Chapter 488 When the Audience Fails

Chapter 488 When the Audience Fails

Chapter 488 When the Audience Fails

"Is this good?" Gu Lu asked himself and answered, "This is not good."

Yao Xiaoju also knew that this was not good. If they developed this habit, what if other countries did the same?
But what the other party gave was really too much!
It's not that Yao Xiaoju directly bribed him with money, he wouldn't be so short-sighted. But the cultural unit and the publisher of Da Ying all said they would give "huge support".

"I definitely won't rush Brother Gu into writing a book," Yao Xiaoju said. "I also know that a work that is rushed will definitely be unsatisfactory."

"It's just..." Yao Xiaoju continued, "A few years ago, Xiao Gu Ge came to London and we watched the children's play The Wind in the Willows. Then after a while, the work was created, but the publication was delayed."

I have a good memory. At that time, Gu Lu was indeed planning to publish "Mr. Toad Goes to See a Psychologist".

Gu Lu wondered if publishing three books a year was too fast.

As he thought about this, Yao Xiaoju also began to analyze, "Little Brother Gu, last year you wrote Suspect and From the New World, two long novels, totaling more than 400,000 words."

"This year, Ou Weigang has only 200,000 words, and the Borrower has less than 100 words." Yao Xiaoju said, "Mr. Toad has only a few tens of thousands of words. Adding them together, it's basically the same as last year's creation."

Writing a novel in half a year is not a fast speed. However, writers who can maintain this speed cannot guarantee that every novel will be a masterpiece.

"Let me think about it." Having nothing else to say, Gu Lu hung up the phone.

Gu Lu was used to the speed of two books per year. He was the kind of person who didn't want to change what he was used to, even if this habit was not the best choice.

But… then again, there were almost no short series this year. At least there was Black Mirror last year.

"Please spend more time writing short stories. I haven't been able to write a short story in a while."

Gu Lu opened the novel from the USB drive. He had written it several years ago. At that time, his fame and social status were not so high, so he had plenty of time. He could write it as soon as he got the chance, without having to wait for the schedule.

“I would like to dedicate this book to CC, a popular science book on psychology.

In addition, although the basic setting of the characters in the book comes from the classic work "The Wind in the Willows" by the great writer Kenneth Grahame, it only borrows the characters from the book. If you have not read "The Wind in the Willows", it will definitely not affect you. ..."

This is the opening introduction. Gu Lu thought about it and deleted the first sentence. It's not necessary.

Two fairy tale books and two popular science works, which also correspond to each other.

Relying on the Little Prince and the Borrower, its position in the field of fairy tales is solid.

Flatland and Mr. Toad should be more stable in the field of popular science.

Besides, if I don’t publish it now, it seems that there will be fewer opportunities in the future.

Soon, Gu Lu received a call from President Wang.

I thought it was about Ovi’s publishing, but I didn’t expect it to be— “Xiao Gu, you said you can’t give a speech!”

"Ah?" Gu Lu was surprised.

"We invited you to come to the Heilongjiang Communist Youth League to give us a talk, and you said you were not good at speaking." President Wang said, "Xiao Gu, you are very knowledgeable about world cultural history."

"The video of your exchange with Professor Yuan Kong at Peking University is very popular on the Internet," President Wang added.

The reason for making this call is that President Wang still wants to invite the other party to come to Heilongjiang Province.

President Wang, who is also the head of the Communist Youth League of Heilongjiang Province, knows too well the importance of Gu Lu in China.

If you want to stand out among so many provincial green dumplings, how can you not come up with something different?
Oh, by the way, there is one thing I forgot to mention, the head office has expanded its recruitment. It’s not because of Ove’s work, to be more precise, they were short of people in the first place, and the popularity of this book has completely boosted it.

Xiaokang, a new employee at the New Youth Publishing House, asked quietly, "It seems that President Wang is rarely in the company."

"President Wang is the pillar of our publishing house. What do you know?" said the old editor. "President Wang is the head of the Communist Youth League of Heilongjiang Province."

"Oh." Xiaokang nodded. He didn't know the value of this position.

"President Wang is also the vice chairman of the Heilongjiang Writers Association." The old editor continued.

"That's pretty impressive," Xiaokang said.

"...You know Mr. Gu Lu, right?" the old editor said, "He was discovered by our President Wang. It's totally fine to call him a mentor. When you call him, you call him Little Gu."

"What the hell?!" Xiaokang now had a profound understanding.

