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Chapter 242: Stepping Back is Actually Moving Forward
Creating comics is just like writing novels, and you’ll often run into a “writer’s block” situation.

Hiroya Oku, the author of "Gantz", encountered a "writer's block" that afternoon. He worked on it for more than two hours in a row, but he was always dissatisfied with what he came up with and felt that it was not the effect he wanted.

So, he habitually logged into the official website of the publishing house of "Gantz" to read some reviews. He knew that his comic book had a good reputation recently, so he wanted to read the readers' positive reviews to gain some confidence.

result?

He immediately saw the two posts published by Liao Wen, a Chinese student studying abroad, in the comment section.

After reading the contents of these two posts, Oku Hiroya felt terrible. He looked stunned and his eyes were wide open. He couldn't believe that he had such a sudden inspiration and worked so hard to create "Gantz". The feedback from readers had been quite good a few days ago, but today a Chinese student actually accused him of plagiarism?
Did I plagiarize?
He knows very well whether he has plagiarized or not.

He swore that it was only after reading these two posts that he realized that the most popular best-selling author in China is called Zhongyuan Yidianhui.

I have never watched "The Pagoda of Heaven and Earth", so how can it be considered plagiarism?
He searched for the book on the Internet.

But I didn't find it.

Search on Huaxia’s website?

He will not.

We don't speak the same language either.

The Chinese student who posted this uses Japanese characters, which he can understand. He doesn't know Chinese characters.

Did I really plagiarize?

He didn't believe that such a coincidence could happen, but his mood was inevitably greatly affected.

The already bad creative state became even worse.

……

Huizhou.

Huang Qingya had dinner at Cao Sheng's place and stayed for a while before letting Cao Sheng drive her home.

The car was driving on the brightly lit Binjiang Road, and it was a bit quiet inside the car.

When Cao Sheng reached out to turn on the car music, Huang Qingya stopped him.

"Don't open that! Can we talk for a minute?"

Cao Sheng glanced at her and smiled, "Okay! What do you want to talk about?"

Huang Qingya looked at him with a faint smile on her face. "You live here alone and don't have to go to school this semester. I don't come to your place often. Do you feel bored?"

Cao Sheng nodded slightly, "A little bit."

Huang Qingya looked at him for a few seconds and then asked, "Do you want me to come and accompany you more often?"

Cao Sheng, who was driving, glanced at her again, "Of course, can you?"

Huang Qingya nodded slightly, "I'll try to come more often! When you feel bored, you can also send me a message. If I can spare the time, I will definitely come to accompany you."

Cao Sheng smiled silently and nodded.

In fact, he doesn't feel bored very often.

For him, there is never enough time.

Typing takes him 8 to 10 hours every day. In the rest of the time, he also learns boxing, reads books, watches the news, and occasionally checks on the progress of the Internet cafe's renovation. He rarely has nothing to do, so he rarely gets bored.

His life nowadays is not so much boring as it is lonely from time to time.

Huang Qingya also smiled.

She also noticed that her relationship with him seemed to have faded a little, so she decided to spend more time with him in the future.

Anyway, it was difficult for her to catch up with his level in writing novels.

……

After sending Huang Qingya to the residential area where she lived and watching her walk into the door of a unit not far away, Cao Sheng turned his car around and left the community.

on the way back.

He felt a little upset about the current relationship status between him and Huang Qingya.

He doesn't like this kind of relationship where they are together less and apart more than they are together.

But he didn't want to force her to meet him every day.

Speaking of which, he had a rich emotional experience before his rebirth.

But if you think about it carefully, they are all failed relationship experiences.

If he hadn't failed that one time, he wouldn't have lived to be 40 and still be unmarried before his rebirth.

Sometimes, he couldn't help but doubt whether he could fall in love.
Do you wonder if all the girls you've dated were attracted to him because of his face?
Return to the villa.

He went to the study on the third floor, and while the computer was on, he took out his cell phone and called Wang Zuxian back. When Wang Zuxian called him before, he was being intimate with Huang Qingya, so he rejected her calls twice in a row.

After that, Huang Qingya stayed by his side all the time, and she even asked him if he liked Joey Wong.

In that state, it was inconvenient for him to reply to Wang Zuxian's message.

The call is connected.

No one spoke on the other end of the phone.

Cao Sheng: "Sister Xian! I'm sorry today. When you called me, I was busy and couldn't answer the phone, so I didn't answer your call. Are you angry?"

There was silence for a few seconds on the other end of the phone before Wang Zuxian's voice came, "What were you busy with at the time?"

Cao Sheng made up an excuse for her, "I'm out on business. By the way, you called me today. Is there something wrong?"

Wang Zuxian was silent for a moment before she said, "My agent said that you are the screenwriter of The Hunger Games and you may have some say in the selection of actors for this play. So, he suggested that I give you a call and hope that you can help me recommend someone to play the leading female role in this play."

