借宝地得瑟一下和卖个小广告学校假期最后一天了，终于把我儿子写的一部小说发表在Kindle上了。他现在天马行空的想象力和对文字的驾驭能力，我都跟不上了。该帖荣获当日十大第6，奖励楼主8分以及12华新币，时间：2017-06-27 22:00:01。 [大叔一名 (6-26 20:40, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]1楼
Preview: 第一章Chapter 1
Curse
of the Flute Key
Gerald took a deep breath, tilted his
head down and started to play his favourite piece. The music put him into a
trance, his fingers pressing on the keys, almost mechanically. Then suddenly,
the flute sound stopped. Gerald opened his eyes in surprise. What had happened?
He was just about to get to the exciting part! He played the chromatic scale. B
flat, C… Wait, C sharp did not play! “You again?” he asked, as if talking to
the flute key. He played C sharp again and with a sigh, said to himself, “I’ve
got to fix it this time…”
He knew he had to fix this problem.
Recently, the size of his wallet had been very small and thus he had been
procrastinating on this flute key problem. However, he needed to fix it this
time. If not, he would not be able to play at his next performance! Rather
reluctantly, he rushed to his computer and went online to search for good deals
to repair his flute key.
His eyes scanned through the
webpages on a local online forum when something caught his eyes. FREE FLUTE KEY
REPLACEMENT! GO TO WAREHOUSE ON 5 AMBER STREET! As his motto went, “When
something’s free, don’t forget me!” he placed his flute in its case and headed
for the subway immediately. Gerald had a
humble background. Since young, his
parents trained him to be thrifty.
Learning to play the flute was not cheap. It came with all sorts of tuition and maintenance
cost. Gerald had passed the age of
asking for allowance from his parents.
He felt lucky that he could chance upon this ad online. He was
off towards Amber Street at the very next moment. He walked down Amber Street, reading to
himself the addresses, “11 Amber Street, 9 Amber Street, 7…there it is! 5 Amber
Street!”. He held his flute case and trotted into the old warehouse. An old man
came up to him and said “You must be here for replacement of a flute key.”
“Yes! And it’s free right?” Gerald
exclaimed as he opened his flute case.
The man nodded plainly as if he did
not possess any emotion. Somehow, he already knew which key was not working. He
took a brown key from one of the wooden boxes in the corner and replaced the
flawed one on the flute right away. Something about it did not seem right. Oh
well, Gerald thought, it is just a free flute key replacement. What can I
expect? That was probably the worst decision he had made. He had no idea what
he was in for…
Dean had been Gerald’s flute tutor
for three years. He knew Gerald very well and knew that he had a disciplined
and rigid personality. However, Dean thought Gerald had reached a plateau in
his musical ability as Gerald was not able to express any feeling in his
playing. As Dean thought about it, he realised in a way Gerald was stubborn as
he loved playing certain types of music but not others.
Dean found himself walking toward
Gerald’s house the next day and hearing beautiful music from Gerald’s dormitory,
it melted his heart! He thought it can’t be Gerald playing it as the music was
too expressive. Moreover, this piece was one that he had never been able to
play before despite weeks of practice!
Dean walked into Gerald’s dormitory
and when he saw Gerald playing the romantic piece, he exclaimed, “Wow! I can’t
believe it’s you…”. Before he could finish, he noticed the wooden flute key on
Gerald’s flute.
“What is that? How did you get it?”
Dean asked Gerald as he pointed to the key.
Gerald told him everything from how
he found the ad for the free replacement flute key to how after changing the
flute key, his playing skill had increased by a tenfold!
The moment Dean heard this, his
heart sank and the light in his eyes drained away. This was not a miracle; it
was disaster! Immediately after the lesson, he travelled into the musical
dimension and reported to the flute King about the unrealistic miracle.
“Oh no, this is very, very, very
bad! The double basses have their names written all over this whole scheme.
This must be one of their curses. Hurry, make him stop playing the flute,
before it is too late!” The King exclaimed.
“Yes, my lord, I will make sure the
student stops playing that flute,” Dean said as he bowed down.
But it was too late. Gerald was
amazed by how well he could master the flute after he had changed the key. He
played it day and night, even forgetting to eat and sleep sometimes! Dean
charged through Gerald’s front door just as he was about to start playing
another piece.
“Why did you interrupt me? I was
just about to play another Beethoven!” Gerald complained.
“Gerald, you have to listen to me.
Stop playing on this flute, please. I would do anything for you as long as you
promise me not to play this flute anymore. Pass the flute to me!” Dean said,
while trying to catch his breath.
Gerald threw a scowl at Dean, “You
are just jealous, aren’t you? Now that I can play way better than you, you ARE
jealous! You want this amazing flute all to yourself. Well, that’s too bad; I
am not giving it to you!”
