Since the special requirements of each story are known before writing, Yue Qingyan can't plan anything, so he can only deal with it passively. The first additional requirement is: to write a love story that cannot be together.

Yue Qingyan wrote down the request, but he couldn't think of anything to write at once, so he simply put it on hold.

Faust pushed the writing requirements to the second stage, and Yue Qingyan really needed to sort out his experience during this period and what he had gained from other aspects. If you want to talk about money, now you have more than 100,000 yuan in hand, plus the manuscript fee that you will definitely get when you go back, it should not be a problem to maintain a relatively comfortable and prosperous life for a while. But the biggest change is that my address book is finally not empty. This made Yue Qingyan feel reconnected with the world.

Although, there are still no peers. At present, these have their own bosses and work partners, and there are industry bigwigs, and they may be able to become friends, some of them. And peers, I'm afraid there is not much chance to meet it. The tone of his writing is too somber, and a servant street online writer has now entered the small circle of traditional literature. If we continue to operate, I am afraid that we can do well. And in this circle, the vast majority of people are quite old. The youngest person I have known in the past few days is Xu Yingying, who is also two years older than him. For the rest, it's not a big problem to say that it's a generational separation.

Maybe that's a problem, maybe it's not. For an author, the most important problem to solve, and the easiest to solve, is solitude. Get used to being alone, enjoy being alone, and only when you're alone. And often need to wear a mask, pretend to be kind or indifferent, in order to face others. When he used to be a writer, he was too used to staying in his place all day long, and he basically didn't have to deal with anyone except for ordering takeout and receiving couriers. If you have some friends, you can probably relieve stress and have an outlet for catharsis. If you have a girlfriend, or you can have a softer way to get along. However, for an author, in fact, all must be about himself and his work. Everything else is an appendage of life.

Yue Qingyan probably can't live such a cold life, he will still feel lonely. Basically, it was, or is, not too bad. Feeling lonely, finding someone to party and play, feeling more bored than being alone, returning to your own small space, and so on.

Yue Qingyan was not in a hurry to write the next novel. This time Faust said that the amount of 10 stories. And what about after that? There's no time limit yet, and it's hard to say after that. Yue Qingyan felt that his ability might not be able to control these 10 stories well, and he was even less sure to deal with the increasingly difficult and complex story requirements. It's best to take it easy until you're fully prepared. The main challenge of increasingly complex stories is not the superficiality of writing, but the depth of thought. In the end, how to understand the requirements, digest the requirements, so that all kinds of inexplicable additional requirements for the story are not too abruptly integrated into the story, or combine the story requirements to plan the whole story. It's really, really hard. Now the conditions are still relatively simple and broad, but what about the future? If there are seven or eight additional conditions accumulated in the future, the requirements for permutation and combination will make people want to die, right? The creative space has been compressed to a minimum by nature, and it is really difficult to say whether the story can be made up at that time.

Instead of racking your brains and being at a loss, it is better to practice your internal skills now and comprehensively improve your writing ability, knowledge accumulation and depth of thinking, and then you should have more means to meet various requirements.

When he was at the Yuanshan Club, Jin Chen gave him his contact information, so that he could go to the school to find him at any time in the future. If he is interested in some courses, he can take them to another class. Anyway, he shouldn't care about academic qualifications or anything like that, and this flexible teaching method should be the most suitable for him.

The next morning, Yue Qingyan called Jin Chen. Jin Chen looked quite happy.

"I didn't expect you to come to me so soon. How?

"Yes, Mr. Jin, what are you teaching? I didn't study very systematically before, and I want to study the field of literature more deeply and systematically, rather than the pure field of language. This ......"

"Haha, I understand. My own research is "Theory of Literature and Art" and "Philosophy of Art", which are relatively biased towards theoretical research. However, since you study linguistics, you can be regarded as your own person, and there is no separation between literature, history and philosophy. You should also have some understanding of these. ”

"Mr. Jin, I am very interested in your class. Recently, I've been relatively idle, so you send me a class schedule, and I'll go back and follow the class schedule. ”

"No problem. You come over first, and then I'll take you to other subject teachers. ”

Jin Chen quickly sent a class schedule diagram, indicating the class time, progress and classroom. Because Jin Chen only teaches and does research, he is relatively poor, so he takes more classes. I actually have to take three classes of "Literary and Art Theory" a week, but the students are not the same, two classes are from the Chinese department, and the professional level is a relatively high level of literary theory, and one class is a public class. In fact, the essay theory in the public class is not good, and the content is relatively watery. Literary theory is a very specialized course, and if you don't have enough reading foundation, you probably don't even know the source of the content cited by the teacher. After all, literary theory is not a popular literature, and a large number of research materials are very unpopular.

