Generation Z Artists

Chapter 57 The first endorsement in life [Happy New Year! ]

The sky won’t collapse for now.

On the contrary, the aftermath of the carnival began to make Fang Xinghe extremely friendly.

The comments made by Mr. Pan, a truly famous educator, in the Xiamen Daily completely transformed all contradictions into great expectations.

"Han Han alone doesn't mean much. He is a genius. Even if he doesn't make progress and squanders his talent and fails many subjects, he is still better than 99% of his peers in writing based on his intuition. He has reached a very high level that can lead to success.

Fang Xinghe alone does not prove anything. He is more of a genius. He worked hard for half a year to become the top scorer in the imperial examination. His casual articles shocked the literary world. He can succeed not only in literature. I believe he can succeed in anything he does.

It's ridiculous that you use two geniuses to judge whether our education is correct or not.

The media professionals bear a great responsibility for the impetuousness of today's society.

If you must use these two children to determine who is right or wrong, then you might as well give them some more time to see who can go higher and further.

Many old friends and I are looking forward to what they can bring to us.”

The media stopped hyping them up and simply put the two on a list of key attention, beginning a long but gentle observation and comparison.

Fang Xinghe thought he could finally finish the long novel with peace of mind, so he spent some time carefully sorting out the attributes.

【Properties Panel】

Appearance attributes: Appearance 99, Body 79 (expanded)

体质属性：力量79、速度80、耐力80、灵敏79、柔韧79
隐藏属性：协调81、感知79、恢复79、免疫79、健康79
Artistic attributes: Writing 80 (expand), Acting 37 (expand), Directing 8 (expand)

There are 4 major events in total:

First, his writing skills improved a bit automatically, and his focus and persistence raised his output limit.

Second, after the system is upgraded, there are 4 more expandable items in the property panel.

Third, after the body shape is expanded, it is a very simple adjustable list.

Height: 176 cm (growing), customizable, lockable, cannot be modified after locked.

Weight: 64 kg (growing), customizable, lockable, modifiable.

posture:……

Fang Xinghe thought about it carefully for a while and found that this thing didn't mean much in life, but it was super useful in performances.

It can manually adjust the fatness or thinness, and can also lock the current state.

This means that under normal circumstances, Fang Xinghe is a human with a perfect body shape of 99 points. Because of the lock, he will not gain weight no matter how much he eats, and his body shape will not change no matter how he exercises.

But if necessary, he can also unlock and quickly lose or gain weight to meet the needs of different roles.

And it’s not troublesome at all, you can do it using star points.

Now it can be seen that the [Star God System] is a purely entertainment-assisted system. The new functions are completely prepared for acting. Except for the height being fixed and no longer able to move, the body shape and other things can be fine-tuned.

"That's good. I'm getting closer and closer to becoming the best actor."

Fang Xinghe smiled optimistically, then turned his attention to the artistic attributes.

When the artistic attributes are unfolded, it makes people's scalp tingle.

How come there are so many subdivision attributes?
Fang Xinghe simply glanced at the list of performances and directors, then focused all his attention on [Writing].

There’s no rush for those two things. They won’t be useful until two or three years later at the earliest.

Writing 80: Rhetoric 81, Composition 79, Structure 75
Three simple subdivisions.

Without the stream-of-consciousness indicators such as imagery, literary quality, pioneering spirit, thoughtfulness, and humanistic core, the three sub-attributes displayed are all clear techniques.

Pure output ability is a very scientific thing. It is easy to see where the skills and techniques are.

No matter how you rank it, the literary talent of "The Goddess of Luo River" will never fall outside the top two. It just stands there. Although some later generations criticized Cao Zhi for being too showy, it does not affect its greatness at all.

But the output is uncertain, irrational, and difficult to quantify.

To put it more extremely, the content of "Fights Break Sphere", which was very popular in vain, influenced an entire generation of young people. Does it have any value?
For Generation Z, which is better, it or Jin Yong's martial arts novels?
Fang Xinghe didn't want to think about it too deeply. He didn't intend to copy others, so he just maintained respect.

Going back from "Fights Break Sphere" to the past, there are countless works that are not very literary but contain great emotional power.

For example, the greatness of "The Three-Body Problem" has never lay in its writing style.

The level of writing in all of Liu Cixin's works fluctuates greatly, ranging from 60 to 85 on average. The rhetorical texture is often insufficient, and the writing rarely has the sense of freedom and expression based on the Chinese sense of language. However, the structure of "The Three-Body Problem" can be described as top-notch, world-class.

