Rebirth 07: Start adding points from elementary school students

Chapter 186: The essay contest still needs to be submitted

On Thursday morning, Li Yan happily finished breakfast and walked to the classroom with her roommates. However, she disappeared again before Bai Xiaosheng could even ask her about it.

"So he came to the teaching building, not to attend class?" Liang Tiancheng looked at Chen Fan in surprise.

"We should understand less about Li Yan's affairs." Chen Fan yawned. "This guy dragged me to study until midnight last night, and I was so excited that I couldn't sleep well all night. But he got up again at around six this morning, saying that he was revising a mystery novel..."

"Energy freak."

"I'm afraid I'm going to be wasted today. I'm so sleepy."

While saying this, Chen Fan was in a strange state of "fatigue-excitement".

All in all, he looked a little bit nervous, so Liang Tiancheng didn't dare to talk much.

As soon as the bell rang, Li Yan brushed past Ye Xin, the math teacher who was about to start the class.

This math teacher who had never had much presence decided to show his face in front of the readers, so he called Li Yan:
"When are you coming to my class?"

"Teacher Ye, I'm busy lately. If you are going to give a lecture on expanding knowledge or have any information related to the competition, please let me know in advance. If there is nothing else, I will be there."

The math teacher is called Ye Xin, a very thin middle-aged man who wears glasses. His most distinctive feature is his bald head, so he is affectionately called "Mediterranean" by everyone.

He himself probably doesn't think this name is friendly, but he has always been a good guy, so he naturally wouldn't bother with such things with his students.

After witnessing the strange conversation between Li Yan and Ye Xin, Guo Qiwen had a complicated expression.

Even he was not yet used to being a junior high school student moving around freely.

Even though I know this is an out-of-specification child.

"You won't use your office as a classroom anymore, will you?" Guo Qiwen teased.

"If there are so many things I need to find you for, I'd be happy to do it." Li Yan looked around and found that several teachers working in their workstations were glancing over here intentionally or unintentionally, "Teacher Guo, let's go to the old place."

It was the familiar reception room again. Guo Qiwen joked again: "I'll go to the principal and make a suggestion. This reception room can be turned into your office."

"Shouldn't we look for the head of the first grade teaching group first?"

Guo Qiwen's eyes flashed with genuine sadness, "You really don't know that I'm the team leader?"

"Hey, Mr. Guo, I have two things to talk to you about today. One is about the Informatics League. Chen Fan told me that I can take the exam anytime."

"Are you sure?"

"Last year's real test, 40 minutes to get full marks."

Guo Qiwen smiled and paused for two seconds, "Very good, I'll make the contact, you don't have to look for Teacher Dong again."

"There is one more thing," he took out his notebook, "this alumnus, Senior Brother Fang Shu, can you help me contact him?"

"Creating a tribe..." This was indeed beyond Guo Qiwen's expectations. "What do you want to know from him?"

"To put it simply, it is about how to make a mobile phone. To be more specific, it is about understanding the development of mobile phone systems, especially the interaction between the system and mobile phone hardware."

"..." Guo Qiwen had too many questions at once, but he didn't ask them.

Since Li Yan has been given resources and freedom, don't be self-righteous and limit his path, and don't use the "experience of a veteran" that is of no use to Li Yan to find a sense of existence.

"I can help you with interpersonal relationships. It's up to you to communicate what you want." Guo Qiwen thought for a while, "If you need Teacher Dong to come forward, you can go directly to him on the 4th floor of the teaching building."

"Thank you, Teacher Guo!" Li Yan said happily, turned around and prepared to leave.

"In a hurry to go to class?"

"That's not true."

"Then sit down. I have something to ask you."

Logically speaking, this should be one of the class teacher's best moves, and most of the students who heard this were terrified.

Either there is something wrong with his grades, or he has been caught doing something bad, or he has not been in good shape recently and needs a talk.

Li Yan said: I am very curious, tell me quickly.

"It seems like you are busy with a lot of things." Guo Qiwen sighed, "I haven't talked to you about literature for a long time."

As he spoke, he took out a magazine with a pure white cover from his briefcase - "Linjiang Literary Weekly".

Good man, he's already prepared to use his skills. "Since "Rincheng Fireworks", have you ever thought about submitting to it again?"

Li Yan had thought about it, but she did not submit a second draft.

Because this weekly magazine has high requirements, Li Yan will naturally not embarrass herself if she is not satisfied with the work she writes, but she is often more free to write what she is satisfied with...which does not meet some of the internal requirements of "Linjiang Literary Weekly".

Obviously, this weekly magazine is a serious literary publication that is closer to the official level, and there are many invisible walls that restrict the authors' creativity.

