Today, the cubs of the Oda family are also ordinary

This "Rain" took a lot of energy and time.

According to Akashi, Oda Sakunosuke is an intuitive author, not the kind of person who deliberately pays attention to skills and structural points.When the whole story comes down, control the three points of the ups and downs of the story: the crossing point (the outside police break the superstition and prove that the protagonist’s parents killed him); The fugitive, but the fugitive committed suicide); the rebound point (after being enlightened by the police, the protagonist starts to think rationally, there is no such thing as a monster killing).Although Oda didn't consciously realize the structural problems, he grasped these three points.

The law of the story is also the most common reversal drama in reasoning, "the least likely person is the murderer" and "it looks like a good guy, but it turns out to be a bad guy".

How to beautifully put old wine into new bottles is the focus of this story.

This is what Akashi said, how to write it.

There are tens of thousands of comics in comics that can save the world or realize their dreams, why only one in ten thousand, one in thousand manga can be successfully serialized.Successful serialization is one thing, how can they finish it smoothly, instead of being cut in half suddenly.

This is a test of one's writing skills, imagination and sensibility to creation.

Four hundred words per page.

Oda wrote 61 pages. He started writing after finalizing his ideas, and wrote until early in the morning.

Natsume, who was afraid of rain and thunder, ran to Oda's room to sleep. When he woke up in the morning, he found that Oda hadn't slept.Seeing himself waking up, Oda smiled at himself with bright eyes, "Guizhi, good morning."

"Writing a novel is hard work."

Natsume knows that Oda is very busy, and occasionally works overtime at night, but he will come back before twelve o'clock in the evening; or he will get up early in the morning and go out, and at three or four in the morning, he will go out directly when he sees Oda carrying bread.But I didn't stay up all night like today.

"Really? I don't think so."

After Oda scanned the last ten pages to Akashi with a scanner, he took Natsume to brush his teeth and wash his face.I don’t know how many sleepless nights I spent writing a long pure essay "Alone" for the first time.Today, he was able to write down in one breath, but he felt refreshed and didn't feel tired at all.

The sound of the two getting up also alarmed Zhong Yuan next door.

So the three of them got up an hour earlier than usual, and began to discuss the story written by Oda at the dinner table.

The story begins with rain.The heavy rain was like the time when Oda and Nakahara went to find Natsume in the forester's house, and it was as dark as a child crying.It is raining outside, and the protagonist is crying with the adults in the house, saying that he saw a monster killing people, and she looks exactly like the rain girl everyone said.

"Oh oh oh."

Nakahara nodded while listening, and both Natsume and Natsume forgot to chew the toast in their mouths.

When listening to the story and hearing that the police prevented the burial of the protagonist’s parents and wanted to investigate the cause of their death, the two became nervous about the first conflict between the police and the locals. They couldn’t help but want to tell the protagonist to believe the police and find out the real culprit , but into the protagonist's time, I also know that he is very worried about his parents.

In the villages and towns, it is also spread that if the body is not buried within seven days after death, the protagonist's parents will become lonely ghosts after death and will not live in peace.The police naturally don’t believe this kind of rhetoric, but one person is no match for the collective protests and denunciations of dozens of townspeople. Even the protagonist who has a good relationship with him after entering the town is anxious and afraid, and hopes that the police will leave this matter alone .The police were forced to compress the investigation time into five days, and they had to wait for the police from the county-level jurisdiction to come to help investigate the bizarre death of the teenager's parents. After all, this was beyond his duties.This also takes time.

There are many characters in the story, including the police, there are more than [-] characters on the scene, and there are a total of six main characters.It seems cumbersome, but the story adopts multiple perspectives, alternating from the four perspectives of fugitives from outside, the police, the protagonist, and people who are very close to the protagonist. According to the detailed development of the plot, it makes the plot clearer and the characters more vivid.

When the story returned to the perspective of the protagonist at the end, Nakahara and Natsume realized that one of the "I" was the murderer, but the murderer did not reveal any flaws at all. During the self-statement process, they felt that this person Although she is obsessed with the story of Yu Nu, she defends the protagonist everywhere.Therefore, when it was finally discovered that this person was the murderer, both of them were shocked, but there was indeed a foreshadowing ahead.This makes people think carefully, what kind of murderer can be so calm in front of the police——

Confident that no one can understand your technique, and you may not be able to be so calm, but what about experience?This echoes the origin of the horror legend of the rain girl mentioned in the previous story.This person not only did it once, but also retreated several times when the police intervened in the investigation, which caused the police in the county to have a negative view of this "monster murderer".