Therefore, people with science and engineering backgrounds can also write novels to an extremely high level, because structure is their strong point, and words are secondary, and they can use content to overtake others.

The same is true for Fang Xinghe.

The nature of his writing is closely related to his profession and experience.

Strong rhetoric, poor structure, and heavy on emotions.

Whether you are writing a marketing article or a high-end customized propaganda article, the most important point in guiding emotions is always to reduce the resistance of the text and increase the sense of smoothness.

Shklovsky mentioned: The means of art is to make things unfamiliar and to make forms repellent in order to expand the difficulty and time of perception.

Therefore, the "literary language" of orthodox writers usually processes the text into a strange and distorted appearance with an artistic texture, so as to raise the threshold of understanding and force readers to increase their attention and think hard, so as to achieve a stronger aesthetic effect.

The opposite language is called "automated language" or "popular language", which is the core of marketing manuscripts and online articles.

These are the uses of words that we are so familiar with that they no longer attract any extra attention.

For example: "Instantly, Han Han was stunned, his face full of bewilderment, and he couldn't believe that Fang Xinghe was so terrifying!"

Just scan a line of words and that's it. It is very smooth and fluent, and also has a sense of picture. When readers see the two words "蒙逼", they can directly imagine the details of the facial expression. "恐怖如斯" is also a highly general new buzzword.

This is an automated language that has no reading threshold at all.

Readers can read ten lines at a glance without thinking. The necessary emotions will naturally come to their minds, and their attention will be focused on the plot, allowing them to fully experience the fun of the story itself.

So, what would be the effect if the fact that "Han Han was greatly shocked by Fang Xinghe" was written in more deterrent terms?
"In a time wave that was just a little more than one thousandth of a second, Han Han's mind was forcibly frozen halfway up the mountain. In fact, no one restricted his actions or thoughts, but he himself refused to move forward - if he took even half a step forward, he would face the terrifying pressure brought by Fang Xinghe, and the various problems arising from this would turn into an uneasy and ominous flame of anger, burning his beliefs. But it was too late. The retina reflected the disordered waveform, pulling down the dark sky and Fang Xinghe's ferocious face, and all his pride was squeezed into twisted lines. Han Han's nose felt a little sour, and he thought absentmindedly: It turns out that fire can also feel hot..."

Such text is neither clear enough nor conducive to dissemination when used for a specific purpose.

Maybe a small number of readers will praise it for being more poetic, but high-threshold texts are destined to become useless in a low-patience social environment.

So it’s not that Fang Xinghe can’t do it, but that there is no need to do it.

Online articles, short videos and short dramas are all based on the same logic, with strong emotions as the core and reducing all other interference factors.

Fang Xinghe is unwilling to simply and crudely classify this situation as "audience aesthetic degradation". It is something used for relaxation and it should have the function of relaxation. People who want to learn and think will naturally look for profound content to read.

However, the underlying logic of this phenomenon does provide a very clear guiding ideology for his creation, namely -

What is my goal?
Who is the target audience?
How do I use the tools and capabilities I have?

Therefore, he never fails and every article he publishes plays the corresponding correct role.

It's not just about writing articles, his ideas for making movies in the future will probably be the same.

Appropriately ahead of the times, but lower the threshold;
Serving the masses, but with exquisite details;
Put goals first, but insist on aesthetics.

In this way, he quickly figured out the direction in which the second draft of the long novel should be revised - to strengthen the structure rather than the rhetoric.

Taking a look at the starlight value in the starlight panel, it was probably enough, so Fang Xinghe added 75 point to [Structure 1].

The star value decreased by 33.

Tongzi's father's explanation is: Since the [Writing] attribute is subdivided into three items, the points consumed by a single attribute are one third of the total.

"Hey, this is good!"

Fang Xinghe was very happy. He only spent 132 million starlight to increase the structure to 79 points.

Click again, and the structure becomes 80 points, consuming 333 million starlight.

If he increases the [Writing] attribute, 1 point will cost 1000 million, but in fact, his rhetoric and writing skills are already sufficient, so there is no need to waste starlight for the time being.

Strictly speaking, this book is a semi-autobiographical, critical literature about the pains of youth based on a realistic macro perspective. It does not have high requirements for rhetoric and writing, but only slightly higher requirements for structure. The most important thing is the core of the story.

So he only spent 798 million starlights, pushed his writing to the highest level for now and left it alone.

