Chapter 234 Only Write Stories I Like

“Is that really okay?” Asked Master Bao.

“Of course, my editor won’t mind. As for the TV station…… In any case, the TV program right now is so open that you can say almost anything. Answer’s like this will become a joke in the program.” Feng Bujue paused.

But you could see from the editing space behind the image that Oscar didn’t know what to say for a moment.

“I wonder what other writers will think of you after watching this show…” Asked Little Tan, and now Assas had climbed onto Little Tan’s lap and stretched out her furry paws to plunder his food, and Little Tan had no intention of stopping it.

“We talked before and after the match.” Feng Bujue said, “Although my income, visibility and influence were all lower than them, but everybody got along very well together. It’s not the pretending “good” but really talked happily.”

“I thought in this job, the colleagues are enemies to each other?” Said Master Bao.

“It depends…… Bao, you work as an official and know lots of people, so you should also understand. There are going to be some bitc*es in any job.” Feng Bujue said directly, “No matter their talent or diligence they’re basically at the bottom of the industry. Using a few unfair competitive means all day long, and they also like to be predecessors in front of the new entry to show superiority.

They are always jealous of those who do better than them, and their minds are seriously out of balance. Instead of trying to catch up with others, they will try to play tricks or complain about God.” He paused. “These people are like stubborn scum on a water pipe. They don’t have enough ability to stop the stream while using all their strength to pollute the water. It’s hard to get rid of them, and they’ll be so annoying if you don’t deal with them. Because of the existence of such a group of untouchables, a lot of industries are in a foul mood, and under their influence, many practitioners who followed the original rules before also join in. Some illegal things gradually become the hidden rules, if you don’t follow these rules, you can’t reach top success.”

When a man talks about his career, he always gushes. Feng Bujue was an example: “In many competitive or direct industries, peers can become rivals. But the six people on the show were all the top people in the industry, at their level, there is no such contradiction,” he said.

“Since they can be top, every one of them must have something to excel at. But those bitc*es can only see the shortcomings of the successful people but not the strengths and effort of others.

There’s at least 3 of them who are valued at ten million or more. And everybody is an educated person, even if there is a direct conflict of interest between each other in a particular situation, it is possible to resolve it as the writer’s way, the behaviour to attack each other and even to call each other in public might be a little rude as a writer.”

“Haha… But when these fans are watching this show, there must be a constant war of words?” Said Master Bao.

“This calls, the emperor is not urgent but the eunuchs are urgent.” Feng Bujue said, “These writers might just want to join for fun, but the fans are serious. This program itself is an entertainment show. There’s no first in writing 1), how to get the difference?”

“In my opinion, whoever wins in the finals won’t please the audience but will definitely be blackballed by other fans.” Feng Bujue said, “That’s why I don’t want to throw up any more match,” he said, spreading his hands. “if I get a seventh or something in the online poll, wouldn’t that eighth guy’s fans hate me?”

“You, the kind of guy who shows a lot of virulence on the show and wrote some shi* isafraid of being blackballed?” Little Tan picked up Assas and held the cat’s face in front of him as if it had talked to it.

“Put down your daddy’s cat.” Feng Bujue said, “Shamelessly acting cute.”

As the three chattings, the show in the video had entered the final part.

The spotlight came from above, the stage backed to the condition of all black. And Oscar stood in a column of light. “The third and final showdown is coming,” he said grimly. “Welcome to the final round – Continuing of Novels.”

At this point, the television pictures showed the third round’s rules.

“This round takes a long time and the rules are more complex.” Oscar said, “In this round, each contestant will be randomly assigned to one unfinished book,” He paused. “That’s what we call a eunuch novel 2).”

Oscar looked toward the camera and said, “These authors, for various reasons, failed to write an ending to the story and finish abruptly midway through the plot. And the task of our seven writers is to put a perfect full stop to these stories that didn’t end.”

As the camera switched, Oscar expertly turned his face to the next camera. “In this round, the novels are chosen by the three editors of our show and the staff. They have read countless uncompleted works, and they have been selected by stage selection and discussion. The workload of these seven books is very large. Let’s give some applause to these heroes behind the scenes.”

The live director directed the audience to do a rather loud applause.

Oscar said, “Now, the seven books have been printed out separately.” As he spoke, several staff members arrived and gave each contestant an envelope with a number on it.

“Our seven writers will each receive an envelope. Each envelope contained a wad of bound A4 paper with an unfinished volume of about 100,000 words.” Oscar said: “Of course, we can’t ask the contestants to watch the whole show on a certain time. So, in the envelope, there’s a special piece of paper, on which the team of editors from ‘I AM THE WRITER’ has summarized the general outline for this book, which contains the relationship of the existing characters and the general retelling of the plot, with the word count at about 3,000 words.”

