cat blues

Japan is a country that pays much attention to culture, but due to the current state of the world's declining literary world, they don't have any good writers, except for one who writes mystery novels all the time and lives in the United States all year round. It feels like an immigrant.

As for mystery novels, although they are considered novels, except for the social school mystery novels that expose the dark side of society, others such as the Benge school or the court school are generally not accepted by people in the pure literature circle.

And Yusaku Kudo's novel series happens to be the suspense school that is most despised by the pure literature world, and is criticized as a writer who only knows how to write and show off his writing all day long.

Well, this kind of cultural contempt is ubiquitous, but pure literature does have the shame to think that it is superior to others, and few of these so-called pure literature schools have written any works that can be read by people. up.

But regardless of the actual writing style of these people, at least they are very capable in commenting.

Japan's three major literary awards: Japanese Literature Award, Murasaki Shikibu Literature Award and Yanba Literature Award, basically invite them to be judges.

Established by a group of people from the Japan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Japanese Literature Award is held every three years. Awards are mainly given to those old people who are nearly seventy years old. They may not be highly respected, but they must have social status. It is the same as a lifetime achievement award. thing.

The Murasaki Shikibe Literature Award, which is mainly composed of donations from celebrities, is mainly awarded to authors who write popular literature. The awards are mainly focused on short stories and novels. The former Kudo Yusaku won a Murasaki Shikibe Award.

And finally, the most familiar to the general public is Yanbo Literature Award issued by Yanbo Bookstore. The number of poetry submissions is too small and the quality is uneven.In the end, it had to last for several episodes.

Smokewave Awards starts to accept submissions in mid-December every year, and the registration deadline is at the end of January. After three months of careful selection, the winners are finally announced in late April.

Short works submitted to Yanboshang must not have been published before submission, and can be released at will after submission. If long works have been published, then they must be published within three years to be counted as contributions with more than 15 words. Poetry nomination requirements unlimited.

Manuscripts can be submitted by individuals, recommended by editors, or recommended by other publishing houses. There are many ways to apply. Murasaki Shikibesho, which caters to the preferences of the wealthy, is different.

The most famous part of the Yanbo Literary Award is that its entire process is almost transparent, and it is only handed over to the judges in the final selection process. Although the tastes of the judges may be different, the final selection from the Yanbo Literature Award The works are undoubtedly the most recognized by readers.

Therefore, at the end of November every year, recommendation letters from major publishing houses will fly to the editorial department of Yanbo Bookstore in an endless stream. Got stuffed with mail.

But even so, Mr. Mizushima in the editorial department is very convinced that the one who can win the Yanbo Awards Short Story Award must be his newly signed author, Mr. "My Ghost", but he never expected that Mr. My Ghost would actually so young.

"It's probably a gift." Mr. Mizushima sighed, lamenting that he has not been able to write anything decent until now, while a 14-year-old kid can write such profound works.

When he returned to his seat, he saw that his desk was full of various manuscripts again, and he didn't care. He put his coffee cup aside and started to unpack the manuscripts.

After opening it, he suddenly discovered that a manuscript was actually sent by Sakunosuke Oda. He opened the envelope with some curiosity, and found that it was actually a new article by Sakunosuke Oda!

Mr. Mizushima's eyes lit up immediately. Oda Sakunosuke is the best-spoken writer among the writers he has been in charge of. Although procrastination is still very serious, which writer does not have this problem?And compared to the editors who actually ran to the author's house in the end, sat behind the author to urge people to write manuscripts, or tricked the author into the editorial department like Undead Sichuan Bookstore, and directly locked people in a small dark room to force him to write. Under the circumstances, Mr. Mizushima thinks that Oda Sakunosuke is still reliable?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help sighing, and began to flip through the new works of Oda Sakunosuke.

Unlike many young authors who prefer to use computers to write articles nowadays, Oda Sakunosuke and my ghost teacher are both old-school writers who prefer to submit manuscripts by hand.

Oda Sakunosuke's writing is just like him himself. At first glance, it looks quite satisfactory, but after reading it for a long time, you can feel a wonderful calming power in the other's gentleness.The same is true for his novels. Although they describe trivial matters, he can find peace of mind from these ordinary little stories.

However, the novel sent this time seems to be a little different. The novel tells the story of a killer. The first half of the story is unexpectedly ups and downs, as if the author has really experienced those things himself. It was only then that the calm style of Oda Sakunosuke flowed out again, and the editor Mizushima immersed himself in the gentle and flowing text.

The story is not over yet, but Editor Mizushima couldn't help but read it five or six times.Only then did he put down the manuscript in his hand contentedly, and when he was about to show it to the editor-in-chief, he suddenly thought of something, couldn't help but picked up the phone on the table and called Oda Sakunosuke directly.