Seeing that arguing on any further
would worsen the situation, Dean decided to bring Gerald into the Musical
Dimension.
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小广告时段如果你觉得写得还行，又有Kindle 或 Kindle Apps，考虑一下花一块钱支持一下年轻人。
在Kindle Store搜 The Battle : Music v.s. Silence 就有了。
非常欢迎各种意见和建议。[大叔一名 (6-26 20:48, Long long ago)]
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几岁啊！太厉害了，都能写小说了！ [本文发送自华新iOS APP] [塑料玫瑰 (6-26 21:58, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]4楼
(引用 大叔一名:Preview: 第一章Chapter 1 Curse of the Flute Key Gerald took a deep breath, tilted his head do ...)好看 [本文发送自华新iOS APP] [三叶草青青 (6-26 22:02, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]5楼
大叔儿子太棒了快来传授一下教育孩子的经验吧 [本文发送自华新iOS APP] [呼呼怪 (6-26 22:04, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]6楼
(引用 塑料玫瑰:几岁啊！太厉害了，都能写小说了！)11岁，小5我也是觉得挺厉害的[大叔一名 (6-26 22:13, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]7楼
(引用 呼呼怪:大叔儿子太棒了快来传授一下教育孩子的经验吧)我觉得一部分是天生，一部分是运气天生的部分肯定是我老婆那里来的。我从小最怕作文了。
运气的部分是他在去年遇到一位非常非常好的英文老师。这位老师不但提高了他的文字能力，还提高了他对文学的兴趣。
我做的就是买书给他看，亚马逊上的书都不算贵。[大叔一名 (6-26 22:19, Long long ago)]
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太厉害了 摩拜小五的英文 我赶不上 [本文发送自华新iOS APP] [qingtian (6-26 22:26, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]9楼
厉害了厉害了文学小天才，大叔的娃好棒 [本文发送自华新iOS APP] [勺子小姐 (6-26 22:28, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]10楼
(引用 大叔一名:我觉得一部分是天生，一部分是运气天生的部分肯定是我老婆那里来的。我从小最怕作文了。 运气的部分是他在去年遇到一位非常非常好的英文...)太棒了！果然男孩的智力绝大部分是遗传自母亲 呵呵 [本文发送自华新iOS APP] [昵称老是被注册 (6-26 22:29, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]11楼
(引用 大叔一名:我觉得一部分是天生，一部分是运气天生的部分肯定是我老婆那里来的。我从小最怕作文了。 运气的部分是他在去年遇到一位非常非常好的英文...)只有我关心英文老师哪里的吗？求推荐，求介绍... [本文发送自华新iOS APP] [杜小小 (6-26 22:38, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]12楼
(引用 大叔一名:Preview: 第一章Chapter 1 Curse of the Flute Key Gerald took a deep breath, tilted his head do ...)厉害厉害佩服佩服！[崖士蛮 (6-26 22:47, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]13楼
(引用 杜小小:只有我关心英文老师哪里的吗？求推荐，求介绍...)学校的英文老师啊有理想，有学识，有冲劲，又非常照顾同学。[大叔一名 (6-26 22:50, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]14楼
(引用 大叔一名:学校的英文老师啊有理想，有学识，有冲劲，又非常照顾同学。)那太棒了！lz的娃写作的技巧妥妥的。 [本文发送自华新iOS APP] [杜小小 (6-26 22:54, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]15楼
(引用 大叔一名:学校的英文老师啊有理想，有学识，有冲劲，又非常照顾同学。)好赞老师私下有开课吗，有的话求介绍
作文基本上属于再怎么努力也上不去1，2分的项目
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哇 实在是太厉害啦！大叔育儿有方，人生赢家啊！（以及又一次被大叔种草acs） [本文发送自华新iOS APP] [小妖霖霖 (6-27 0:02, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]17楼
人赢 [本文发送自华新iOS APP] [功夫熊猫 (6-27 0:26, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]18楼
(引用 大叔一名:我觉得一部分是天生，一部分是运气天生的部分肯定是我老婆那里来的。我从小最怕作文了。 运气的部分是他在去年遇到一位非常非常好的英文...)请问大叔，这位老师是怎么教的还有用什么专门的教材吗？看到有人推荐新加坡的The write way这本书，实用吗？[星茉莉 (6-27 7:43, Long long ago)] [ 传统版 | sForum ][登录后回复]19楼
(引用 大叔一名:Preview: 第一章Chapter 1
Curse
of the Flute Key
Gerald took a deep breath, tilted his
head do
...)惊呼～大叔的儿子太棒啦！怎么养出这样的儿子啊～
虽然遗传和天分肯定占了一大部分！
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