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After leaving Xuanyuan's ridiculously large mansion, Zhuang Mo took a taxi and returned to Charming.Tian Tian was very angry with him, first of all it was Zhuang Mo who made him wait for so long.It was the first time he came to the bar alone, and he was about to be eaten by all kinds of ghosts and snakes. Didn't Zhuang Mo consider that he might be in danger?Secondly...

"I thought you were a decent person, but you turned out to be a prostitute?! You want me to help you prostitute! Are you shameless and gay?!"

Zhuang Mo: "..."

Zhuang Mo: "Pay attention to QQ, an author will add you."

Zhuang Mo was sure that Xuanyuan would change his mind.Zhuang Mo has read Ten Continents and Three Seas, read the few words left by Xuan Yuan, and also paid attention to the opinions of people in the circle from various channels.His reputation isn't very good, except for Zonghai, who debuted together, he has almost no close friends, and he offended a lot of editors.On the whole, he was an extremely haughty man, and his conduct was unavoidably unpleasant.In the past, his remuneration was very high, he was very pushy, and he demanded the highest standards of clothing, food, housing and transportation. The only reason for doing so seemed to be to overwhelm other authors.

But these years, Xuanyuan left the literary world to engage in real estate, and is now among the top [-] richest people in Mainland China on the Forbes Rich List.If his behavior is still the same as the author's time, arrogant, jealous and pushy, he probably won't be able to get from nothing to prosperity.The old tricksters in the business world don't take this kind of trick.

The only explanation is that he doesn't care about the real estate business at all.Of course, money is also very important, but this is a business, and Xuanyuan is not sentimental about it.He is only emotional about writing.He has a deep affection for writing, and he escaped in an almost shameful way at the beginning—although he has never been in contact with it, Zhuang Mo can guess one or two reasons why Xuanyuan abandoned his pen and went into business. After all, the enemy who knows you best is always the enemy—the real estate business can't really satisfy him.No matter how successful he is now and how much money he has earned, if he was defeated by Tan Si on the author's battlefield, he can only win back as an author, otherwise this will always be an inseparable knot.

This point, Xuanyuan is clearer than him.As long as you see his hostile and guarded expression, you will know how much he cares about Tan Si and never forgets.Zhuang Mo even seduced him maliciously: Tan Si is dying now, why don't you come and try to see if you are better than him?

Xuanyuan couldn't refuse this kind of temptation at all, proud people are always extraordinarily aggressive, it is impossible for them to really admit defeat.

As soon as he heard that Zhuang Mo had found a writer for himself, Tian Tian's expression immediately became flattering, although he didn't even realize it: "Really? Where did you find it? Is it good? It's not good." I don't want it, don't waste my feelings!"

Zhuang Mo was too lazy to talk to him.Anyway, he found him, whether he can tie it or not depends on this guy's own ability.

Zhuang Mo dismissed Tian Tian and walked into the private room impatiently.Ren Mingqing noticed that he had come in, but couldn't distract himself from greeting him.Although his body is still sitting here, his mind is already in another world.Not only was Zhuang Mo not angry, but he was also very satisfied. He sat down beside Ren Mingqing lightly, and looked at him with childlike eyes.Authors who write seriously are always very cute. Zhuang Mo selfishly hopes that Ren Mingqing will always be like this, never change, and focus on the computer without distractions.If he stared at the computer forever and he stared at him forever, they would cooperate forever.

It took about an hour before Ren Mingqing teleported himself back.His face was very haggard, but his spirit was very excited.Without waiting for Zhuang Mo to ask, he told him: "I don't think this story should have only one ending. I think it has three different directions according to the different choices of the male protagonist. Generally speaking, only one main line of the story can be chosen, but I think all three are fascinating, and I can write them all down. But how to assemble them into a story, I haven't figured it out yet. There must be a big story, and these three stories will be packaged..."

Zhuang Mo patiently listened to his narration with joy.Authors often don't like to explain their thinking to people. They express it in words, and the ability to express it orally is far from the ability to express it in words.Ren Mingqing is another representative of them. He stutters when he is in a hurry, and talks inconsequentially, with a lot of "I think" and "then", which makes people anxious.But Zhuang Mo was infected by his emotions.Now he's not ashamed of his work at all, telling wild stories with seriousness, it looks a little funny, but he's as happy as a bird.Zhuang Mo felt relieved, which showed that Ren Mingqing regarded him as a reliable confidant and was willing to share with him.A few days ago, Ren Mingqing was very resistant to admitting to him that he wrote novels. It seems that his efforts have been very effective these days, and their relationship has improved by leaps and bounds.

