Gu Xinxue, the editor of Nanhai Publishing Company, suddenly called Zhang Chu, "Zhang Chu, do you have time the day after tomorrow?"

"The day after tomorrow when you're still in class on Friday, what activities do you recommend over there?"

"That's right, there was a high-end literary seminar in Yanjing on Friday. We can get you to join this literary seminar, and it's a great opportunity to break into the literary circles of the North!"

Gu Xinxue's words were full of excitement, northern literature has always been the leader of Chinese literature, and ordinary people can't get into the sight of that group of people at all.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Chu's "Life of Pi" was nominated for the Booker Prize in the UK recently, Gu Xinxue would not have been sure to recommend Zhang Chu to this literary seminar!

Zhang Chu didn't actually have any feelings about this meeting, he casually asked, "What kind of literary discussion meeting?"

"It is the Chinese Dream Literary Creation Seminar co-sponsored by the Creation and Research Department of your Writers' Association, the Literature and Art Department of the People's Daily, the Literature and Art Department of Guangming Daily, the Literature and Art Newspaper, and the Lu Xun Academy of Literature. It is said that the chairman of the Writers' Association, the editor-in-chief of the Literature and Art Newspaper, and the director of the Theory and Literature Division of the Literature and Art Bureau, more than 80 scholars, writers, and critics will participate in it. ”

"What the hell is the Art Bureau? Why haven't you heard of it before?"

Zhang Chu's focus is a bit biased, and he doesn't care about the rest of the content at all, but this strange position.

Gu Xinxue's head was full of black lines, and he thought that Zhang Chu would care about whether to speak or not, "They are in charge of the national cultural system and matters related to popular literature and art. Cultural bu and **** are thin tubes, and this department is in charge. ”

Listening to this explanation, Zhang Chu put his mind at ease, he thought about it carefully and said, "You can help me refuse, this seminar is not interesting." ”

Zhang Chu has always been writing, and it is simply embarrassing for him to write about the Chinese dream!

What's more, he is not the same as those so-called serious writers, critics, and scholars at all, and he can't pee in the same pot.

Gu Xinxue was a little anxious, and he persuaded: "Xiao Zhang, don't be too rash. You should go there to listen to the lectures and make a good relationship with them. They are all people in your literary circle, and they will be easy to deal with in the future. ”

This quota was obtained by Nanhai Publishing Company with great difficulty, and it is too difficult to get involved in China without mixing circles!

Zhang Chu has always been free from the literary circle, and usually does not participate in any exchange activities or cocktail parties, literary meetings and the like.

"Editor Gu, you also know that my identity is obviously uncomfortable on that kind of occasion. Neither of us is a journeyman, so why do we have to pretend to be together? I appreciate your kindness, but this kind of seminar is really not for me. ”

Zhang Chu is also very helpless, he is an outlier among writers, and when the time comes, it will make both parties quite uncomfortable.

"You discuss it with Zhou Kang, I will persuade the editor-in-chief to help you keep this quota until eight o'clock tonight, and then you will have to give the quota to others." ”

Gu Xinxue is only from his own point of view, he believes that if Zhang Chu wants to get along in the Chinese literary scene, he must participate in this kind of activity, and heterogeneity will be constantly rejected by mainstream writers.

Chinese online literature is the third wave of literary reading craze in Southeast Asia after Xiangjiang martial arts and Gulf romance.

Originally, Zhang Chu had nothing to do with online literature, but since his "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and "Sou Shen Ji" were serialized on the origin Chinese network, he was naturally labeled with such a label.

Zhang Chu was a relatively orthodox physical book writer before, even though he was very popular on the Internet, but each work was actually sold through physical books.

But then he expanded his field in different directions, which made some conservatives scoff.

However, Zhang Chu doesn't care about other people's thoughts, online literature is the trend of the future, and he doesn't have any prejudices at all, thinking that physical writers are superior.

Everyone writes books to make money, all for hobbies, and it would be ridiculous to divide the status because of the different publishing platforms!

What's more, those remarks are just not eating grapes and saying that grapes are sour, and many physical writers and serious literary writers have more or less opened vests to publish works on the Internet.

However, their thinking mode has not been transformed, compared to the flowery rhetoric and deep ideological connotation, Internet readers care about the story itself!

The story is the most important thing, as long as the story is good, the rest of the flaws can be tolerated.

Zhang Chu's current works do not involve works that are too niche and too cold, and the works that the public likes are also good works.

Originally, the literary circle was supposed to be full of flowers and a hundred schools of thought contending, but the Chinese literary circle has a feeling of being complacent.

Even people of insight directly began to criticize this phenomenon, believing that circle culture is the embodiment of the inferior nature of the Chinese literary world, and everyone works together to praise each other.

Until now, Zhang Chu has been paying attention to the writer group, and he has dived in multiple author groups under the leadership of the editor, whether it is the group of Nanhai Publishing Company or the rest of the group.

This is a highly circular existence, and many writers linger at various seminars, press conferences, and study classes across the country, and are keen on social activities and praise each other.

Some people upload photos of meetings and events they attend every week, and it seems that they don't have time to write at all.

Many literary works require the author to write and revise with high intensity and a long time, and dinners and symposiums will definitely encroach on the creative time.

Of course, meeting friends in writing is actually an elegant thing that has been handed down from ancient times, and European and American writers also have a salon culture of mutual exchange.

There are writers in China who do not want to make progress, and there are also many in Europe and the United States, as long as they become famous, they fall into the trap of fame and prestige, lingering in drinking parties and various venues, and living on the credit books of the past.

Zhang Chu had also received invitations to various activities before, but he used his busy studies as an excuse to shirk it.

The practical role of circles is indeed of great significance to writers, whether it is literary awards, work publications or literary criticism, the literary world maintains a distinct circle culture!

For many writers, making circles is also part of the job.

Writers, especially pure literary writers, must first get the recognition and support of the authorities in the circle in order to gain the ascendant, otherwise it will be difficult to get ahead.

They are not as easy as best-selling authors like Zhang Chu, as long as their works are good, there will always be a day when they will come out.

In China, editors of literary journals hold the power to publish their works, critics hold the authority to speak, newcomers rely on circles to get opportunities, and established writers need to rely on circles to continuously obtain resources.

Compared with bubble circles, Zhang Chu prefers to write manuscripts!