genius editor

Chapter 13 Young People's Tastes

When Zhuang Mo woke up the next morning, Ren Mingqing hadn't woken up yet.Ren Mingqing woke up very early yesterday and made breakfast. Zhuang Mo looked at the closed bedroom door and guessed that he stayed up late because of code writing.Zhuang Mo regretted his lack of consideration.Writing a short story in two days is not easy even for experienced short story writers, let alone Ren Mingqing who took over temporarily.The moment he decided to accept the manuscript, he undoubtedly had to stay up all night to complete it.

Zhuang Mo did not approve of the behavior of staying up late.Many authors have the habit of rushing to draft late at night, which is not necessary at all.Staying up late is due to the low work efficiency. Most of the time, they sit in front of the computer and browse Weibo, watch dramas and movies, dragging to the dead end, slapping their heads, and staying up late to hold back a few words to make do.Although Ren Mingqing didn't stay up all night like this at all, the load on his body was still quite heavy, which would cause endocrine disorders, decreased immunity, systemic allergies, and chronic diseases of this kind in the long run.The body is the capital of the revolution. If I had known that he would stay up late, I should not have set a deadline.Thinking of this, Zhuang Mo washed up and left lightly, considerately not disturbing the writer who might have just fallen asleep.

Throughout the day, Zhuang Mo still sat behind Tian Tian, ​​watching his screen from time to time.

Tian Tianzheng and his colleagues are painfully revising the manuscript.The two of them threw emoticons crazily yesterday, like brothers who had been separated for many years, but with the increase in the number of revisions, now they are starting to stop talking.The atmosphere stiffened visibly to the naked eye.

Tian Tian overturned his liking for Kada in one day, and now he thinks that the other party is a stubborn, arrogant guy.But Dada felt that he had been insulted. The editor named "Yikouxian" didn't respect him at all and pointed fingers at his works.Writing commercial manuscripts is not a creation at all, but just being manipulated like a marionette, and now his cute essays have changed beyond recognition.If it weren't for the tight money, he wished he could drag this unscrupulous capitalist down.

"You still can't start this way." Tian Tian crackled and tapped on the keyboard, "You must throw out the main suspense at the beginning of the chapter. What kind of fox is the fox, what is his core personality, what is he going to do, and what happened to him? You must explain the difficulties in 500 words, otherwise readers will not be attracted. The first 500 words of a short manuscript are very valuable."

Kodak didn't reply, and pretended to be dead, but gritted his teeth in front of the screen.He couldn't help thinking: Does this Yikouxian know who he is?He has 8 followers on Weibo!Has someone with the same number of fans ever had the same experience as him?He is now suppressing his anger and cooperating with the revision, isn't he contemptuous and self-deprecating?

Tian Tian suspected that he had lost the author, and sighed deeply, but unexpectedly, Zhuang Mo behind him said leisurely: "That's right."

Tian Tian snorted: "Isn't it deconstructing literature? I'm from a major, so I'll understand after reading a few more articles!"

Not far away, brother Lihuo hummed and gave a thumbs up: "Xiao Tian'er read three stacks of magazines yesterday and didn't get home from get off work until almost 12 o'clock. He is very enlightened! Keep improving!"

Tian Tian was caught out, and cast a glance at Zhuang Mo angrily: "I, I'm just scrounging in the company!"

After being educated by Zhuang Mo yesterday, Tian Tian realized his lack of professionalism.The content of his studies in college tends to be pure literature, and there is a gap between pure literature and commercialization.After Zhuang Mo left, he immediately went to the bookstore downstairs and bought Robert McKee's "Story: Material, Structure, Style and Screen Principles", as well as "Bestseller Writing Skills", "Plot!plot! ", "Story Skills", "Conflict and Suspense" and a series of practical books.In this way, whenever Koda asked a question, Tian Tian frantically flipped through the book to find the answer.Although he was a bit scratchy, fortunately, he quickly discovered that many principles were interlinked, because with a solid foundation of four years in college, it was very easy for him to understand the internal logic of commercial writing.It's as if he had passed calculus and number theory, and came back to do junior high school math problems.

He taught these to Koda without reservation.He not only hopes to guide Kada to write this article well, but also hopes that Kada can comprehend the abstract writing principle from this writing process.But Koda obviously doesn't have that high talent.Tian Tian read the past manuscripts of "New Painting" again, summed up a large number of cases for him, and helped him understand why the story was written in this way.

Tian Tian devoted himself wholeheartedly and was busy all night, wanting to be praised afterwards.But Brother Liehuo exposed his old background in front of Zhuang Mo, and he immediately became shy.Telling the logic of the story, learning from the sample draft, this is what Zhuang Mo did on the first day he came to the company, and he followed the example, doesn't it mean that he approves of this deadly tongue? !Don't want him to die of complacency!What's more, how can people pretend to be forced to learn lessons after watching the three stacks? !

"Stupid birds fly first, it's also a way to survive." Zhuang Mo sprinkled a handful of salt on Tian Tian's heart, went to the computer to check his work, Ren Mingqing's profile picture was still black in the QQ list, and his ID was called Xihui.

"This will drag you down!" Tian Tian snatched the mouse and made a gesture to attack Ren Mingqing.

Zhuang Mo didn't say anything, took out his mobile phone to operate it, Tian Tian heard a WeChat notification sound coming from his pocket, opened it, and Zhuang Mo sent a red envelope, 88 yuan.

Tian Tian's eyes were full of money, and his heart melted. When he came back to his senses, he snorted arrogantly to show that he was unmoved, but his body obediently gave way to Zhuang Mo, and beat him by the way. Water, turn a blind eye to his behavior of setting a special message notification tone for "washing ashes".