"Come on, let me have a look." Zhuang Mo waited for him to finish talking, then took the computer from his hand.

Ren Mingqing's idea is very simple, which is to divide three forks from the first contradictory choice point, so that the story will lead to different endings.This form reminds Zhuang Mo of an idol drama in Taiwan. The heroine chose to stay in her hometown to be a housewife 20 years ago, or to work hard in a big city to become a strong woman.Later, the heroines of the two branched worlds exchanged identities, tracking the life paths under the two different choices of housewives and strong women in an absurd and straightforward form.What Ren Mingqing is doing now is only forking.What he said is not wrong. In this way, the three stories are independent, and there is no one big story framework to command the overall situation.

Zhuang Mo's plan was originally to "observe without interference", that is to say, he did not intend to give any pointers until Ren Mingqing finished the first story.This is to examine his inherent level.However, since he already recognized Ren Mingqing's writing ability very much, he decided to advance the next inspection - to inspect his collaboration.

Authors and editors are a community.As an editor, he will be involved in the whole writing process, and some authors are very resistant to other people's opinions, and some authors are too independent.Neither is a good thing.

"If you want to unify the three stories, it is not enough to put them together. You need a big framework. This idea is correct. But have you ever thought that in this big framework, the timeline is not continuous It is not a story from front to back. After the reader reads the first short story, both protagonists are dead, then when he reads the second short story immediately, he does not understand why the plot returns to the new house When a guest comes to the apartment, he expects you to tell him why the time was set back. The most immediate suspense becomes this."

Ren Mingqing frowned and thought for a while: "That's right, this is the key—so you said, the big story frame should be about the time loop?"

"Correct."

Ren Mingqing hummed for a long time, and his expression became more serious: "If this is the case... the whole story needs to be restructured, and all the plots are designed around the 'time loop'...Once such a setting is involved, the story will become very serious. complex."

"No matter how complicated the story is, it is composed of four parts: cause-development-climax-end. Your first short story can be regarded as the cause; in the second cycle, the protagonist finds himself repeating the experience, and he begins to pay attention to this Worldview; the third cycle, he tried to escape, but the plan failed; the fourth cycle, he finally succeeded."

Ren Mingqing's brows gradually loosened: "Yes...it's like this...but, wouldn't it be a bit nondescript? I wrote an oriental fantasy, and you read it too. A new tenant moved into the protagonist's apartment, but the protagonist found out that he was A dragon that rains and clouds...but the big story is about time loops, which are generally sci-fi elements."

"I don't think you're writing an oriental fantasy. Dragons in oriental fantasy are auspicious beasts and gods. They are personified and have their own families and social circles. Their relationship with humans is often equivalent to that of a monarch to his subjects. And You are deliberately removing the anthropomorphic and deified parts of the dragon, leaving only a purely biological description: the scales and horns of the new tenant, his secretions, his preference for water, his association with the weather, His color blindness and his body temperature rising and falling with the room temperature... This is a scientific analysis method, so your story has more elements of suspense reasoning than fantasy. In the story, the male protagonist analyzes the new tenant's situation step by step through clues. identity, and finally found out that he had been doused with dragon balls, because the dragon was dying, and the dragon needed an heir, and he started to transform the dragon. The popular oriental fantasy is not written like this at all. In the popular stories, the dragon incarnate is not When you are in a relationship, you want to integrate into the human world. The perspective is always human-oriented. But your entire article reveals an indescribable eerie horror. The purpose of the dragon is beyond the scope of human understanding and experience. The process is more reminiscent of the Alien series. IMHO, it is a grafting of Cthulhu style and oriental fantasy."

While Zhuang Mo was analyzing, Ren Mingqing stared at him motionlessly.When he found out that his idea had been completely punctured, he blinked shyly twice, touched his nose, and felt a kind of secret joy in his heart, as if he wrote it down and waited for people to guess it.

"Since your novel itself is a hybrid, it doesn't matter if you add some sci-fi elements. The grafting of Cthulhu's theme and sci-fi, there is "The Lost South" before; the grafting of sci-fi and fantasy and even history, you can read it Providence by Qian Lifang. Both books have been highly rated, the former won the 2017 Nebula Award, and the latter won the China Science Fiction Galaxy Award, so don't worry about being neither fish nor fowl, I'm sure you don't intend to write anything typical either Oriental fantasy."

