Chapter 20 Mr. I's life and opinions

Looking back, the first two or three years of my debut as a writer were considered summer vacations in my life. As written in this short story, I started playing after hastily coping with work every day.Although he didn't play any tricks vigorously, he really lived a leisurely life.As long as I am surrounded by the bookcases and music I like very much, it is enough to make me feel happy.My happiness does not need to cost a lot of money. Since I was a primary school student, I have been a very quiet and well-behaved child, and there is almost no difference from now.One day, I suddenly wanted some novels, and my life changed completely.Before winning the rookie award, the situation was not too serious.When the first book came out, it drove me crazy.As they say, being a writer is easy, but continuing to be a writer is hard work.Because, ahead is an endless uphill.Looking at the newcomer awards of major magazines recently, I found that more and more people want to become writers.Based on some commercial reasons, the tendency of the winners to be younger is becoming more and more obvious.However, you who are in your teens or twenties, even after your debut, life still has to continue.After accumulating a lot of material, it's not too late to debut again.

Basically, Mr. I is an optimist. His brain is structured so that he is naturally optimistic, and good things are always remembered, and bad things are quickly forgotten.Moreover, he doesn't need to work hard, he will do it naturally.In terms of survival, dullness is quite a dominant trait. Mr. I, in his thirties, is a freelancer engaged in advertising. It has been several years since the bubble economy collapsed. Although the economy has always been at the bottom and cannot recover, the world is big and individuals are small.One person is full, the whole family is full, and there are always some odd jobs that can make ends meet. Mr. I doesn't like advertising work, so no matter what kind of job he receives, he maintains the same indifferent attitude and energy.Although lacking in enthusiasm, the work can be done quickly and correctly.There are countless jobs in this world, even if you don't need to look for them deliberately, jobs that suit Mr. I's work attitude will appear automatically.

Although the future is not guaranteed, life is very leisurely and comfortable, and there is no shortage of material. Mr. I should not be able to come up with a cross-age advertising sentence, he neither likes nor is interested in it.After turning 30, Mr. I knows very well that if he does not devote himself wholeheartedly, it will be difficult for him to stand out in any industry. As long as he exerts his natural concentration, he can complete a day's work in two hours.The rest of the time is a veritable freelance job, where you can idle around. Mr. I enjoys everyday life very much.He lives near Ginza, and after finishing his work in the morning, he often goes for a walk in Ginza.

He usually goes to bookstores and record stores. If there is a movie he likes, he will go to the cinema. Occasionally, he will go to boutiques to buy designer jackets and suits. Both books and CDs are increasing by hundreds, but the content that can impress him is getting less and less.When the wardrobe is full of clothes, I don't want to buy new clothes.He has nothing else to do but listen to music on his CD player, and takes long walks back and forth in Ginza every day. In his early thirties, although his income was insufficient, it was three times that of office workers of the same age.He has more free space than when he was in college, and he lives the life he yearned for when he was a student, with books, music and movies every day.Moreover, there is a young and beautiful machine wife without any dissatisfaction.

Mr. I's happy life lasted for three years. Man can never be satisfied. No matter how enviable a situation you are in, you cannot be content with the same environment. Mr. I is keenly aware of this.Perhaps, this kind of life is very pleasant and comfortable, however, heaven can be tiresome.The more comfortable the life, the more completely bored he was.Religions around the world have attracted countless believers by advocating the existence of various heavens, but Mr. I could not believe it. Although my contemporary friends are full of complaints, they have a sense of accomplishment in their work. On the contrary, I enjoy interesting books and music every day, and all the products are excellent. However, enjoying art alone cannot be Mr. I. Bring any help, at best, be a tasteful amateur.

One day when Mr. I was getting tired of reading, music and walking, he went to a nearby convenience store and read a women's magazine, which happened to be about horoscopes.The horoscope for Aries is as follows: "Aries will be affected by Saturn, which represents heavy pressure, in the next two years. You must face life sincerely and crystallize something in yourself. This is the subject you must face in the next two years .Suitable for learning something, or for challenging yourself.” Mr. I watched absent-mindedly, but when he saw the three words "crystallization", he was greatly shocked, and when he saw the last "self-limit", he finally made up his mind.Advertising work will continue, there is plenty of time anyway.Maybe it's fun to make your own dreams come true.Of course, things are not that simple.Writing articles and writing rooms has long been the dream of anyone who loves to read, but it's not an easy world. Mr. I imagined a country girl with cheeks as red as an apple hoping to become a female star and singer.While he used to read a ton of books, actually writing was another story. Mr. I thinks his evaluation of his strength is fair.

