Chapter 195: The Influence of The Way of Writing
Wang Defu finally returned to Suzhou, it was already July, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and there was a tense atmosphere on the campus of Soochow University.
Of course, many students of Soochow University are still very much looking forward to the arrival of the next semester, just because Soochow University, which originally did not accept female students, finally recruited female students in the next semester, and it is still open to the whole country of China.
Wang Defu has a lot of credit in this matter, after all, his article "The Subservient Status of Women" directly moved the school's senior management, which was still in a state of vacillation.
Of course, Wang Defu himself is looking forward to the next semester, even if he is very likely to complete his undergraduate studies directly in the next semester and get a bachelor's degree, but he still feels that it is too strange for a university to have only male students.
When Wang Defu was in the magic capital, he did not stop his creative footsteps, his "rabble" has been completed three-quarters, only the final part is left, and the "way of writing", he also successfully published in a well-known literary journal in the magic capital, this is a monthly magazine, the number of words delivered each month, there is no hard requirement.
Originally, although the reputation of this literary journal was not bad, but the sales were quite average, after all, it was a more professional literary journal, and those who would read this kind of magazine were basically people who were interested in literature, and this was not the kind of popular magazine that ordinary people liked to read.
But I have to say that Wang Defu now has a lot of status in the minds of many literati, and when his work "The Way of Writing" was published in this journal, many literati who paid great attention to Wang Defu naturally bought this journal as soon as possible.
Then Wang Defu's "The Way of Writing" has become a work sought after by many people who love literary creation, and some people who worship Wang Defu and are interested in the way of literature have already enshrined this work as the Bible, completely ignoring the preface of Wang Defu's work.
Wang Defu has long said that he wrote this "The Way of Writing", really not to be ashamed to instruct who to create, but to share and summarize his experience in the creative process, if such experience can bring help and improvement to his peers, then he will be very happy, this kind of preaching and preaching thing, is Wang Defu himself particularly likes to do, he really hopes that there will be more excellent authors in this world, to create more excellent works.
As a result, even if Wang Defu has been vaccinated like this, there are still some peers who like to drill the horns of the bull, who think that Wang Defu's "The Way of Writing" is really well written, and think that he has already revealed the essence of creation, so as long as he creates according to the experience shared by Wang Defu, it will definitely be successful!
In fact, having such die-hard supporters can see the excellence of Wang Defu's works, but this also has a great negative impact.
Because some fanatical supporters, who regard "The Way of Writing" as a guideline, have even begun to criticize the creations of others, especially those who are new to the industry.
They originally created according to their own ideas, but after the work was published, they would be found fault by some peers, saying that according to the content of a certain part of Wang Defu's "The Way of Writing", your creation is completely unreasonable, and you have not really achieved perfection, only according to Wang Defu's "The Way of Writing", then you can really create more excellent works.
Originally, the influence of "The Way of Writing" may still be slowly fermenting, after all, it was only serialized in a certain literary journal with a high standard, and its influence was limited to the circle, but as Wang Defu serialized more and more content, it finally had enough words to publish a single book, and its influence spread all of a sudden.
This actually rubbed off the popularity of Wang Defu's "The Legend of the West Chamber", which was successfully performed many times in the magic capital area, in fact, according to the usual situation, it should generally be the actors in "The Legend of the West Chamber" that can be popular, as well as the Mei family, a family in the pear garden.
As a result, who made the original author of "The Legend of the West Chamber" or the genius writer Wang Defu?
This time, the fire of "The Legend of the West Chamber" made Wang Defu, the original author, once again have a great presence in the literary world of the magic capital, and even many people feel that "The Legend of the West Chamber" can attract so much attention because its original author is Wang Defu, as for how good its own plot is, it is not necessarily.
The consensus reached by insiders on "The Legend of the West Chamber" is that the ancient poems in it are really excellent to the extreme, and as for other aspects, they are too kitsch and mediocre, and they are not necessarily as good as other classic classical dramas.
Therefore, the popularity of this work depends on Wang Defu's own extraordinary literary talent, as for the performance of "The Legend of the West Chamber", except for the actor Mei Xiaoyu, who is indeed full of aura, the others are also decent.
In short, the Mei family, a family of pear orchards, has taken a big advantage, and they were able to take advantage of Wang Defu's relationship, and directly gained such a big reputation and money, which made other insiders of classical dramas all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred.
And with the great increase in Wang Defu's attention and presence during the release period of "The Legend of the West Chamber", the listing of his single book "The Way of Writing" has naturally become very impressive in terms of sales.
Wang Defu's success in writing has won him an unknown number of admirers, and some of these admirers certainly hope to wander in this palace of literature like Wang Defu.
Now Wang Defu's "The Way of Writing" is like a guiding light for them, they are like travelers in the desert, who have obtained the rain that falls from the sky.
Originally, the number of first editions of "The Way of Writing" was not very large, but after it was listed, it was sold out in an instant, which shocked the publishers, and then they reacted to how terrifying Wang Defu's appeal was, and what they could do was, of course, to keep printing!
There is no way, the publisher's evaluation of the sales of a work is actually quite reliable, they think that "The Way of Writing" is such a reference book, there should not be many people who buy it, after all, how many people in this world will embark on the way of creation?
What people didn't expect at all was that many people bought Wang Defu's works, and they didn't care about the content of his works at all, and they expressed their support for Wang Defu in such a way, or simply wanted to pretend to be forced by reading this work.