Ren Mingqing calmed down and said to himself: "So I want to write a dragon that can cycle time...Dragon and time...Ouroboros, the snake of eternal cycle...Hibernation in another latitude...Ah, I know! He is dying, he wants to live in the body of the male protagonist, through this winter for him, but he did not completely control the male protagonist, the male protagonist shared his ability and went back to the past Now, these two creatures have an understanding of each other. The dragon knows what kind of opponent he is facing. He wants to regain the dragon ball in the hero's body; and the hero wants to fight against the influence of the dragon ball on himself and the dragon's parasitism Desire... that sounds like another version of a dragon slaying story—any paper? Paper and pencil."

Zhuang Mo gave him the pen and paper, and watched him lie on the wine table to reorganize the story frame, decide how to split the existing text, and fill in different plot points.He talked to himself, wrote and drew, and swiped the mouse from time to time to examine the words and sentences on the screen.

Zhuang Mo is very satisfied with Ren Mingqing.His understanding is very high, and he is very professional about the story itself, which means that the cost of their communication is very low. Zhuang Mo doesn't have to waste a lot of time to tell him "why he must do this instead of that", he only needs to give orders directly. OK, time-saving and efficient.

The most important thing is...he is really strong and durable.

It is not an easy task for an author to completely overthrow his conception and start from scratch.But this happened to Ren Mingqing, Zhuang Mo was not surprised at all.Ren Mingqing has 12 points of enthusiasm for writing novels. This enthusiasm has a tendency to perfectionism, which makes him never give up until he reaches the best.Before he became a professional author, he was already more professional than a considerable number of professional authors.

Ren Mingqing wrote until 12 o'clock that night.Zhuang Mo forcibly closed his word document.He has been working continuously for three nights and three days, and these days he spends almost all his time writing novels.Even though his spirits were high, his body was reaching its limit.Anyway, now that he has resigned from his tutoring job and doesn't have to serve dishes at the bar, Zhuang Mo feels that according to his hand speed, he should be able to finish it on time.

Besides, Zhuang Mo didn't think "New Painting" would publish this manuscript.Although Ren Mingqing's writing is very good, it is a completely new genre for "New Painting".It's not just "New Painting", anywhere, this article is too niche and unique, and it doesn't match the popular readings at all.As a novel, it is under-commercialized.

Zhuang Mo was not worried about this.He doesn't stick to selling words.Words are the source of everything.In the downstream of the novel industry, there are comics, animation, film and television, games, reality shows... Each industry has a different definition of commercialization.Sometimes an unpopular novel can be adapted into something very popular, which means that the taste of readers is not everything, and the quality of the article is sometimes more important.

If Ren Mingqing wrote a novel with popular themes, Zhuang Mo would have a headache instead, because all popular themes are crowded with countless authors and countless works. If you want to stand out among them and become the head, either you have a great reputation, or The statistics of your works are astonishing, but Ren Mingqing doesn't have any of these.

And now, he wrote a Cthulhu-style oriental fantasy mixed with science fiction, horror, suspense, and decryption elements?

There is no such thing in the IP market.No, never.The past shines through the present.Unique.There is also a parallel bifurcation structure in the story, which has a tendency to adapt Galgame almost from its genes.

As long as it is slightly modified and the rule of not becoming a master after the founding of the People's Republic of China is removed, Zhuang Mo is confident that he will find a good buyer for him and negotiate a good price.When the setting is strong enough, the novel copyright will become a pure seller's market.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Mo gently told Ren Mingqing who was saving the manuscript: "Don't write bloody violence, and don't write big scenes."

"what?"

It is too expensive to do special effects for big scenes, and the bloody violence cannot pass the review. This is to set the threshold for film and television adaptation.

But of course Zhuang Mo would not say that: "Infiltrating horror from daily life is the true meaning of Cthulhu. And it is difficult for you to describe the big scene. Too little ink is not shocking enough, and too much ink will affect the sense of rhythm."

Ren Mingqing accepted his opinion modestly: "What you said makes sense."

They will have a good cooperation, Zhuang Mo thought.He poured himself a glass of wine, celebrating the success of the second period.

The author has something to say: [Small editorial knowledge class] About the author and multiple editors in the same company

Under normal circumstances, only one editor can be selected. If an author colludes with N editors at the same time, he will be blocked by the company, unless the author is very big.