Two years is too short a time.Life can be maintained by relying on the industry. If you try it as a hobby, you can spend five years slowly creating it. One day, it is best to get to know the editorial department of a certain fiction magazine through relationships, and occasionally send the short stories you write directly to the editorial department. It should be interesting for people to see.His ultimate goal is not to become a professional writer, but to produce a collection of short stories.If you can send it instead of a business card, you should be in a great mood, and you can also tell your children about it as an unrealized dream.As if it has been introduced at the beginning, basically, Mr. I is an optimist.

The next day, Mr. I began to write novels.Since he had absolutely no expectations of success, there was no pressure to write.You can write a certain number of manuscripts without exerting too much effort every day.When you don't want to write, just take a break, and there is no problem writing again the next day.Unbelievably, no matter how lucrative the advertising job is, he can't work for several days in a row. However, when writing novels, no matter how much he writes and how long he writes, he never tires. What Mr. I writes is not a story of self-discovery.The literary award he decided to participate in happened to be for entertainment fiction.Of course, Mr. I doesn't know what he can write, so he has a casual attitude about which awards he will participate in.For Mr. I, novels in any field, no matter pure literature or not, are very interesting.It's that Century divides the fun of novels too finely, which is Mr. I's opinion as a reader for many years.

Mr. I doesn't have any theory in creation.The history of art theory is the history of the dead. Although individual works will survive, the theory of creation is far-fetched.Artists are human too, they just want to explain everything from their point of view.Especially the more authoritative people, the more they want to use their own logic to cover the whole world.Humans have an insatiable desire to understand the world thoroughly. During the six months that Mr. I began writing, he wrote thrillers, pure literature, and fantasy.The result greatly exceeded his expectations.One day, when he came home from a meeting, he found a letter from the publishing house in his mailbox with a quick red stamp on it.

Mr. I opened it wonderingly, and it turned out that it was a notice that the work was shortlisted for the final evaluation stage. Although Mr. I likes novels, he has never read fiction magazines, so he does not know the review process of literary awards.I don't know that I have to go through the three stages of review, the first stage, the second stage and the final stage.After a few months, he suddenly received such a notice, which only made him feel incredible. Every time, he sent the materials with address, real name and headshot.In the room illuminated by the setting sun, his wife helped him take a headshot and put it in an envelope.It all feels a lot like something out of a foreign movie.Unknown, poor and beautiful. Although Mr. I is not poor, he is indeed an unknown creator.

In hindsight, those days were perhaps the happiest I've ever been as a novelist. That was the third time it was shortlisted for the final judging stage.He didn't worry much about such things anymore.This time, his mystery novella was shortlisted for the final review.In fact, Mr. I is very sure.It's not that he is sure about this work, but that several consecutive works have been successfully shortlisted for the final judging stage, which means that he has reached the level of the newcomer award.The question is when and which work can win the award. That day, Mr. I was watching the World Cup football match on TV.In the traditional matchup between Japan and South Korea, there was a turnaround in the last 20 minutes.The clock pointed to nine o'clock in the evening.Ah yo yo, did you lose the election again this time?At this time, the living room phone rang. "Congratulations. The judges decided that your work has won the award." Mr. I said: "Thank you." His attitude was exceptionally calm.After hanging up the phone, he told his wife beside him that he had won the prize.His wife congratulated him, but he didn't feel real.That night, he took an early shower and went to bed. When I woke up the next morning, everything was unexpectedly good.It seemed that he had finally been liberated from the heavy shackles that had trapped his body for many years, and the sun seemed to be brighter than usual. It was a sunny day in autumn. Mr. I went out for a walk again.Within fifteen minutes of walking to Ginza, the streets were so beautiful, the sky was so blue, and the Sumida River was so soothing.Everything is so beautiful.At this time, Mr. I was unable to predict his own future.The next week, his wife told him she was pregnant with their first child.His book is finally showing up in bookstores, a year after getting rid of Saturn, the planet of heavy stress.The debut work that was made into a serial is called a "legendary serial".The naive predictions of the future of the Lotte Party were turned upside down. Mr. I's story must not end yet.