[Jinjiang Exclusive] Life is as bright as a song
Late at night, at the desk in Maoda's dormitory room 502, a notebook was spread out under the warm yellow light, with a lot of elegant words densely written on it.
The girl who was bent over her desk thinking deeply only needed to raise her head slightly to see countless overlapping manuscripts on the computer screen in front of her.
Luo Shiqin rubbed her eyebrows, looking tired.
It is now three o'clock in the morning.
Although most of the other roommates would stay up late on weekends, they rarely stayed up until this point unless it was necessary.
The girls' dormitory was exceptionally quiet at this moment, and the sound of Luo Shiqin raising her hand to write was as soft as a mosquito's buzz.
The paper inevitably made a rustling sound, but fortunately, the data and information had been collected, and the next step was to summarize and then make a plan.
There are more than 600 chapters of free text. Even if one chapter has 3,000 words, the entire text would have to be 1.85 million words as of now.
At first, Luo Shiqin did plan to watch it from the beginning, but the problem was that time was too tight. Even if she wanted to treat it carefully and seriously, she had to consider whether she would have enough time at the moment.
After much deliberation, I finally decided to divide it into simple and clear sections using chapter titles and content summaries.
The comment section of Yang Yan's book "Anomaly Life" once revealed that the title of "Please Bury Me at 21" was changed many times. As I said before, the title of a book is the theme (even the soul) of the whole book, and it is a concise summary of the content of the book.
Although to the reader, the changes are only numbers, but to the author who is working on the story with great enthusiasm, it is not only the numbers that are changed, but also the author's thoughts on the entire context of the story.
It may seem one thing to the reader, but another thing to the author.
Sometimes the author inserts foreshadowing in the details of the article, which is difficult for readers who read too fast to find. Only after the plot explodes in the later stage will they suddenly realize that the fuse has been shown to us at the very beginning.
It's just that no one thought of it at that time.
Luo Shiqin is currently changing her mindset.
Shift from the reader's perspective to the author's perspective.
From the readers' point of view, as long as the plot is interesting and logical, it's fine.
Authors are different. In addition to considering the reader's perspective, authors also have to consider their own:
How should the plot develop next to connect with the previous part and draw out the readers' interest points later?
What kind of chapter breaks and foreshadowing can attract readers to continue reading during this difficult period;
What kind of characters can fit the plot while not being clichéd and avoiding being stereotyped?
She calmed herself down and pulled out a piece of paper she had written on earlier.
The inky handwriting spread wildly on the paper. The girl with glasses paused, raised her hand and tapped on the paper.
First of all, why did the author of "Bury Me at 21" change the title many times? And he only changed the time.
——Because the timing of each revision is the climax of the plot development.
For example, when the author changed the title to "Please Bury Me at 13", the character 'Yang Yan' was experiencing a devastating blow.
[…I raised my arms and learned to resist for the first time.
The angry bison's eyes turned red, and he raised the clothes hanger and rushed towards me.
For a moment, I thought I was going to die at home.
When the neighbor aunt kicked the door and rushed in, my mother was holding me and silently enduring my father's violence.
The wet liquid slid down my forehead and soaked my short hair, but I smiled at my mother whose eyes were blurred with tears.
Because we still won.
Behind the neighbor aunt stood many policemen, who caught the buffalo who was furious.
Hmm...it seems like I can still continue to live. 】
At the age of 12, Yang Yan was experiencing domestic violence. According to the comments of readers in the comment section of the first chapter, the original title of the book was "Please Bury Me at the Age of 12".
However, when the plot developed to the point where the domestic abuser was arrested for attacking the police and Yang Yan's mother successfully appealed for divorce, the author changed the title of the book to "Please Bury Me at ■■ Years Old".
Please read carefully, it is not 13 years old, but ■■ years old without details.
The unchanging text is the core of the whole text. Whether from the reader's perspective or the author's perspective, this book is about the story of the character "Yang Yan's" suffering and struggle.
As for why the author changes the title of the book every time the story reaches its climax, it is firstly to make it more in line with the current plot, and secondly to attract the readers' attention.
Making readers feel interested and thinking, "Oh boy, you've managed to get my attention," is a big step toward success.
After being accustomed to the same old templates, a novel that is different suddenly appears. Regardless of the quality of the novel, its novelty alone can attract a group of readers who are interested in it.
Yes, that's what Luo Shiqin wants to say.
For some novelists, their novels are not only their personal hard work, but also a tool for making money.
Most authors cannot escape this stage, but the degree varies.
If there were no books about extraordinary lives, there would be no authors and readers of extraordinary spaces. When Luo Shiqin faces people like Yang Yan, her first reaction as a friend or relative is to seek treatment from a reliable psychiatrist.
All she can do is to accompany the other person to see a psychiatrist, and then follow the doctor's instructions, take medicine when necessary, and relax and treat it with a calm mind.
But the reality is, because of the existence of the Book of Abnormal Life, if Luo Shiqin does not intervene and make changes, the ending of "Yang Yan" will be "the end of the text".
There is no doubt that she will die under the cherry blossom forest of her imagination.
From this perspective, Luo Shiqin should not be a "spectator", "passerby" or "reader".
Instead, the character is to be a character that can bring new ideas and inspiration to the author of Different Space to continue writing.
