From Middle Age: Leisure Life in the Entertainment Industry

Chapter 29 A New Year’s letter to book friends

First of all, I wish you all a happy new year and may all your wishes come true!

Thank you all for reading this book, even though it is just a seedling now.

Last year (2022), I finished the book "Getting Rich Begins in 1978" in the first half of the year and began to conceive of a new book. Although "Getting Rich" was finished in a bit of a hurry and was suspected of being unfinished, I just didn't want to write it anymore and wanted to start a new book, but I didn't.

It occurred to me that I had read two books of Eunuch at once.

The first book "Back to the Old Times of the 1990s" was written in 200,000 words. I had been thinking about this book for a long time and wanted to start writing it before writing "Getting Rich Begins in 1978". However, at the suggestion of the editor, I wrote "Getting Rich" first.

"that book.

However, the first draft of "Old Times" was rejected for internal submission. The editor's reason was: the writing was too social, not lighthearted enough, and this type of book is not popular in the market now.

I admit that what the editor said is right, but I really want to write it like this.

The 1990s was originally a time when good and bad people were mixed, and reckless heroes coexisted. I really wanted to write about that feeling.

After several draft revisions, the book was released, and the editor was sure enough. The first round of recommendations did not pass the PK test, and there were no recommendations after that.

So I chose eunuch.

Now that I think about it, I really regret it. I should continue writing. After all, there are still some readers who encourage me.

The next book is a science fiction book about cyberspace, "Group Crossing Cyberspace: We Have a Chat Group". I can't say that I'm following the trend, I'm very interested in science fiction, and the first book I wrote was about science fiction (that was a long, long time ago)

It’s a big deal, ha.) I’m very interested in cyberpunk and other themes.

Therefore, Yu Dongqing did not talk too much about copyright at the beginning, it was just an idea of ​​repaying a favor. Of course, he will definitely resign and go it alone in the near future. This has been repeatedly explained in the article.

The book has already published more than 60,000 words. Some people have given encouragement and praised it, but of course there have been more criticisms. The most important thing is to complain about why the company did not grant the copyright and the protagonist did not resign and go it alone. I will explain it here.

However, it turns out that I am not the material to write science fiction. Finally, under the editor’s suggestion, I returned to the urban themes I am more familiar with, this time writing about entertainment.

The protagonist turns out to be a star who travels to a normal world, where his life is not tight, so he takes money and other things lightly, and values ​​family and friendship more.

It's a pity that it will be impossible to write similar books after The Eunuch.

I have never written entertainment novels. This is the first time. I wanted to write something different, so I gave up the usual student youth period and started writing about middle-aged people and their daily lives.

Wu Lan gave the original Yu Dongqing a lot of help, so the current Yu Dongqing is grateful. After all, according to the setting of the article, Yu Dongqing in the two time and space had the same experience when he was in college, including friends and relatives, but they were different after graduation.

develop.

I discussed and revised nearly ten drafts with the editor before finally sending it out. Here I would like to thank the editor Shui Mo. I am not a great master, not even a minor one, I am just a fool, but he was still very patient in helping me.

Revised the manuscript and made many good comments and suggestions.

I am too old to say it here, (laughs). Some of the things in the book are things I have experienced, or things I have seen and heard, and I really want to write them down.

This is my idea. Maybe some readers don't buy it, but the setting is like this and there is no way to change it. I just hope that if you don't like this, you can skip it and read the rest.

In a word, this book will definitely be completed. Even if the results are not ideal, I would be sorry for Shui Mo's patient guidance.

Of course I will try my best to write it well.

That’s all for writing here. I wish all book friends a happy and good luck in 2023!

Outside the forest

The evening of January 14, 2023

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