After writing the script of "Yellow Earth", there is no need for Shen Long to continue to stay in the capital, the script of "Red Sorghum" is still early, and Zhang Yimou still needs time to hone before he can be sure to complete this work.

So Shen Long immediately bought a train ticket to go home, but when he arrived in the provincial capital, he was stayed, and the people from the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles found him and invited him to join the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and become a full-time writer.

The full-time writer is the official title of the full-time creator of the Literary and Artistic Creation Research Office of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles is a fully funded institution, and the full-time writer belongs to the professional post of the cause, which is an out-and-out iron rice bowl.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Federation of Literary and Art Circles was established, and full-time creative staff positions were set up, and these writers were paid salaries to provide various conveniences for their creation, so that they could carry out literary creation with peace of mind.

In fact, not only in the literary world, but also in other art departments such as the art world and the opera world, there is also a full-time creative position, and you can receive a salary to create what you like, which to a certain extent relieves the creators' worries and gives birth to a number of excellent works.

But from another point of view, it also makes some artists lose the motivation to create, since they don't have to work hard to create, they can get a salary, and they can enjoy a higher social status, so why should I have to work hard? And once you enter the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and get a salary, you will be affected by the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and naturally you can't write whatever you want like before.

This system is good and bad, so it was reformed later, unless it is a special talent, otherwise under normal circumstances, the Federation of Literary and Art Circles adopts the way of signing authors to cooperate with authors, for example, we sign a contract, stipulating how many works to come up with in a long time, and when this contract is over, we will decide whether to re-sign the next contract according to the quality of your last few works, so that the quality of the work can be guaranteed to a certain extent.

At that time, there were very few full-time writers, and those who could obtain full-time authorship were all very powerful writers, such as Liu Cixin, who was transferred from Niangziguan Power Station to Yangquan Federation of Literary and Art Circles and became a full-time creator of the Literary and Art Creation Research Office of Yangquan Federation of Literary and Art Circles; However, what makes the majority of readers depressed is that since Liu Cixin became a full-time author, he rarely comes up with works.

I don't know if he couldn't find inspiration, or if he had the identity of a full-time author, he lost his worries, and thus lost the motivation to continue creating.

Generally speaking, Shen Long's qualifications are not enough to become a full-time author for the time being, and if you want to become a full-time author, it is not enough to rely on a national outstanding short story award, Jia Pingwa won this award four or five years ago, but it was not until next year, when he was thirty years old, that he entered the Federation of Literary and Art Circles to become a full-time author.

But during this time, Shen Long's long story "Red Sorghum" caused a huge reversal in the literary world; Well, according to the standards of the literary world, more than 100,000 words are long, and "Red Sorghum" is close to 140,000 words, which just meets the length requirements of a long story; In the literary world, the weight of short and long stories is very different.

Being able to write excellent short stories shows that you have a talent for literary creation; And being able to complete a sensational long story means that you already have a considerable level of literary creation ability, whether it is the ability to control words or the overall layout ability, the requirements for long stories are much stricter than those for short stories.

As mentioned earlier, since the reform, domestic writers are also looking for new ways to write, and the emergence of "Red Sorghum" has opened a new door for them, although García Márquez will not win the award until next year, but magical realism is not without influence in China.

Guatemalan writer Miguel, a representative of magical realism? Angel? Asturias had already won the Nobel Prize in 1967 for "The Corn Man"; Red Empire writer Bulgakov's "The Master and Margaret" is also circulating in China, and now some long-term literary bigwigs have seen the exuberant vitality contained in "Red Sorghum".

They realized that magical realism naturally met the needs of Chinese literature, and that it would be a blessing for the domestic literary world to carry forward this literary approach.

Shaanxi, as the province with the longest history in China, also has a lot of magical realism materials, so some literary seniors in the province naturally refused to miss this talent, and they decided to absorb Shen Long into the Federation of Literary and Art Circles through a meeting to become a full-time creator, so that he could concentrate on creation.

Full-time writers don't have to sit on duty, as long as they can come up with their works, there is a salary to get, and their social status is also high.

And they will also provide all kinds of convenience for your creation, you want to write officialdom articles, but you don't understand the officialdom process, it doesn't matter, we will arrange a temporary post for you, go to XX County to hang a deputy county magistrate, stay there for half a year to understand, Zhou Mason once went to a city to be the deputy secretary general, otherwise he would not be able to write "In the Name of the People".

You want to write about life in coal mines, but you don't know about coal mines, it doesn't matter, I arranged for you to go to the coal mine for a temporary job, Lu Yao once served as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department in the Tongchuan Mining Bureau.

In the literary world, there are many similar examples, Jia Pingwa has been suspended in Huaxi Village; Chen Zhongzhong served as the deputy head of Baqiao District; There are even writers who have been the general manager of a football club, and they don't have to be responsible for specific work, as long as they know what they want to know.

has a salary, has a social status, and can stay in the provincial capital to see Xiaoxia often, Xiaoxia can go there and follow her in the name of collecting wind or temporary positions, this job is a great thing for Shen Long, he agreed to come down with a little politeness.

Then the Federation of Literary and Art Circles prepared a dormitory for him, so that he would not have to find the trouble of finding a house, and now it is not easy to rent a house, even if he has money, it is not easy to rent, let alone find such a beautiful and clean house arranged by the Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

It just so happened that the manuscript fee was still too much, so Shen Long purchased some furniture and electrical appliances, decorated the house beautifully, and got in touch with the predecessors of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles to establish a good personal relationship.

These things delayed Shen Long a lot of time, and when he was done, Xiaoxia also ended her internship in the provincial newspaper, and the two returned to Huangyuan together.

Xiaoxia is about to graduate when she goes back, and the graduation season is a busy season, busy with various procedures, busy saying goodbye to her classmates, Xiaoxia estimates that she has little time for the time being; And Lan Xiang also had to take the college entrance examination immediately, and Shen Long felt that he would definitely have to go back to Yuanxi County to take a look.