Chapter 52 My Speech Battle (6) About the Choice of Speech Topics

When writing novels, I can't limit myself to repeat infinitely in a fixed theme, and my patience is limited. The same goes for speeches.Unknowingly, there are more and more lectures. There are many topics, but there are also many sessions, so even though I haven't spent time practicing, the constant practice has spurred me to interpret the speech.Later, by observing the words and deeds, discarding the chaff and saving the chaff, cutting out a few passages that people did not respond to, and enhancing the passages where everyone laughed or had a unique restlessness, even the same topic gradually had a different way of speaking.

Fun lectures are sometimes very challenging, because it is a special request of the inviting unit, and I am responsible for cooperating.Sometimes I have to do a little homework. After all, I have little knowledge and talent alone is obviously not enough. For example, Chung Cheng University invited me to give a lecture titled "Historical Fiction", but I have written only a handful of historical novels. At that time, there were only "Killer, Horn" and "The Eighth Bronze Man of Shaolin Temple", and none of them Orthodox historical fiction.At that time, I had less than 10 speeches, which was very thrilling.

Another example is Jinan University’s Chinese general education class, which invited me to give a lecture on “Modern Martial Arts Novels” and asked me to give a lecture on my own novel “Kung Fu.” Read it first, and the effect will be greatly reduced. United Literature asked me to talk about "Literature and Space", but I have no memory of what I said.I have the impression that I talked about the past of the coffee gathering, followed by a video of my writing space in the rented house in Donghai, Taibei. Zhongxing High School in Nantou invited me to give lectures on the "Killer Series" in the form of a book club. I spent a lot of time stating the various justice and values ​​in the killer world, how cool Cicada Castle is, and so on.The disadvantage is that if the students below have not read the killer novel I wrote, they will not be able to enter my world at all.

Because the University of Truth wants to host the school's literary award, I was invited to give a speech on "How to Write a Short Story".I’m miserable about this, I really don’t know how to talk about this topic for two hours, so I had to bite the bullet and talk about my “three elements of novel creation”. The Academia Sinica wanted to promote the CC authorization plan, so I bit the bullet and talked about the somewhat rigid "Internet Literature and Derivative Creations".In fact, this lecture topic is not very popular. It is a lively version of the academic research of the master's thesis. Later, I gave it again at Zhang Normal University, and I think it is barely enough.To be honest, although I can talk about a very serious topic with a serious attitude, and I think it's good, but in fact, I really don't like a speech situation where there is no laughter and it's not easy at all... There is no sense of accomplishment!

In retrospect, by far the craziest place to give a speech was in the cafeteria during substitute training at Chenggong Ling to the entire Third Squadron.I was wearing a white short sweater and blue shorts for that speech, it was not OK at all!But it should be considered pretty cool that the substitute draftee can give such a speech to his colleagues. There are a lot of lecture topics, but after talking about it, more and more units invited me. Compared with the past, universities invited me to go, and now many middle schools and high schools also come to invite me (probably because the school instructors confiscated more and more) my book bar).Facing the readers of Gao Guozhong who came into contact with me for the first time, if I give a speech on writing topics such as "Three Elements of Novel Creation", the students below must sleep very well, because there are absolutely a small number of people who are interested in writing, and they are the only ones who are interested in writing. No matter how I know how to write novels, it’s the same after several attempts

A speech that lacks interaction is equivalent to a novel that no one wants to read. Writing it is equivalent to writing it for nothing, it is better not to write it.It is better not to speak.Therefore, who the audience is naturally determines the topic of my lecture. Whenever I encounter that kind of school-wide speech, I will choose a very interesting, inspirational and passionate topic such as "Life is a non-stop battle". Whether you have read my book or not, everyone who listens to the speech below Both can get some grit or fun out of a two-hour presentation. Later, the topic of "Life is a constant battle" became the most talked about.It will be in the future.

Under the theme of "Life is a constant battle", there are more than 50 slides to talk about, each carrying different sub-topics.Let’s start with the first dream I had when I was a child——wanting to be a cartoonist.Until I started writing, and I was finally seen by everyone, each sub-topic used one of my books as a picture. Powerpoint slides, fear bombs.I like to talk about the wonderful landlord who rented a house in Hsinchu and wrote novels, and I also like to talk about self-deprecating times when no one wanted to read my novels.Obviously very lonely, but loneliness also has the pleasure of being alone.If something doesn't make you happy, you definitely don't have the strength to continue.

