A widower's entertainment

Chapter 256 [Literary Brainstorming] (Subscription Request)
What would happen if the place you could travel through was not an empty mailbox but a telephone or an intercom, what kind of story would there be?

Obviously, the question raised by Lin Youcheng caused everyone in the audience to have this thought in their minds: if it was a phone call, what kind of story would there be?
This question requires imagination.

Lin Youcheng smiled and said, "We can assume that there is a telephone or walkie-talkie. Although it has no electricity, it can connect the past and the present, allowing people in two different time and space to talk."

"If these two people are a man and a woman, will there be a love story like in 'The Untouchables'?"

"But if it's the same love story as 'Unforgettable', then it's meaningless. But if the timeline is extended, not two years, but more than ten years, or even more than twenty years, will it be different?"

"The heroine accidentally got a worn-out walkie-talkie, and perhaps on the night of the total lunar eclipse, she accidentally received a strange signal from the hero who was at the same university. The two began to chat, telling of their respective love and friendship, and gradually resonated with each other. They agreed to meet at the school clock tower, but both waited for two hours but did not see each other. Then they discovered that one of them lived 20 years ago, and the other lived 20 years later."

There is no doubt that Lin Youcheng's words made everyone present very curious. Although they were just a few simple sentences, they began to conceive a new storyline.

"What if the heroine accidentally finds out that the hero's father is the person she has a crush on at the moment, and his mother is her best friend. Then what kind of story will happen?"

Following Lin Youcheng's words, everyone in the audience was shocked. They didn't expect this to be the development, but this plot was really exciting!

Lin Jinglan looked at Lin Youcheng, his heart filled with shock. He opened his eyes wide and murmured, "If this story is written, it will definitely be very good, especially the love story between two people with a 20-year age difference. Such love may be more daring and more literary."

"That's right!"

Su Tong nodded repeatedly and listened to Lin Youcheng's words carefully. He couldn't help but wonder how people with a 20-year age difference would love each other in different time and space.

Lin Youcheng saw that the audience had already started discussing and were all very excited, and he couldn't help laughing.

In fact, this story will become very common in the future. Similar films will be shot in island countries as well as in other countries.

Lin Youcheng smiled and said, "We can think about it again. If the two people who are connected and talking in different time and space have different relationships, what kind of story will happen?"

"If a firefighter father died unexpectedly during a fire rescue, and his son was only six years old when he died, the son had dreamed several times that he wanted to stop the tragedy. His father's death left a deep scar on his heart. Even if he became a policeman after growing up, he still couldn't forget it. Later, on a stormy night before his father's death, he talked to his former firefighter father through a walkie-talkie or a phone. What kind of story would happen when the two began to talk?"

Obviously, Lin Youcheng's imagination of the following plot made the audience even more excited.

Because everyone knew very well that Lin Youcheng was really using his imagination to communicate with them, and was using imaginary stories to open up their imaginations.

This is really amazing!

The audience members who were passionate about literature and loved writing were so excited that they stood up because Lin Youcheng was truly sharing his creative inspiration.

In fact, the story told by Lin Youcheng is a movie that the United States will shoot a long time later called "Black Hole Frequency".

However, Lin Youcheng is very clear that in addition to "Black Hole Frequency", there will be some other stories that are similar but different.

"We can think about it. If the story that connects the past and the present is about two policemen, what kind of story will happen in their conversation? Will it be about solving some unsolved cases in the past?"

In fact, the concept of the TV series "Signal" mentioned by Lin Youcheng is largely the same as Hong Kong's "The Last Detective".

"The Murderer Across Time" tells the story of two generations of father and son who are connected in time and space because of an old phone call, and join forces to hunt down the murderer in two different time and space.

Obviously, even the same idea will produce completely different stories.

The audience in the audience felt their scalps tingling as they listened to Lin Youcheng's words.

Obviously, the ideas given by Lin Youcheng seem to be just a few simple sentences, but they can be said to be a brand new story.

“Is this Lin Youcheng’s imagination?”

Tang Jun really gave different stories his imagination and told them on the spot, which was really amazing.

But it was obvious that the Tang army did not know that this was just the beginning.

"Of course, time and space can easily lead to paradoxes. It's like assuming that you go back in time and kill your grandparents in an accident before your father is born. Without your grandparents, there would be no father, but without your father, you would not be born."

"But if you were not born, your grandparents would not have died. But if no one killed your grandparents, you would not exist and go back to the past, accidentally killing your grandparents."

Scalp tingling!

It really makes my scalp tingle!
Many people have not yet reacted to the paradox that Lin Youcheng said, but Tang Jun was so shocked by Lin Youcheng's statement that his hair stood on end.

Hard to imagine.

Tang Jun's mind was filled with thoughts about the paradox raised by Lin Youcheng. Obviously, other people didn't pay much attention to this paradox, but it had a huge impact on Tang Jun, the editor-in-chief of the science fiction magazine.

Lin Youcheng could naturally see the shocked eyes in the audience, and said with a smile: "No matter what the story is, we must admit that there are indeed differences in imagination. Some writers' ability to "imagine" is obviously stronger than other writers. Some writers rely more on their knowledge and learning to weave stories and manipulate language, while some writers rely on their unrestrained imagination. I think in a sense, imagination in literary creation can be understood as an ability to associate, an ability to connect this with that, an ability to associate the sky with the ocean, and the fish in the sea with the birds in the sky."