In the end, when the child realized the true face of the murderer and looked at that person, the story came to an abrupt end, which was endlessly memorable.

The story ends in two directions, depending on the reader's state of mind.

Negatives see this as hopeless, a child no match for a wily adult; positives feel the protagonist can avenge all the dead.

"It feels so interesting!"

Both Nakahara and Natsume have positive views. In fact, even Akashi has to admire Oda's intuitive writing style. The beginning, transition and foreshadowing are well written. Each of the four perspectives will have its own special tone characteristics.But in the document sent by Akashi, there are many things that Oda should modify.

The use of words, grammar, diction, and the number of redundant words should be deleted and streamlined.

Syntax errors are nothing special.But the wording is something that gets deeper and deeper, and the setting of the situation is also included in the discussion.

The day before the final deadline, Akashi, Toro, Nakahara, Natsume, and Oda chatted on video at the same time to discuss the last scene where the protagonist looked at the murderer when he realized that the other party was the murderer.

This glance is the end.

Akashi and Toro, Nakahara believes that the moment the protagonist saw, the murderer walked from the entire bright inner room to the dark corridor to greet the funeral guests instead of the protagonist.This glance is a long shot similar to a moving one in a movie, symbolizing that the murderer has gone from a bright image in the protagonist's heart to darkness, and it also implies a change in the protagonist's consciousness.

But Oda's writing method thinks that the murderer should just stand in a dark place.Because if he suddenly realizes that the other party is a murderer, his first reaction is to be afraid and dare not look at it. He didn't dare to take a look at the other party until he stood in the dark and felt that the other party would not pay attention to him. It is impossible to keep staring at him.The emotions in a child's eyes are uncontrollable.So, combined with their suggestions, what Oda can write is to feel that the murderer is far away, and the protagonist looks back, looking at the edge of darkness and fear.

Akashi pays attention to formalism, and this shot coincides with the last blank future—the protagonist's courage to go to the police to instruct the murderer.

Influenced by school education, Hong also believes that this formalism is necessary.After all, the story is not just to express one's own ideas intuitively, the most important thing is how to let people get some positive meaning from this story.

Zhongyuan simply believes that "it's not me who does bad things, why should I be afraid of bad people, not only to see, but also to see the bottom".

In addition, Akashi's idea is to make the picture in the children's eyes move, just like pouring water, it is dynamic, and emotions are also dynamic.Although Oda's thoughts are reasonable, but the picture is still, just like looking at an unimaginably turbulent abyss, and it is difficult to determine whether the child finally has the courage to stand up.

"Honestly, I don't think readers will think so carefully."

After a long dispute, Zhongyuan told the truth.

In fact, several people are aware of this point, but it has already been discussed, and it is impossible to end it without a conclusion.

Natsume looked at the two mobile phones and the two people in the room the whole time. After seeing them quiet down, he raised his hand and asked his biggest question, "Where is the police uncle?" Although he mentioned that he would also attend the funeral , but has not said where he is.Natsume wanted the protagonist to find the police uncle quickly.

"..."

The four were silent at the same time.

Now when discussing the position of the murderer, the position of the police must also be added.

When sending the manuscript the next day, Oda had work to do, so he handed it over to Zhongyuan to put it into the mailbox.Zhongyuan asked the post office for an urgent envelope bag, and put it in the mailbox after confirming that the name was correct several times.

Submissions for the Japan Reasoning Association Newcomer Award have ended.

This time they voted for the Newcomer Award of Wenyichunqiu Monthly.Bungeishunju is a well-known large publishing house in Japan, located in Tokyo, and is responsible for issuing the Naoki Award.

Akashi doesn't just want to win the Newcomer Award in an ordinary way. If he can rush to the Naoki Award, then the starting point of the novelist Oda Sakunosuke will be even higher.Now most of the best-selling novelists in the market are winners of the Naoki Award. If the path of novelists stabilizes, Akashi can take advantage of the trend to make Oda stop being a mafia.