【Writing 80: Rhetoric 81, Composition 80, Structure 80】

If you find that there is a need when modifying, you can add it temporarily to maximize the saving of star value.

It’s not that he is stingy, it’s just that he is really poor!
【Starlight Panel】

【Number of fans: 880w】

Level 1 floating powder: 8246300
Level 2 Core: 525100
Level 3 diehard: 30250
Level 4 Frenzy: 878
Level 5 Faith: 0
【Star value: 1288w】

[Star value: 4]

Good news: PK won.

Bad news: His star power didn’t increase much… After such a long period of high-density exposure, he had basically eaten up all the star power he could get. Even though Sister Yi wrote an article praising him, it didn’t increase his star power much. Instead, he got one more star because he was first featured in the People’s Daily.

This thing is really harder to deal with than expected... Never mind, it’s not appropriate to talk like that, Starlight is actually pretty hard to deal with as well.

Those more than 800 million floating powders look just like fake ones. Just push them hard and poof, 800 million starlights will come out.

If you don't push hard, they may not even know what you did, and each person won't be able to squeeze out even a point.

Even though Fang Xinghe knew that floating powder was useless in big things, he was still worried.

Therefore, he solemnly reminded himself——

Don't be complacent because of superficial fans. Core fans are helpful in the beginning, and die-hard fans can support the biggest chassis. To get above that, you don't have to force it. It depends on opportunity and luck.

The start was very good and beyond our expectations, so we must make every subsequent step even better to live up to such a good start.

After clearing away the restlessness in his mind, he began to focus on the second draft.

As a result, just after two days of peace, new troubles came up again.

"Do not have time!"

Fang Xinghe was about to hang up the phone when he suddenly paused: "Wait a minute, who is it? What do you want?"

Liu Dashan suppressed his laughter and repeated, "That's Jeanswest, the brand that sells clothes for young people. They want you to be their spokesperson."

What brand is Jeanswest? Is it as good as Baleno?

Fang Xinghe reminisced for a moment and felt that the name was somewhat familiar, but not much.

Never mind, let’s take a look first.

If the money is enough, it is not impossible to consider Zhen Nilu.

He has not yet reached the stage where he needs to consider his commercial image. Right now, the most important thing is to give fans the opportunity to spend money on him.

"Why did you think of looking for me? How much money will you pay? What kind of treatment will you give me?"

"treatment?"

Liu Dashan was confused by the question, and his tone was obviously guilty: "I don't understand this either. How about you talk to them directly?"

Fang Xinghe slapped his forehead, damn, he spoke too fast.

What kind of benefits are there for endorsements these days?
I guess they will just take two sets of photos and post them on the wall, and there may not be many activities.

It’s also good and worry-free.

"Okay then, bring them over to find me. I can't get out."

Fang Xinghe treated the future principal like a loyal servant, but Liu Dashan was very happy and agreed happily: "Okay, then I will take them there this afternoon and find a lawyer for you."

"Okay, hang up now, another idiot is smashing my glass!"

Fang Xinghe pushed open the window angrily and saw a thick envelope stuck in the gap of the windowsill. He turned around and looked at the glass carefully. It was fine and not broken. Today was an auspicious day.

Yesterday, one of his windows was broken by a mentally retarded woman - if you want to give me a gift, just give it nicely. You wrote a love letter, wrapped a bunch of rings, earrings, studs and necklaces, and threw them through the window. Are you from the Tang Sect?

She almost had a heart attack.

Then Xiao Fang opened them and saw that the necklace was made of iron, the ring was made of copper, and the earrings were made of silver. He could almost open a hardware store.

It’s not that I dislike it, the question is, what is this all about?

Shaking his head, Fang Xinghe opened today's envelope and took a quick look.

The main body of the letter is a love letter that is very contemporary in nature. Anyway, Generation Z has never seen this kind of thing when they were in school.

The content was also confusing. The first sentence was very subtle, saying "I want to be friends with you", but the second sentence became hot and bold, saying "I am willing to do anything for you". Then he showed off his home and announced his name.

——My father is so-and-so in the county, what talents I have learned, what books I have read, what hobbies I have, and so on and so forth.

Finally, attached are photos and two hundred-dollar bills.

At first glance, she's pretty.

At second glance, wow, she's developed quite well.

The third time, I feel tired and bored.

I put 200 yuan in my pocket, rearranged the other things, and threw them into the drawer - it was full again.