Seeing that there would be a professional class in literature and theory in the afternoon, Yue Qingyan hurriedly sent a text message, saying that it would be over in the afternoon. Calculating the time, he now lives far from the university, he packed 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 is inconvenient and too conspicuous to wander around empty-handed all day long. With that, time is even tighter.

Classes start at 1 p.m. and go straight through the afternoon. Divided into two halves, a total of three hours, it can be said that it is a very difficult and long course. When Yue Qingyan arrived at the classroom, he found a corner to sit down, his dress and temperament were still quite student, and he did not attract the attention of other students.

Jin Chen arrived at the classroom about 10 minutes early, and at this time, the classroom was only half full.

Jin Chen also deliberately said hello to Yue Qingyan before starting the class. Yue Qingyan, who was originally completely seamlessly integrated into the classroom, has become very eye-catching now. However, dealing with different people now feels less cramped.

Today's class is about the relationship between the author and the text, and the relationship between the author and the story. This is also something that Yue Qingyan is very interested in.

"Authors are good at hiding themselves behind texts. Moreover, the author and narrator are not consistent. For example, when the author uses the first person, the self-proclaimed me, usually speaking, will still be quite different from the author. Everyone actually knows it, but when it comes to reading and judging, sometimes it's not easy to distinguish between that. The 'I' in the novel is involved as a character in the plot interaction. When the world in the novel is closer to the environment in which the author lives, the reader is not able to judge or is deliberately confused about the difference between the two. After Jin Chen said a few cases, he was a little unsatisfied. There are too many details to dig into for literary researchers. But there's no way to go too deep at the moment.

"Yue Qingyan, you can talk about it. How did the influence of the human name on your writing happen?" Jin Chen felt that it was not enjoyable, and burned the flames of war on Yue Qingyan.

Yue Qingyan was very helpless: "Teacher Jin, I'm here to listen to the class." You ......"

"Let's talk about it, you are the author, I haven't experienced this angle. I can't talk about it either. ”

Yue Qingyan thought for a while and said, "When the author decides what person to use in a novel, it actually depends on what he wants to write. And, how to write it? The key to writing in the first person is not what you tell the reader, but what you hide from the reader. The plot that the reader observes through 'me' can be inconsistent with the character in the plot. Authors who prefer to use the first person are mostly in two cases except for the needs of the story itself. One is to be able to grasp the story, and the other is to be unripe and unable to grasp the story. The latter needs the first person because you can write mental activities to supplement your own narrative and description. But when you can master the story, you can play more power in the first person. It's that the information is not equal. Although the reader understands the whole story through the 'I', the 'I' in the story is not omniscient. ”

Yue Qingyan didn't say it deeply, but it wasn't shallow either. A lot of what he says is about the techniques that will be used in many stories, as well as his own thinking.

"What if the reader has seen the whole story through this 'me', and then watched the protagonist inevitably slide into the abyss?" Yue Qingyan asked.

If this question were in another major, there might not be any reaction. But the people present are all Chinese, don't care about being active and passive, happy or not, at least the reading volume will not be too bad. Yue Qingyan's question immediately made everyone feel excited.

"Damn, this way, the first-person usage is so advanced. "One student felt the power of the question.

"The third person too. Many authors prefer a third-person God perspective, but the God perspective itself can make the story seem uninteresting. What if the third-person character is also limited by the angle of observation? Will the way the story be told differently? What if multiple third-person perspectives are interwoven to construct a complete story and be written from different sides? Of course, this will seem confusing. Multiple viewpoints make up the same story, preferably in the first person. In this way, there are more resources at hand. ”

Jin Chen was also in a trance: "Alas, what does this resource mean?"

"It's not just the information that makes up the story, it's the narrative. The way of thinking in the first person, the tone of the narrative, the grammar of speaking, thinking, and the small details that make up the text, all of these words make up the narrative? The reader's reading will not be mixed. Yue Qingyan said: "Of course, this does not seem to be the category of literary theory, but the question of how the author writes. ”

"Alas, you mean, those non-information morphemes are actually forming a narrative?" Jin Chen suddenly understood, and then immediately said it in academic language.

Yue Qingyan thought for a while: "I don't think it constitutes a narrative, but embellishes the narrative. ”