Chapter 3: The Birth of a Fairy Tale Master
Although he decided to be a porter in two worlds, Zhao Yiming also understood that porters were not so easy to be a porter. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info a good book wants to be popular, and it must also cater to the trend of the times. Otherwise, it can only be as tragic as Van Gogh, or simply annihilated in history.
Like his original world online article, it is very popular, and it definitely belongs to the trend, but Zhao Yiming can't copy it at this stage. In this world, computers have just become popular, online literature is still in its infancy, the circle is small, there are few people who pay attention, novel websites are not like websites and more like forums, online writers mainly rely on the Internet to earn fame, and to make money, they have to go through physical book publishing. According to the law of the original time and space, Zhao Yiming estimates that it will take at least four or five years for online articles to rise, and as for prosperity, it will take even longer.
As for the current trend of China in this world, Zhao Yiming also did some investigation, in this era, in addition to the relatively hot Chinese studies, the most popular literature is martial arts.
The reason why this is the case starts with China's cultural heritage. Before World War I, China was still relatively classical, and although technology was more important than historically, the way of Confucius and Mencius was still the mainstream. After World War I, there was a strong call for reform across the country, and the government followed popular opinion and launched a massive reform from the top down. In terms of culture, the "new culture" movement launched by the government is much more thorough and profound than the "new culture" movement initiated by Zhao Yiming's original time and space by the cultural circles.
By the end of World War II, countries that had regained their national self-confidence realized the significance of restoring excellent traditional culture. However, at that time, the country's focus was mainly on politics and military, and the efforts to restore excellent traditional culture were not enough.
When the Cold War ended and the country's economy took off, we realized that although we had no problem with countries like the United States, we had no problem. But soft power is simply the scum of war. Young people watch American Hollywood blockbusters, read Japanese light novels and manga, and even tiny South Korea has a Korean wave.
Although most of the imperial citizens of this time and space have a good great power mentality and are more rational, they just purely like those forms of cultural expression, and there are not many kneeling and licking. However, the government did not think this was a good phenomenon, so it set off a large-scale revival of excellent traditional culture.
The current empire has set up a compulsory course of brush calligraphy in elementary schools since ten years ago, with at least two classes a week. In middle school, I added a Chinese studies class and studied classic books such as the Book of Songs. Governments at all levels have also held large-scale poetry competitions on many occasions. After ten years of hard work, China's excellent traditional culture has finally begun to recover.
The martial arts craze, originated from the birth of new martial arts in the 90s of the last century, and the new martial arts that absorbed the advantages of the old martial arts created a new pattern of martial arts novels, and a large number of outstanding martial arts novel writers such as Liang Yusheng, Wen Ruian, Xiao Yi, Wo Longsheng, Sima Ling, and Zhuge Qingyun emerged.
The government also used martial arts as a business card to show the world, and now the whole world has this concept: the United States has supermen, and China has heroes.
Martial arts spread overseas, and the people of the world are obviously more interested in martial arts, after all, American supermen, even if they are mentally retarded, know that it is just fiction, while the heroes of Chinese martial arts novels have real traces to be found, in addition to being cool enough and mysterious enough. Some foreigners who went to China to learn a little bit of real kung fu returned to China, and they immediately got a lot of admiration when they showed their beautiful skills, and such stories are always staged.
I can write martial arts. Zhao Yiming was a little nervous after discovering that there were no Gu Long and Jin Yong in this world.
But after thinking about it, he gave up for the time being. Zhao Yiming's works after his rebirth, in addition to conforming to the current trend of this world China, also need to conform to his identity.
What is his identity - just a high school student who is about to enter his first year of high school.
If the article is well written, people will praise him for his talent at most, but it would be terrible to write books that require deep social experience to write. People envy geniuses, but fear madmen.
Think about the fact that Mr. Jin didn't start writing novels until he was 31 years old, and although Gu Long wrote novels when he was a teenager, his famous novels didn't be created until he was 25 years old, so he had to be 20 years old if he wanted to copy their books.
In this way, before the age of 20, online articles and martial arts cannot be written.
So what to write? After repeatedly sifting through all the genres of literary works, Zhao Yiming finally determined his goal.
The goal is already obvious, fairy tales, of course!
This subject matter is not only in line with his age and identity, but will not be questioned, and people will only praise him for his childlike innocence and admiration for his unbridled imagination. And the market is wide enough - there is never a shortage of children in the world, and there is never a shortage of parents who are willing to spend money for their children.
And there are countless masterpieces in his world, and those timeless classics don't have to worry about quality problems at all.
What fairy tale to choose? Short or long-form? It's a really happy trouble.
Zhao Yiming thought about it and chose his favorite fairy tale "Daughter of the Sea".
Nani?