This is how Fang Xinghe has been treated recently. The day before yesterday, a wealthy woman from the provincial capital even came to see him. She was about 26 or 27 years old, full of charm and gracefulness. She drove a Lexus or something like that. She asked questions all the way and finally parked the car in front of Xiao Fang's house and started knocking on the door in a coquettish manner.

Unfortunately, he was just a donkey dung egg with a shiny appearance, and was scared away after being scratched in the crotch two or three times.

Now, the left and right protectors, the extra bodyguards and the crotch-grabbing gods all live in his house to protect the new handsome guy, but this cannot solve the fundamental problem...

Well, the fact is that the problem of freedom to go out is basically unsolved.

Fang Xinghe was not particularly uncomfortable. In his previous life, he had been lying in bed for several years and had survived until the last moment. Now, he had to pay more than ten years of free travel in exchange for more than a hundred years of health and happiness in the future. It was totally worth it.

And the situation was not particularly bad. As long as they moved into the new house, it would probably be quieter. Liu Dashan was currently working on his new home, which was said to be huge, with a vegetable plot at the back and a large courtyard in the front. There were no high-rise buildings around, only bungalows.

After that, I built the courtyard wall higher, so that no one would spy on me no matter how I practice martial arts or study.

Do you have the guts to throw it again?

First climb up the 2-meter-high wall, and then smash something on my window glass from 5 meters away. If any girl can do this, I will give you a red stick and promote you to the fourteenth sister.

Hey!

Fang Xinghe couldn't help feeling happy when he thought of the group of dream girls scratching their hair frantically while looking at the wall.

"Come on, grab your crotch and help me with the beast training."

After a greeting, the two men immediately put down their handheld game consoles, ran over, picked up sticks and silently gathered strength.

This set of training is one of the emotional foundations that Mr. Feng Yuanzheng used to play An Jiahe.

Generally speaking, it is through the assistant's demonstrative roar and intermittent whipping that the actors' sense of crisis and confrontation are fully activated, while the action training done by the actors themselves also focuses on activating the primitive animal part of their hearts.

In the end, once you awaken the naked animal nature, carefully experience that emotion and the corresponding physical sensations, until you develop a controllable instinct that can be awakened at any time, then playing the role of a wolf boy will be no problem at all.

Isn’t Gersch awesome?

Damn it, I earned it by self-abuse!

When Liu Dashan and the person in charge of Jeanswest came to the door in the afternoon, Fang Xinghe sat there gasping for breath, his whole body trembling slightly, as if he had just been pulled out of the water.

"Student Fang, what's wrong with you?"

The person in charge of Jeanswest is a middle-aged woman in her 40s. I don’t know if she was sincere or just trying to show her sincerity, but she spoke with great concern.

"Nothing, just practicing something."

"Martial arts training?"

The person in charge was particularly interested. He looked at the craft swords hanging on the wall and the 4-meter-long pole under the eaves, with genuine amazement in his eyes.

"That's about the same." He simply answered perfunctorily, not wanting to talk more.

"You've really worked so hard..." The person in charge was full of admiration and curiosity, "But you shouldn't need to fight now, right? Why are you still working so hard?"

Fang Xinghe remained calm, raised his hand and pushed his half-long hair behind his head, revealing his smooth, full forehead and his intact face covered with sweat.

Then, he turned and looked at the poster on the wall.

Everyone looked with him. It was a poster of Fist of Fury. Jet Li kicked his right leg high up, very fiercely.

"I am probably a little more handsome than him, but how can being handsome alone be enough?"

Fang Xinghe spoke softly, as if talking to himself.

"I want to be the strongest and most dazzling one among my peers, and become the most indelible symbol in their memories. When everyone mentions me, they either admire me or envy me. So, now is the right time to fight..."

The person in charge was stunned, and then a hint of ecstasy flashed in his eyes.

The lawyer was stunned, then looked at the poster thoughtfully.

Liu Dashan was also stunned, then nodded with relief, but in fact he was howling madly in his heart -

Yes, yes, this taste is just right!
Do we still need to continue discussing this business?

If I were that woman, I would write you a check right now. I'll sign the signature and you fill in the number. It's as much money as you say!

*********
Thanks to the new alliance "Hey, stop joking, stop joking, my waist is not in good condition", let me spend the next two days to celebrate the New Year, and the new content will be released on the 1st.

　In fact, the resistance of text is also reflected in the information density. My biggest problem as an online writer is that I often subconsciously increase the information density and fail to achieve the ultimate fluency. In fact, there is really a threshold to writing exciting articles.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)