"If you only want to enjoy what is in front of you, you will not be able to see the road ahead, so no matter what happens. Don't run away from reality and face ...... bravely"

The singing is still the same, but the place has changed, it is no longer the noisy open-air venue, Liang Yu is lying on his bed with a headset plugged in, and there is a rotating CD player next to him.

This album was bought in a nearby video store when Liang Yu came back, but Lu Feifei just sang a song on stage to warm up for the official selection of the Voice of Idols.

"Is it called Get_Over...... It's good to use this song as a ringtone. Liang Yu sat up from the bed and began to take out his mobile phone to set it up.

"That's it." She clapped her hands and suddenly remembered, "Ah, by the way, the exam is over, I have to give the editor of Fantasy a call." ”

Liang Yu is a doer, thinking so, she has already dialed the phone.

"Hey, this is the editorial department of Juvenile Fantasy, and I'm editor Guo Pinyuan."

"Hello, I am Liang Yu who contributed to your agency last time."

"Oh, is the exam over?"

"Hmm."

"So let's meet sometime, when are you free?"

Liang Yu thought for a while: "School will start classes tomorrow and Monday, can it be after the evening?" ”

"Well, I see, let's meet at the restaurant opposite the magazine at half past five, and you can come directly after school." Guo Pinyuan said.

"Hey, isn't it in the editorial office?"

"The editorial office officially closes at 5 o'clock, and it will be troublesome in every sense if you sneak someone in, but our editorial work is often delayed until after dinner, so I made an appointment with the cartoonist to meet in a restaurant or café."

"Oh, I see, then it's over after school." After a few more polite words, Liang Yu hung up the phone.

After school the next day, he refused Fang Qing and Zhu Ying's invitation, and Liang Yu went to the editorial office of the weekly shonen comic Fantasy in the opposite direction of his home by car, maybe because he became a girl, so Liang Yu is actually not very used to going out alone at night, but if the appointment is during the day, then you have to wait until Saturday and Sunday, but it is not a coincidence that the editor also has to rest at that time.

But it's useless to dwell on these anymore, I called my mother in the car and said that I would go back later today, and then took the subway to Beichi Station and got off, crossed the overpass at the intersection, and then walked 100 meters along this road to the door of the Fantasy editorial office, and the restaurant directly opposite it was the place to make an appointment to meet the editor.

Liang Yu pushed open the door of the restaurant and looked at the time on her mobile phone, at 5:41, she was 10 minutes late, she looked at the seats in the restaurant expectantly, and saw someone waving to this side-

It was the editor I met that day.

"Sorry, I'm late."

"It's okay, I've just arrived." Guo Pinyuan waved his hand with a smile, indicating that he didn't mind: "I haven't eaten dinner yet, what do you order, I'll treat you today." ”

"Huh? That, how embarrassed ......" Liang Yu quickly shook his head.

"Editors invite authors to dinner is also a common part of the exchange of works, you are welcome, you can order whatever you want."

Liang Yu didn't know whether it was as Guo Pinyuan said, or because she was a little girl, so she didn't insist on sitting down opposite Guo Pinyuan: "Then it's a waste of money." ”

"Haha, don't be so polite."

In front of the waiter, Liang Yu ordered today's dinner, after she became such a body, her appetite became much smaller, not that she was deliberately polite.

"Is that enough?"

"Yes."

"So let's talk about the work, you can't wait to know the result, right?"

"Hmm." Liang Yu put down the water cup in his hand and looked up at Guo Pinyuan.

Guo Pinyuan took out a copy of the manuscript from the briefcase on the side of the table and flipped through it, this is a printout of Liang Yu's email submission, Guo Pinyuan counted the number of pages and handed it to Liang Yu.

"I remember when we first met, I asked you why you submitted Shonen Fantasy, and you said you wanted to be a manga artist, right?" Guo Pinyuan suddenly opened with this question.

Liang Yu stared at the copy, the printed part was in black, but the place on it that was circled with a large number of red pens was the editor's opinion, she was slightly stunned when she heard Guo Pinyuan's words, and nodded: "Yes." ”

"But Liang Yu, you don't know much about comics or how to become a cartoonist......"

"Hmm." I can't refute it.,To be honest, I'll submit Fantasy only because the first book was placed in the most conspicuous position when I bought it at the newsstand.,So after reading it, I found that the editorial office was in Qiunan City, and I resolutely submitted it.。

"Hmm, then it's necessary to popularize science a little," Guo Pinyuan scratched his hair and said: "The so-called cartoonists usually refer to people who draw comics for a living, but there are many people who make money by drawing fanfics and illustrations, and their drawing skills are not even inferior to cartoonists, but they can't be called that, do you know why?" ”

"Because you're not the original?"

"That's one of the reasons, and another reason is that they're not drawing commercial cartoons. We, including those of us, are all people who love the industry, but only a handful of people who can draw what the masses need and are sought after can be called cartoonists. ”

At this time, the waiter served the food they ordered, Guo Pinyuan took this as an example: "For example, if we come to this restaurant to eat, we are consumers, the restaurant is the medium, these foods are works, assuming that you are the maker of this dish, how to cook this dish to the satisfaction of consumers, and not to smash the restaurant's signboard is the obligation of every author." ”

Liang Yu nodded, which means that the requirements of the magazine will be higher than those of other places.

"But one thing to note, although there are many restaurants nowadays that also have a mix of Chinese and Western styles, but I naturally don't come to Chinese restaurants to eat steaks and hamburgers, and in the same way, if I go to a noodle restaurant, I definitely won't order claypot rice, can you understand what I mean?"

"Is that what it means to get the right question?"

"That's right!" Guo Pinyuan stretched out his hand and pointed: "Liang Yu, you have a very high understanding, no wonder you can write such a profound story, but this is also the focus of our discussion today." ”

Guo Pinyuan paused, took out a magazine of teenage fantasy from his bag and handed it to Liang Yu.

"Fantasy is a shonen manga magazine, and the so-called shonen manga is naturally different from shoujo manga, youth manga and children's manga. In other words, the protagonist must be a male among teenagers, and the story unfolds from his perspective, corresponding to the age of the magazine's readers, preferably in the upper elementary school to high school students, and the content should also be sunny and positive, which can be summed up in the three themes of hard work, friendship, and victory. ”