Chapter 1416 Story Meeting

The so-called "story gathering", as the name suggests, is when everyone gets together to tell stories.

It's just that the people gathered in this mansion at this moment may be a group of people who are the best storytellers in the entire human history. If you want to stand out among this group of people and win, it will not be much easier than the first human landing on the moon.

In fact, although the fantasy best-selling female writer around Zhang Heng suddenly became the most profitable writer at the time with a certain series of works, and already had a terrifying net worth of almost 7 billion pounds in 2018, she is still less than Level 3's writing skills are probably at the lower end of the room, if not at the bottom.

From this point of view, it was unrealistic for her to want to leave here, but Zhang Heng noticed that after the story session started, the fantasy best-selling female author looked eager to give it a try.

Of course you can interpret this as the self-confidence of each creator. After all, the works are selling like crazy. Movies, toys, games, and theme parks are all available. Even if people originally lacked confidence in themselves, they should now be convinced by the solid sales data. Cultivated.

But when the story of this issue really started, Zhang Heng knew where the confidence of the best-selling female fantasy author came from.

The Hobbit housekeeper walked to the fireplace and bowed to the writers in the room. "Welcome to this month's story time. Before the story begins, I would like to introduce you to a new friend."

The Hobbit housekeeper paused here and looked somewhere, "Zhang Heng, he is a rising star in the literary world who has recently started to emerge. His published novels have been well received by readers and critics."

There was very little applause, not only because no one had heard of this name, but also because Zhang Heng had chosen his side as soon as he entered the room, making at least half of the people here dislike him.

Fortunately, the fantasy best-selling female author and others applauded enthusiastically, so the atmosphere at the scene was not dull.

Next, the Hobbit housekeeper stopped talking nonsense, "At the end of last month's story meeting, we announced that the theme of this issue is Eye-Opening. I believe everyone is ready for their own stories. So, Who is willing to be the first to come up and share?”

Zhang Heng also understood. It turns out that each issue of the story meeting will have a theme, which is announced in advance, and then the writers can create stories based on this theme in the next month.

The advantage of using this propositional composition method to compete is that the chance of being upset is greater. Authors with strong writing skills will not necessarily win, because most authors have their own subject matter that they are good at. If they happen to meet someone they are not good at, If you are good at a topic, even a strong person may overturn it.

On the other hand, people with weaker writing skills, such as female fantasy best-selling authors, will have a greater chance of turning the tables when they encounter a suitable theme.

For example, the eye-opening theme this time is obviously more inclined to examine the author's imagination, and the fantasy best-selling female author is famous for this. No wonder she looks impatient.

However, it was not her who came on stage first, but a French man who looked a bit like Mr. Bean. He was wearing a jacket and a fur hat on his head, looking like he had just jumped out of the driver's seat of an airplane. It looked dusty when I came down.

Then the pilot, who had a somewhat melancholy look in his eyes, told a bizarre story in the first person about a bizarre story he encountered during his flight mission.

His story did not have any gorgeous words or superb rhetorical techniques. It was just plain language that even children could easily understand. However, everyone in the room listened attentively and no one interrupted.

Everyone even had an illusion in their trance, as if there was a child's soul living in the adult's body, because if not, how could the story he told be so pure and innocent.

When Mr. Pilot finished speaking and left, there were still many people immersed in his fairy tale.

But at this time the second person also walked up...

Zhang Heng roughly estimated that there were about a hundred writers in the lobby on the first floor at the moment. If all these one hundred people went up to tell stories, then the story meeting would probably take at least half a month to end.

However, I heard from a female fantasy best-selling author that the story she experienced would only last three days at most, because not everyone is in a hurry to leave here. After all, not everyone has billions of pounds lying in their bank account waiting for this. words, especially for some authors who did not find much money in their time and were not very wealthy.

This place is quite comfortable to live in. Apart from being unable to leave, whether you want to drink, taste various foods, exercise, or engage in multi-person sports, basically anything you can think of can be satisfied, and even already Some people are determined to stay here forever.

Zhang Heng saw a man wearing a shirt and exuding a tough guy vibe sitting alone, minding his own business and drinking, seemingly uninterested in the story.

Mr. Tough Guy seemed to have noticed Zhang Heng's gaze. He looked at Zhang Heng and raised the wine glass in his hand.

When the story ends, the fantasy best-selling female author fails to win as she wishes. The final winner is a Frenchman, but he is not the first pilot to go up. The latter regretfully loses to his fellow countryman by one point. A science fiction story won the first prize in this storytelling event.

Zhang Heng is not surprised by this. After all, as long as we talk about science fiction, this prolific French writer in the 19th century is a monument that cannot be bypassed. The eye-opening theme of this story conference is simply tailor-made for him. of.

After the twelve-person jury announced the winner, the Hobbit housekeeper stepped forward again, holding an envelope in her hand.

So the authors, who had just been immersed in the ocean of stories, were immediately attracted by the small envelope.

The Hobbit housekeeper didn't show off and opened the envelope neatly, "The theme of the next story session is... time."

After speaking, she turned the letter over and showed it to everyone.

Sometimes some people are happy and others are worried. Time can be said to be an eternal proposition in literary works. Many well-known writers have made related creations with the theme of time.

However, the more conventional the proposition, the more difficult it is to write, because there are too many excellent works before. It is not easy to write new ideas if you want to improve it. Many people are already thinking hard.

However, Zhang Heng didn't react at all. Mainly because of his current level 0 writing skills, the theme of the story meeting had nothing to do with him. It happened that the tough guy on the other side who had been drinking alone stood up and grabbed a piece of paper that he had just taken off not long ago. He took off the leather jacket, walked to Zhang Heng, and said to him, "Let's go."

"where to?"

"Go hunting. I know where in the woods there are the most prey."