Chapter 31 Treating Creation as Work
Yue Qingyan thought for a while: "I want to write the whole article within three months." It should be almost, and I already have half a book and a few side stories in my hand. I've been in good shape lately, so I'll write quickly. ”
"That's great. You'll be able to see the full text soon. Plus the biography is 11 volumes?" Jin Yuan said happily.
"The company's idea, the biography is still attached to the back of each volume, and it will not be released separately. However, when the box set is released after the full text is over, you can list the flyers. Xu Yingying looked at Jin Yuan.
"I understand: make more covers for the outer volume. ”
"Why are you in such a hurry?" Mo Ersheng, who had been listening, suddenly asked Yue Qingyan. After writing in three months, the pressure on Yue Qingyan during this period of time has become even greater. What she was worried about was not whether Yue Qingyan would have time to accompany her, but whether he could really stand it.
"3 months estimate is unlikely. It is recommended that you stretch it out a little longer. Volume 3 will be typeset next week or next week at the latest. And then you have to go to a readers' meeting and something like that. At present, we plan to play four games: SH, BJ, ZQ, and Guangzhou. Add it up to two weeks. It should affect your writing. However, you should also take a good rest. Xu Yingying immediately dismissed. "We're not rushing you, you're actually moving much faster than expected. Don't really put too much pressure on yourself. ”
Morsheng was silent, and at this time she didn't seem to speak well. But Yue Qingyan didn't object, but tilted his head sideways, and said helplessly: "Okay." I agreed to the readers' meeting, and I will definitely cooperate. ”
Morsheng breathed a sigh of relief. She had to attend classes during the readers' exchange meeting, so she couldn't follow along. She will also consider whether it is appropriate to follow along all the time at this time. Best-selling authors are sometimes similar to celebrities, with girlfriends, wives, etc., which will affect popularity. Although Yue Qingyan is not taking the route of this kind of idol-type author, it is better to have more than one thing.
"Why are you fighting so hard?" Morsheng asked, a little annoyed, and lowered his voice.
"I want to write a story. Yue Qingyan said frankly.
At the end of the meeting, Yue Qingyan and Jin Yuan exchanged contact information. But Yue Qingyan didn't plan to go to the Comic Con, not that he was not interested, but that everyone made an appointment to eat together, and they had to adjust well. Yue Qingyan now has a small circle of friends, in addition to the people in the Ming Dynasty, there are also authors in the circle. Because he heard about the number of first printing, Du Xiao was looking forward to slaughtering Yue Qingyan. Yue Qingyan doesn't like such a noisy environment very much, but everyone's kindness and the request to relax are still there.
"Are you going?" asked Yue Qingyan.
Mo Ersheng thought about it, but said: "Forget it, I won't mix it with the author's party." I have a class tomorrow, and besides, Mr. Jin said, it seems that the clubhouse is looking for you. Say talk to him in advance the next time you go. ”
Yue Qingyan nodded. He hadn't been to the clubhouse for a while. I haven't even practiced the Soul Breaker for a while, but now, I guess I've retained the habit of running. I've been isolated from the world for almost a few months, but now I'm in a good mood and can go out for a walk.
"Then today, go to the movies?" Yue Qingyan scratched his head. Since you're with Morsheng, there must be some ritualistic activities.
"What do you want to see?"
"I don't know. Why don't you go and take a look, and watch whatever time is about the same. ”
Mo Ersheng could clearly feel that Yue Qingyan was clumsily trying to do something. She smiled and said, "Okay." It's not a big day, but it's just right. ”
Just as the two of them were about to leave the company, Ah Yue came out again and said, "By the way, let's talk about it two days before I come to the company another day." I told you before that I wanted to hire a special public account for you to operate, and there was no content before. Now that you're going to have a readers' meeting, you have to implement this. You set a time to interview the operation of the official account. ”
Yue Qingyan nodded. The current author, there are really too many troubles. And he, he didn't understand his own affairs, and he actually started to have people living by working for him? This is another pressure.
Walking in the mall together, Morsheng asked, "What are you going to write? I should be very bored if I write a book for a few months, right?"
Stuffiness is of course. Yue Qingyan's current situation, the tasks are all completed in one before the other can be written. For the author, of course, this is also normal, but the author himself will definitely be aesthetically fatigued. The biggest reason why the author abandons this kind of super long story is that he has no motivation to write it. Some of this motivation has to do with money, but most of it really has nothing to do with money. Constantly thinking about a super-complex story, the drain on brain power, and the intense and persistent feeling of burnout that develops, that's what is the most torturous. For the authors of online articles and serializations, they naturally owe readers thousands of words when they get up every day, and the pressure of income, the plot thinking of writing, the physical state, and all kinds of daily chores will make people unable to turn on the computer and touch the keyboard. Even if you turn on the computer, read a profile and follow the link all the way to you don't know where it goes. Watch a video or a movie, and before you know it, many hours have passed, and anyway, it's too late today to update tomorrow...... All sorts of temptations are confusing the authors. The biggest enemy of writing has always been yourself.
