Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Headache

"Divaleo, is this name in English?" Editor Yuanming asked on the other end of the phone.

"Closer to the name of the South American region."

"Where's Jonaya?"

"Any questions?" Liuyun asked.

"It's best to use local names, like Lu Mingfei, Wang Daming, and Shi Qiang. If the female characters are called Linzi and Tomoko, a name like Liara is a bit dissuading. ”

Liuyun replied lightly, "Got it, change the name to Chinese." Anything else? The plot is OK, right? ”

If you knew that you would be taught a nonsensical lesson, it would be better not to ask this question. The editor said a lot like a firecracker, "After all, it's not like a physical book, an online article, what readers want is cool, the most important thing is to read cool, you write about the conflict between two alien civilizations, it is better to write about the conflict between alien civilizations and earth civilizations, the sense of substitution will be stronger, especially in the first few chapters, the sense of substitution is very important, which determines half of the book's results."

Of course, writing is absolutely fine, after all, he was once an essay contest winner and has published many best-selling novels. You just need to keep up with the rhythm of online writing in terms of thinking and writing habits. ”

Liuyun was not angry, but a little helpless, he was almost used to it, how to say that he was also a best-selling author, he had written online articles for several years, and his grades were not bad, and the great god was just around the corner.

In the future, I still don't communicate with the editor about the plot and characters, of course, the editor understands the reader's taste, but it's not all, and sometimes you still have to listen to yourself.

After the call, he was depressed, he was a fast-thinking author, it only took four or five hours to change 8,000 to 10,000 words a day, there seemed to be a brain in ten fingers, and ten engines started at the same time, so it was easy to enter the story.

Change the names first, and then read through the first ten chapters.

If there is an alien civilization on one side and an earth civilization on the other, then let the alien civilization have a scientific and technological power hundreds of times that exceeds the earth's technology, and it can wipe out humanity in a few minutes.

With such modifications, the story is tense from the beginning and goes into countdown mode.

The advantages are clear at a glance, and the emotions are easy to deal with, nervous, fearful, overwhelmed, and resigned to fate. These are the emotions that can entice readers to keep reading.

Make up your mind and get started. Fingers crackling on the keyboard, civilization T204, 0.7 light years from Earth, rocky planet, captain Divaleo, now changed to Sean, Chinese name, and a bit of a Western name.

The spacecraft carried 109 automaton and 2 million human embryos in the cold storage......

Will the T204 civilization be able to thrive on a new planet?

Wait, have you seen this storyline anywhere?

Liuyun is a science fiction fan, and when he was a child, whenever "Science Fiction World" was published, he would rush to the newsstand to buy magazines as soon as possible, and read every article when he bought it.

At that time, Liuyun dreamed that one day he would be able to write a good science fiction novel.

There are too many novels that have written about the contact between two civilizations, and Ted Jiang's "The Story of Your Life" is about an alien civilization coming to Earth.

How do you think of this book, it's really inexplicable, all the books of alien civilizations coming to Earth don't have to think about it, because I am writing the story that is about to happen on a planet 0.7 light-years away.

A Space Odyssey? No, Arthur C. Clarke's book is too classic to be the same as it, and that would be tantamount to digging one's own grave.

What other books? What are you worried about?

Even if there are some similarities in the setting, it must be a completely different new story, first of all, civilization T204, the word has never appeared in any novel.

Thinking of this, Liuyun's head began to hurt, and his temples on both sides were swollen and sore.

His hands were also a little disobedient.

He forced himself to type a few more lines on the keyboard. Fingers trembled violently.

Could it be the kind of hand tremor that Asimov had in his later years?

In his later years, Asimov was unable to complete the typing work, and his hands were completely unable to type accurate words on the typewriter, so he finally stopped writing.

Could it be that he would suffer from tremors at such a young age?

Liuyun didn't want to believe it, but his hands were shaking so badly that he couldn't believe it.

Hand tremor? Is there such a problem? I think I've seen it somewhere.

Can't remember......

I've also had some problems with my memory lately. It's all to blame for the last book hitting the street.,Although there are no particularly good sales books since the debut.,But it's also a well-known author.,But the editor of the previous book said that the poor sales were expected.,It's all easy to read now.,No one wants to read too esoteric things.。

Esoteric? Liuyun doesn't think.

He guessed that the writing might need to be more concise, and the subject matter was really not profound.

Do you have to write a harem and cross over, and it is easy to take out two million in your pocket at every turn?

Is there such a disease as hand tremor? This question lingered in his mind, and Liuyun reluctantly wrote another thousand words. Finally defeated.

Enough, let's search for it, whether there is such a disease or not.

Sure enough, there was. Clinically, hand tremor is divided into: resting tremor, motor tremor, postural tremor, rebound tremor and shock tremor. Although tremor is manifested as shaking of the hand, the root cause of tremor is mostly in the brain, and it is caused by some disease that damages the area of the brain involved in motor coordination.

What the? Brain disease? Isn't this Alzheimer's disease?

The causes of hand tremor include Parkinson's syndrome, Wilson's disease, hepatic encephalopathy, cerebellar and brainstem lesions, cerebral arteriosclerosis, cerebral ischemia, drug poisoning, dementia, etc.

Hand tremor attacks in the elderly, from the perspective of time, place, age and predisposing factors, are likely to be caused by senile hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and sudden mental stimulation.

In general, hand tremor symptoms are also more common in older age. A neurologist, endocrinologist, and metabolist should be consulted promptly for appropriate examinations to identify the cause and treat it correctly.

Parkinson's disease? Cerebral arteriosclerosis?

It shouldn't be possible for cerebral arteriosclerosis at Liuyun's age, so Parkinson's is left? If it were Parkinson's, there would be no cure.

How can a writer create without being able to type? How does a writer who can't type because of Parkinson's write?

Just thinking about these troublesome things, the editor Yuanming sent another message that there will be an author meeting at the book fair next week, and Liuyun was invited to attend.

This is a good opportunity for writers to promote themselves, and the news of the distant name is lukewarm, indeed, this is a benefit that the editor contacts, and there is no need to ask the author to participate.

If Liuyun doesn't want to go, there are a lot of authors under Yuanming who are willing to participate, not to mention that the publishing house is not just an editor of Yuanming.

Liuyun immediately agreed, even if he couldn't write in time next week, he couldn't miss this kind of activity.