Chapter 73: I will teach you to write a book
"Why did you suddenly go to Africa?"
Harper asked in confusion.
On the window sill lit by the sun, her youthful figure is reflected.
Holding a pen, Harper asked Wei Chen, who was reading on the sofa, while writing on the paper.
When she was writing, she did not like to use a typewriter or a computer.
Instead, I like to use pen and paper.
The touch of the pen and the rustling sound written on the paper made her infatuated. She liked this feeling very much.
"There's one thing to do, but I'll be back soon, don't worry."
Wei Chen put down the book and explained solemnly.
"Well, you always have things to do. You don't even go to Leslie's parent-teacher meeting."
The corners of Harper's mouth pouted slightly, pretending to be angry, but the smile on the corners of her brows betrayed her.
"Parents' meeting? When did Leslie go to school?"
Wei Chen looked astonished.
"This parent-teacher conference is not another parent-teacher conference," Harper put down his pen and said with a smile, "It's Leslie's parent-teacher conference. Aren't you happy that Leslie successfully joined the Super Seven?"
"Forehead......"
Wei Chen was at a loss for words.
Unexpectedly, Harper would occasionally make a fool of himself, "I'm happy, of course I'm happy."
A smile quickly formed on his face.
Harper felt that Wei Chen's smile was a bit fake, "What, it's not sincere at all. You shouldn't have forgotten about it!"
"Of course not. Leslie whispers in my ear every day, no thousand but eight hundred times. Even if I forget my birthday, I will never forget this day. It's just..."
Wei Chen sighed, stood up from the sofa, and looked at the sunshine outside the window, "I just don't know if I'm doing the right thing, she's still a girl after all, in that dangerous circle, I'm really afraid she won't be able to bear it. ."
"You really look like a parent who cares about your children, even though you don't have children yet."
Harper thought Wei Chen's idea was interesting.
"However, I don't think even parents keep their children around. Also, you've always been a seven- or eight-year-old girl with Leslie, but haven't you noticed? She's grown a lot."
"Oh?"
Wei Chen turned his head suspiciously and faced Harper, "Is there any?"
"Of course, since you talked to her that night, she has grown a lot. Women are more careful than men in this regard."
"Maybe!"
Wei Chen sighed, "That's why I don't want to go to Walter Company to attend the parent-teacher meeting. Forget it, what about my autobiography you wrote?"
"Less smug, I wrote the story of Batman, not your autobiography."
When Harper, who hated helping people write autobiographies the most, heard Wei Chen mention the word "autobiography", he immediately lit up his paws like an angry kitten at Wei Chen.
"Haha, that's me, at least this world is associated with me. Come, let me see."
Regardless of whether Harper agreed or not, Wei Chen quickly picked up the manuscript on the table and quickly read it.
Harper stared at Wei Chen with excited and anxious eyes. He wanted to hear Wei Chen's comments, but he was afraid that he would say bad comments.
That feeling is like a middle school student who can't wait for the teacher to mark his composition.
"Uh-huh......"
After reading a few pages, Wei Chen nodded pretentiously, "Very good, at least it's better than me. It's very similar to the superhero works circulating in the market now, superheroes fight villains, sometimes there are small emotional twists and turns, sometimes Interact with friendly citizens and sometimes accidentally save the world."
"These superhero stories are all popular in the market now!"
Harper puffed out his mouth, feeling that Wei Chen was deliberately provocative.
"Does it have to be good?"
Wei Chen sighed and felt that Harper still failed to understand what "dark realism" means.
But it's no wonder that this world, because of the birth of Walter's superheroes, the American superhero publishing industry, whether it is comics, novels, or movies, has always followed a creative model.
That is the setting of "people love superheroes"!
No matter what kind of literary and artistic works are basically inseparable from this theme.
This may be related to the superhero monopoly of the Walter Company. After all, in another world, people can freely use their pen and ink and imagination to create fictional superheroes and give them various souls and abilities, whether evil or good. .
But in this world, superheroes are all over the street, and they have become a part of people's real life, so they are not interested in fictional superheroes, only those superheroes that really exist.
Even those superhero stories sound outrageous.
The consequence of this is that no one dares to reconstruct and analyze the superheroes of the Walter Company and give them different personalities. All superhero characters are cookie-cutter, great and patriotic.
That's why superhero literary works are so monotonous.
Wei Chen wanted the Batman story created by Harper to be his own worldAlan Moore's "The Dark Knight Returns".
Dark, realistic, crazy and thought provoking.
"Harper, you have to know that the soul you gave to Bruce Wayne should be dark, heavy and lonely. For example, Queen Maeve, you like her, you want to be like her. For example, Starlight, you envy him, you Want to be her. But with Bruce Wayne, you admire him, but you definitely don't want to be like him."
"He is not a hero in the traditional sense, he should be an anti-hero."
"Anti-hero?"
"It's just an imperfect hero, very imperfect. In a certain situation, he has many of the villain's shortcomings, but he has a certain heroic temperament or a certain heroic behavior."
Wei Chen found it a little difficult to explain to Harper, "In terms of language, it's a little lacking. Why don't I write a story, a story about The Joker and Batman. This story is very interesting. Batman and The Joker have always been two sides of the same body."
Harper tilted his head, a little confused, "Wait, of course I understand what you said, the creation of literary and artistic works should create various characters, give them complex personalities, and put them into the choice of morality or destiny. Triggered violent conflict or conflict of human nature. But..."
Harper paused, "This is a superhero work, and what people expect from them is a lofty character. If you create a so-called anti-hero, maybe readers won't buy it. After all, no one has ever done this before."
"No! I think I can give it a try."
Wei Chen shook his head. He felt that all the people in the world had basically the same thoughts, that is, they hated the same thing.
He picked up the pen and wrote the first paragraph on the paper:
"Whyso"