From abandoned baby to CEO

Sun Xue was so excited when she heard such news.

Uncle Lu is a senior editor of Germination Magazine. If he can get his guidance, it will be of great help to him.

Sun Xue realized that this would be an opportunity. If he could make an appearance in such a major event, it would have a profound impact on his literary creation.

The next day, Sun Xue knocked on Uncle Lu's room with Quancheng City's specialties.

Sun Xue also brought a laptop, and all her creations were organized on the computer.

After reading Sun Xue's works, Uncle Lu finally locked Sun Xue's entry in the novel that Sun Xue published and was serializing in Quancheng City Weekly.

Uncle Lu's suggestion was to condense this novel into a short story of about 5,000 words, as Sun Xue's entry.

Uncle Lu pointedly pointed out the problems existing in the novel Sun Xue is currently writing. I feel that the theme is well chosen, but it needs to be modified and polished, and I gave my own suggestions for modification.

This chat lasted the whole morning, and Sun Xue benefited a lot from this morning.

Although Sun Xue already has a writing foundation of one million words, the problems in her writing have always troubled her. Now she is also in a bottleneck period and has been unable to break through.

Unexpectedly, all her confusions were solved during the communication with Uncle Lu, which made her suddenly enlightened.

After all, Uncle Lu has many years of creative experience, many years of editing experience, and has read the works of countless authors. She took one look at Sun Xue's works and immediately discovered the problems in them.

Uncle Lu's advice gave Sun Xue a feeling of enlightenment.

Sun Xue is very lucky to have the personal guidance of a well-known domestic editor. I have to say that Uncle Lu's level is indeed very high. He can spot all the problems exposed in Sun Xue's works at a glance.

Condensing a novel of hundreds of thousands of words into a short story of several thousand words is also a big challenge for Sun Xue.

The plots of novels are more complex and rich, involving more character relationships and story backgrounds. In terms of character creation, the characters are more three-dimensional and full; while short stories require concise and clear storylines, strong generalization of characters, and strong language. It requires more refinement and compact structure.

They are completely different in terms of structure, character creation, theme expression, creation difficulty, reading and aesthetic experience.

Following the advice given by Uncle Lu, Sun Xue spent a week and finally completed the "downsizing" of the novel.

She immediately sent the revised manuscript to Uncle Lu. After reading it, Uncle Lu felt that the novel was pretty good overall, but there were still many areas that needed to be polished and revised.

For example, the language can be more refined, the character creation is not three-dimensional enough, the storyline is not eye-catching enough, and the structure of the novel can be more perfect.

Sun Xue followed Uncle Lu's instructions and revised it seven or eight times before Uncle Lu was basically satisfied.

In fact, for Sun Xue, her level also determines that she can only modify it to this extent.

After the manuscript is submitted, there is a long wait.

Sun Xue didn't dare to have high hopes. After all, such a major event would attract a large number of outstanding young novel authors across the country. It would be extremely difficult to stand out among the many authors.

Sun Xue waited anxiously for ten days, and her mood changed from full of expectations at first. As time passed day by day, her enthusiasm also faded little by little.

Just when Sun Xue was about to lose confidence, she unexpectedly received a notice from the competition organizing committee that her work had entered the semi-finals.

This is exciting news. Sun Xue has confidence and expectations again.

Being able to enter the semi-finals means having a chance to win a prize. Her requirements are not high, as long as she can win an excellence award, she will be satisfied.

Once you have hope for something, the process of waiting for the result is also a kind of inner torture...

This time Uncle Lu also gave her a suggestion, that is, in her daily reading, do not limit yourself to reading domestic novels. The scope of reading should be broad, and Sun Xue is encouraged to read more excellent foreign works.

Uncle Lu also gave her a reading list. The book list includes works by some of the best French, American and British novelists.

Uncle Lu hopes that Sun Xue can improve his literary quality by reading the best works in the world, imitating and learning the essence of famous works, and eventually form his own writing style.

To this end, Sun Xue went to the school library to apply for a library card and borrowed a bunch of foreign classics.

The first foreign novel she read was "La Traviata" by Xiao Dumas. She also started reading this novel. In the next two years, she read almost all the excellent works of famous foreign novelists.

These excellent foreign works gave her a deep understanding of the diversity of novel themes, and her reading appreciation and writing skills have also improved by leaps and bounds.

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Another half month passed. During this half month, she would go to the school mailroom almost every day to see if there was any express delivery of her own.

How she wished that when she walked into the mailroom, the security guard in the mailroom would hold up a courier and say to her with a smile: There is a package for you.

But this scene never happened...

Every time she enters the mail room, she smiles and carefully asks the security guard: "Uncle, do you have my express delivery?"

At first, the uncle was very polite to her, but when Sun Xue came to ask questions every day, he became annoyed.

Later, before Sun Xue could ask, the uncle said impatiently without raising his head: "No! No!"

Later, when Sun Xue asked, the uncle looked sarcastic: "It's annoying to ask questions every day. Don't you know if someone has sent you a courier? Are you waiting for a courier to drop from the sky?"

Sun Xue was left speechless and stood on the ground in embarrassment.

She was extremely anxious, and in desperation, she had no choice but to shamelessly call Uncle Lu.

Uncle Lu told her on the phone that he was on a business trip, told her not to worry, and promised to ask her from the side.

Two days later, she called Uncle Lu again, and Uncle Lu told her that he had asked for help. It is said that her work is pretty good, but it is still uncertain whether she can win the award, because the final award-winning work is decided by multiple judges through discussion, and there are many influencing factors...

From that day on, she never went to the mailroom to ask.

Just two days later, Sun Xue hurried home after school with a thermos bottle in hand. When I first walked to the mailroom, a voice came from the security room:

"Stop, there's your courier!"

The security uncle said, holding a postal express in his hand.

"Really? Thank you, uncle!"

At that moment, Sun Xue had a hunch in her heart: she must have won the award.

Her heart couldn't help but beat wildly.

Opening the courier with trembling hands, the moment she saw the award notice, she shouted excitedly:

"Uncle, my novel won an award!"

Sun Xuexing jumped up with joy.

The security uncle on the side looked at Sun Xue, who was a little out of sorts, and said:

"Isn't it just a novel that won an award? What's all the fuss about?"