatively niche era of short stories and magazines.
In a huge China, such a thriving literary market, there is only one professional magazine that publishes reasoning - "Reasoning World".
It's just one family that eats alone, and reasoning enthusiasts can't find a second one!
Rao is like this, and the sales are also very dismal, basically only able to train some amateur mystery writers to maintain the most basic situation.
The trickery is highly valued, and the storytelling and characters are lacking, which is why readers and publishers don't like it.
What you read in a long story is storytelling, without a complete story, what's the use of having a suspense and a trick?
Short stories are the mainstay, long articles are supplemented, the authors are limited, the excellent manuscripts are insufficient, and the manuscript fee is low.
This is the current situation of Chinese reasoning!
The whole reasoning has been so weakened that there is no distinction between the ontological and the social.
No one has the leisure to sort it out.
Qin Chuan's popularity is far from peaking now, if he becomes the top writer, and then writes reasoning, it is really possible to bring a wave of craze, just like the revival of aura in the network in his previous life is the same as Cthulhu and Honghuang.
It is a work that opens up and stabilizes this genre, so that most readers know and like this genre.
This creates a demand.
Demand and supply always go hand in hand.
As the demand for readers increases, so does the number of writers who write about this genre.
And then the cycle goes on and on, and it develops into a popular category.
As for how long this popularity lasts, it depends on the creativity of the authors.
Since Qin Chuan has already chosen "The Dedication of Suspect X", he naturally wants to be the leader of reasoning in this world!
It's not a pioneer, but it's good to be a master.
Just like the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty was Li Yuan, but the emperor people are most familiar with is Li Shimin.
At that time, he will have to spend more effort on promoting this one, and he can no longer be a shopkeeper like "Zhu Xian".
"How do you feel like you're responsible?"
Qin Chuan laughed at himself, he was not the kind of person who liked to put gold on his face.
Anyway, "The Devotion of Suspect X" is an excellent film, and it will not lose whether anyone reads it or not after it is written.
No matter how bad the external environment is, the things that Qin Chuan has made up his mind will not change.
The title of the book is very interesting, the suspect X represents the unknown, and the exact suspect is up to the reader to guess in the process of reading the book.
The suspect at the beginning of the book is not the same as the last suspect, so X is used instead, which increases the difficulty of reasoning.
At the same time, since the last suspect Shi Hong is a mathematician, X evaluation is commonly used when solving mathematical problems, which echoes the content from afar, which is very ingenious!
The unknowns of a math problem can be solved.
Just like the math problem, the X in this crime was eventually found.
He has a clear idea of the main story, and now he starts to make character cards for each character in the documentation.
In this way, no matter how you write it, there is a frame constraint, and you won't suddenly deviate!
There are not many characters in the whole article, and the absolute protagonist is, of course, Shi Shen Zheya, that is, Shi Hong after being changed by Qin Chuan.
The high school math teacher, with sparse hair and a round face, looked a few years older than his real age. originally wanted to be a mathematics researcher, but because of his family relationship, he couldn't further his studies, so he could only teach high school students who couldn't understand the mysteries of mathematics, which caused him to be depressed and quietly like his neighbor Chen Jing.
Another character who fell in love with Shi Hong was Tang Chuan, who was a classmate of Huaqing University and is now an associate professor of physics at Huaqing University. With these abilities, Yukawa can help his college classmates, who are police officers, solve difficult cases with a small amount of information.
Chen Jing is the cause of the whole story, her first marriage failed, she lived a life of exile after divorcing her second husband, and depended on her daughter for her life. After the incident, although Shi Hong helped her tide over the difficulties, she couldn't hide her impatience with Shi Hong, and she felt sorry for always affecting her daughter.
The image of the mathematical genius Shi Hong is not something that can be created in one sentence, but it needs to be used in a lot of space, using the side or other people's evaluations to reflect the person's mathematical ability.
Obviously a calm, rational mathematical genius, but there are strong feelings hidden in his heart.
Tang Chuan is not the protagonist, even if he is a real case solver. He can be remembered by readers, in addition to his super reasoning ability, he is also a living person with all kinds of feelings, and a person who can fight wits and courage with Shi Hong.
Chen Jing's role is somewhat crucial, and if it is not handled well, readers will treat her as a troublemaker and criticize her from the moral high ground.
Therefore, Qin Chuan must stand up the characters, so that readers can sympathize and pity her.
After thinking about this, Qin Chuan began to slowly adapt it locally, but this adaptation was a bit difficult and the progress was slow.
……
In the spacious and bright office, the sound of fingers tapping on the keyboard is constantly ringing.
Qin Chuan stared intently at the computer screen, looking at the paragraph he had just written, he couldn't help but shake his head, and then deleted it all.
I don't know how.
Anyway, it always feels awkward to read.
I want to avoid copying the whole text, but what I write is not concise and accurate enough.
He knew what to write and what he wanted to achieve, but his progress kept stuck at the beginning.
It's hard to form your own style, and it's even harder to change someone else's work to your own!
"Bang Bang Bang"
There was a sudden knock on the door.
Qin Chuan hurriedly switched the document to a web page, and then said, "The door is not locked, please come in!"
Even if the leaders know that Qin Chuan writes books in the office, it is better not to be caught directly.
"Teacher Qin, the Academic Affairs Office called and said that someone from the newspaper was looking for it, and it was the "Literature and Art Newspaper" that published "Metamorphosis". I forwarded your office number to them, and it should be coming soon. ”
"Okay, thank you, Mr. Song, I'll pay attention to the answer. ”
"Bye-bye then. ”
Teacher Song closed the door softly and left, she was responsible for communicating with various units in the school, although she was curious about the reason, but she was also very knowledgeable, so she didn't stay here.
Qin Chuan didn't understand what the people of the Literature and Art Newspaper were looking for him.
He got up from the computer and looked around before finding the phone that had accumulated a bit of dust, and no one usually used it at all!
Everything is communicated through mobile phones, not through office phones at all.
Who can expect that the university teacher's office will always be staffed.
"Jingle Bell ......"
The hurried bell rang suddenly, Qin Chuan picked up the microphone and said, "Hello, this is the office of the sports group, who are you looking for." ”
"Hello comrade, I am Lei Hao, the editor-in-chief of the Literature and Art Newspaper, may I ask if Mr. Qin Chuan Qin is there?"
Previously, Guo Zhijian couldn't find Qin Chuan's mobile phone number, so he could only find it through the work unit where "Metamorphosis" was submitted, so he contacted Xingcheng University of Science and Technology.
Qin Chuan was a little surprised when he heard this, "Hello Editor-in-Chief Lei, I am Qin Chuan." ”
He didn't remember what relationship he had with Lei Hao at all, why did he find himself?
Lei Hao was actually vaguely aware of it, and after hearing Qin Chuan's angry voice, he replied: "Mr. Qin, your short story is very well written, and readers like it quite a lot, so I made a special call to ask you for a manuscript." If you have time, you can publish the short story in our literary newspaper, and the manuscript fee will be calculated according to the top. In addition, I have a small thing, this year's Writers' Association is about to start recruiting new members, I don't know if Mr. Qin, have you ever thought about joining the Writers' Association? I can be your recommender. ”
"Writers' Association?"
Hearing the news of the previous draft, Qin Chuan was still very calm, and it was even expected.
It's just that the content of the writers' association was unexpected!