Yue Qingyan has motivation and pressure, and the pressure is that he doesn't dare not finish writing, or even dare not finish it. Otherwise, God knows what Faust would have decided. If there's a negative effect or something, it's very miserable and pitful. In "Eun Young", there are too many things that can be called negative states. Rochenthal's curse, Oberstan's prosthetic eye, Gordonbamm's birth are freaks...... Reinhardt's confessional incompetence and Young Willy's incompetence in love...... It's scary to think about. Don't forget, there are strings attached to this book, and it will affect the people around you. He knows too few people now, and it's really bad luck for any of them.
The motivation comes from those readers, painters, the expectations of the company and the website before the Ming Dynasty, and naturally from the money. Whether you can live a good life depends on whether you can sell well and how well you can sell well. Du Xiao is already very powerful, but this guy's family burden still gave Yue Qingyan a hard wake-up. It's really not like you can survive casually.
In addition, as he writes about power and scheming, war and politics, Yue Qingyan also needs to make some arrangements for the future. He has been reactive with every book until now. But as Faust begins to attach requirements, it may be more troublesome later. In addition to coping with his own social requirements, such as writing a "Heart of Broken Stories" for Morsheng, he has to deal with the requirements of business and development, such as "Yinying", which he is currently writing, even if Faust does not mention it, there should be some additional requirements.
For example, do you have any knowledge or ability shortcomings? Can you rely on novel writing to acquire relevant skills? Your daily learning will not stop, but in terms of efficiency, extracting a skill is more effective than learning it for a long time. For example, he used to think that "linguistics" was useless, but as he wrote it, he felt more and more that linguistics has a very big role in whether it is to grasp the way each character speaks, the characteristics of dialects, or to imitate and simulate the tone of the Republic of China, academic tone, and historical tone. Now, he can clearly distinguish the stylistic characteristics of different styles at once and turn them into elements that he can use.
Although the skills are drawn very randomly, if one is not good, then write a few more, or concentrate several skills in a novel, and it is useful to draw any of them. This layout, maybe you can start experimenting. His current skills are too much of a hammer in the east and a mallet in the west. There is no synergy between each other...... Probably only in the field of pretending can a joint force be formed.
Yue Qingyan hadn't figured out what to write specifically, but he already had a general direction. He needs to spend a few months making a list of the various areas that can help his personal development, and then start planning the content direction and plot.
Yue Qingyan now understands a little bit, why wasn't he a good author in his previous life. If you could have had such a level of concentration in your previous life, I'm afraid you would have already become a god. Now, in the face of pressure, he is not blindly coping, but thinking about how to organize the various skills and elements that can be used at his hands to plan and weave a story. When writing "Your Name", although the story is someone else's, it is you who presents the story. Picking up a story from a movie that you remember in your head without reading a novel at all, and presenting it as a text of fair quality is already a creation in itself.
If the short stories are not mentioned, it can basically be considered that his text realization does not account for a high proportion. But now writing "Yinying", except for the core of the story, a few famous sentences, everything else is his own painstaking work. Refine the scattered points that you remember in your mind and present them as a complete story, even higher than the original book in terms of completion. This kind of ability was completely unthinkable to him before.
Writing a story is not something that can be written by someone saying what is hot, what genre, interesting and fun. The accumulation of one's own knowledge and common sense, one's sensitivity to specific language types, one's mastery of stories, characters, and bridges, as well as one's own ideology, concept, depth of thinking, and accumulation of emotions over a period of time...... These determine what an author can write.
And then look at what the market needs, whether there is a combination between the two, or whether you have the confidence and determination to create a market segment? These are all things that an author needs to consider clearly when planning an article.
What is written in the macro and how to write in the micro can fully reflect the reason why an author is an author and why an author cannot be replaced.
The gate category of "Yinying" is considered a space opera, and the subcategory should be regarded as a dynastic war, but its writing is biased towards the POV of multi-character group portraits, but the text will not be so revealing. When you can come up with a good story and find a sub-category that is suitable for presenting it, the writing should not be too bad, and there is no reason why it will fail. Do you see that the writing is poor like "Fifty Shades of Grey", isn't it also a big hit?
After 1 million words of ultra-difficult genre literary thinking, Yue Qingyan has made great progress in the management and control of specific lines compared to before. Writing depends on inspiration and passion? How did such a multimillion-word long story come about? No writer can store enough passion for such a long length. At first, I have passion, but then I see if I have a strong enough ability to distinguish words to manage what I write. Have strong and stable self-management ability to ensure the time and concentration of creation.
And the author, it's just a job. A job that does require talent, but even more requires rigorous execution ability.
When Yue Qingyan realized this, then what reason did he have not to complete the work requirements, and what reason did he have not to do this job well?