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After the setting, there are people submitting articles one after another, and almost all of them are authors that I have never read. Maybe I only read the preset "Hot Area" and "Tracking Area", and I often don't bother to click on the latest article area.

For example, this new citizen @Arielsakura, has been posting on Matters for more than a month, and I haven't noticed.

 It took me two years to realize the experience: "The way I make up stories is to summarize the main line in one or a few sentences, and then stuff things into it." ㄧArielsakura

How is your sci-fi imagination constructed?

From childhood to adulthood, I actually don’t have much interest in hardcore sci-fi. If it is related to it, it may be that I like watching Gundam (Taiwan translation should be Gundam), but I just prefer watching characters’ plots and listening to music. degree.

But how do I actually say it... A lot of my inspirations are based on a literary core, which I think is "suitable" for science fiction elements , and then conceive the latter.

But I really like to imagine Japanese robots or aliens, hhh, that's the only possibility.

 (hhh is a catchphrase in mainland China similar to hahaha or www)

Fortunately, you helped me translate it to Taiwan, otherwise, I have been thinking about the sci-fi elements of the famous French director Gundam?

Hahahaha, the two sides are really different! I also thought about it after playing.

I expected you to mention "Dr. Strange and the Robot Doll"?

This is called "Alalei" in the mainland. I like to watch Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, but Alalei has only heard of it a little, and I haven't seen it systematically.

[Postscript] "My Dry Girlfriend": From 2019 to 2022 : "This is the first work I sold" Does it mean that there are royalties?

Yes, three years ago, when Wuzhang sold for around 250 RMB (1000 NT?), but that platform stopped working a long time ago. It's also 2019, too bad.

In fact, " My Dry Girlfriend " is also a very pseudo-sci-fi work. If you say that it is sci-fi, you will probably be yelled at by some people for what the little girl knows. But I think the context of it does a good job of expressing what I was trying to say.

The interesting thing about "My Dry Girlfriend" is that the previous story is just the daily life of a couple. It's so pure love that it's a bit boring for me. When I can't watch it anymore, let's take a turning point, so that readers will use a new perspective to re-understand just now. stories read. Just when I was expecting something to happen, in the end it was like a bubble.

I just asked how you developed this science fiction knowledge, I thought you would list some movies, anime, and games, but then I think it's stupid to ask this question, it's like asking a young man sitting in a coffee shop , how did you get to soak in the coffee shop when you have nothing to do, but maybe since his mother's mother fell in love, the coffee shop has been a daily element.

The common sense of science fiction that has been constructed and accumulated has become the common world view of readers , but in "Sasha (2)" , this sentence appears:

 "In response to fertility and future population declines, this project has been underway in secrecy - with the aim of alleviating the problem of spouses and fertility in society by producing the right amount of androids."

This is a lot like a definitional statement cut from Wikipedia. How do you deal with some knowledge from the literature and avoid staying at the stage of collecting materials?

When dealing with knowledge, I usually change the way of narration! But it is true that the above sentence is quite wiki When you do, just pay attention to the substitution of words. These are often not the main content of the content, I think it makes sense.

" January 2022: Books I've Read" is a short book review on:

"Clara and the Sun" Kazuo Ishiguro, "Monkey. Arhat Pond" Yuan Zhesheng, "Genderless God" Yang Zhen, "Nebula Suite" Zhang Shiguo, "Writing on the Body" Janet Winterson

Are you trained in literary criticism? influence on creation?

The book review is mainly because I am from the literature department. Although I have never eaten pork, I have seen the pig run. I have read a lot of papers and some miscellaneous analysis. As for the influence of creation, I will absorb some of the things that are useful to me in the works, and then use them in my own works.

For example , John Irving's book, A Year in Solitary, has a huge influence on me with the way he tells stories. It can also be said that after reading his book, I understood how to essentially create two different characters.

John would write on this point "A thinks what's so, but B doesn't think so/B will do it", which is usually just a passing thing in his articles , but it's easy for the reader to see two characters s difference. The more you see his technique, the more you will write it yourself.

You said : "The end of all creation is the fusion of elements and genres." Can you say more about this sentence?