When she said this, her tone was quite calm, as if she was just retelling something.

She doesn't look like a female star who is fighting for opportunities at all.

Cao Sheng estimated that she still didn't want to act now and her career ambition was still very weak.

"What about you? Do you want to act?"

Cao Sheng asked back.

Wang Zuxian: “…”

After a moment of silence, she said calmly, "I don't really want to act."

Cao Sheng: "Do you still need me to recommend you?" Wang Zuxian: "It's up to you."

At first glance, this attitude seems arrogant.

Is this the attitude of asking someone to do something for you?

But Cao Sheng understands people who are depressed and have an indifferent attitude towards everything.

"I suggested you see a psychiatrist last time. Did you go?"

He changed the subject.

Wang Zuxian: “No.”

Cao Sheng frowned, "Why not go?"

Wang Zuxian: "I'm too lazy to go."

Great! That’s a strong reason.

Cao Sheng was speechless.

He sighed subconsciously.

Wang Zuxian: "Are you worried about me?"

Cao Sheng nodded.

Wang Zuxian: "There is nothing to worry about. I think I may have seen through fame and fortune. Now I feel more sober than ever before. I have let go of the fame, fortune and vanity in the entertainment industry. I think it's good now. I don't have to work as hard as before. Don't you think it's good for me?"

Cao Sheng: “…”

This time it was his turn to remain silent. After hearing her say this, he wondered for a moment if she was suffering from depression or if she had really seen through fame and fortune.

"Let me recommend you! But I can't guarantee that the play will choose you to play the leading female role because of my recommendation."

He brought the subject back.

He thought that in her current state, it would be better for her to keep busy.

If she really has depression, the longer she is idle, the more serious it will probably become.

Wang Zuxian: "It's up to you. If you can really recommend me, then I will act in it."

Cao Sheng laughed.

He had never heard of such a popular star who was so insignificant before.

After chatting with her for a few more sentences, he ended the call with her.

At this time, his computer had already started successfully.

He put down his phone and opened the document of "The Mysterious Tower of Heaven and Earth". Huang Qingya and Wang Zuxian flashed through his mind. Huang Qingya's ambition in career and Wang Zuxian's indolent state touched him.

Look at the document in front of you.

He put these thoughts aside and started to continue the plot of the previous chapter, preparing for the new chapter. After finding the feeling, he began to type.

For him now, the most difficult thing when writing is not thinking about the plot. Based on his previous reading and writing volume, let alone the outline and detailed outline he has now, even if he has no outline at all, he can still come up with a lot of plots to write every day.

If you can’t think of a satisfactory plot for the main storyline, just write a side storyline. If you can’t think of a satisfactory plot for the side storyline, you can always add a beautiful female character.

A new beauty appears and can easily flirt with the male protagonist for a few chapters.

Therefore, he no longer worried about not being able to come up with a plot to write.

The most difficult thing for him when writing now is restraint and making choices.

Restrain your desire to express yourself.

With the plot filling my mind, I had to make choices one by one, discarding some plots that were not closely related to the main storyline, and incorporating the good ideas that suddenly occurred into the outline and detailed outline that I had already written.

He knows that many authors, especially veteran ones, will unconsciously write watered-down articles after writing for a long time.

Sometimes it's not intentional.

For an experienced author, there are too many plots to think of.

Sometimes, I can't help but express my own opinions about someone or something in the book.

This desire to express oneself needs to be restrained.

Especially for a book like "The Linglong Tower of Heaven and Earth", special attention should be paid to the selection of plot and the restraint of personal expression.

If you are not careful, the plot will appear to be dragged out, and for this kind of infinite flow work, once the plot is dragged out, the tension and excitement will be seriously weakened.

If there is a problem in the choice of plot, the written plot will deviate from the readers' interests.

In front of the computer, Cao Sheng wrote intermittently.

Although his writing state is good tonight, as he writes, he will find that the plot he just wrote is not concise enough or has the wrong flavor.

Every time he found this situation, he would delete the plot he had just written or modify it.

He has encountered this situation frequently recently.

He found that his typing efficiency was much lower than before.

It's not that my typing speed has slowed down.

Instead, I write and stop, delete and revise, which reduces my efficiency.

But he felt he had made progress.

It is no longer like before, when we only pursue speed when typing.

In the past, like many authors, he always wrote as if he was in a hurry. If he could not write a thousand words in half an hour, he would think that the speed was too slow and would subconsciously speed up.

Recently, he no longer cares about the passage of time and just wants to write chapters that satisfy him.

However, as he wrote like this, the time he needed to sit in front of the computer and type every day increased a lot without him noticing.

He has recently been spending at least two hours more time typing than before.

But he felt it was worth it.

He originally thought that it was difficult to improve his writing skills, but recently he has clearly felt some progress.

(End of this chapter)