I am a literary giant in Japan

Saito Rena has had similar conversations with Kitagawa Hide countless times.

But even with so many preparations before, when she heard that Kitagawa Hide was going to write a weird horror science fiction novel, she still felt a little dizzy and couldn't react at all for a while.

Kitagawa Hideo smiled and waited patiently for her to come out of her shock and doubt before continuing, "That's how I define it. But as for the specific content, you may have a different idea after reading the setting collection."

"Hide-kun, have you finished writing the setting collection?" This was not the first time that Rena Saito had experienced Kitagawa Hide's "speed is of the essence", but every time she experienced it, she was still extremely amazed.

It seems that for Hideo Kitagawa, writing is a trivial matter that cannot be simpler.

It’s so irritating that people are so different from each other!
"About that. This book is a bit complicated, and I plan to write four parts in total, so it's a pretty challenging long novel."

When Hide Kitagawa first read "Ring World", he never imagined that it was the original novel of "The Ring"!

The film version only adapted the first two parts of the novel, the so-called Death Tape Virus series, and in the process of rewriting, the science fiction nature of the novel was deliberately weakened and the sense of horror was enhanced.

The part that really shocked and fascinated all science fiction fans began with the metastatic cancer virus in the third book.

As Kitagawa Hide said this, he took out a thick stack of draft paper from his bag. There were many strange symbols scribbled on it. It was obviously the original manuscript of the setting collection.

This was the first time that Saito Rena, who had been working with Kitagawa Hide for four years, heard him take the initiative to write a series of novels, which instantly aroused her strong interest in "Ring World"——

For any author of reputation and ability, writing a series of novels is the most profitable, safest and easiest way to establish a historical position in the literary world.

For example, British author Aunt Rowling, Master Tolkien who wrote "The Lord of the Rings", the original work of "The Lord of the Rings", and George R. R. Martin who wrote the "A Song of Ice and Fire series".

Even many famous authors, after the first few books in a series became popular, simply devoted themselves to writing this series and never considered writing new books again.

After all, making money by doing dirty things is so comfortable that most people simply cannot resist the temptation.

But Kitagawa Hide is an outlier.

The early youth trilogy is said to be a series, but in fact the connection between them is very limited. It is more like a similar work with a big theme divided into three small themes.

After that, the only one that can be called a series is "Hanzawa Naoki", the first part of which has just been written.

Nowadays, countless readers are still frantically urging for updates, leaving messages on Kitagawa Hide's personal website homepage, urging him to write the second part "Hanzawa Naoki" as soon as possible.

Even so, Kitagawa Hide seemed to have heard nothing of it. He published one new book after another, but there was no second part.

Saito Rena became more and more curious about the new book that could change his personality.

She took the setting book and was about to flip through it when the voice announcement above her head suddenly prompted her to close the setting book and go to board the plane with Kitagawa Hide.

While Kitagawa Hide and Saito Rena rushed to Bangkok, Thailand, the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden held an internal meeting to re-examine how to deal with Talina, a lifetime judge of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Now Arnault, who molested Crown Princess Victoria at a dinner party, has become a pariah in Sweden.

The last time the Ministry of Defense summoned and interrogated him, although he finally escaped conviction again thanks to his financial ability, the reputation of Arnault and the Arnault Club was completely ruined.

In just one month, the Arnault Club, which originally had more than 3500 members, collapsed. Now there are less than 300 members left, all of whom want to leave but can't.

After the collapse of the organizations that once controlled the Swedish and Norwegian literary circles, the innovators in the literary world took the opportunity to emerge and, together with some conservative writers who supported Kitagawa Hide, frantically devoured the corpse of the Arnault Club.

Because of this big scandal, the credibility of the Nobel Prize in Literature has been greatly reduced, and even the sacred and solemn Swedish Academy has become the target of ridicule by countless netizens and readers.

The official Nobel Prize is as stable as a rock. After all, they mainly rely on hard science awards such as physics and chemistry. The scandal of the literature prize is not worth the board of directors and the jury to bow their heads.

Therefore, they just watched the Swedish Academy sink indifferently and had no intention of providing assistance or simply rehabilitating Kitagawa Hide.

The Nobel Prize officials remained silent, but the people at the Swedish Academy were really getting restless.

After a brief discussion meeting, several lifetime judges who remained in the Swedish Academy immediately announced that they had decided to suspend judge Talina indefinitely and were determined to cut ties with anyone from the Arnault Club!

Before this, they had gone against all odds and resisted countless pressures to keep Talina.

For this reason, core members such as Ma Yueran and Knut angrily withdrew from the Swedish Academy and took the initiative to resign from the title of lifetime judges of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Now the Swedish Academy is the first to admit defeat, and Talina has been suspended indefinitely. Ma Yueran and others are naturally willing to give them a way out, and they have spoken out in support of this move by the Swedish Academy.