It's just that I always feel that, just like the fusion of hip-hop and country in the current concert, the creation is also the same . The lines between genres and themes are blurring. You can't just write a "fantasy" or "suspense" novel, because many paths have been traveled by predecessors.

It's like Guo Qiangsheng's "Diagnosing the Generations" , while writing about comrades, it also mixes suspense and supernatural. I think it's a fusion. It is also a new path that modern creation needs, or rather, needs to explore.

What you learned in two years: "The way I make up stories is to summarize the main line in one or a few sentences, and then stuff things into it."

It's true, I used to lack motivation to write original work. Because I feel that no one reads it when I write it / if it is not written for profit, it is boring. But after studying for so long, I have gradually achieved the goal of "finishing the story first and then thinking about other things". So in 2022, I will gradually add to my work.

Of course it’s cool to write fangirls, and I also like to write, but the popularity I get is all temporary and can’t last. If you really have literary pursuits, I think you should write something of your own.

But in fact, whether it is a fan or an original, the essence is to be prepared to write a thunderous work. After all, no one shot is a fairy writing, a fairy work. Not necessarily famous, some articles you will regret the next second after you send them out, and some may be written with embarrassment.

I mentioned "Doctor Strange and the Robot Doll" just now because of the description of the relationship between the characters in the opening of your novel " Sasha ", and this novel is much more complicated than your previous work "My Dry Girlfriend", can you please Briefly introduce the setting (world view) of this science fiction novel?

(Please write hard during advertising time, such as Story Big Network)

 In the 22nd century, human beings have completed the cosmic development plan, changing from "earth people" to "Blue Star people", and the planets occupied/developed by them are collectively called "Blue Galaxy". The protagonist Sasha was created on one of the planets.

By the 22nd century, a planet has actually become similar to a country. And the common parent star of these planets, similar to the capital, is the earth.

Due to the declining fertility rate of Sasha's planet, the Minister of Science and Technology proposed to develop bionics to alleviate the need for fertility. She assembled a team led by a university scholar (officially certified scientist) Ina. The Minister of Science and Technology is opposed to the "Homecoming" bill proposed by her opponent (promoting all women to return home from work)
Ina is a hybrid of the Blue Star (mother) and the Entilia (father). Entilia has not yet opened diplomacy, and only sends special envoys to various planets for secret visits. And Yina's father can see the future, and he left the spaceship to Yina's mother when he left. Tell her to go back to Entilia when her daughter grows up. The ship can automatically navigate to Entilia, but only something in Entilia can activate it.

Ina is a once-in-a-century genius. She inherited her father's predictive ability, but she can't see everything like her father, and what she can see is very limited. She sees a future where androids plan to abort (due to a power struggle), but despite that, she creates Sasha.

Sasha, is the only successful android with human consciousness, intelligence and fertility.

After the Minister of Science and Technology was taken down, she still gathered people from her faction, hoping to speak out through the media, expose the persecution she suffered, and oppose the "Homecoming" Act. As a result, the organization was beaten down before it made a statement, and it was detained as a "terrorist organization" and killed.

Ina entrusts Sasha to her old friend Richard after she is mostly done, and then commits suicide. Richard went into seclusion and spent fifteen years perfecting Sasha and the spaceship.

Fifteen years later, the earth is at war with other planets, and the situation is getting more and more dangerous. There are still androids circulating on the market, but they are all self-conscious, defective products similar to inflatable dolls. Sasha was shocked when she saw it with her own eyes one day, and said this to Richard when she got home.
And Richard told her the truth (including the fact that there was a spaceship flying to Entilia in the backyard warehouse).
The Blue Star Army was defeated, and the Earth side had to sign a treaty (similar to ceding land for indemnity) to hand over several Blue Star planets.

Richard was recalled to work on the development of the escape ship, but he understood that it was completely useless. His disciple Julian thought so too. At the same time he always thought that Richard was hiding something from himself. So he used Sasha's trust to let her tell him everything.

After knowing it, Julian almost collapsed. Intending to kill the two of them, he boarded the spaceship and fled to Entilia alone.