Li Yan was already arrogant in his literary creation before his rebirth, let alone him now?
Therefore, he was not willing to write an essay without a topic under restrictions. Instead, he wrote one article after another based on his feelings, and then chose a pen name and newspapers to submit the articles to according to the characteristics of the articles.

It just happens that so far there has not been an article worthy of the name "Li Yan".

"If I have inspiration, yes," Li Yan replied.

Guo Qiwen opened one of the articles and said, "Actually, you don't need to feel too much pressure. 'City Fireworks' is really excellent. It even seems to have made Linjiang Literature tend to do so in recent issues, publishing many articles with cities as the main subject. Look at this article 'Impressions of New Taipei'. The style is somewhat similar to yours, but the writing is more mature and the perspective is more rational. This article was originally published in the 'New Taipei Daily' and was cited by Linjiang Literature in the column of selected excellent works.

This is a good opportunity. I don’t know if you are familiar with the culture of Linjiang. If you can combine the cultural research of Linjiang, further explore Xinbei and even Lincheng, write about the soul of these two cities, and form a series of works - if possible, you can also go to other cities to have a look... Anyway, it’s a good entry point. "

What do you mean by somewhat similar? That’s what I wrote!

Li Yan was annoyed. Damn, if he had known that this article could be published in Linjiang Literature, he would have submitted it directly.

The idea that Guo Qiwen mentioned was actually his idea, and for this purpose he specially studied a lot of information related to Linjiang culture.

"Have you paid attention to this author 'Yuuzo Yuushi'?"

"Uh……"

How to answer? Of course, because this is Li himself.

"He has recently published several works in the New Taipei Daily and some literary publications. The quality is very high, with a lot of cultural background and literary accumulation. You can learn from him."

“Okay…” Li Yan’s inner thoughts: The learning progress has reached 100%.

"I heard that Su Siqing is very interested in this author, and the writers' circle in Linjiang occasionally guess who this person is."

Li Yan struggled for a moment whether to tell Guo Qiwen that this person was herself, but when it was suddenly mentioned, she decided not to act rashly without analyzing the pros and cons.

Because of the success of his online writing, he is no longer interested in writing traditional articles to earn royalties, and is too lazy to manage it too much. He basically only keeps the pen names that have published more articles, with more mainstream content and a more distinctive style.

Therefore, when he submitted some of his manuscripts, he could not keep his "gentle pen name" as before, and there were always some more radical viewpoints - it would be a headache if his manuscripts were linked to the story of a first-year junior high school student.

"I've strayed off topic," Guo Qiwen came back to his senses. "Li Yan, go and submit your work to an essay contest. I have several contests here, and some of them can only be submitted from published works. 'Stern City Fireworks' should meet the requirements, and I can help you apply. The main thing is to participate in these competitions that require submission of new works, such as 'Poetry Rhythm of China'..."

"No, that won't work." Li Yan refused firmly.

"Hmm? Ah... aren't you good at writing poetry? I thought you should be able to since you have such a delicate style and deep accumulation of knowledge."

Li Yan just shook his head. Although he had lost interest in submitting articles since the rise of online writing, he would only write a little when he had inspiration and submit them when he had accumulated a few articles.

But at least I submitted a total of 100 articles, with a very high publication rate, with nearly 70 of them published in various newspapers and magazines.

Seventy percent shooting percentage!
However, I wrote nearly twenty poems, both ancient and modern, and submitted them to high-end and low-end publications, but not a single one was successfully published, and not even one was rejected.

Zero percent three-point shooting rate!

The god of mid-range shots never makes three-pointers?

Funny? If you want to talk about other people, you can analyze it and give a reasonable explanation of "really not good at poetry".

Li Yan has a system. The composition level includes poetry. There is no more detailed "poetry writing" skill. So since his other articles, whether essays, novels, miscellaneous talks, or reviews, can all be recognized, there is no reason for poetry to be at another level.

Maybe he just doesn't understand enough.

"Then why not submit your article for the New Sprout Cup New Concept Essay Competition. There are no restrictions on the length of the article, so it should be within 5,000 words. It's also one of the few national essay competitions, so give it a try."

Guo Qiwen handed Li Yan several call for essays.

"There are few essay competitions like the 'New Sprout Cup' in China at present. The on-site essay competition only reaches the city level, which is meaningless to you. For the other ones, you can only submit published articles. There is no competition this year, but you can prepare first and submit more submissions. You can also submit to some smaller publications, at least you have some qualifications to participate."

Li Yan was very touched. Teacher Guo is indeed a good teacher.

So let’s not talk about the fact that Li Yan had already entered all the essay competitions that she “could not participate” with different manuscripts…

(End of this chapter)