Oscar waved his hand to the screen. “Ninety minutes in this round!” With a snap of his fingers, a 90-00 countdown appeared on the screen. “When I say begin, the writers can open the envelope. You are to write a final chapter on the book you have drawn for yourselves in ninety minutes. This final chapter extends directly to the last chapter of the existing chapter of the book.”

The camera scanned each contestant’s face and returned to Oscar. “In this round, the audience can also see the outline of each book to see if what the writers’ last chapter suits the whole story. But… In this round, the audience’s rating is based solely on the final chapter written by the contestants themselves. In other words, the audience only had to compare seven chapters between seven writers.

Please select on this basis… You think of the best one, and vote for the one you have.”

Oscar added: “As I said before, the final round will be 40 percent of the total. But, of that 40 percent, only two-thirds come from the audience voting. The other third is from our expert panel.” He pointed to the front row in the audience, “The votes of the twenty-strong panel of judges, consisting of three editors, fourteen editors, and three gentlemen from the writers’ association.”

Oscar said: “Our twenty experts have read the seven books in the third round before, and most of them have been involved in the writing of the general outline. But before the race, no one knows which players will pick which books.” His tone deliberately created an even more tense atmosphere,”Experts are judged more harshly. They will evaluate the outcomes of the writers’ work from various factors, such as the fusion between the final chapter and the previous article, the consistency of the style of the article, and the rationality of the plot.”

“Well, I’m sure everyone can’t wait, so now……: The third round… Begin’s!” Followed with Oscar’s command, the time on the screen jumped to 89:59, and the seconds ticked down.

“People don’t wait 90 minutes, do they?“Asked Little Tan.

“Of course, it’s impossible. This part should be condensed to about ten minutes, which is mainly filled with the interview content edited by the post-editing. And then there’s the raffle part of the show and advertisements.” He suddenly thought of something: “Oh yes, there is no background sound in the scene, the odd ticking sound is added later.”

“PSST… I mean in this round, I’m afraid ninety minutes is not enough? Of 100 thousand words, if you see only the beginning, end and skipping all the in-between content while relying on the general outline to imagine……. It will take about half an hour to clear your mind and start writing.” Said Master Bao.

“That’s a must.” Feng Bujue said: “Writing with the two kinds of input method at that time with a temporary creation, even professional level writers’ can only finish more than 2000 words with good quality in one hour.” He took a sip of orange juice from the coffee table, “And I think the ending thing……: It’s actually very hard to write. In addition, these eunuch novels all have a lot of plot twists and settings without filling. The audience was not aware of them, but the expert review will be graded according to the atteontion on details. Also, it’s best to write in the style of the original writer, so that it doesn’t feel like a play.”

“It’s hard just to listen ……” Wang Tanzhi said.

“I think it’s good,” Feng Bujue stretched himself. “the audience and most of the staff were at rest while recording the segment, and only the cameramen with four fixed positions and two moving positions on the stage had to follow the stage throughout. I took the time to chat with Oscar, who was doing the makeup and went to the bathroom.”

“Hey… Wait, didn’t you say the time was tight? You still had time to get out of your seat and talk to people?” Surprised Master Bao.

“Haha… You’ll see.” Feng Bujue said.

Because it was a preliminary cut, even the ten-minute part was skipped quickly, and the announcement came.

As Oscar counted down to the final seconds, a stream of writers’ close-up shots quickly appeared, and music got more and more hurried. Finally, as the seconds ticked was done on the big screen, Oscar shouted at the top of his lungs, “TIME’S UP!”

He wiped his sweat and let out a sigh. “Finally, at the moment of disclosure, I would like to ask a question…” Oscar turned to the contestants, “Is the time enough?”

“Not ~ enough ~” the writers replied together.

It was like an elementary school classroom in the 1980s, when a teacher asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

The students elongating their throat, shouted: “Sci ~ en ~ tist ~”

Feng Bujue didn’t say that at the time. Oscar then stepped forward and asked, “Bujue didn’t say that. You think you have plenty of time, don’t you?”

“Yes, I’ve read the whole book.” Feng Bujue said.

“In ninety minutes? “Oscar asked, his eyes opened widely.

“Yes.” Feng Bujue answered again.

“Wow, Bujue’s ability is the legendary ten lines with one sight?” Oscar then said, “What do you think of this book after you finished it?”

“Well written.” Feng Bujue replied without any facial expression.