At a critical juncture, Richard took off the prosthetic hand that Ina had made for him, and let Sasha use it to start the spaceship and fly to Entilia.

Years later, Sasha realized from the knowledge that Ina and Richard left to herself that Ina knew the reason why the android plan failed, but still created herself.

I asked for a story outline , but he gave me a short version of the story , which is of course also very important. Imagine that a literary editor may review hundreds of novels every month. Attaching a quick-view version will help the editor to better understand. Get into the story context.

However, the outline of the story is still indispensable. The content must have a clear time and space setting, the role of key characters, the relationship between each other, the outline and skeleton, and the motivation and purpose . Just like when a proposal or report is presented, a clear overview is presented with ppt.

This part is usually very painful for creators, because creators will feel that everything is important, but cannot point out the most core and indispensable parts. However, through such exercises, creators can indeed learn more about their work. (Why is it clearly written by the creator himself, yet he doesn't know enough about it? Because the authorities are obsessed with it)

As a first reader, I can only share that if I read something like this on the cover of the book, it would grab my attention:

 Under the plunder of interstellar war, when the future of the earth is uncertain, the one who inherited all human civilization turned out to be a lifeless android: Sasha, on a planet called "Entilia", civilization will re-originate ......

Then, after reading it, you will find that this is just a prequel , because there is a foreshadowing at the end, the alien child living on the planet "Entilia" actually calls Sasha a teacher. How the "human-like civilization" Sasha competes, merges, and evolves with the alien civilization "Entilia" makes me want to watch the sequel of "Sasha".

I read one of the paragraphs:

Sasha picked up the USB flash drive that the other party had dropped on the ground, and stopped the other party. The man turned around with a blushing face, put the USB flash drive in the chest pocket of his suit jacket, and said "thank you" to Sasha.

Watching the other party go away, Sasha said thoughtfully:

"I've never seen a girl in such a hurry before."

"Well, because of the 'Homecoming' Act."

 Author's Note: 'Homecoming' Act: This "male" and "female" is actually one of what I want to express in "Sasha". Germany". Belongs to a kind of reversing.

But of course I don't mean to satirize politics or anything, it just happens in reality.

The combination of these sentences made me think that I'm not talking about "men", why are you using "girls"?

Could this sentence be ambiguous ? What I mean is that Sasha sees a man's back in a hurry → so she thinks that she has never seen a woman in such a hurry🤣 Maybe it's a logical difference.

You can't tell if I'm the only one misreading the article, or someone else is misreading it without anyone helping you read the article?

This is also something I need to pay attention to... If there is a chance to sign a contract in the future, I hope the editor can help to see or change it 😢

But if your work has too many complaints, the editor will go directly to other more complete works.

In order to avoid "unnecessary ambiguity", under the principle of minimal change, I will change it like this:

 Sasha picked up the USB flash drive that the other party had dropped on the ground, and stopped the other party. The man turned around with a blushing face, put the USB flash drive in the chest pocket of his suit jacket, and said "thank you" to Sasha.

Watching the other party go away, Sasha said thoughtfully:
"I've never seen (which) a girl, (will be like this man) in such a hurry."

"Well, because of the 'Homecoming' Act."

When you were studying at a university in mainland China, how did the professors you meet teach writing classes?

My university is a Japanese department (foreign language college) , and if we talk about creative writing, the graduate school does not offer it, but the professor will give a special course on a literary theme every semester. Let's read the material, write our thoughts, or we can go and talk about it ourselves. This is a good opportunity to hone the above-mentioned analytical and critical skills. It is also an opportunity to improve creativity.

If it is a teaching guide, no, I basically rely on my own way to write articles. The greatest guidance may come from books. As I said before, I will draw the scoop according to the gourd.

Did you not consider studying Chinese at the university?

At first, because I wanted to prepare for studying abroad after university, I was also interested in Japanese culture. And I really don't want to study mathematics, so I chose the Japanese department.

So when you studied Japanese, there was no one to guide you in writing, and no one to read the articles for you? And then, you didn't join the writing club?