Having played the vicious villain that caused the book of abnormal life to be completed, locked, and stopped, Luo Shiqin said that this kind of "role-playing" was the first time.
First of all, we have to make everyone - including Yang Yan, the authors and readers of Alien Space believe that 'LL' is really a god of death.
She thought, there probably aren't many people who can resist adding a touch of fantasy to modern urban novels?
After all, who hasn't imagined when they were young that they could put on a bed sheet, pick up a piece of clothes, and become one of the few brave men in the world?
Alice in Wonderland...
This is a very famous literary work.
She suddenly remembered something and gently took out the work badge with words written on it from her pocket.
The writing on it had been completely erased after three minutes.
After midnight, Luo Shiqin will be able to write words with special powers on it again.
However, this kind of 'magic badge' is just like the 'fairy godmother's magic', and has a time limit.
Three minutes.
Once the time is up, the identity granted by the work badge will disappear.
But the good thing is that the time you use this thing is based on how long it stays on your body.
This means that Luo Shiqin can make full use of the magic badge by clamping it or taking it off.
Her next plan is to create a dreamy atmosphere like Alice in Wonderland in front of Yang Yan, the author and the readers.
The new identity 'LL' fabricated for her is a fixed character - a corporate death god.
This sparked the idea for the author of Different Space to continue writing in order to influence the character Yang Yan's current state of mind.
At five o'clock in the morning, Yang Yan's biological clock woke him up as usual.
The sleepy-eyed girl stood up, covering her forehead with her hands, and reached for her phone to check the time.
The blinding white light shows the current time - 5:03
She still had about three hours until work, but the commute was long, so she was sure she could get up by now...
Yang Yan lifted the quilt and got out of bed.
The cold floor transferred the temperature to her feet, giving her goosebumps instantly.
At this time, Yang Yan remembered something.
"I was fired..."
She muttered something, then leaned back with a sense of peace and lay on the bed again.
The temperature of the cool mat is neither too high nor too low, but it is indeed comfortable.
Not to mention that I feel more comfortable now that I don’t have to get up early to go to work.
Yang Yan raised a self-deprecating smile and let his thoughts return to darkness again.
The girl lying on the bed muttered something, then let out a loud sound of anger and reluctantly sat up again.
Damn your biological clock.
She ruffled her already messy hair in a vent of anger and got up to do her morning wash.
At 5:18 in the morning, Yang Yan, who had everything ready, sat in the living room, his thoughts gradually drifting away.
What was she just about to do?
According to my previous habit, I would have packed my things and gone downstairs to catch the car by now.
But now, although Yang Yan, who has lost his job, has some free time, he really can't remember what to do.
Speaking of which,
It was too boring, so Yang Yan's brain began to automatically recall yesterday's wonderful content.
Did something happen yesterday?
Yang Yan pondered for a long time.
"Oh my god!" Her eyes suddenly widened, and then she quickly took out her cell phone to check. Sure enough, there were still some message records from last night on it.
After a quick glance, Yang Yan breathed a sigh of relief.
At least I didn’t let my mother know when I was crying and talking to the police last night.
However, the enthusiastic aunt's phone number was still saved in the phone.
At around four o'clock in the morning, her aunt sent her a message to wish her good morning with concern.
Yang Yan: ...
She helplessly sent a text and voice message, then said that she was fine and would visit her aunt another day to thank her for what she had done for her.
There's no reply yet, maybe he's gone to sleep again.
At this moment, Yang Yan's mind had regained clarity and he thought of the little Grim Reaper he met yesterday.
The other person looked about the same age as her, and at first, Yang Yan did not take her self-introduction seriously.
grim Reaper?
Please, this is China! The ones who came to arrest her soul should be the Black and White Impermanence, right?
However, a series of events that happened the following year, as well as the girl in black robe who could not be seen by anyone except her, made Yang Yan realize that something was wrong.
It seemed that apart from her, no one could see the girl in black robe - the god of death.
Oh, what did she say before?
While thinking about this, Yang Yan picked up his key and prepared to go downstairs to see if there was any breakfast shop open.
After opening the locked security door, Yang Yan inadvertently raised his head and saw the girl in black robe standing opposite him.
The other person was leaning against the door opposite with her arms folded. When she heard the sound of the door opening, she raised her head and saw Yang Yan's very familiar face - after all, they were still chatting on the high bridge by the river a few hours ago.
Yang Yan: ...
She remembered.
The Grim Reaper in front of her said to her last night:
"You will die in a week."
According to the contents of the book of abnormal life, Luo Shiqin rushed to where Yang Yan was in advance. After waiting for a while, the target person finally opened the door.
She raised her head, smiled and was about to say hello to Yang Yan to start a magical time, when she saw the girl opposite her was stunned for three seconds, and then slammed the security door shut!
Luo Shiqin: …?
After reading the comments, I found that some of the kids didn’t understand the protagonist’s height. Let me explain it to them in detail:
Luo Shiqin 168cm
Shi Enle 178cm
Yan Yurong 160cm
Yu Yu 165cm
Shi > Luo > Yu > Yan
As for the saying "1.6-meter-tall grass", most people can only estimate the height, so when it is said, it will be discussed.
There will be a big update tomorrow~
This chapter drops fifty small red envelopes~