In addition, under the leadership of the Swedish royal family, the Swedish cultural department also lifted the complete ban on Kitagawa Hide's novels in the country, and took the initiative to contact Kitagawa Entertainment and Kawaide Shobo to introduce his most popular trilogy "The Disabled but Determined" recently.

On the other side, in Japan.

Yasujun Ishida, the editor-in-chief of the "Dazhong" editorial department, retired at the height of his career and chose to go to Yamanashi Prefecture to "open up new areas" at the height of his personal reputation, which really shocked the Japanese publishing industry.

Everyone was speculating whether this was a sign of unrest within Beichuan Entertainment, or a signal that Dazhong wanted to move the main battlefield to remote areas.

Amidst all the controversy, Yasujun Ishida remained calm and quietly worked in an editorial office, serving the disabled.

A while ago, a female writer with the pen name "Kitagawa Naoko" submitted a work to him, which caught the attention of Ishida Taijun.

This pen name is obviously a combination of Kitagawa's surname and the name of Naoko, the heroine in one of his most popular novels, "Norwegian Wood".

It can be seen that this female writer is a deep fan of Beichuan.

Of course, this will not be an extra point for Ishida Taijun's evaluation of the manuscript.

He read the novel carefully and was surprised to find that this blank slate writer had excellent writing skills and ingenious ideas.

Unfortunately, the other party's plot structure ability is very average and his writing skills are very rough. He should have a certain cultural background and writing skills, but he lacks practice.

If he had not come to Yamanashi Prefecture, he would have liked to meet this "Naoko Kitagawa". Perhaps with some guidance, he could add a new "vulgar writer" to "Mass".

What a pity, what a pity.

So Ishida Yasujun told "Kitagawa Naoko" in his reply letter and asked her to submit her work to Ochiai Misa who was still in Tokyo.

I thought the matter was over, but unexpectedly, early this morning, Ishida Yasujun received a thank-you letter and a new submission letter from "Kitagawa Naoko".

In the thank you letter, "Kitagawa Naoko" sincerely thanked him and said that the questions he raised were very pertinent and she would learn from them and work hard to improve. Then in the new submission letter, "Kitagawa Naoko" attached the idea and part of the setting collection of the new book, hoping that Ishida Taijun would give her some advice and suggestions.

Yasujun Ishida really likes this blank slate writer who has writing skills, talent, and emotional intelligence. In the two exchanges with "Naoko Kitagawa", he vaguely felt the "first meeting" with teacher Kitagawa that she mentioned when she was communicating with teacher Rena Saito.

Perhaps it won’t be long before this Miss “Naoko Kitagawa” wins a newcomer award from a publishing house and makes her official debut.

If he hadn't insisted on coming to Yamanashi Prefecture, he really wanted to see this "Miss Kitagawa" with his own eyes.

Yasujun Ishida originally planned to forward the submission letter to Misa Ochiai and ask her to help guide "Naoko Kitagawa".

But on second thought, the previous letter made it so clear, and the other party still insisted on submitting the article to me. Even if it cannot be published in the magazine published by this editing base station, it is not good to hand it over to others in such a sloppy manner.

So Yasujun Ishida opened the sealed manuscript, and what caught his eye was a bloody title "Ghost Call".

The concise title of the book made Ishida Yasujun subconsciously think that it was a third-rate novel that was all about gimmicks, but the following creative ideas and some of the settings quickly broke his fixed mindset.

The general plot of the novel is about a strange message suddenly coming to the mobile phone of Natsumi, a friend of Yumi, a female student at the University of Tokyo.

The recipient of the message had a voice that was almost identical to Natsumi's, and it was a creepy scream.

The caller ID displayed was Xia Mei's own number, and the call time was three days later.

My future self called my present self and left a message containing my own screams.

At that time, Xia Mei and others thought it was just a boring prank call and hung up it without any care.

However, three days later, Xia Mei died mysteriously with the same scream as in the message!

And this kind of death message will continue to spread through the deceased's address book, and finally Yumi also unfortunately received the message
"This is a great idea." After reading the plot idea, Yasujun Ishida couldn't help but give a thumbs up to "Kitagawa Naoko".

"Da Zhong" is a popular literature magazine that is more inclined towards a wide range of readers, and the manuscripts it accepts are more inclined towards popular literature works with a plot.

It’s just that Mr. Kitagawa’s pure literature novels are so popular now that pure literature, which has always been a niche genre, has become mainstream.