Yes, it’s basically something that interests you. The literature department on my side mainly relies on autonomy. If you just want a degree so that you can find a job, then the professor will be fine. But if you want to mix in literary circles, you may still need to work hard. The professor should be very encouraging, and I am also working hard in this area.

Favorite Japanese literary writer so far?

Jianguo Kaori!

Although I don't read much about Japanese series now, the desolation and silence in her article still had a great influence on me. I was really fascinated by the turbulent feeling of the daily undercurrent. I especially like her book " Bone Under the Stage" .

Do you publish novels on other platforms besides Matters? What do you think is the most suitable Chinese platform for publishing novels? What do you think about the current Matters trial?

In this case, I used to write fanboys on Lofter. Of course, the creative platform in mainland China is basically dancing in shackles. For other platforms, I'm still watching and exploring.

Because I mainly want more exposure of my work, I think matter is not bad in this aspect (not to mention the income).

matters reminds me of the lofter who didn't have this limit a few years ago, can write and say anything. It would be better if the revenue system was simpler🤣 After all, I don't have the brain to study cryptocurrency.

What about the square grid or mirror literature in Taiwan? Do you create with text written in Japanese?

I also posted on Mirror Literature 🤣 but basically no one reads it, and I am still considering the words of the square grid.

I have translated my fan fiction in Japanese before, but I was embarrassed to orz (full of translation errors).

Do you usually ask someone to read it for you after you finish writing it?

I sometimes show it to my friends on the Internet, but I usually post it after checking it myself. 🤣

But if no one helps to read the article, such as "Sasha", I feel that the paragraphs are not very closely embedded, and I feel that some details are not explained clearly. Although the narrative skills are smooth and layered, if there is a Weaknesses, or ambiguity and lack of focus, weaken the strength of the story.

That's also what I said 😢 I think if it is assembled into a book, many of the online serials need to be changed. This should still be noted.

Thanks for pointing it out!

Is it convenient to say which university are you currently studying in Japan? Professional subjects?

I am currently a freshman in the Graduate School of Literature, Kobe University.

In fact, for the first two years of my university studies, I was quite confused and didn’t know what to do. In the third year (2018), I had an opportunity to pick up my pen and read books again, which is to write fans.

Kobe University Graduate School of Literature, is there a group?

Yes, the Department of Literature is actually the Department of Humanities. Below it, there are majors in Chinese literature, majors in Korean literature (these two are combined because they are both minor majors), as well as English and American literature, and Japanese literature.

I specialize in Chinese literature.

The first year is similar to the concept of graduate students (auditors) 🤣, and it will be considered a real first-year student in April this year. I can write about the courses I have taken, for example:

 There are modern Chinese literature appreciation and analysis of Chinese modern literature exercises (published class)
Chinese Classical Literature Exercise Appreciation of Chinese Classical Literature.

In the two-year curriculum design of the institute, there is no literary creation class?

No, it is basically all kinds of literary works appreciation, or you have to write your own papers and read books

Is such that! In fact, it was almost after entering school that I began to come into contact with some things similar to training (although I may still be groping a lot by myself), but I feel that the things I have written are much better than before.

What does the Chinese Modern Literature Exercise (publishing class) mean? Publishing class is not the meaning of students publishing works?

Refers to students introducing literary material to other students after reading it. Practice text analysis skills.

If you are studying Chinese in mainland China, the department should have training in literary creation, but you are currently studying mostly literary criticism.

So in terms of writing, what resources do you hope you will have in the future that will help you complete a more mature novel?

I hope that if there is a chance, I still hope that there will be editors who will help me see it. Of course, if you write it yourself and play it, it will be fine, but if you really want to publish it, you still need to revise a lot.

Further reading:

United Literature has a column:

A Useless Guide for Novice Writers

Go see if it works for you!

 Regarding this interview, I seem to be asking people throughout the article, whether there is any training in literary creation, and now young people are still groping on their own, do they use the local method to make steel creations? It seems to imply that you can become a writer if you go to a literary creation institute?

This article can serve as a response:

Do you think being a writer is as easy as graduating from graduate school?