I can't be rushing
Chapter 344 Writing a Martial Arts Novel
After filming, Wu Sheng devoted all his energy to studying martial arts novels. He also searched a lot of information online, and asked some big names in this field in his own author group.
He also got some skills taught to him by several big guys.
The first point is that martial arts is a kind of novel, a kind of literary creation; novels are fictional, but they come from reality—knowledge, allusions, historical materials, and psychological feelings in reality. Therefore, to write it well, you must also a kind of accumulation;
The second point is that martial arts novels have their status in the history of literature, that is to say, excellent martial arts novels are rigorous creations.Hua Luogeng's definition of martial arts is "fairy tales for adults", and the imagination in them is conducive to scientific thinking; people do not think that Andersen is naive because he wrote fairy tales, so for martial arts, we should use the "masterpiece" Treat it according to your status; learn more from classic masterpieces!
The third point is that in the history of literature, the weird and strange stories of the Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties, the legends of the Tang Dynasty, and the green forest novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties have developed all the way to contemporary martial arts; the ideas of martial arts fantasy have been passed down in an orderly manner; each period in between has an absolute classic The work is worth studying.
Therefore, writing martial arts novels is not as simple as writing them if you want to.
In fact, Wu Sheng is not very clear about the period, but this period is definitely a tragedy for martial arts novels, because there are really very few people who can write better martial arts novels in the online literary world.
Many people just write and then give up. After all, it is too tiring. If you want to write martial arts novels, you must first know that martial arts and fantasy are different.
The most important thing is the difference in settings. If you don't pay attention to this, then this novel will most likely become a fantasy novel rather than a martial arts novel.
For example, in terms of martial arts, the description of this aspect is indispensable, and it actually tests the author's imagination.
If the writing is too mysterious, it will become a fantasy, if it is too plain and unattractive, let each character have unusual stunts but be injured, bleed, and die just like ordinary people.
So this has become a nightmare for many writers of martial arts novels. Just these martial arts routines are enough for them, and they need to add character relationships and images. This is to force people alive. Crazy.
To sum up, writing martial arts novels is not directly proportional to income. If you write seriously, you need at least ten hours to write [-] characters. After such a long period of time, you will definitely get bored.
This is the reason why many authors can’t persevere. Most of the authors now write books as a side job, and few people regard it as their main job.
And some people have done statistics. Now martial arts novels only account for about 20.00% of the market. This number is scary when you think about it. Fantasy fiction is basically [-]%, which forms a sharp contrast.
The writing style of fantasy novels is poor, and the plot construction ability is poor, so I can still get a relatively good full attendance in fantasy novels, plus some guaranteed salary or something.
And you don’t need to spend so much time every day. Looking at martial arts novels, everything needs to be designed according to highly precise requirements. If you are not rigorous at all, the audience will complain.
This is why for so many years, these old works can only be remakes, because not many authors are willing to spend so much time and effort on writing.
But this is good news for Wu Sheng, because he needs to write such a novel that can last forever, and other novels are no matter how good they are.
It will also be slowly forgotten by the world. Only famous novels such as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji" can barely survive forever. Other novels will eventually sink into the long river of history after all. .
So Wu Sheng needs such challenging novels, not to mention that he now has a relatively big advantage compared to those seniors who wrote martial arts novels, that is, he has a huge amount of traffic in his hands.
As long as you have this traffic, you don't need to worry about your novel not making any profit in the early stage, and the most important thing is that you can return to the male channel.
The first two romance novels have always forced him to write novels in the female channel, and today he finally has the opportunity to return to the male channel, and martial arts novels are also liked by many boys.
Of course, the most important thing is the heroine in it. Since the setting background of martial arts novels is basically in ancient times, a new term can be formed, that is, Harem Literature, which is similar to Zhang Wuji after he finished acting. up.
The woman who has an affair with the protagonist, the woman next to the protagonist, writes more heroines, which means that hundreds of thousands of words of manuscripts can be written. Of course, these manuscripts are not completely waste products.