Strictly speaking, the leader of the Heilongjiang Youth League > the vice chairman of the Heilongjiang Writers Association > Gu Lu Bole, but due to the problem of personal cognition, Xiaokang's surprise is a step-by-step increase.

The video that President Wang mentioned was not taken by students, but was a lecture by Professor Yuan Kong at Peking University, which the school would have recorded.

The complete video is about two hours long and lies quietly on Peking University's official website, with little popularity. However, the more than ten minutes of video sliced ​​by students has received a very high number of clicks.

"Gu Lu and Yuan Kong: A Talk on the Alternation between Old and New Writers"

"Let me classify writing into different levels: Gu Lu's hardcore classification"

"Do you support Yuan Kong or Gu Lu?"

Why Gu Lu is a rare genius in a century

With such a title and the fact that Ovi is selling well, it would be strange if it didn’t attract attention.

You can also see the specific situation through the video.

In the video, Yuan Kong is sharing in the classroom and summarizing the topic he just improvised.

"Today, what I'm talking about the pros and cons of improvisation is only for ordinary people, ordinary people like me." Yuan Kong pointed at himself.

The students in the audience just couldn't believe it. How could someone who could become a top writer in China be an ordinary person?

It is true that Jack Ma said that being a teacher was the happiest time of his life.

The fat man in the mirror who raised his hand in front muttered, "This guy is not good at pretending at all. I give him zero points."

Yuan Kong continued, "The world of geniuses is beyond our comprehension. Let me give you a well-known example - Gu Lu."

"Teacher Gu Lu is a student of our Peking University and a famous writer in our country. You should be familiar with him, right?" Yuan Kong said. The responses came one after another, very familiar!
Everyone here was born after 1995 and grew up hearing the name Gu Lu.

Talking in a hurry.

To be honest, even the president of Peking University cannot appear in official media frequently.

But Gu Lu was on the news broadcast twice (the one in France and this time in the bear country), three times on Reference News, four exclusive interviews with the Global Times (Gu Lu declined more), and appeared on the headlines of Renren Daily many times.

"Gu Lu is my good friend, and he once guided me in writing novels!" The fat man in the mirror howled, attracting a lot of attention.

"?" Gu Lu beside him.

An online novel that was directed by Gu Lu? It seems quite attractive. Several students sitting nearby began to ask about the name of the novel... This little fat guy is good at promoting it.

"Do you know why Gu Lu is called a genius?" Yuan Kong didn't want to wait for his classmates to respond.

He himself said, "He wrote The Little Prince at the age of fifteen, and wrote The Immortal Fugitive when he participated in the National Cultural Exchange Group at the age of sixteen. These are just the basics."

"From a writer's perspective, I am even more amazed by Gu Lu's learning ability," Yuan Kong said. "I have studied Gu Lu's works and I was very puzzled. I read five of his novels and found that his writing styles were all different."

"Do you know what this means?" Yuan Kong said, "This is so exaggerated that it looks like an alien."

Yuan Kong realized that he was a little excited, and quickly reached for the thermos cup. He was excited because he had tried it before... After trying it himself, he realized how abnormal it was to change the writing style of a book!
The students in the stands had confused looks in their eyes and couldn't even drink water. He had to make the students understand the pros and cons of this.

"A professor from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies proposed a theory that writers' accumulation and utilization of knowledge can be divided into two categories: one is Gu Lu, and the other is other writers excluding Gu Lu." Yuan Kong said, "When I first saw this statement, I also thought it was very exaggerated, but after reading the professor's theory, I think the proposal of attachment-type and dependent-type writing makes a lot of sense."

"Gu Lu is one of the best. He can come up with a story immediately after reading a book. This kind of genius is always improvising," said Yuan Kong.

Well, his example is still not grounded, and the students don't feel strongly about it. The old editor's distance is effective, but Yuankong's is ineffective.

"Actually, I've always wanted to communicate with Teacher Gu Lu."

That's right, even though Yuan Kong's new book Seven Expeditions to Qishan was squeezed in sales, he admired Gu Lu very much. Not to mention the bestseller, just continuing Tolstoy's posthumous work is unimaginable.

"Teacher Yuankong, actually Teacher Gu Lu is also sitting in the audience today." Vice Principal Wu in the first row asked a student to pick up the microphone and suddenly spoke.

"Huh?" Yuan Kong was stunned and drank some water to calm himself.

"Then let's applaud and invite Gu Lu to come on stage and say a few words to us," said Vice Principal Wu.

clap clap clap-

The applause was very enthusiastic, and Yuan Kong himself was also applauding. He felt a little regretful in his heart. If he had known Gu Lu was here, he would have prepared something more nutritious.