"If it doesn't work this time, I'll print it into a book and keep it at home."

Oda thought so.

This book is a book that everyone worked hard to participate in. Even the candy that the police love to eat was suggested by Natsume in friendship, and the reasons why they love it were given.He didn't want to erase its existence just because he didn't win the award.

He naturally thought about being successful and living up to everyone's hard work, but every year more than two thousand new works are submitted to the literary spring and autumn. There are many people who work harder, more talented and more talented than him. Writing the plot, revising the manuscript and polishing it, day after day, after half a year of hard work, I finally wrote the submitted book.

Why did they fail?

Everyone wants to succeed!

……

Zhong Yuan was about to put it in the mailbox, and found something in the file bag, which was as hard as a button.So he opened it to check when he sent it out, and it turned out that there was a milk candy inside, and there was also a "blatant" bribery letter that Natsume secretly put in——

"I've been working hard to help brother e. I haven't slept for many days. Everyone is working hard. Big brother or sister will read more books about helping brother e. This rice is for you to eat. Let's call. Eat it. POLICのMAN also eats this kind of candy. Thank you! You are a good person! ——Natsume Takashi (Hiragana characters)"

There are a lot of typos in it, crooked, it looks like when you were in kindergarten, you asked the teacher how to write each word, and then copied it, because there are many words in it that children can't write, and the Chinese characters for the police are too difficult to write. It was written in English, and Natsume never asked her family members.I probably wrote it many times, so the writing is smooth and the paper is clean.

No wonder when going out, Natsume said confidently that Oda would be able to live.Zhongyuan couldn't laugh or cry, pretended not to know about Natsume, and put the letter back.But he decided to send it to Tokyo by himself, and asked for leave temporarily with Koyo Ozaki. Tokyo is not far away, and the express train will arrive in one or two hours.

Think about it, if the courier was not serious and accidentally lost the manuscript, he would probably want to beat him to death.Zhong Yuan had to look at the manuscript to make sure it was sent to Wenyi Chunqiu Publishing Company, so he could rest assured.So Zhong Yuan not only personally sent it to Wenyi Chunqiu's company, but also kept observing the editor's reaction when he got it in the building next door, but the other party never read it, and put the manuscript in a mountain of submissions.

The process of waiting for notification is lengthy.

I have strong expectations that I may be selected, but I am also afraid of the outcome of losing the election.

Several people kept counting the days with hesitation and nervousness. Even Oda felt that this submission was more nervous than the last submission of "Alone". It may be that everyone has put too much effort into this book. He I don't want to disappoint everyone's expectations.

Although Akashi said that he should start writing a new book, try to vote for other cutting-edge literary awards, and be prepared, but maybe it is because of too much force this time, and because he is too busy with work, Oda has never thought of other themes. , Even if you write, you will have no inspiration in the middle of writing.So the new book plan was announced to be shelved.

Nearly three months have passed, and Yokohama has the hottest summer of the year.

Oda Sakunosuke received a letter from Bungeishunju Co., Ltd.The three of them sat cross-legged on the tatami, staring at the snow-white envelope, feeling that their nervousness would stretch out their hands from their hearts. While resisting the appearance of the result, they eagerly hoped that the result would come soon.

"Then I'm on."

Oda Sakunosuke was the calmest-looking person in the team, with almost no extra expression on his face.But he has said this sentence for the third time.

"Let's go." Zhong Yuan nodded.

"Why don't you drive Zhongye?"

Oda decided to let Zhong Yuan open the seal for himself, and Zhong Yuan quickly waved his hand.The two pushed back and forth, and Natsume's eyes followed suit. Finally, Oda and Nakahara pushed the document to Natsume.

Natsume nodded. He had asked the teacher what the word "pass" looked like, so he knew how to judge.So when opening the envelope, Natsume looked up and down carefully, word by word, and his eyes couldn't help turning red in just a minute.

He couldn't find "Pass".

When she looked up at Oda, the teardrops in Natsume's eyes rolled down from her soft face because she couldn't help being wronged.It is hard for Oda and Nakahara not to understand what's going on, their hearts sank, their tired and depressed moods are like vines that quickly grow wildly when they get sunshine and rain.However, only a few seconds later, Oda patted Natsume on the back, and Nakahara also began to coax Natsume.

