Hello everyone, I am Du Dingbei, your loyal friend who updates every day.
The following words were originally planned to be delivered at the award ceremony of the Booker Prize for Literature, but considering that I might not win, I will say them now.
By the way, because I was considering that it might not be on the shelves, this article was written when my book "" was only nineteen chapters long. I'm glad that it was not written in vain.
First, let’s talk about why I wrote this novel.
We don’t talk about big things like writing about preaching and immortal events. My main purpose of writing this novel full-time is to make money. It would be great if I could make money.
However, there are thousands of ways to achieve success, so why choose to write a novel?
And you can write novels while working, so why does it have to be full-time?
After all, when I rush out to write a book, my loved ones burst into tears, so why not be more cautious?
There are many reasons, the most important one is my limited ability.
Mencius asked Xu Xing's disciple Chen Xiang: "Why does Xu Zixi not weave his own things? Why does Xu Zi not cultivate? Why do he deal with all kinds of workers one after another?"
Chen Xiang said: "There are hundreds of works that can't be done without plowing."
Because personal productivity was limited, Xu Zi, a model of industriousness who cultivated the land himself, could only trade goods for millet.
If Xu Zi is a Zentraedi star technology universal mechanical transformer, then there is no problem in plowing and weaving, plowing and building fortress cannons. At that time, Mencius can only ask Chen Xiang, why Xu Zi doesn’t cultivate and weave at the same time.
I fell in love with my girlfriend (Chen Xiang said: Isn’t it possible for everyone to have a girlfriend?).
Unfortunately, not only am I not a universal mechanical transformation person from Zenith Star Technology, I am not even as good as a primary school student who loves to learn. I spend at least ten hours fishing every day. I am a hero among fish fishermen. I fish in the Shichibu Sea. For
For normal updates, I can only choose full-time coding.
In the past, when I was working as a security guard at the state-owned meat factory on Jiefang Road, I also thought about writing a book while working, absorbing nutrients from work and life, and transforming it into serious literature after get off work, which would bloom every day. It is very exciting to think about it. .
However, things rarely go as one wishes. Since I uploaded my first novel on Qidian 6 or 7 years ago, I have never completed a single copy of my previous novels. I have also been given monthly girl Du Ting cups, Du Gou,jierless joe, and Du by readers.
Stopping updates and waiting for nicknames, Brother Song urged him to write 2.5 million words of daily reasoning at Kasumigaura High School. I still failed to write a book. Later, I didn’t want to continue working, and the Lianghua Project was completely bankrupt.
Because I had been defeated many times and had no confidence in myself, when I started writing "", I didn't even tell my fair-weather friend Zhuge Zhuge. I just said that I would wait until 200,000 words before writing. It was really futile.
Davarisi, it has more than 300,000 words. Please take a look if you have time.
To sum up, limited ability is the first reason why I choose to work full-time.
The second reason is that I feel that writing a book is very free and very equal. It can be said that it is more free than Mr. Itagaki, the most powerful cartoonist on the earth, and more equal than everything before the 152mm caliber m10 artillery.
The work I have done is either responsible to the superiors or to the subordinates.
As everyone knows, after I retired from the East China Anti-Alien Rocket Artillery Militia Squad, I have been working in the Second Guard Division of the Jiefang Road Meat Factory. I am almost an ordinary urban soldier king in the urban-rural fringe.
The job of the security guard in the meat processing factory is mainly to be responsible to the superiors, or they may claim to be responsible to the subordinates, but in fact they are responsible to the superiors. Occasionally, they need to be fawning over the superiors. There is a certain degree of hierarchical thinking and bureaucracy in the factory.
I’m not afraid of everyone saying this. When I was working in the meat factory, I was always afraid of the leaders. If I made a mistake in a small thing involving the leaders, I would be in panic all day long. I was like the protagonist in Chekhov’s "The Death of a Civil Servant". It was very ridiculous.
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In addition, I really don’t have any talent for security work in the meat factory. It would be the same for someone else. One day I was imitating Rocky playing hanging frozen meat in the cold storage and I felt very embarrassed after someone discovered it. The next day, I stopped going to the liberation.
It’s time for lunch at the Road Meat Joint Factory.