Moreover, in the field of popular literature, there are two huge masterpieces, "Hanzawa Naoki" and "White Tower", plus Keigo Higashino's pile of mystery literature of varying quality. It is indeed difficult for newcomers to emerge and write something innovative.

Therefore, when accepting manuscripts, Dazhong still deliberately accepts more pure literature, followed by detective literature that can serve as a substitute for Keigo Higashino, and then workplace literature, which has a relatively saturated market.

"Kitagawa Naoko"'s "Ghost Call" is innovative and uses mobile phones which are not yet widely used. The novel also contains a lot of horror and suspense elements, which are areas that most popular literary novels would never touch upon.

Just based on the plot concept and creativity, Ishida Yasujun felt that he could sign the contract and give it a try.

At worst, it is possible to give "Naoko Kitagawa" a temporary employment contract.

Anyway, it is definitely better to keep such a creative blank slate writer in your hands than to let it wander around in the world!
He opened the small part of the setting collection that was sent to him, and after reading it, he felt more and more that he should sign a contract with "Kitagawa Naoko" and absolutely not let her go to other publishing houses!
It can be seen from the subsequent setting collections that Kitagawa Naoko's "The Call" was not a spur of the moment idea, but was the result of real consideration of long-term issues and various setting issues.

This is particularly precious when it comes to a writer who has nothing to do with his work.

Because most newcomers, including some talented people with amazing creativity and sophisticated writing skills, will often stumble in the setting and planning.

A holistic perspective is one of the most difficult and core writing skills to develop.

After closing the submission letter, Ishida Taijun did not hesitate, got up and rushed to the phone room, immediately made a long-distance call to Tokyo, and then immediately notified Ochiai Misa not to let go of this blank-page writer who was destined to become famous!

1999 2 Month 1 Day.

Kitagawa Hidemasa, who led the team to Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, had lunch with the president, Ponte Naruko na Ayutthaya, and discussed some matters related to the open literature class.

Pengte is also a complete fan of Kitagawa. Although most of Kitagawa Hide's novels are not available in Thai, Pengte has read all the English versions.

The Thai version of Kitagawa Hide's novel collection is being published, thanks to Peng Te's efforts to recommend it to the cultural department.

As the two were talking and laughing, Saito Reina came over with a plate of food, then smiled mysteriously at Kitagawa Hideichi, and then said, "I heard that Yumeko's novel will be listed as a key cultivation target by the editorial department of "Dazhong"."

"Really? Then Mengzi-chan will probably be busy the whole spring." Kitagawa Hide said with a smile as he stirred the spoon.

After discussing the idea of ​​the new book with Mengzi, he thought about it and decided to give the idea of ​​"Ghost Call" to Mengzi.

"The Untamed" is also a cross-era masterpiece in the history of Japanese horror films, and also the highest-grossing horror film series in Japanese history (because it was filmed relatively late, the box office data is more inflated).

The most important thing is that compared to "The Grudge", which has a rich visual language but a relatively ordinary original novel, "The Grudge" better meets the needs of today's readers.

The main prop "mobile phone" in the novel is also a technological product that has changed people's lives in an epoch-making way and is extremely immersive.

"That's a good thing. Mengzi used to complain that her life was too monotonous, but now that she has something to do, she won't have such negative emotions anymore."

Saito Rena sincerely envied Yumeko. In fact, she also wanted to write a book and create something. However, she and Kitagawa Hide were editors and authors. She felt a little uncomfortable asking Kitagawa Hide, who always listened to her advice, to teach her how to write a book.
"What are you two talking about?" Pengte didn't understand Japanese, but seeing how excited they were talking, he couldn't help but become curious.

Beichuan Xiu didn't intend to hide it from him, so he smiled and said, "My wife's novel submission was successful, and she just called to tell me the good news."

"Oh? So Mrs. Kitagawa is also a writer?" Peng Te had never done much research on the Kitagawa family, and was very surprised to hear that both the couple were literary workers.

Generally speaking, writers like to live alone or have affairs with prostitutes. Writers like Kitagawa Hide, who are honest and kind men, are almost extinct.

He was also willing to marry a wife who was also a writer, which made Pente admire him even more.

Because in his eyes, the two of them have similar professions, which will inevitably lead to various conflicts in life and is not conducive to the health of the marriage.

"I can't really call myself a literary writer, I'm just a writing enthusiast," replied Kitagawa Hide.

"To be able to successfully submit a work in the fiercely competitive Japanese literary market means that one has already become an established writer. How can one be just an amateur? Mr. Kitagawa is being too modest."

Peng Te flattered him and asked,

"I wonder what kind of subject Mrs. Kitagawa writes about?"

"Like my new book, a horror novel." Kitagawa Hide replied with a smile. (End of this chapter)