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Chapter 189 Creativity, Trying to Write a New Book

Late that night.

Cao Sheng typed until after 11 o'clock and finished the two chapters scheduled for tonight. He didn't feel too sleepy yet, so he didn't rush to turn off the computer and rest.

First, I went to the book review section of "God's Tomb" and took a look.

I want to see if anyone in the book review section is discussing the trailer for "One Man's Martial Arts".

It really does.

"Alas! Although the word 'Wulin' is in the title of this movie, I was still hoping that it was a fairy tale movie. I'm tired of martial arts movies, but there are too few fairy tale movies. After watching the trailer today, I finally gave up hope! It really is a martial arts movie!"

"The fighting scenes in the trailer are so exciting! That man in black who never shows his face should be played by Zhen Zixuan, right? I feel like this is another Wolf Warriors! I must go watch it after it is released."

"Luxury! Too luxurious! There are so many kung fu stars in a kung fu movie, including Hong Jinbao, Zhen Zixun, Zou Yaolong, Yuan Biao, Yuan Hua, and who else? Can anyone help me add to the list? Oh, by the way, I remember there was news saying that the heroine of this movie is Yang Ziqiong? This lineup is too luxurious!"

"I never thought that one day I would be able to see a kung fu movie with an all-star cast, but Yuan Biao could only play a supporting role in this movie?"

"Today's trailer didn't disappoint me, Ah Hui! When the movie comes out, I will definitely support you. Come on! Call me big brother first!"

……

Cao Sheng smiled.

I read the book reviews for a while, thought about it, and logged into my email again.

I want to see if anyone has sent me an email in the next two days.

There really is one.

Moreover, he was surprised by the sender, who turned out to be Huang Qingya’s secondary account.

Not long after she sent him a breakup letter using her main account, she registered a small email address and gave it to him.

Today's email was the first time she sent him an email using this small account.

"What's the matter? Why can't you call me? Why send me an email?"

He laughed to himself and opened the email.

The content of the email is not long, as follows:
“I recently received a notice from Bai Fengyin about my book, saying that sales have been poor since its publication, and she hopes that I can finish it as soon as possible.

I am already very satisfied that this book has been published into more than ten volumes. And I haven’t had much passion for writing recently, so I plan to finish the book this month.

By the way, I remember you once said that when my writing skills have improved, you will give me an idea and let me write it, right?

I sent you the chapter I wrote today. It's in the attachment. Take a look and see if my writing skills are good enough now."

Cao Sheng smiled. He didn't expect that she was still thinking about this matter!
He has plenty of ideas for new books.

Anyway, before his rebirth, some popular female works were adapted into TV series and movies, and he occasionally watched some clips when he was watching short videos.

I have a general idea of ​​what kind of stories are being written.

If you ask him to restore the original work, he certainly won't be able to do it.

But if Huang Qingya was given an idea suitable for writing for women, he could still come up with a few.

The question now is – how good is Huang Qingya’s writing skills?

He downloaded the attachment of the email.

After opening it, I patiently read the content of the chapter she sent me.

At first, he was a little confused.

It’s not a problem of writing style, but the fact that she posted chapter 242.

He had only read the first few chapters of his book before, and now he was suddenly asked to read Chapter 242, so naturally he had reading difficulties.

If someone asked him to read a book like this, he would definitely not bother to even take a look.

But who made Huang Qingya and Youniao have such a relationship?
He patiently read the chapter bit by bit.

After reading it, the first thing that came to his mind was that she must have carefully edited the content of this chapter.

After reading the whole chapter, he only saw one typo.

Secondly, she didn't seem to have chosen this chapter randomly for him to read. Although Chapter 242 was very abrupt, the content of this chapter was not very related to the previous chapters, so he didn't seem to have much of an obstacle.

Again, he felt that her writing had indeed improved.

This is also normal.

She has already written more than 200 chapters, and how could her writing skills not have improved after she refined the chapters?
——It seems that she really wants my creativity.

he thought.

What idea can you give her?

"Startling by Each Step"?
Forget it! He didn't want her to write a Qing Dynasty drama, although he had watched this drama that year and thought the plot was pretty good.

But before his rebirth, he became increasingly disgusted with Qing Dynasty palace dramas.

The costumes in Qing palace dramas are an eyesore.

Therefore, he excluded all the Qing Dynasty palace dramas that flashed through his mind.

After thinking for a while, he remembered the TV series "Eternal Love", a drama he had only seen some clips of while watching short videos.

My impression of this drama seems to be a love story between a woman and a black dragon?

He wasn't sure.

But looking at the costumes of the characters in the play, it doesn’t seem to be set in the Qing Dynasty.

He felt that this was a fairy tale version of the story of the prince and Cinderella.

You can give Huang Qingya a try.

It just so happened that her previous work, "The Little Woman in the Sword Sect", was a love story disguised as a fantasy novel. If she were asked to write "Eternal Love", she should be able to do it easily.