But writing a book is different.
The four elements of the world, the work, the reader, and the author are equal.
Even in an era when commercial writing has become mainstream, the relationship between authors and readers is more like friends than Party A and Party B. Authors are responsible for the world, readers, works and themselves, and they are not only superiors, nor do they bully inferiors, they are very happy.
I like this feeling of equality very much.
Furthermore, reading is a very free and personal thing. Even if two people hug each other and read the same book (what are you two doing!), they will get completely different experiences.
After reading it, there is no need to write endlessly high-spirited thoughts, and there is no need to worry about anyone's mood and pretend to like it.
When reading, we don't have to be defensive, don't wear a mask, don't have to lie to ourselves and others, our sincere thoughts are revealed, and our inner feelings happen naturally.
If it looks good, it looks good; if it doesn’t look good, it doesn’t look good.
Readers are not reading because of who I am or because I am unusually handsome.[1]
My opinions, my aesthetics, my views on the world, my life... everything is in the book, updated every day, and met with thousands of people in the early morning or evening.
I like this feeling of freedom very much.
This kind of equality and freedom makes writing a book feel like running for office.
Readers vote through collections, subscriptions, recommendations, rewards, Amway, etc. If many people support it, they will vote for Fancha. If no one supports it, they will vote for Northwest Wind. It’s simple and clear.
The quality of my work no longer depends on the subjective judgment of individual people. When I write my book, I don’t have to be submissive and fearful. I do something that I can recognize myself. I don’t hide it from myself, and it’s really satisfying.
Of course, writing a book is far less secure than working as a security guard at a meat factory.
Mr. Lu Xun once said: There is no freedom if you are greedy for stability. If you want freedom, you have to go through some dangers. There are only two ways.
It took me some time to overcome the fear of not having the right meal one day and leaving the stable path.
What do I want to do? Let me borrow a sentence from Master Qi Chi: I want to use a three-inch pen tip to write about the place where a seven-foot cone stands.
It’s hard to make a living as a full-time writer, but I want to work hard, do my best, and risk my life for a glimmer of hope.
Isn't this wonderful?
There are many people in this world who persist in doing what they love and suddenly become successful.
It's like chasing a butterfly and suddenly reaching the top of a mountain.
This is a man's romance.
However, suddenly encountering a butterfly when climbing a mountain peak, and regaining a new life when it is about to burn out, this is also a kind of male romance.
I think the idea of constantly climbing to dangerous places and hoping to meet butterflies is not only romantic, but also a bit heroic.
It is the kind of heroism that still loves life after recognizing the truth of life.
Frankly speaking, I have never recognized the truth of life, nor do I love life enough. I am still exploring what true heroism is.
But I want to find something I love to do first, believe in myself who once believed in me, and believe in my friends who once believed in me.
This thing is writing, writing for money, writing seriously for money.
I, Du Dingbei, am also seventeen years old this year. My campaign slogan is "keep_chinese_magi_fantasy_great, exclamation mark". I hope everyone will subscribe and support me so that I can have food to eat, wine to drink, and books to write.
Finally, instead of talking about weird things like meeting is fate, let’s talk about a strange saying quoted from the king of weird words, teacher Zhu Jiayin, who pinned it on Weibo:
I think friends who read this book have some things in common. It's good to discuss with each other, and it's normal to have different opinions, but sarcasm or bad words are too much.
I hope everyone will discuss it in good faith, and if they are unhappy, they will scold the author Du Gou together, making him burst into tears on the light-colored sheets. Wouldn't it be nice to have a happy discussion?
Finally, thank you all for dreaming with me.
thank you all.
Du Ting Cup
Under the desk lamp in a small room in a small house (fake, I didn’t turn on the light during the day, I wrote this just to show off)
September 12, 2019
【Dehydrated version】
What kind of heroism is not heroism? Heroism is crawling!
Serious literature is just a tool for making money. If you only want to code words, it’s just bad money, rua!
[1]: If you have any doubts here, please contact my agent 002 for beautiful girls. Don’t say anything. I have always respected Teacher Du. Teacher Du is not worthy of respect. You can watch from a distance or play with it. It is very easy. Welcome to play.