Perhaps this award is not as well-known as the Galaxy Award in the eyes of ordinary people. This is the home base of science fiction writers. Which of them doesn't pay attention to the Hugo Award
"Hello everyone, my name is Lin Han. This is my first time attending this kind of salon. Is there anything I should pay attention to?"
"You are Lin Han. We have heard about you for a long time. Come sit here and tell us about the Hugo Awards."
In fact, Lin Han doesn't hate them, but is a little grateful. If it weren't for the "help" of Teng Haiyun, Zhao Zhuowei and others, he would not have the opportunity to stand in the Tsinghua Auditorium to give speeches to so many big names and future big names, and to join the Mars Project Project Team All thanks to this speech.
Lin Han's words were a little cautious. He had experienced the days of looking for science fiction novels on the Internet to read. He had read a lot of science fiction online in his previous life, but there were relatively few that could be called true science fiction, and there were only a few. It catches the eye.
Although the name of this salon is called the Lecture Hall, everyone basically communicates with each other. From time to time, people ask Lin Han questions, and he also picks up the energy to answer them one by one. Lin Han handles the occasional difficult remarks.
Lin Han has made several friends at this time. This is a serious exchange. A novel from inspiration to final product is like cooking. The same ingredients will be cooked by different chefs. Different taste.
This is the highest award in the industry. When Lin Han won the award, these writers also cheered and celebrated. In particular, the staff of the Popular Science Writers Association were grateful that they had done a good job and recruited Lin Han into the association in advance.
The most important thing is what force drives the protagonist from the beginning to the end. Lin Han feels that such a salon is a time to learn from each other's strengths and to listen to the gossip in the science fiction circle.
Now Lin Han is learning from others how to describe a full-fledged character, starting from the character's appearance, preferences, habitual actions and mantras, what are his beliefs, dreams, specialties, whether he has any weaknesses, and his partners Who is the enemy
Another person suddenly began to ask: "So do you think soft science fiction or hard science fiction is better? I find that today's readers prefer to read hard science fiction novels. Are even the science fiction online considered science fiction? They are completely fantasy and cultivation disguised as science fiction. Novels, not to mention the infinite flow.”
There are very few young science fiction and popular science writers, and these people rarely see Lin Han on other occasions. They all know Lin Han's name and his subsequent influence.
Now when they saw Lin Han's new face, they couldn't help but stop their words and focus on Lin Han.
The other writers also talked freely about their own experiences, how to write good science fiction novels, how to make up for the mistakes in the novels, and how to connect them with real life. Everyone talked wonderfully.
Driving to the hotel booked by the association, there were already many people chatting on the spot. Most of them were old friends, and there were very few new people joining every year.
The writers present here all have mixed feelings about Lin Han. Some are pleased that there are successors in science fiction, but some are envious that he has achieved something they have never achieved before at such a young age.
Some people originally did not plan to come to the "Science Fiction Lecture Hall", but after hearing that Lin Han would come to the site for communication, they changed their minds and came over.
Teng Haiyun moved his butt slightly uneasily. Lin Han now is completely different from before. Lin Han was just an ordinary science fiction writer at the time. Now he has returned home with great honors and is the first person in Asia to win the Hugo Award. .
He openly admitted his shortcomings and hoped not to be isolated by this group of writers.
"You must become famous as early as possible. You, the Yangtze River back wave, are simply like the Qiantang River tide!"
"A short story I published last month was scolded to death. I wanted to take it back and rewrite it quickly."
The Popular Science Writers Association holds similar salons regularly every year, inviting association members from different regions to gather together. The topics of each issue are different. In fact, it is more like a gathering of writers.
This is actually because hard science fiction does not meet the needs of readers of online novels. The readership groups of both parties are inconsistent, so Lin Han has no intention of writing online novels at all, which means nothing to him.
"What is the core of this science fiction novel? What kind of world does the story take place in? What kind of story is this? What are the length, perspective, style, and rhythm? What kind of person or creature is the protagonist of the story? Have you ever written a biography for the protagonist?"
Lin Han could feel the kindness in this, and he was not afraid of anything. He sat on the sofa and picked up a bottle of mineral water and took a sip before saying: "Actually, I am still exploring myself. Writing a novel may only be as long as It will take a month or even half a month, but before that, you need to think about it for a long time, drawing inspiration from different science fiction books, the latest science fiction movies, and cutting-edge scientific research articles every year.”
"Science fiction does not need to be divided into soft and hard parts in detail, as long as it can tell a good story. As for online science fiction, it contains more elements. This is an emerging genre and is very creative. Some well-written high-quality novels are also worthy of Take a look. As for Infinite Streaming, this is probably a fanfic with science fiction elements, right?"
In other words, Lin Han will have to face so many strangers alone, as well as the few people who stabbed him in the back in the Tsinghua University auditorium. This feeling is really strange.
"It is necessary to master a certain amount of hardware knowledge. Even soft science fiction must be convincing, not unreasonable and absurd, and there must be no logical loopholes. This is a brand new world. There is also a need to establish a writing framework. Just like a normal novel, at least the structure can’t go wrong.”
The creativity of a science fiction novel is very precious. Behind a novel is one or two creative ideas, so writers do not communicate with their peers during the conception and writing process.
Unlike the Provincial Writers Association and the National Writers Association, the members of the Popular Science Writers Association are almost all related to science fiction and science popularization, so there is not much of a generation gap when talking. Everyone is an avid science fiction lover.
Although Li Wenyuan also received the invitation, he had to attend a puzzle program with Sichuan Guardian to promote his new book, so he could only miss it unfortunately.
Lin Han himself likes hard science fiction very much, but sometimes it is not difficult to compromise for the sake of his works. He is not stubborn.
"Finally, we have a new face. We are all very curious about how you write science fiction so well, with each book selling so well and receiving such high reviews."