[Autumn Pirika] Paper and Pencil (1)

The theme is "Paper". I am brainstorming while looking at the theme for a literary award on a blog site. Now, what should I write?

I don't mean to brag, but I have applied to similar contests several times. However, I have never even come close to winning. It might be sour grapes (no, it is definitely sour grapes), but can even traditional, well-known literary awards objectively determine the superiority of a work?

I look at the names of the judges. It is already over at this point. There isn't a single work by these judges that I enjoy reading. And even if I were to write a piece that the judges liked and won an award, it wouldn't make me happy at all.

However, I reconsider. Even if I don't win an award, applying gives me a chance to be read by more people than my usual work. Unlike applying to general literary awards, literary awards held on blog sites allow other readers to read the entries as well. I don't know the exact numbers, but the number of "likes" is, to some extent, a measure of popularity. It is possible to write a work that gets more "likes" than the Grand Prix winner.

I gave up on winning the literary award (some might call it desertion in the face of the enemy), and regardless of the content, I focused my consciousness on the question, "How can I get as many people as possible to read this?" Not on winning an award, but on how I could get more people to read my work than the one that wins the Grand Prix.

My goal became clear. To write the most-read work without winning an award. This is the one point. I think I'm a nasty person myself. But it's worth a challenge.

Before writing the piece, I thought about how to be deeply disliked by the judges.

First, never "like" the works the judges usually write. Thoroughly ignore the judges' works. No matter how good I think they are, I will not follow them, and I will not press "like." Under no circumstances should I praise the works written by the judges.
If I make this kind of effort, there is no way my work will be chosen.

In the first place, the essence of literature is anti-authority. It's not that everything those in power do is bad, but it's better to chant slogans of "Oppose everything!" If I pander to those in power even a little, I will lose all my brilliance at that moment.

Those in power always say, "
I always judge works with an impartial and selfless attitude."

But that is impossible. If they declare that they will maintain impartiality and selflessness, they will start to avoid looking at the works of people they usually follow, or they will intentionally avoid works with many "likes" so that they don't appear to be lying in their own words.

Or perhaps it is human nature to start thinking about which works other judges might push, rather than the works they truly think are excellent.

I wrote all this down on paper in one go. It is undecided whether I will type this up and submit it.

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Needless to say, this is all fiction.
However, for example, it would not be strange at all if one of the judges had blocked me.

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