A widower's entertainment

Chapter 99 [Passion] (Please subscribe)

Beijing, "People's Literature" magazine.

As the editor of Aquaman, Zhang Wei didn't know that he was writing the same content at the same time and sending it to different authors in bulk. He just changed the name. Lin Youcheng saw it. He was still doing Aquaman and making appointments with different authors at the same time.

There is no way. Although there is no KPI assessment now, magazines like "People's Literature" still have pressure, hoping to make the best literary magazine and bring the best literary works to the people. I worked hard to urge the manuscript, make appointments, then review, revise, and proofread the manuscript.

"Zhang Wei, what do you think of this love story?"

Zhang Wei took the manuscript handed over by his colleague and saw that the author's name was Wang Shuo.

"This novel is about the love story between a retired navy man and a stewardess."

Zhang Wei listened to his colleague's words without saying anything, and read the novel "Stewardess".

“It’s good, but it feels a little one-dimensional.”

In Zhang Wei's opinion, this love novel written by Wang Shuo is relatively simple. It is about a beautiful and innocent girl who falls in love with a navy man. She grew up to become a flight attendant and retired from the Navy. The two met again and fell in love; however, they broke up due to personality reasons. Later, the male protagonist read in the newspaper that the plane the female protagonist was traveling on crashed. Devastated by his grief, he bounces back from his lover's death and becomes a sailor again.

When colleagues heard Zhang Wei's words, they couldn't help but said: "After all, he is a new author."

Zhang Wei thought about it carefully and couldn't help but said: "Contact this author and see if he can change it. The male protagonist is very bad and full of misdeeds. Although the death of the female protagonist is exchanged for the growth of the male protagonist, the ending is a bit taken for granted. If it is profound If the story were stronger, the heroine's plane crashed and she became disabled. The hero renewed his relationship with her out of old love and sympathy, but due to their bad natures, they eventually broke up."

The colleague nodded. He also had the same feeling. The male protagonist was not doing his job properly. He was just waiting to die and had to live up to a woman who was pure and passionate in love with him. By "killing" the perfect female protagonist Wang Mei, he promoted the male protagonist to grow. He said : "I'll contact him."

Zhang Wei nodded and said: "There are quite a few people writing love novels now."

"Yes, there are many submissions now about love novels."

"I think this is also due to Lin Youcheng. His previous love trilogy had a huge influence."

Hearing his colleague's words, Zhang Wei couldn't help but nodded and said, "Yes, the key point is that Lin Youcheng's three love novels are not simple."

"How can it be so simple for a novel to win the National Outstanding Novella Award? Lin Youcheng won two of these awards at the same time."

An editor lamented: "Although they are all love novels, some of them are not as stunning as the love stories written by Lin Youcheng."

"Whether it's the pure and affectionate love in "Hawthorn Tree", the thrilling "Suspect X's Devotion", or the ultimate secret love in "Love Letter", it's all amazing. Lin Youcheng is really good at writing about love."

"Zhang Wei, have you ever asked Lin Youcheng whether his next novel will be about love?"

When Zhang Wei heard his colleague ask this question, he couldn't help but smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying: "I sent Lin Youcheng a letter of invitation, but he didn't reply. I don't know if he will continue to write about love in his next article. , and of course I don’t know when he will write his next novel.”

"Haha, you, the editor, don't let other magazines take away his new manuscript."

Zhang Wei was a little unsure, but then said: "Probably not. Lin Youcheng also mentioned to me before that he might come to the capital in the future. If he comes to the capital now, he should find our People's Literature. "

"Really? Is Lin Youcheng really coming to the capital?" "Yes, if he comes to the capital now, it will be much more convenient to press the manuscript! But what you just said is not good, why did you come to our "People's "Literature", if your words are heard by "October", "Contemporary", and "Yenjing Literature", they will not obey. Just like this "Stewardess", maybe they will directly vote for "Contemporary". "

Obviously, the editors in the editorial department didn't know that Wang Shuo's debut article "Stewardess" was published in "Contemporary" magazine.

Zhang Wei smiled when he heard his colleague's words and said: "It's not that we are "People's Literature", what Lin Youcheng wrote is People's Literature."

"Speaking of which, Lin Youcheng is not slow in writing, but I really look forward to what kind of romance novels he will bring."

"Are you so sure that my next novel will be a romance novel?"

"It's not because Lin Youcheng is good at writing romance that I'm looking forward to his subsequent romance novels."

"Lin Youcheng said in the Yanjing Daily that no writer would write for a literary school, and no writer would write for a label. He would only write according to what he felt in his heart. That is, Ba Lao That said, creative freedom. I don’t think he will always write romance novels.”

Zhang Wei listened to his colleague's words and did not interrupt. In his heart, he was simply looking forward to Lin Youcheng's new manuscript. As for whether Lin Youcheng wrote about love or not, Zhang Wei felt it was not important, because In his opinion, Lin Youcheng's talent goes far beyond writing about love.

And to really talk about it, the story "Love Letter" is not only about love, but also about death.

Of course, the most important thing is that in Zhang Wei's opinion, no matter what novels Lin Youcheng writes in the future, they will definitely be quite exciting.

Although Zhang Wei is looking forward to Lin Youcheng's next novel, he also knows that writing is not that simple, but he is also a little anxious. As other colleagues said, although Lin Youcheng's writing is not fast, it is definitely not slow either. According to the time that Lin Youcheng published three novels before, the next novel should be released soon.

It's just that it's almost July now, and Lin Youcheng's next novel hasn't been released yet, which makes Zhang Wei feel a little unsure.

Could it be that he was really asked to leave by another magazine?

Just when Zhang Wei was thinking about it, editor-in-chief Wang Meng interrupted Zhang Wei's thoughts with one sentence.

"Zhang Wei, Lin Youcheng has sent a manuscript."

The editor-in-chief Wang Meng walked in with a thick letter with a smile on his face and said: "I just came over and met the comrades in the mailroom. It happened to be the letter Lin Youcheng sent from Decheng, so I brought it over and took a look. It looks like a new manuscript he wrote."

Zhang Wei was surprised, and other editors were also surprised.

Everyone was very surprised and quite pleasantly surprised. I didn't expect that Lin Youcheng would actually send a new manuscript.

An editor blurted out in surprise: "Yes, Lin Youcheng is really amazing. He deserves to have six children. Really——"

"Ahem, I really have the passion for creation!"

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