Chapter 2 second quarter

The buildings in Shinjuku seen through the window of the Odakyu Line are gradually receding.Every time I come home from the editorial office, I see this scene, which fascinates me like a scene from a science fiction work. I looked out the window and thought about what I decided to change during the meeting.Because there is no major revision, I think it should be completed relatively quickly this time, and I feel that I am getting more and more comfortable writing novels. I debuted as a novelist two years ago when I won the "Abstruse Society Fantasy Novel Award". Looking back now, the novel I wrote when I was in the fourth year of college with the motivation of not wanting to find a job was completely empty of enthusiasm, but the content was extremely green.But this work was lucky enough to be photographed, which allowed me to successfully become a novelist before graduation.

Even though he has become a novelist, the world is not so simple that newcomers can write and eat reliably immediately.However, I made my debut with great difficulty, and I couldn’t be more motivated to go back and look for a job (speaking of it, the motivation for participating in the competition was that I didn’t want to find a job).In a situation of distress and difficult choices, I wrote while doing a part-time job that lasted from my student days to the present, that is, I became a part-time writer.Watching my parents lament that I didn't have a full-time job when I graduated made me think this could be a thorny road.However, everyone says that suffering when you are young is like continuing to shop at stores with reward points. I encouraged myself to make a "hardship point card" and take the first step on the road of a novelist full of thorns.Because I live next to the university I’m used to and work in a cram school I’m familiar with, and I also live a life that is completely the same as when I was in college, eating cheap meals in the student cafeteria and going to the cooperative to read free books. Forget what kind of plant thorns really are.

After embarking on this repaired and thorny road, two years later, I have successfully published four novels so far, and the original manuscript in my handbag is about to become my fifth work.Although when I first debuted, I was uneasy about whether I could continue, but it was right to continue. Incidentally, the four books published so far are all fantasy novels, and the fifth work in hand is also a fantasy work.It's a matter of course for me to debut with a fantasy novel award, but I'm getting tired of it. Because of this, I want to challenge contemporary themes in my next work.Ms. Fu Bai also said that she likes suspense or reasoning works.Both were my first attempts at the challenge, but the reasoning class seemed quite interesting.

In order to find a topic for writing, I used my mobile phone to look at the news page.The headline was "130 Missing in Hyogo Prefecture".Just clicked on it and it was a piece of news that verified the proverb "Facts are stranger than fiction".After continuing to read the report, I learned that the factory staff of a large company disappeared collectively, and the scene was soaked in milky white wastewater leaking from nowhere. This is not only the title, but even the content is like a ghost story. Assuming that this incident happened in the novel, the author would have to give an explanation for the mystery of the disappearance of 130 people.If it's a fantasy novel, it's easy to deal with; if it's a mystery novel, it should be quite hard to figure out the reason.

Before arriving at the transfer station, I tried to think about the mechanism that caused the disappearance of 130 employees, and the last thing I thought of was that the victim was actually an ice sculpture, which would also explain why there was water on the floor.However, this may not be suitable for use in mystery novels.