Back to 80: My Literary Life

It was a month later that Fang Minghua saw this novel.

According to the rules of the judges of this online literature competition, several screenwriters from the Rongshuxia website will first conduct a preliminary selection of the submissions, and then send them to the mailboxes of each judge in batches by email for review by the judges.

November 31 is the deadline for submissions. In mid-December, all judges will be organized to gather in Shanghai for discussion, and finally several winning works will be evaluated and awarded.

It is now the end of October, and Xijing has entered late autumn. Today is a weekend night. Fang Minghua and others have agreed to play cards, and today they will be at Lu Yao's house.

Lu Yao's wife Linda has retired from the Xiying Studio. Although the Xiying Studio has now been acquired by Shengshi Film and Television, as a retired person, it is not like some state-owned enterprises that have no place to collect pensions after bankruptcy.

Shengshi Film and Television still pays her pension in full according to relevant national policies, which makes her very satisfied.

Lu Yao's daughter Lu Yuan was admitted to Yanjing Technology and Business University last year. She studied graphic design and usually stays at school.

Lu Yao and his wife were the only ones at home, so they were free. However, they felt lonely after a long time. Therefore, Linda still welcomed people to come to her house to play on weekends.

Fang Minghua, Lu Yao, Jia Pingwa and Bai Miao were ready to play and chat. Except for Fang Minghua, the other three kept smoking.

"Hey, Minghua, have you read the submission "Sexy Times Restaurant"?" Jia Pingwa asked while playing cards with a cigarette in his mouth.

"I have read it. It is a bit like the style of "Wasteland" you wrote." Fang Minghua replied with a smile.

"Haha, it is quite interesting." Jia Pingwa replied.

When Bai Miao heard that someone wrote a novel that was a bit like "Wasteland", he immediately became interested.

"Your online literature is soliciting articles? Can I take a look?"

"Playing cards." Jia Pingwa reminded.

"Who told you to mention it to provoke me? No, no, I have to take a look, otherwise I can't play cards peacefully." Bai Miao said.

"Okay." Jia Pingwa had no choice but to say, "Let's finish this round."

"Okay!"

Bai Miao said, uncovering a card and looking into the "pot".

"30,000!"

"Win!"

Lu Yao, who had been silent just now, pushed the cards in front of the door.

"Three thousand!"

"Damn! Bai Miao, there's not a single 30,000 in the pot, and you're still throwing it down! Are you deliberately throwing it?!" Jia Pingwa was very dissatisfied.

"Look at what you said, I've stopped calling, what's the use of holding a single 30,000 in your hand? Okay, hurry up and read the novel." After saying that, Bai Miao pushed his own cards and urged Jia Pingwa.

"Okay, play well after reading it, so as not to always be a gunner! Lu Yao, use your computer."

Several people moved to Lu Yao's study, turned on the computer, and Jia Pingwa logged into the 163 email account he had registered not long ago, and found the novel titled "Small Restaurant in the Age of Sexy" in it. Naturally, there was no author's name, only the number given by the website.

Lu Yao also felt novelty, and he and Bai Miao got together to read it carefully.

The novel is not long, only about 5,000 words. The two of them finished reading it quickly and returned to the card table. Bai Miao began to comment.

"This novel is indeed a bit like the style of "Wasteland". Food and sex are prominently listed, highly recognizable and vividly memorable, but the author's writing skills are not good, the characters are not relaxed and cannot be explained clearly, and the writing is too naive."

"Nonsense." Jia Pingwa said bluntly: "These are basically written by amateur authors, how can they be compared with the manuscripts of the World Chinese Literature Award? I think Minghua is still well written, what do you think?"

Fang Minghua also nodded. "Pingwa is right. We can't set too high a standard. To be honest, this article can't be compared with novels written by famous writers, or even those written by ordinary writers published in Yanhe. But she has her own advantages."

"What advantages?"

"Its advantages are that it has created online rhetoric that stimulates people's curiosity under the training of traditional literary classics and careful observation of human relationships. The author of this novel is well versed in the psychology of the masses and has a natural ability to create topics. It can be said that he has successfully won the audience."

Fang Minghua's words are somewhat fresh, and the others savor them carefully.

"I think the author of this novel is probably a woman." Lu Yao suddenly said.

"Why do you think so?"

The three looked at him.

"The whole novel is a bit rough due to the length, but the topic is quite individual, and the description of psychological activities is very delicate. Female writers such as Lin Bai and Chen Ran, who have emerged in recent years, all have this feature. People call it "female personalized writing." Lu Yao said.

The term "female personalized writing" is familiar to everyone present.

This can be traced back to 1994.

Female writer Lin Bai wrote a long novel with autobiographical colors: "A Man's War".

The book directly writes about the love of female senses through the growth experience of "I" and the experience of Lin Duomi, depicting the feelings and obsession of women for the flesh, creating a warm and open world of personal experience.

After the novel was published in "Huacheng", it caused heated discussions and was later labeled as feminism.

It happened that the United Nations World Conference on Women was held in Yanjing the following year, and the topic of women became a public topic that was almost discussed on the streets, and this book became popular again.

At the same time, another female writer Chen Ran published her novel "Private Life".

This book tells the life trajectory of modern metropolitan women. It uses the protagonist's own female experience and secret inner life as a perspective to tell the unusual experiences and experiences of a girl in the process of growing up as a woman. It is a serious pioneer novel.

These two books were immediately put together and regarded as representatives of "female personal writing".

Now when Lu Yao mentioned this, everyone agreed with his opinion.

This is also a female personal writing, but of course the writing skills cannot be compared with those of Lin Bai and Chen Ran who have already become famous.

"In the past two years, I have read some original works on the Internet. I think that female writers will occupy a large part of online literature in the future. Female writers are more delicate in emotional description and are good at daily narrative, which is very popular on the Internet." Lu Yao held a cigarette in his hand and talked freely.

"But I think that truly classic literary works must be closely connected with the background of the times in which the novel is located, reflecting this era rather than this so-called personal and individual writing: hiding in a small building and becoming one, regardless of winter, summer, spring and autumn." Fang Minghua drank some cold tea and put forward his own opinion.

"Haha, Minghua, you actually quoted Lu Xun's poem here?" Bai Miao laughed: "But it's quite appropriate."

"Okay, let's stop chatting, hurry up and play cards, I'm still losing today." Fang Minghua urged.

Just as the domestic online literature competition was in full swing, a novel was published in the United States, which also caused a sensation, extending from traditional media to the Internet.

It was the "Spiral" written by Fang Minghua