"Because I was too nervous, I didn't even cook. Let's go out to eat today? What would Natsume want to eat?" Oda Sakunosuke said.

"I don't want to eat anything, I just want Sakuno to help my brother win the prize..." Natsume cried pitifully, unlike ordinary children crying and making a fuss, as if they were going to knock down the ceiling of the whole room, but just looked at others silently, Big and big teardrops kept rolling down, making the tip of one's nose sour.

Zhong Yuan couldn't help being silent, and clenched his hands into fists.

Tomorrow, let’s reveal the Spring and Autumn Period of Literature——!

Oda looked at Natsume's face, wiped his face with a tissue, thought for a while and said, "There's nothing so sad about it, it's just a failure. Let me give you an example. During the last Kishi Sports Festival competition, Kishi Shi, Nakaya and I thought you would be able to run past everyone, but the end result was not satisfactory. But what do I think is the best thing about Takashi?"

Natsume stared at Oda steadily.

"Guizhi is very courageous, and he will definitely run to the finish line. He will not give up on himself just because he feels that he has lost to others, and just stand where he is. At that time, I thought that Guizhi was the most handsome person in the world, more powerful than anyone else." Weaving Tian smiled and said, "I'm a useless person. I also want to learn from Guizhi. I won't give up because of this. I will give up because I feel destined to fail. I will continue to work hard. So Guizhi, please give me courage!"

Oda raised his hand and tapped his palm with his fingers, implying that Natsume would take a shot.

Natsume patted it softly, only to hear a soft "pop".

"I received encouragement from Kishi-kun truthfully." Oda continued to smile, and then turned to Nakahara Chuya, who had been secretly holding back his anger, "Chuya, will you also walk with me?"

"...Of course I will!"

The Central Plains surrendered under the Oda Huairou policy.

Oda accepted the result so simply, what else could he say.

After the group leader and Akashi Hong reported the final failure, the group fell silent for a long time, and Akashi finally said, it seems that in addition to talent, luck is needed to write a book.

Akashi thinks that there is absolutely no problem with Oda winning the Newcomer Award, but without the simplified details between them, the practice essay can beat the Newcomer Award works of previous years.The reason why we have to study so many details is for those who have read it more than two or three times. They can find many details in it to deepen their understanding and interest in this book.

"Akashi: Since the publishing house doesn't like it, then we will publish the book for him at our own expense. After all, the publishing house also gets a commission from the printed book to help publish it. Now it's just turning these commissions into our own .Since this short story is going to be printed, the previous long story should also be produced. Oda doesn’t need to look at these publishers at all.”

Akashi decided not to let Oda be hit by these boring and unnecessary existences. Apart from selfishness, he also believes that Oda's writing is talented and has his own unique sensibility and brushwork.

There was no response to the first book, and he still finds it unbelievable until now.

That pure text is Oda's first full-length group portrait literature, which is interwoven with the stories of four lonely people, and each character has his own arc in the story.

The story begins with a 22-year-old bachelor.

In a dilapidated apartment that is as closed as a sardine can, there lives a single man. He is busy with life and work, as if he is busy every day.It begins with a question.

"Today, someone asked me if I have ideals?"

"It seems that living in such a low-level world, talking about dreams with others is like telling a joke. People who are sensitive and low self-esteem either choose to avoid talking about it, or exaggerate it, and they just want to say something that makes people laugh and make others laugh. Say stop making trouble."

"He said he wanted to get out of here, to go up high, to have a big house, to have a beautiful wife, to have smart children. That was his dream. So everyone laughed, it wasn't a dream, it was a dream. Because he Already 45 years old and still smoking every day in a dump in a back alley."

"I didn't laugh, I didn't know how to respond to the person who looked at me seriously. So the laughter turned to me again, as if me and this stranger performed a live impromptu comic that made people laugh.

I was pushed on the back and scolded with a smile, are you stupid?What is there to think about this kind of thing? "

The first "I" in the article began to recall what I wanted to do when I was a child because of this opportunity, and found that my childhood dream was difficult to realize, and too many thresholds stood in front of me.Not to mention talent, but the designer's qualification certificate gave him a big headache.