However, he didn't want to tell her about the idea in an email.

She hasn't been to his place for nearly half a month. Let her come over!

"Come over soon! I'll talk to you about the creative ideas in person." He replied briefly to her email.

……

The next afternoon.

He had no classes, so he was typing on the third floor of his villa. However, he was not typing "God's Tomb", but trying to write the first chapter of a new book.

I want to get a feel for it and see if I can write something that has the flavor of infinite flow.

Every time I start a new book, I always have to revise the first few chapters of the text several times.

This has become his habit.

Because the first few chapters determine the starting point of the plot and the tone of the entire book. If the first few chapters are not well written, the entire book will be almost half ruined.

Because most people will not continue reading the subsequent chapters if they cannot get into the first few chapters or if they don’t like the story.

Book title: "The Linglong Tower of Heaven and Earth".

But in the main text, he only intended to touch upon the theme at the end of the book, mentioning that the main god who controls the protagonist and others to experience each movie world is the spirit of this tower.

He didn't want people to be distracted by the tower when reading the book.

I hope that everyone’s attention will be on the plot from beginning to end.

This afternoon.

In front of the computer, he wrote and deleted, and the first few hundred words took him more than an hour. He vaguely remembered the beginning of "Infinite Horror" in the original time and space. The male protagonist seemed to see a dialog box suddenly pop up on the computer.

There is a question in the dialog box: "Do you want to truly live?"

There are two buttons below, one for "Yes" and one for "No".

The protagonist somehow clicked "yes" and was then teleported to the world of reincarnation.

He wasn't sure if he remembered correctly.

I vaguely remember that.

But he felt that the movie worlds in "Infinite Horror" were all worlds of horror movies, each one more cruel than the other. If the protagonist and others entered such a world, they might die at any time even if they tried their best.

Therefore, the question that the protagonist encountered before entering the reincarnation world: "Do you want to live truly?" is a bit deceptive, but also a bit meaningful, which allows readers to reflect together: What does it mean to be truly alive? Is it like the protagonist and others, wandering on the edge of life and death at any time, that can truly appreciate the preciousness of life? Only then can we cherish every minute and every second of life? Only in this way can we be truly alive?

However, the infinite stream that Cao Sheng is going to write is not suitable because there are not enough horror movies available at present and there are also copyright issues. Many readers have not watched those horror movies yet. Therefore, most of the movie worlds he is going to use are not considered horror movies.

Therefore, he felt that it would be inappropriate to use such a multiple-choice question at the beginning for the protagonist to choose.

Moreover, these days many readers do not know how to use the Internet and have no experience in using the Internet.

Therefore, he felt that having the protagonist encounter this kind of multiple-choice questions on the computer at the beginning might make readers who have no experience of using the Internet feel less involved.

Because of these considerations, he tried writing several beginnings.

One is to use the form of dreams and let the protagonist and others choose.

In the dream, a voice asked: "Do you want to truly live?" or "Do you want to become stronger?" or "Do you want to know the truth?"

and many more.

The other way is to give the protagonist and others choices on the computer.

The problem is similar to the above questions.

In one afternoon, he finished three first chapters.

It has a strong sense of suspense.

There are some that are quite standard.

There are also some more magical ones. After the protagonist and others died in various accidents, they suddenly appeared as living people in the movie world of "A Man's Martial Arts".

Although he is dead, he is still alive in his original form in another strange world.

He felt that such an opening should be able to arouse the curiosity of many readers in the first chapter. As long as they are curious, they will naturally want to read on and want to know why these dead people are still alive?

He didn't decide which one to use at the beginning of the three articles.

He still planned to put these three beginnings aside for two days as he had done before, and then examine them from the readers' perspective after two or three days.

When the time comes, decide which one you think has the best beginning and then which one to use.

When he finished writing the beginnings of the three articles, he looked out the window and noticed that the sun was setting outside.

When your mind is immersed in something, you always ignore the passage of time.

He twisted his stiff neck, turned off the computer, got up and went downstairs.

Prepare to go to the nearby Liuweilou for dinner.

He often goes to Liuweilou for dinner recently.

The main reason is that he hasn't had much mood to cook recently. In the afternoon, he either gets out of school early or has no classes, so it is naturally inconvenient for him to have dinner in the school cafeteria.

The Liuweilou was close to his villa, the food was pretty good, and the proprietress was also pleasing to the eye and polite to him.

did not expect……

When he went downstairs, he heard the sound of cooking in the kitchen and smelled the aroma of braised prawns.

His heart moved slightly, thinking that it must be Huang Qingya coming.

As he walked down the stairs, he saw Huang Qingya cooking in the kitchen.

He replied to her email last night asking her to come over soon, but he didn't expect her to come today.

Do you miss me?

Or are you eager to get my ideas?

Or maybe both?
He didn't want to delve into the reason, so he smiled and walked towards her.

(End of this chapter)