I am here to be an audience, why should I go on stage? But Gu Lu still stood up. The vice-principal's sudden call made Gu Yuan and the others a little confused.

Oh——As Gu Lu stood up, he heard the students exclaiming.

The fat man next to him had the most exaggerated expression, his eyes and mouth widened, "Oh?! Teacher Gu Lu, look at me, I was asking you about the problem [Grawoman can't fly] on Bilibili."

Hmm? Groudon can't fly. Such a familiar ID. Gu Lu recalled that a few months ago, an online writer asked him some writing questions very politely.

As the saying goes, if you read 300 Tang poems, you will be able to recite them even if you can't write poems. Gu Lu has read too many famous works, so he gave some advice on writing.

So the work of the Fat Man on Mirror was really guided by him, and the other party really didn't say anything nonsense.

The fat man in the mirror regretted it so much. His idol of writing was sitting next to him, but he didn’t notice it. What a mistake!

Gu Lu made a gesture to the fat man in the mirror, indicating that he remembered, and then walked onto the stage.

"Hello, Mr. Yuankong. I like Mr. Yuankong's works very much." Gu Lu praised each other commercially. "Today's improvisation based on the example of Stendhal has also benefited me a lot."

"You're being polite. If I'd known that Teacher Gu Lu was in the audience, I wouldn't have expressed my superficial opinion." Yuan Kong is old enough to be the other party's uncle, but regardless of other things, not many writers would not be nervous when facing Gu Lu for the first time. There is no way, the filter given by the state's endorsement is too strong.

The atmosphere on the stage was a bit awkward, and Yuan Kong took the initiative to break the awkwardness, "Teacher Gu, do you want to say a few words?"

"I'm not prepared either." Gu Lu told the truth.

Not prepared, that makes sense, because Yuankong himself was not well prepared.

"Teacher Gu Lu is very busy, as she has to work with Professor Lu to contribute to the development of the Chinese language and to undertake cultural exchanges with foreign countries." Vice President Wu said, "Teacher Gu Lu took a break from his busy schedule today to speak to us."

Do you think the vice president's behavior is a bit confusing? From Gu Lu's perspective, it is like this, but from the perspective of the vice president of Peking University, his behavior is relatively normal.

"Then I'll just say a few words along the lines of Stendhal," said Gu Lu.

I understand Stendhal. Yuan Kong has studied Stendhal quite a bit, so he took the initiative to hand over the microphone and pretended to listen attentively.

"Stendhal, Casanova, and Tolstoy, I would rank them as the top three writers." Gu Lu revealed his difference as soon as he opened his mouth.

These three names are familiar to students like Stendhal and Tolstoy, but the other one...

Yuan Kong reads very widely, but even he has never heard of this name.

"Casanova, this name is relatively unfamiliar to everyone, right?" Gu Lu said, "Then Don Juan is more familiar? Don Juan is an artistic image in the West, representing a romantic wanderer who is obsessed with women. Don Juan is an artistic image, but Giacomo Casanova is real, an 18th-century Italian writer, and is more well-known for his image as a romantic talent who pursues women. He is more powerful than Don Juan."

When it comes to Don Juan, most people know him, and the students in the audience are also more aware of him.

"Casanova is not considered a writer, because his most famous work, My Life, is a memoir. But he also left a wealth of material for European novels. He wrote about 18th-century soldiers and kings, princes and popes, tramps and casino swindlers, eunuchs, prostitute drivers, singers, philosophers, etc. Too many characters in European operas in later generations came from this book."

Gu Lu said, "Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy, these three names, these three writers, I think they represent three stages of writing. The ranking is in order."

Ranking deceased celebrities? Yuan Kong smacked his lips in surprise. It was really bold. There is no first in literature and no second in martial arts. Moreover, many works have an immeasurable literary value because of their historical contributions. For example, the four great European classics, at least two of them are incomprehensible when read now.

Yuan Kong looked at Gu Lu who was talking eloquently. "Aren't you unprepared? Why did you start out so aggressively?"
"These three writers represent the self-improvement of writers' creative function. First of all, Casanova is the most persistent and requires the least skill. His cooking is even more simple than my cooking."

"The reason why it is elementary is that during that period, Casanova simply connected his own experiences with the external environment, just like his masterpiece "My Life", which very confessionally tells about his absurd life and important events. Casanova did not study all of this, nor did he draw any conclusions." Gu Lu said.

(End of this chapter)