Chapter 147: Don't forget your roots
Chapter 147 does not forget the original
After Wen Xun said the news that he was going to buy the publishing house, he looked at Koichi Sekiguchi while drinking tea. He was looking at Koichi Sekiguchi's expression, he was observing. Since becoming a writer, Wen Xun has begun to study literary theory very seriously.
He once saw Maupassant and Flaubert when he was watching celebrity anecdotes. At that time, Maupassant was taken by his mother to learn to write from the great writer Flaubert, who he had never met, and then Flaubert liked Maupassant very much and tried his best to teach him.
Once, Maupassant said that the characters he wrote seemed to be all the same, and they were very boring. So Flaubert told him to go to the door and squat at the door to observe the passing coachmen, and said that if he could write down the differences between each coachman, he would be a teacher.
In Wen Xun's understanding, this story means that writers should be good at observing and grasping everyone's differences. It is only possible to write it if you first grasp the differences.
Of course, Wen Xun has another understanding of this story. That is, Flaubert must have a somewhat inexplicable relationship with Maupassant's mother, and Wen Xun's understanding is similar to that there have always been rumors in literary circles that Maupassant was actually Flaubert's illegitimate son.
But then again, now Wen Xun basically sees a cat or dog on the road, and he will observe it carefully to see if there is any essential difference between it and other cats and dogs.
In fact, Wen Xun also felt that if he insisted on exercising, it would still be very beneficial for him to pick up girls in the future. Because he thinks that if he is a woman, he must have a good impression of a man who can find her difference when he meets her.
However, if Wen Xun is really interested in women, and he is still a pathetic heterosexual, then why is he indifferent to Lu Yuqing's confession?
"You can't give up the entire forest for the sake of a tree...... Wen Xun thought about it for himself, and this is the result. Is Lu Yuqing good? Well, 100 percent good. But let him be tied up by Lu Yuqing like this? What about the puppy? Wen Xun is only a teenager, and he has never been with another woman, so if he is directly with Lu Yuqing, it is easy to understand that Lu Yuqing is good, right?
While thinking about these things, Wen Xun was still observing Koichi Sekiguchi on the side. I saw that after hearing Wen Xun's words, Koichi Sekiguchi was obviously stunned for a moment, and then began to frown and think.
After a while, I saw that he seemed to have made some decision, and suddenly Chong Wenxun, who was full of determination, nodded his head and said, "Okay, I can make a decision here, if Wen Sang can successfully acquire the publishing house, then we can talk to Wen Sang about further cooperation alone." ”
The meaning of this is obvious, that is, let Wen Xun get the publishing house first, and then everyone will talk about other things. Wen Xun thinks it's very understandable about this matter, and now his publishing house hasn't gotten it yet, and the confidence in negotiation is not hard, right?
After a little discussion, Wen Xun went down for a working meal at the invitation of Koichi Sekiguchi, and then he was ready to choose the cartoonist who wrote "Fullmetal Alchemist" this time.
"We remembered the comic thing that Wen Sang had mentioned, and we thought that since the sales were so good this time, why not just speed up this thing, and theoretically comics and novels will not rob each other of consumers......" Koichi Sekiguchi said to Wen Xun with a smile in his office.
Wen Xun also understands this matter. He knows that the focus of comics and novels is different, and what is the point of novels? After the writer conceives a scene in his mind, he needs to convert the scene in his mind into words. Then the reader also needs to transform the imagination in his mind through words when he reads.
Such a double conversion is troublesome, but it is also fun. What's the trouble? After these two transitions, it is likely that the scene formed in the reader's mind is not the scene that the author wants to portray. This puts forward high requirements for the author's writing ability, otherwise he wants to write a very cool scene, but others feel bored and doze off after seeing it, how to sell words and make money?
And what is interesting in fun? Interesting, when the reader transforms the text into a scene, he will automatically "make up for it", or he will automatically use his imagination to make up for the lack of text description.
For example, "Gao Yuan's girl has extremely long legs and a short upper body, obviously half a head lower than Shen Hongxing, but the hips of the two people are almost on the same level." Hongxing thinks that this girl's body shape seems to be particularly suitable for doggy entry ......" this text.
On the surface, this text seems to be very ordinary and ordinary, and there is no explicit description at all. There are no words to describe the girl's sexiness and stunners, but the 7 words "especially suitable for doggyback" can make the reader's **slightly** a little bit up, and can attract the reader to use his imagination to imagine the scene, so that the reader can think of himself high
This is the advantages and disadvantages of the medium that Wen Xun feels. Comics are another medium, and compared to the ethereal words that need to be transformed, comics are too simple, they are real things.
Comics are a visual art where what you see is what you get. Whatever scene the cartoonist imagines in his mind, he naturally draws the scene. While it may involve things like composition, storyboarding, etc., it's really "what you see is what you get".
Even if it's the same script, the effects of text and comics are different. Literature may produce more of a "sense of substitution", while comics are more of a "sense of spectatorship".
For words, even if they are written in the third person, because they need to be transformed by the reader's imagination, it is easy for the reader to bring themselves into it deep down. As for manga, you need to read it with your eyes. This mode of seeing with the eyes, Wen Xun feels that subconsciously it will make humans feel that they are looking at other people's things
Therefore, in this way, the cool points that can be brought by the two media of text and comics are also different. As a result, there will be no competition for consumers. The people who will buy this manga will basically be the people who have watched "Fullmetal Alchemist". Even if someone doesn't like to read the text and reads the comic directly, then they may be interested in the original comic and then go back to the original work, so that the text and the comic have a mutual help effect.
"Wen Sang, please wait for a while, I'll ask the assistant to get the information of those cartoonists. At the same time, she will also be asked to inform Hiromi Arakawa to meet you. To be honest, I'm curious, how could you agree to let such an unknown female cartoonist participate in the auditions? Sekiguchi Koichi asked curiously at this time.
This question is actually quite tricky, after all, people like Koichi Sekiguchi are not cats and dogs on the side of the road, and it is impossible to fool them with a casual sentence. Moreover, Koichi Sekiguchi is still an important partner in the future, and if you deal with it casually, it is easy to make the other party feel distrustful, and it will not be of great benefit to the future cooperation between the two parties.
But Wen Xun is very smart, and it only took him 1 second to get along with a seamless explanation - "That's right, I, Wen Xun, myself, debuted through a national middle school student selection conference with no threshold." I have also submitted manuscripts to publishers before, but due to various reasons, I was blocked by the threshold of the publisher. So I think people shouldn't forget their roots. I'm out of the picture, but there are still many people like me in the world who haven't come out yet, and others can block them with the threshold without giving them a chance. But I can't."
Wen Xun said this sentence so righteously. As soon as these words came out, he directly shocked Sekiguchi Xingichi, and he immediately looked at Wen Xun with appreciative eyes and said, "Wen Sang is like this...... Sure enough, he is worthy of being a man, and he has a responsibility, and he does not forget his roots."
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