Powerpoint slides, magic baseball.This is a bloody case of conflict between online literature and physical book sales.I think everyone who studies Internet literature in Taiwan should come and listen to this story of laughter and tears.I often think that multicultural literary theorists are having too much fun, so I wishful thinking that it is a kind of self-marketing for Internet writers to post their works on the Internet. Come and listen to this part, and I promise you to be in awe of me. Respectfully. Slideshow, waiting for a coffee.I'll mention the first, and hopefully only, sales hurdle I've faced since writing.To be honest, I have been writing for a long time without thinking that I will become a very popular one day, until I have the gold-level inspiration "Waiting for a person's coffee", but after I have it, I feel confused. The book started out selling well, and then it started...behavior that I'd never seen before.Even I, who is so proud, will be confused. I think this kind of experience is very meaningful. If I share it with those who are willing to create, the listeners should be particularly touched and vigilant.

Slideshow, love is two good and three bad.I'll talk about my experience when I first started trying to write a TV script.That failed experience made me realize that my self-confidence cannot be cured in a short period of time, so it is better not to engage in collective screenwriting, and it is more practical to write what I like. Slideshow, downstairs tenants.I like to tell the weird and funny things that happened when I advertised Downstairs Tenants in the mainland.Yes, there is the big battle of Bisji mentioned in the preface of the hunter, but there are also many references to him.

Slideshow, Ha-Bang Legend.This is definitely the climax of the whole speech. It is very stalking. Although not every speech will be spoken, it must be hilarious. Let the whole audience laugh until they have a hernia, there is no challenge at all! Slideshow, Legend of the Hunter.I will definitely mention Master Huang Yi's "Xun Qin Ji".This is also a very real experience of self-reflection. For things that you have no contact with or basic understanding of, never criticize casually---that is such a cheap criticism. Slideshow, the girl we chased together in those years.This is a very warm and real memory. Because I am absolutely disgusted with many writers who mixed real life and fictional stories into novels, claiming to be memories and so on, so when I wrote that we were a group of buddies chasing together. The story of the same girl, I wrote, is absolutely true, so this book means a lot to me.When it comes to the goddess that everyone liked in those days, I always feel elated.I hope that the goddess Shen Jiayi will one day be able to sit down and listen to me magically tell the story behind this book.

Slideshow, mommy kiss.I'll talk about how my mother's illness... the darkest period in my life affected my attitude towards writing.When it comes to this paragraph, it is usually the end of the speech, and some students who are anxious to urinate will start to be restless. If I feel that everyone has heard enough and don’t want to listen to it anymore, I will just omit it.Because I don't want to hear any noise when I'm serious about conveying emotion. In fact, there are many more vivid and interesting themes, but there are many slides, and it is impossible to talk about every one, so it depends on the mood, the atmosphere of the scene, and sometimes the time limit. to speak.If there are rehearsal speeches for two consecutive days, I will replace one-third to one-half of the content that was said the day before. I have to mention that there is another hidden version of the topic, which is ------ the legendary "Pistol King"! Pistol King, on the surface, is a restricted-level lecture topic, but in fact, of course, it is a super-restricted-level topic that explodes!It takes about 20 minutes to talk about the subject of the boss level of the big devil, because the content is very lame, so it is absolutely impossible to teach it in high school or junior high school.Even in college, I haven't talked about it for a long, long time... because!Because the school used to invite me over for just two thousand yuan, so I dare to say that I am the king of pistols! BUT! The most exciting thing in life is this BUT! Now that the speech fee has increased, I really dare not speak about the king of pistols, which will drive the organizers crazy in an instant. But let's be serious, meeting the Pistol King on the train is my real combat experience, and it's pretty inspirational in the final analysis.I look forward to one day when I meet a very good school and ask me to tell me what the Pistol King is all about, then I will tell. Unless it is a speech at a literature camp or a Chinese department, I will talk about some topics about writing tips. The audience below are all here because they want to know exactly how I think about my writing, so the magnetic field is consistent. Even if I speak dryly, they can still listen attentively. Of course, they may not agree with my ideas, but they are simple. It shouldn't be a disadvantage to spend the time of a speech to get a first glimpse of the structure of a writer's head. Sometimes I will use a projector to directly display the inspiration database stored in my computer, so that creative fellows can see how I usually bury my ONE PIECE in detail, classified into categories, and the amount is so large that it explodes.There are good and bad things about this kind of Zhanbao. Maybe I inspired many people to have a new feeling for the word "hard work", and maybe it also made many people feel that... just let me write all the novels alone: ​​P But I understand that there are not many opportunities for "there are all creative fellows below", but it doesn't matter, just let it happen. In 2008, I started to teach at Shijian University, so I had a 100% opportunity to convey my understanding of creation through a series of courses.At this stage, I don’t think I’m doing very well. After all, class is not a speech. There’s no way to make a class interesting. What I think is lacking is experience. Something very different. But I want to get stronger and I will keep trying.