I am a writer in Tokyo

Chapter 12 Do You Believe When I Said He Has No Money to Buy Paper?
The process in the proofreading department went quickly, but then a question was raised.

That is, according to the current situation, how to throw the plate.

Because this manuscript was read by the senior editor Oshima Kazuya.

Generally, in this case, it is the kind of well-known writer who has to go through the process urgently because the deadline for the manuscript has exceeded.

However, due to the accumulation of their original fame, this kind of writers can easily arrange the sections where their manuscripts are located.

After all, everything will make way for them.

But this time the manuscript and this time the writer is a little different.

The manuscript is very good, as long as a discerning person can see this.

But the writer is a blank slate.

So it came to a standstill for a while.

"This plate cannot be pushed back, it must be pushed forward."

At the meeting, Kazuya Oshima was very firm.

Everyone present looked at him in shock, seeing Kazuya like this for the first time.

In general, Oshima Kazu is also a very kind person.

He has been in Xinchao for a long time. It can be said that before everyone came, there was such an editor in Xinchao.

It's also strange to say that this guy Oshima should have been promoted a long time ago according to the situation.

His business ability is absolutely top-notch in the industry.

Oshima Kazu can also determine life and death at a glance, and has an extremely keen sense of industry.

Many famous writers were excavated by Kazuya Oshima from the huge pile of manuscripts.

Later, with the help of Oshima Kazuya, he went higher and higher, and set up his banner above the literary world.

But this is Mr. Oshima, who is not happy about being promoted.

In his words, rather than high-level construction, he would rather stay on the front line and dig out those real writers.

It's a sense of accomplishment, a love of the profession.

He didn't care about money or anything.

Everyone in Xinchao knows that Kazuo Oshima also comes from an Oshima family. He is like the rebellious young master in the novel, who comes out to experience life...

But in the past, even the people recommended by Kazuya Oshima, when deciding on typesetting at the seminar, this situation will not happen this time.

He is over excited.

"Mr. Oshima, please don't get excited. We didn't say the manuscript was bad, nor did we mean to reject the proposal directly. Everything is still under discussion.

We are discussing this, and we haven't reached the final decision yet. "

The editor-in-chief hurriedly uttered a voice to stabilize Kazuya Oshima.

He didn't want to hurt his temper at such a discussion meeting, especially for an old editor like Kazuya Oshima.

"Can you tell us the reason? Because I have never seen Oshima-sensei, you are so devoted to a white paper writer.

This is different from those writers before. "

"First of all, it's the beginning. Everyone here should have seen it." Oshima Kazu was also a little irritable, tapping his fingers on the table, frowning.

Nor is he selfish.

But not too selfish.

I just want to help the horse out as soon as possible.

Because he went to see Ju's room, a quilt, but nothing else.

If a stack of papers counts as property, then there is a stack of cheap paper that is about to be used up and a charcoal pencil.

He couldn't believe a writer with such origins.

In fact, if you look at history, many great writers were not born in poverty.

It's a ridiculous thing to say.

People who have always criticized class or satirized social sickness have always come from the upper class.

Really poor people do not have a good channel or cultivation to publish something, let alone write something.

For them, a day is nothing more than filling their stomachs and living.

As for writing?
Sorry, they may not even know the words.

So in a big way, the so-called literature is actually a group of well-fed people abandoning their superior conditions to experience the hunger and cold at the grassroots level to speak out for the people at the grassroots level, or to think about something too metaphysical because of self-spiritual problems.

Leo Tolstoy, Lu Xun, Camus, Nietzsche, etc...

There is also the most intuitive, neon Osamu Dazai.

Don't forget, this guy was born very well.

But no matter what, we have to thank this group of people.

Because without them, we will never see the truest side of the world.

Although writing is an elegant thing, literature is not.

Right now, there is a person who climbed out from the bottom, and Kazuo couldn't bear to see Kuba live in such dire straits.

Even he couldn't prevent himself from walking into a misunderstanding.

That is the most respected group of people in society: writers, must be treated preferentially.

This is actually a misunderstanding.

In many cases, a writer can have good works because of experience.

King Gaiwen acted the Book of Changes, Zhong Nier acted the Spring and Autumn Annals...

"But a beginning does not mean that the future will be good, and at present, the author has not brought out all the manuscripts.

We cannot guarantee the quality. You know this, Mr. Oshima, and you must know that it is unprecedented for him to go through the review process with an incomplete manuscript and let him enter the trend as a blank writer.

Now we have to let the publishing side out, so that those writers will feel that they are being treated unfairly.

At present, we have lost an absolute advantage, especially in this era, with the rise of various entertainment idols, and various other categories, especially mystery novels.

In such an impetuous and noisy society, pure literature has lost the calm reading environment it should have had.

Our audience has lost a lot. At this time, if we are not steady...we will lose more. "

What the editor-in-chief said is not unreasonable.

As a person who starts with an overall concept, he considers more steady and steady development.

"But in the communication with this author, I felt a signal."

Oshima Kazu also glanced at the editor-in-chief, patted the table, and looked around: "This author gives me an unprecedented feeling."

"Unprecedented?"

"A brand-new feeling, which I can't express for a while, is the same as the feeling this book gave me."

"A beautiful thing, but broken before your eyes.

Let me tell you, do you believe that what is described at the beginning is Shimamura's second trip to Snow Country? "

Oshima pondered for a moment.

Originally, he didn't really want to say it, but now he really needs to come up with corresponding supporting materials.

So he explained the whole idea of ​​Snow Country at the meeting.

After the speech, the meeting fell into silence.

Without waiting too long, the editor-in-chief coughed.

"Guys, I think rules are made to be broken.

But I don't intend to occupy other writers' pages, so let's create a separate page.

It will be a matter of time to fight with those guys who wrote mystery novels! "

Oshima Kazu was also taken aback for a moment.

This……

Open the page separately...

"Oh, by the way, Mr. Oshima, since it is such a development situation, why didn't the author write it out? Generally, there will be an outline along with the manuscript.

I mean, even a manuscript with nothing like this can be accepted? ! "

The editor-in-chief asked questions of everyone present.

And Oshima Kazu also coughed, and said with a wry smile: "I said he has no money to buy paper, do you believe me?"

(End of this chapter)