A row of red letters appears in the Chrono Search Engine box: This content is already available on this plane.
What's going on? When Zhao Yiming checked just now, he clearly said that there is no "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales" and "Grimm's Fairy Tales" in this world.
What's going on?
After carefully searching for information, Zhao Yiming found that although there are no two fairy tale collections in this world, "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales" and "Grimm's Fairy Tales", some of them are still circulated in the world alone.
This is actually not surprising, in the original time and space "Grimm's Fairy Tales" has a considerable part of the content of the Grimm brothers collected, organized, and processed German folk tales. And China has a similar situation, for example, "Water Margin", before the book was written, Wu Song fought the tiger, outwitted the birth gang, these stories have been widely circulated among the people, Shi Nai'an was writing "Water Margin" to absorb these stories. Therefore, even if there is no book "Water Margin" in history, those classic stories will not necessarily disappear, after all, art comes from life.
"It's good! Dumb, this function is very good.,When the province copied the book, it copied out the oolong.。 ”
After re-searching for an "Ugly Duckling" that did not exist in this time and space, Zhao Yiming, who was relieved, talked to himself.
The re-selected "The Ugly Duckling", Zhao Yiming can be said to be well-intentioned, this fairy tale was originally a fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen. At that time, he had a play "The Sparrow in the Pear Tree" that was unfairly criticized, and he said in his diary: "Writing this story can somewhat make me feel better." ”
As for what this fairy tale exposes the discrimination and prejudice in Western society, Zhao Yiming really thinks that he is thinking too much. The fundamental reason why this fairy tale, which is not an outstanding story, can be liked by many readers, whether it is an adult or a child, can substitute themselves into the role of the ugly duckling, so as to arouse sympathy to the greatest extent, and the ending can give people great encouragement.
Zhao Yiming used this fairy tale, even if he implied that he was still an ugly duckling, and announced to the world that the white swan was coming, and at the same time, he also made a mockery: If I use this fairy tale, it will naturally be the other party's discernment, if it is not adopted, hehe......
Well, when I become famous, it's another good story.
made persistent efforts, and Zhao Yiming copied several famous short fairy tales such as "Little Yida's Flowers" and "Wild Swan".
"Eun, when you make a name for yourself with a short story, you can publish a long story."
Blowing and banging on the keyboard for hours, a little red fingers. Zhao Yiming nodded with satisfaction.
After a few hours of work, he put together four short fairy tales. And made major revisions, changing some foreign colors that did not conform to this era. For example, in "Little Yida's Flowers", in addition to the content overhaul, Zhao Yiming simply changed his name to "Xiao Ming's Flowers" - Xiao Ming, I can only help you get here.
I checked the well-known fairy tale publications on the Internet, and there are really a lot.
Well, I'll pick whoever the little clicks! After a flurry of fingers, Zhao Yiming opened a weekly magazine submission mailbox called "Fairy Tale Kingdom".
Yo,There's also an official submission form to download.,It's quite regular!
Zhao Yiming downloaded a form, the content of the form to fill in is very simple, only the author's name, age, article content, authorization method and other necessary filling options, and finally provide a bank card account number for the use of the manuscript fee after payment. In addition, the form states in the remarks that if there is no reply within a week, the author can continue to try other magazines.
The first one to fill in is your name. After thinking about it, Zhao Yiming filled in the word "Ange".
This name will later be my pen name for writing fairy tales. Uncle Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, don't worry, I will definitely carry forward your fairy tales in this world.
After filling in his name, he began to fill in other information - age, telephone number, home address, etc.
He checked the content of the more important articles again before copying and pasting them on the table. Then the article was authorized to be published, and he kept all the other permissions. If you choose it this way, the manuscript fee is generally the lowest, but you only sell the classic for an extra hundred and ten yuan, Zhao Yiming is not so stupid. Although piracy in this world country is still relatively serious, it is much better than the original world, and this kind of classic will be a chicken that lays golden eggs in the future.
In the end, he filled in a bank card in his mother's name, but he didn't have an ID card and was not qualified to apply for a card. This card was used by his mother to pay him for living expenses when he went to high school two months later.
Fill out the form, click send, everything is done, and Zhao Yiming, who is idle, begins to wander around the Internet.
Well, Taobao, blogs and meager are available, online games have begun to become popular, and some forums are also quite interesting, not bad.
Just as he was immersed in his curiosity about the new world, he was interrupted by an angry voice, it was his mother's voice.
"Obviously, how did you make the kitchen like this!"
Zhao Yiming was immediately frightened, in front of the mighty mother, he has always been a little quail-like existence. Whether it is 26 years old in the previous life, or 16 years old now.
He suddenly remembered that the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen had not yet been brushed, and there should be a lot of flies on the watermelons cut on the board.
It's miserable!