"Ah, Editor Mizushima." When Oda Sakunosuke received the call, he had just completed a field assignment. At this time, he was surrounded by a group of old ladies. For some reason, he was always popular with old people. It is better to say that he is so old-fashioned that he is often entangled by old men and old ladies and cannot escape, and always needs someone to rescue him before he can escape.

The phone call this time was considered a way to rescue him. Hearing that Sakunosuke Oda started answering the phone, he seemed to have something serious to say, and the old people who were chatting and complaining about him also dispersed.

"Oda-kun, have you been preparing this article for the three months you stopped updating?" Editor Mizushima's voice came from the microphone, making Oda Sakunosuke straighten his back subconsciously, "Yes, that's right Son."

"Don't worry, I don't mean to blame you. I just think that the manuscript you wrote is very good. I'm going to show it to the editor. Are you planning to use this manuscript to submit this year's Yanbo Award for novels? Is it?" The editor's slightly relaxed words relieved the nervous young man, "Yes, there is no problem, right?"

"I think it's very good." Editor Mizushima spent 10 minutes praising Sakunosuke Oda's new article well-written, and finally said slowly, "But Oda-kun, although the new book is very good, please don't break the old book. More, keep the quality!"

"Okay..." Sakunosuke Oda hangs up the phone in a bit of embarrassment, and then he sighs. Fortunately, he and Akutagawa-kun and Xiaoyin spent a long time reviewing the outline of the old article, otherwise he might have to open the skylight for the December issue , but... Isn't it super normal for a creature like the author to like the new and dislike the old?

Oda Sakunosuke sighed and put the phone back, it's better to rush back to the detective agency before the old ladies come around.

Recently, the literary atmosphere in the detective agency is a bit too strong. Dazai Osamu has no interest in writing articles. He just flips through the December issue of the magazine casually. Oda’s novels are still as good as ever. Other works He is not very interested, especially prose and poetry, and he has no interest at all.

Not long ago, he also heard about Akutagawa Ryunosuke's draft, and got a big piece of fig cake, for which he was stared at by that kid Akutagawa for a long time.

But this is completely painless to Dazai Osamu, he doesn't care, it's his after eating it, la la la——

In the end, Zhongyuan Zhong also found two poems from his manuscripts that he was most satisfied with and sent them out. Before sending them out, he was full of anxiety. After sending them out, he seemed to be relieved. Concentrate on preparing for the national examination at the end of the year.

While Osamu Dazai was lying on the sofa and reading a magazine, Yukichi Maomao suddenly opened the door of the office excitedly, and ran in excitedly.

The slippers the big cat was wearing made a rattling sound on the floor, and the cat ran to Zhongye's side, happily digging things out of its basket one after another.

First came a roll of posters, then a beautiful music CD, and finally a colored paper.

Nakaya raised his head from the pile of books, and saw the big cat looking at him with bright eyes. He reached out and touched his nose, and smiled embarrassedly, "Mr. Yuji, my CD is on sale."

The "Mo Heiye" released this time is a CD with eight songs, but because of Yuji Maomao's popularity, the owner of the music store left him a hardcover special edition, which includes a colored paper and a poster , the CD has also changed from one CD to two. Although the same eight songs are the same, one of them is the vocal version, that is, the normal version released, sung by idol singers under the LME, and the other is the The electro-acoustic version sung by the virtual singer of the V family is also the version that Zhong Ye usually publishes on the Internet.

Seeing Yukichi Maomao being so happy, Chuya smiled and met its palms, "It would be great if it could be listed on the Oricon List."

Yuji Maomao nodded vigorously, and seemed to think that with Zhongye's ability, the songs he wrote would definitely be on the Oricon and other music charts.It felt that this was not enough, and even ran to its own place, turned on the CD player, connected it to the stereo, and directly turned on the public amplifier.

With the exciting prelude, Osamu Dazai couldn't help but want to jump up from his seat, he didn't want to listen to the little man's song, okay?

But seeing Yuji Maomao's happy expression, he was a little bit speechless, so he went back and put on the new earphones sullenly.

Haruno Kirako who was passing by heard the prelude and hummed along, making Yukichi Maomao look over curiously.

"Ah, Mr. Yukichi, I also bought this song disc. I have been supporting Mr. Nakahara on the Internet before." In addition to cat lovers, Kirako Haruno, who usually visits various video sites, said with a smile Said.

Yuji Maomao immediately went over to meet her palms, and then happily returned to the seat and flicked its tail. My child is really promising, Maomao is so happy!