Ren Mingqing didn't go online until noon.Zhuang Mo directly squeezed Tian Tian away this time and took over QQ.

One mouthful of salt: How is the writing?

Washing ashes: Hello, I haven't finished writing yet.

One mouthful of salt: Well, how much did you write?

Ash cleaning: 6000 words like this

Zhuang Mo felt that this hand speed was already very impressive for a Buddhist writer.

One mouthful of salt: What kind of story is it?Can you send it to me for a look?

Ashes cleaning: Sorry, halfway through the writing, the train of thought has not been completely sorted out, so it is okay to wait for the finished product to be handed in?

A mouthful of salt: no problem

A mouthful of salt: When can I finish writing?

Washing ashes: Sorry, there is no way to guarantee this.I have a night shift tonight, so I'll try to finish it before I go to work.

A mouthful of salt: come on.

Waited all morning and chatted online for 3 minutes.Seeing that Zhuang Mo went offline contentedly, Tian Tian couldn't help pouting, heh, man!

"Who is he?" Tian Tian tried hard not to sound so jealous.Why can Zhuang Mo find this kind of author, write 6000 as soon as he gets started, and his great master grinds it out, 150 an hour, why?

"Just the one from last time."

"Is the writing so good?" Tian Tian said sourly.

Zhuang Mo raised his head and stared at him for a while, Tian Tian cleared his throat guiltily.He knew that Zhuang Mo was serious about cleaning up the ashes, so Zhuang Mo would be unhappy, but it would be harder than heaven for him to shut up and not provoke.

Unexpectedly, Zhuang Mo looked at him for a while, then loosened his tie, "Not bad." I don't know if it's because Ren Mingqing's writing is good, or because he agrees with Tian Tian's gossip.He got up and picked up the five backup manuscripts written by Ren Mingqing two years ago, and put them in front of Tian Tian, ​​"Look at it, and tell me how it feels."

Tian Tian's eyes changed from wary to suspicious, he didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in the gourd.It was as if he had plucked the hair from a tiger's buttocks, and was about to fight the tiger with his body, and then proudly feed the tiger with his body, only to find that the tiger invited him to play a game of bridge with him.

"...Well." Tian Tian was entrusted with a heavy responsibility, and his self-esteem was greatly satisfied. Before he had time to be arrogant, he began to read the manuscript without complaint.

Tian Tian started to read the funny article he had a glimpse of last time. He was very happy when he read it, but he stopped laughing when he saw the end, and even his eyes were slightly sore.In the next few chapters, he read more slowly and carefully, and also easily got red eyes at the end.Zhuang Mo has been watching his expression silently.

After he finished reading all of them, Zhuang Mo asked him, "How is it?"

"Hmm... not bad. I can handle many themes and styles. I have a big brain and I'm good at making settings. Whether it's science fiction or fantasy, the settings are very eye-catching. If you want to say something in common with these completely different articles , that is, the characterization is very good. But," Tian Tian emphasized these two words, hoping that his turning point would make Zhuang Mo panic, "although the details of his characters are handled well, and the characterization is still standing, But some protagonists are unlikable and unlikable. He always handles the ending hastily and stops abruptly, and he always feels that the integrity of the story is not enough-and he seems to have only written one HE, other All BE's, it's too miserable! Abusing for the sake of abuse!"

"I don't want to listen to this." Zhuang Mo said indifferently, "I'm asking about your perception as a reader. Do you think you would read these stories in normal times?"

"BE doesn't read it." Tian Tian answered very simply and neatly, "Life is already miserable, why should I go to the story to be tortured?"

"When you watch it for the first time, you don't know whether it is BE or HE."

"If it's on the Internet, I'll read the comments. Isn't HE the minimum code of conduct for Internet authors?!"

"Then after you read the beginning, can you continue?"

Tian Tian nodded: "His stories have a strong sense of suspense, because his settings are always ingenious. Even if I don't like his characters, I still have to see the end, because I want to know all the truth."

"Would you like to follow the author after reading these articles?"

"Of course." Tian Tian said reluctantly.He didn't want to flatter Zhuang Mo's author at all, but since he had read nearly 5 words of free stories about ashes, he had already developed a little affection for the author.Tian Tian didn't want to say something that hurt him maliciously, even if he couldn't hear it.

"Do you find it difficult to read his manuscript?"

"A little bit." Tian Tian said honestly, "Some of his sentences are too long, and some of the settings and plots are too complicated, and I, a liberal arts student, can't understand them at all."

Zhuang Mo nodded: "Then if you follow this author and he sends out a new manuscript, when will you read it?"

Tian Tian thought for a while: "If he was all HE, I would be willing to brush his hair every day before going to bed. But it shouldn't be too brain-intensive. I usually get off work very late, and I'm very tired and don't want to use my brain."

Zhuang Mo recorded all his opinions and completed the survey.

He chose Tian Tian as a test reader because Tian Tian is a post-95 who has been obsessed with Two-dimensional since he was a child. He is exposed to the same things and has the same taste as today's children. His vision represents a group of people who are Growing core consumer group.In the world of bestsellers, there is such a saying: Whoever conquers the girls in junior high school conquers everything.Zhuang Mo knew all about the problems in Ren Mingqing's article, but Zhuang Mo wanted to know: How do children feel about him, welcome or hate him?Accept or resist?This is related to what level he can develop in the future.Zhuang Mo hopes to promote him as a representative of the post-network era. Whether his writing can attract post-95s or even post-00s is the key.

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