"I know that many literary critics think that I am a writer without ideas, and I am certainly reluctant to admit it. I think that even the dumbest people have ideas. I think that the writer's ideas should be expressed in a circuitous way through the characters in the work - not necessarily through positive characters or 'good guys', but sometimes even through 'antagonists' or 'bad guys' in the work."

"In short, although novels can be about ancient things, the Republic of China, the Qin Dynasty, or even ancient times and mythology, even novels based on history and the past must be contemporary, must have practical significance, and must establish a connection with our current lives."

"Because I think no matter how well a novel is written, if it cannot be grafted and connected with the reader's imagination, then the novel will not move the reader. Our works can only truly move the reader if they trigger the reader's associations through artistic charm and connect the writer's imagination with the reader's imagination."

"Of course, you can also think that the imaginations I just mentioned are just my wild imagination and nonsense."

Obviously, Lin Youcheng's words naturally made everyone present laugh. They didn't think that Lin Youcheng was imagining things, but at the same time, these words from Lin Youcheng also made them truly feel how powerful Lin Youcheng was.

Lin Jinglan looked at Lin Youcheng on the stage, glanced at the excited young people behind him, and couldn't help but say: "After today's lecture, I'm afraid that many people will write these stories, and they may even imagine other stories."

Yu Hua and Su Tong also nodded repeatedly, agreeing very much.

Just the few stories that Lin Youcheng simply mentioned have already confused these literature lovers. They all started brainstorming, constantly colliding and coming up with new stories.

Because Lin Youcheng's sharing and communication are so frank, it can even be said that he is sharing the creation of the next story.

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"I think the writer's imagination is also reflected in his imagination of stories. Many stories happen every moment in life, some of which are legendary and wonderful. Therefore, many writers sigh that life is far beyond our imagination, and what happens in life makes those of us who make stories for a living feel ashamed. But I have always believed that no matter how wonderful and legendary the stories in life are, they will not become novels intact. They must be further imagined, processed, selected, combined, and integrated by the writer before they can become stories in literature. Therefore, writers must have imagination of stories, because the same story will become very implicit, very meaningful, or very ambiguous if it is slightly modified."

"Like Kafka's Metamorphosis, which actually also uses this technique: a man turns into a beetle when he wakes up in the morning - this is undoubtedly a foolish dream, and no one has ever seen or experienced such a "metamorphosis", but the details he described later continued to accumulate, and finally made such an imaginary story real. He wrote about how his sister despised him, threw the cores of apples left over from eating at him, and smashed the shriveled apple kernels on him. Because his body was already rotten, the shriveled apples were deeply stuck in it. Then he wrote about how his body smelled, how he shriveled and shrank, and finally he was kicked out. These are all highly realistic details that everyone can verify from their own life experience to determine the persuasiveness of the imaginary plot..."

"In short, I believe that the creation and innovation of novels is endless, and a writer's fascination with novels is precisely because of the endless possibilities of novel creation and innovation."

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Obviously, Lin Youcheng’s sharing was full of valuable information, which benefited all the listeners a lot.

After Lin Youcheng's sharing and exchange, there will naturally be some discussions. At this time, those young comrades and fellow writers who can no longer contain their excitement will naturally not be polite.

"Comrade Lin Youcheng, you just said that two people from different time and space, 20 years apart, fell in love with each other. In your opinion, what would be the possible ending of this story?"

"Teacher Lin, your imagination in "Strange Things in the World" is also quite incredible. Is that also a form of time travel?"

"Writer Lin Youcheng, I would like to ask if you have any other imaginations among the examples of imagination in two different time and space that you mentioned?"

……

These questions were thrown at Lin Youcheng, one after another, quite enthusiastically and excitedly.

Of course, there will also be some doubts and criticisms.

"Comrade Lin Youcheng, the stories about imagination you just mentioned are very storytelling and innovative, but they lack thematic ideas and literary quality, and are too vulgar. What do you think?"

"Comrade Lin Youcheng, you think writers should not be limited by literary styles and genres. Does that mean writers who keep writing in the same genre lack imagination?"

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Lin Youcheng was naturally not stumped by these difficult questions and answered with a smile: "The difference in writers' imagination is mainly a material difference, not a physiological or psychological difference. Because the material that each writer comes into contact with the most in life determines the objects that the writer's imagination relies on, and these objects determine the characteristics of the writer's imagination."

Yu Hua and Su Tong nodded at the same time. They knew exactly what Lin Youcheng meant by this. Writers all have their own life experiences, which are also the source of their imagination.

Obviously, Yu Hua and Su Tong have now truly witnessed Lin Youcheng's imagination.

At this moment, in addition to being excited about the content of Lin Youcheng's lecture, the two were more looking forward to it, because after this, Lin Youcheng would teach them, the students in the creative graduate class. Although there might not be many courses, in Yu Hua's opinion, they would definitely benefit a lot.

Obviously, the literary imagination aroused by Lin Youcheng's lecture really gave everyone a huge impact. They were all shocked and naturally admired the writer Lin Youcheng.

Because the lecture content is so exciting!

The lecture was about to end, but it was obvious that the audience still hadn't heard enough. They kept asking questions, hoping that Lin Youcheng could say more.

Although Lin Youcheng did not say anything else, the discussions about Lin Youcheng's literary lecture in magazines and newspapers, as well as among young literary people, became increasingly heated and crazy.

(End of this chapter)