Keeping a Diary in the Entertainment Industry: Honey, Don't Be Jealous

Tian Xiwei

It's a monologue-style, educational piece with little plot and a dragging pace!

I tasted it; it's poisonous. I won't write about anything borderline. I won't write about the content of films or TV series. I won't write about my own creative ideas for adapting films or TV series. I won't write about entertainment gossip. Just keeping a diary. Speculation about female celebrities. Data analysis. Utterly bland.

What are the latest chapters about? Is it an argumentative essay? The entire chapter is just about winning the Golden Bear and why. The latest chapter introduces Liu Yifei, but where's the plot? Are you really writing an argumentative essay? Give me a thesis statement, and the whole thing is just evidence. No thrills, no climaxes. She won the Golden Bear and became a Best Actress.

The entire piece consists of nonsensical scientific ramblings and inexplicable psychological activities. The plot is less than a tenth of the whole thing, the diary entries are a jumbled mess, and the protagonist's decisions are contradictory. Overall, it's a complete mess.

The diary concept in this book is quite good, but like a similar novel I read before, it feels a bit off. Putting everything else aside, just the first few dozen chapters are filled with too much scheming and backstabbing between the female protagonists, which is annoying to read and makes them seem far too intelligent, while belittling the male protagonist too much. The book emphasizes his numerous flaws and the female protagonists' manipulation, but these reasons don't seem very convincing.

There's practically no plot; the whole thing is just the author's inner monologues or introductions to various things. If I didn't know better, I'd think I was reading a Baidu Baike (Chinese Wikipedia) entry.

Flaw 1: Adding someone to the group is a real mistake. There are only nine people in the group, and suddenly there's one more. How could they not notice? It's like the main character knowing they can see the diary. The suspense and tension are completely gone, and the satisfying part of the diary is lost. The author must be incredibly naive to come up with such a plot.

Why are they all using terms like "explanation" or "introduction"? Sometimes it's like that for several chapters in a row.

Sixteen books, and they're only level 2? I can't believe it. I even feel a sense of dread when I click on the books. 😰