With only a junior high school background, he signed up for a training class.

Because he has not experienced the study life for too long, he feels at a loss and has no focus on re-entering the new study environment.The training class is full of people who are bragging, or who like to talk about frustration. A lecturer who graduated from a second-rate university also likes to talk about unlimited big talk, but the students blindly follow him. This "highly educated" lecturer was jealous.

To make matters worse, shortly after starting the training class, he was also excluded and ridiculed by people in his work unit, because he was "a person with ideals" and was different from them.

The whole story is about the same feeling - "loneliness", lonely because of being out of place, lonely because of self-carrying, lonely because of hidden secrets, lonely because of the loss of true love.The stories of the four people merged with each other because they lived in the same apartment, but they seemed to be far away from each other, and finally separated because of various things.

The content of the article is not full of dissatisfaction with life, ridicule and strong self-awareness like Nishimura Kenta's "The Hard Labor Train".The writing style with Oda's characteristics of humanistic care, even after going through separation and reunion, and finally still living alone, you can feel that they are no longer lonely.

However, who can imagine that a person who writes penetratingly like this is actually a dull and dull person in real life.

……

Nakahara greatly agrees with Akashi's proposal, he is now worried about money, and he has no place to use because of Oda's pressure.But wait until he has a chance to perform.

"Akashi: I asked the housekeeper to help me contact the publishing company under my family's name, and it probably won't cost much. Both books will be printed for [-] copies, at most tens of millions of yen."

"Nakahara: Is it so cheap? I can take out 1000 million yen right now, and I still have a black card."

"Boom: ... Seijuro or Chuya, do you need part-time workers?"

"Akashi: You should get your studies done first, there will be time for you to perform later."

"Akashi: By the way, please show me the notification letter. I want to know if there is any reason for the failure."

Although it is generally impossible, but for some special works, the editor is reluctant to part with his talent, and will write some extra words.

So Zhongyuan went to get the envelope and re-read the contents of the letter. He was dumbfounded on the spot and hurried to find Oda, but there was no one in the bathroom, laundry room or room.After asking Natsume, I realized that Oda had been called out.

When Oda arrived at Lupin's bar, the black-haired boy was lying on the sofa and turning into mud, babbling into a glass in a strange language.The bar owner saw Oda Sakunosuke walking directly to the boy, and explained the ins and outs.

Maybe it was the first time I drank alcohol, and I drank too much, I got drunk after a few drinks, I couldn't leave by myself, and there were no contacts in the address book.

Ask if there is anyone I can contact.

The boy pondered for a long time before he said the name Odasaku and recited the phone number.

Oda carried Dazai to the park, and also bought a bag of sober soup.It was very bitter, so he put it near Dazai's mouth. Dazai, who smelled it, subconsciously raised his hand and pushed it away, not wanting to drink it at all.Oda had no choice but to pinch his chin and pour the medicinal soup into his mouth.

I don't know how long it took, Dazai's eyes regained a little clarity, but his hands and feet were weak, so he continued to lie down, grinning vainly at the corner of Oda's mouth next to him.

"Yo, good morning. Why are you here?" Dazai closed his eyes as if weary while talking, and let Oda lift himself up, chattering like a dream, "I heard that after drinking, suicide will not hurt , I wanted to try it, but the reaction was a bit different... This is what people often say is the power to drink... the power to drink..."

"Tell me first, where is your home? I'll take you back." Oda asked him half-turned, he could feel the abnormal temperature on Dazai's body, like when he woke up, his body was always hotter than the day before. Warm any time of day.

Dazai raised his hand to grab one of Oda's ears and pulled it to his mouth.The alcohol has not completely faded away, he is speaking into his ear half awake and half dazed.

"In no hurry to go home. Tell me first, why are you sad?"

Oda's heart skipped a beat, and he said slowly and guiltyly, "...I'm not sad."

Just a little frustrated at best.

Dazai frowned.

"I may have a problem with my expression."

Osamu Dazai raised his voice, because his eyelids were so heavy that he couldn't open it, so he only wanted to speak louder.

"Who cares if you want to say it or not!"

"I must know, this is an order!"

"Odasaku, you idiot! Don't just make me feel unneeded, hey!"