Oscar gave the camera another goofy look. “why do I feel that five minutes is enough to make a comment like this?”

There was a burst of laughter present.

“Well, it’s customary for the first contestant’s work to be announced.” Oscar got the conversation back on track and went to the front desk of Skywalker, “You’re the first today, are you stressed?”

“Well…” Skywalker thought about it and said,” Actually It’s just like going to the hospital for an injection when I was a child. It’s better to be the first one to test everything, so I think my order is good enough.” He smiled and turned his head to other writers. “I can change the number one next time if someone else wants it.”

As the show went on here, the contestants relaxed and jokes with each other. Because the creative process had been completed, the following polls and interviews were relatively leisurely.

Oscar said. “Well, let’s look at the ending written by Skywalker.”

The chapter written by Skywalker immediately appeared on the big screen. The number of words in the final chapter is about 1,700. Read it quickly and you can finish it in four or five minutes. Oskar worked hard as a host, he had to read the chapter with a live audience and a panel of experts, and he had to read it faster than anyone else because he had to make some honest comments right away.

Of course, Oscar wasn’t completely unprepared. The full outline of the seven books was released on a live screen an hour ago, and Oscar interviewed several live audience members and expert reviewers, so he had a basic idea of what the seven episodes would look like and didn’t get lost when he saw the end.

Speaking of that interview, as expected, the general audience and expert opinion were not quite the same… Audiences believed that the easiest ending is an online game drew by Ink Incensing generally, and the most difficult one is Vegetable’s martial arts stories; However, experts believed that the martial arts stories are the easiest to conclude, the most difficult one is the country superpower one got by Let Me Up.

“OK, the final chapter written by Skywalker has been presented to everyone.” A few minutes later, Oscar said, “I think everyone, like me, has been struck by this less than 2,000 words.” At this time, he unexpectedly active come to Feng Bujue: “Bujue, what do you feel about this final chapter?”

“Why did you ask me? “Asked Feng Bujue with a confused expression.

“Speak up, we also want to hear what you’ll say.” Laughed Soda nearest to him, and all the other writers looked at him in anticipation.

“Well… How can I say… Reading this chapter is like me clicking on a new story and starting to watch the first episode. At the end of the episode, I was like, ‘Did I miss the whole season? Why do I think this is actually the last episode?’ The sense is like this.” Feng Bujue commented.

Oscar said, “Well…… Can you give an example?”

“Yes, like Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun.” 3) Feng Bujue said.

“Er… All right.” Oscar said, “I think I understand…… “

Then Eight Parcloses, Vegetables and Fruits, Ink Incensing…… one by one they announced their continuation of the final chapter. Each writer was of a high standard. Their final chapter not only restored the original author’s style to a certain extent but also created a strong sense of “ending”. Even if the audience does not read the general outline at all, they will feel that this chapter is a meaningful ending.

The book that experts thought was the hardest, which’s the one drawn by Let Me Up, did not end well. The ending was confusing to many viewers, and the judges commented, “That’s pretty good to such a novel….”

By the time the first six writers’ chapters were published, the final chapter of Vegetables and Soda were the best, with the former receiving the support of the vast majority of the audience, and the latter gained the favouriting among expert judges.

“Well, finally we get to the last of the last.” Oscar recorded all the show and he’s really tired, “I have no doubt that in this round, the contestant Bu Jue will surprise us again,” he said.

Feng Bujue smiled dryly: “HMMM……. In a sense, it will.”

Oscar waved excitedly. “Now, let’s see… The final chapter written by the contestant Bu Jue.”

A few seconds later, nothing appeared on the big screen…

“Er…” Oscar whispered into his earpiece, “Director, is the device out of order?”

“It’s not the equipment that’s broken, it’s me writing nothing.” Feng Bujue answered the question of Oscar.

Oscar’s face was stunned. “Bujue… You, didn’t you just say that…… “

“Yes, I have plenty of time and I have read the whole book. But I personally don’t like this one, rather I loathe it, for no reason.” Holding his cheek on one hand, Feng Bujue said to the microphone: “Dao is different so there’s no common goal and cooperation. I don’t want to continue a word for this book at all.”

1. Feng Bujue referenced a saying here: The full sentence should be “There’s no first in writing and no second in fighting”, which basically is the idea of Ancient Chinese’s thought about officers and generals.
2. Eunuch novel is an unfinished novel and the author drops it for some reason. About the reason why…… please think about why eunuch is a eunuch.
3. Tonari no Kaibutsu-Kun is a Japanese manga (Feng Bujue talked about cartoon version here) by Robico, which’s a teenager romantic story in school.