Chapter 544 Type 2 Writer
Chapter 544 Two Types of Writers
Professor Chen's evaluation was too long, and what attracted Chi Zijian mainly were the comments at the end.
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Teacher Yu Xinyao commented on "To Live" that the author left Fugui with the will to "live", which is the greatest kindness. I personally think that expressing the strong will of human beings to survive is the core of Gu Lu's motivation for confused graduates.
He survived alone without food or water when he was a child, and had to survive in the iron jungle. Fortunately, he survived.
To Live is Gu Lu's spiritual autobiography, and Ice Fruit is Gu Lu's ideal autobiography. Putting the two together, we can see Gu Lu's student days.
As for many readers' questions, why so many story backgrounds were chosen, they are completely different from Gu Lu's previous works.
That is still using the framework of ordinary writers to try to understand Gu Lu. You can think about it, for such a plot story, is this background the most appropriate choice?
Gu Lu's creation is not limited to the scope of his own knowledge. He never cares whether he can do it or not, but only considers whether it is appropriate. So in the first half of this year, he participated in Professor Tong's "Scar Literature History" project, learning and absorbing the writing methods of the 1980s and 1990s.
It is his unique ability to absorb ideas that makes him very good at "propositional writing". Therefore, Gu Lu was able to create "The Immortal Fugitive" at the age of 15, continue Tolstoy's posthumous works at the age of 24, and publish "The Man Who Wrestled with Demons" in Germany at the age of 25, both of which were included in the German public textbooks.
From then on, Gu Lu also elevated the composition assignment to a level that did not belong to it.
(Notes: ① Liaozhai system: The book that had the greatest influence on Gu Lu in his early years was Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. A series of short stories such as One-Inch Master and Inhuman Love came from this book.
② "Topic composition" is a mode of passive creation in which a theme is given.
"You can't use the framework of ordinary writers." Chi Zijian complained helplessly, what is an ordinary writer? Writers all over the world are like this!
"Think of a theme, and then ignore everything to add a suitable background... This is not just ignoring some creative experience, this is ignoring other creators except himself." Chi Zijian couldn't help but let out a weak smile.
"I feel like I'm the first wave, but was beaten to death on the beach by the second wave," Liu Zhenyun said. "After reading Professor Chen's article, I can understand my confusion."
While the two were chatting, Liu Zhenyun's phone suddenly rang, and the latter went to the side and answered the call.
"Hey, Lao Xiao, I'm curious too."
"Yeah, right."
"Really?"
"Old Xiao, tell me yourself, is this right?"
Liu Zhenyun went to the windowsill to make a phone call and then returned to the table. He had just learned a very incredible record.
"I also want to write a book like 'To Live,'" Liu Zhenyun said with emotion.
"Oh?" Chi Zijian was surprised. Huo Zhe was well written, but Liu's One Sentence is Worth Ten Thousand Sentences and A Pile of Chicken Feathers were also comparable. The former was even rated higher by readers. The Chinese version of One Hundred Years of Solitude was quite famous.
"This book has sold nearly 1.5 million copies in the first three days," said Liu Zhenyun.
Huh? Chi Zijian is a well-known writer who is now in her fifties and has long been indifferent to sales. But this data still surprised her.
At the beginning of this year, Dong Yuhui recommended her book "The Right Bank of the Ergun River" in the Oriental Selection Live Broadcast. Within a few months, the book sold millions of copies and a celebration banquet was held.
"Including pre-sales?" Chi Zijian asked. "Not included." Liu Zhenyun shook his head. "The first print run of New Youth Publishing House is 2 million copies."
The first print run was 2 million copies. Even in the golden age of novels, there was no such achievement. It only appeared once on Earth. When Guo debuted for ten years, "Limiting Jue Ji" also had a first print run of 2 million copies. However, this first print run was a publicity gimmick, but the first print run of Gu Lu's book was the number that Manager Xiao calculated based on the market's needs.
"There are less than 400,000 copies left, and the books pre-sold on the Internet platform have not yet been shipped." Liu Zhenyun said, "If you write a book about living, you can really live by living with 'To Live'."
Chi Zijian noticed another angle. Gu Lu's new book promotion did not promote sales at all. What does this prove? Proving that sales are not the first choice of publicity gimmick is exaggerated.
After the two chatted for a while, Chi Zijian told his friends about this. After all, "To Live" was so popular that it had become the first choice for friends to chat in the writer circle.
But Liu Zhenyun likes to speak on the Internet, and he forwarded Professor Chen's remarks. Originally, "Literature of Guangdong Province" had little discussion on the Internet, but this forwarding made it a hot topic.
"No wonder I feel uncomfortable with many of Gu Lu's novels. This is the reason."
"That's awesome! From now on, writers will be divided into two categories: one is Gu Lu, and the other is writers other than Gu Lu."
"I actually discovered a detail. Fugui finally bought a cow and named it Fugui. Gu Lu was unable to save the stray cat in the corridor of the community when he was young."
"Stray cat? What's going on?"
"Last year, when that incident was exposed, many of Gu Lu's neighbors and classmates were interviewed. One of the stories was that Gu Lu had a cat when he was in the first grade of junior high school, but he couldn't save it and it died. The cow in the eyes of old Fugui is the cat in his eyes when he was young. Damn it, if you give birth to a child but don't raise it, you are not worthy of being a father! What a poet."
There is no doubt that Father Gu was dragged out and whipped again.
As the saying goes, after becoming famous, everyone will help you make up for what you did. Look, many readers now feel the good intentions of the writer and the power of the word "alive"!
Netizen Rensheng Zhinuo Chujian asked: "Well, I actually finished watching it, it was quite healing, but it was just the last ten seconds. I was depressed for the first one or two hours. Is it worth it?"
Another discussion, then closed the mobile page.
Gu Lu quietly dives away, just like that, leaving the sadness to the readers.
"A stray cat--" The original person had a clear memory of this incident. Little Gu Lu rescued a stray cat at that time, and even when he had no food to eat, he also fed the cat a lot of food.
Of course, little Gu Lu was not being stingy, and there was certainly nothing he could stingy with, so he secretly took a small bowl and scooped a spoonful of leftovers from the dog farm in the backyard of the restaurant next door.
The dog behind started barking when it saw little Gu Lu. Even though he scooped it up while the dog was out for some fresh air, the dog had a keen sense of smell.
Little Gu Lu felt very sorry for the big black dog. He continued to feed the kitten like this until one day a month later, when the kitten died.
"It should have died of illness." Gu Lu thought. From a rational point of view, it was stupid to steal dog food to save the cat when he couldn't even feed it himself.
But when little Gu Lu saw the kitten abandoned by its mother, he thought of himself and must have been irrational!
"The old cow that old Fugui rescued was the stray cat that he didn't rescue when he was little." Gu Lu wiped away tears, "Damn, netizens are really talented, I actually believed it!"
(End of this chapter)