Dealing with editors, like falling in love

The horror cartoonist Yuan Chang said that people can’t make a living without working, but they can die if they work too much. The ideal state is to keep yourself able to get the right amount of work. He thought that the most appropriate thing to do this would be a slightly repulsive style, so he chose the route of hunting and disgusting. However, I did not expect that the works of this route had market demand, but no one had painted before. As a result, his workload increased, and the plan ended in failure

(https://twitter.com/hokazonomasaya/status/1071755989118930944).

I also want to experience such a failure

The novel “The Transformation of Human Gamma Ray Burst Fairy Tales” won the 6th Hayakawa Science Fiction Awards on November 21st. At the end of the film, the judges of the Hayakawa Science Fiction Competition commented on the entries

The famous science fiction writer Ogawa Izumi wrote at the end of the comment: “This selection of works all highlights human self-righteousness and arrogance, sluggishness and cynicism, ignorance and depression and violence. I really want to know, everyone in the end Think of what it takes to let others read their own articles. I hope that in retrospect, sci-fi is a prop that can choose these ugly faces and refine them into new forms. In other words, write a story to solve the problem! “.

(https://twitter.com/Iskra_ilyich/status/1072307718692761600).

UserいすくらSending this comment to Twitter, it has aroused the resonance of many netizens

Ono’s famous fantasy novel “Twelve Kingdoms” originally announced at the end of 2015 that the new work is being written. However, due to the poor physical condition of Mr. Ono, this new work has been delayed. On December 12th, the “Day of the Twelve Kingdoms”, the official website finally announced that the first draft of the new work has been completed and will be published in 2019

(https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/12kokuki/log/77.html).

According to the official website, about 2,500 400-word manuscript papers were used in the first draft. What is this concept? The novelist Shi Yansheng shared a photo of his own work Garden. Although the “Garden” has a total of 1208 pages, it is a blunt instrument, but it is only about 1800 pieces converted into manuscript paper

(https://twitter.com/shinat_s/status/1072710245904867328).

According to this ratio conversion, if the new work of “Twelve Kingdoms” is also B6 size, it is worth one thousand six hundred and seven hundred pages, worthy of the official website “big giant”

A few days ago, the light novelist Yu Yilang and other people in the industry talked about the relationship between writers and editors on Twitter, using the phrase “editing the smashed egg”, meaning that you can meet a good editor, like a gashapon. All look at luck

The light novelist Fujiwara Yu saw the word recurring on the front page and felt very repulsive. He said that there are of course luck factors in the editors that will come across, but you can’t use the encounter between people as a gastronomy. If his own editor says that he is “the writer’s gashapon”, he will be unhappy. Since he does not want to, he does not want to use such a statement to describe others

A person with a long-term qualification like Fujiwara will be forced to encounter a very bad editor because of the personnel transfer of the publishing house. No matter what kind of crowd, it will definitely be mixed into a certain proportion. This is also true of people with brain problems. But this is the same for writers. At least publicly comparing interpersonal relationships to assaults will not bring any benefits

It is certainly not a bad thing to make a public voice when a self-employed person without organization protection is treated with rudeness. You can also choose to rely on editors and publishers to independently publish works to achieve profitability. But even if you decide that you don’t need to edit, it is the result of your confrontation with the “human” confrontation. It is definitely not a choice from the drawn hand

Light criticism of others is not constructive, Fujiwara also provided advice to the writers of the later generations to get along with the editors. He said that in the exchange with the editor, it is very important to correctly grasp the point in which the editor “likes his or her own work, style”

This is like a lover’s interaction, talking about conditions, to analyze “how can the other party be more fascinated and cherish me.” If the other person likes you as a person, what should be perfected is his own personality; ignoring this, it is meaningless to dress himself up, and it will only bring unfortunate results

There are many reasons why editors may like a writer: style (painting style), line design, topic selection, character shaping… If at the time of the meeting, I want to write this theme, but I like it. It is the role in the plan book. If you want to change a theme, how would you deal with it? Or, in turn, the editor thinks that the character is not suitable for this theme, and the characters are modified without authorization. What do you do?

If it is because of these disagreements, as long as you can talk and solve problems, the relationship between the two will be greatly improved and more constructive. But in turn, sometimes you will encounter the unfortunate case of “this person doesn’t care about me at all, don’t like me at all”, or want to make you an ideal lover and impose your own preferences on you. People

So when you can’t get along with the editor, you have to figure out that you just have a disagreement because of the difference in preferences, or you can’t create it with that person at all. In order to understand this, Fujiwara believes that it is best to ask the editor “What do you like about me?” Although doing so may be very shameful

(https://twitter.com/fujiwarayu).

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