Now that we live in ancient times, there is no restriction on monogamy, only those thoughts of three wives and four concubines are left, and even if it is writing a heroine.
But it is also necessary to write more about some ambiguous situations with the male protagonist, so that the audience will naturally enjoy watching it more happily. Wu Sheng also thinks that this can be written through him.
There are so many girls around him, basically they have had some ambiguous situations with him, so it is basically the same to quote Wu Sheng's own emotional experience here.
Basically, all the necessary settings have been settled, and now it’s time to start the book, but Wu Sheng’s protagonist’s name has not yet been decided.
The issue of names also needs to be considered. For example, Guo Jing and Yang Kang in the novels of Senior Jin represent the historical event of the shame of Jingkang.
The names of other characters have more or less a meaning in this regard, so the name is actually quite important.
But I can figure it out for a while, so Wu Sheng is also busy writing the outline and the plot of the first few chapters.
"Why don't you give up!"
Wu Sheng stared at the sky blankly. To be honest, he really wanted to give up. It seemed impossible to create a completely new martial arts novel.
I feel that everything I want to think of has a shadow of the predecessors. For example, Wu Sheng wanted to add a more funny technique and let a thief practice it.
The first reaction in his mind is "Chaishan Eighteen Styles", but this is also used by others, but it is even more impossible to continue the worldview of those old predecessors.
So Wu Sheng finally understood why writers who wrote about martial arts starved so many people to death. If they wanted to create a brand new world of martial arts, there were so many things to consider, such as martial arts and light martial arts.
He needs to think and write these names by himself, and there is also the sect. Although Huaxia has some traditional sects that can be used for reference, he still needs to think of many small sects by himself.
However, the problem of martial arts can also solve most of the problems of martial arts. After all, the martial arts that have existed in China all have inherited martial arts.
So the name Wu Sheng borrowed is not a problem at all. After considering this issue, the next step is to consider the issue of the heroine, whether it is three wives or four concubines or something.
Anyway, there must be a junior sister who grew up with his childhood sweethearts. This can lay the groundwork for the subsequent plot, and then he meets the first woman in his life who likes him.
Thinking of this, Wu Sheng also immediately thought of how to write the setting of the protagonist, that is, to use himself as a template for the protagonist. The protagonist was unable to speak due to a certain loss when he was a child, and became the kind of dumb person.
Later, because she wanted to speak like other people, she was always looking for a way to restore her voice. On the way, she met a woman who thought she had run away from home.
The two embarked on the journey together. This heroine is actually the Li Yao from the beginning, and it would be good to just transfer all these things that happened to her and bring them into the novel.
This did not go against his original intention. He felt that writing novels is about writing so that the audience can feel your truth, so Wu Sheng seldom writes those fantasy ones, because there is no way to experience them personally, so it leads to Can't write well.
He also got some skills taught to him by several big guys.
The first point is that martial arts is a kind of novel, a kind of literary creation; novels are fictional, but they come from reality—knowledge, allusions, historical materials, and psychological feelings in reality. Therefore, to write it well, you must also a kind of accumulation;
The second point is that martial arts novels have their status in the history of literature, that is to say, excellent martial arts novels are rigorous creations.Hua Luogeng's definition of martial arts is "fairy tales for adults", and the imagination in them is conducive to scientific thinking; people do not think that Andersen is naive because he wrote fairy tales, so for martial arts, we should use the "masterpiece" Treat it according to your status; learn more from classic masterpieces!
The third point is that in the history of literature, the weird and strange stories of the Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties, the legends of the Tang Dynasty, and the green forest novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties have developed all the way to contemporary martial arts; the ideas of martial arts fantasy have been passed down in an orderly manner; each period in between has an absolute classic The work is worth studying.
Therefore, writing martial arts novels is not as simple as writing them if you want to.
In fact, Wu Sheng is not very clear about the period, but this period is definitely a tragedy for martial arts novels, because there are really very few people who can write better martial arts novels in the online literary world.
Many people just write and then give up. After all, it is too tiring. If you want to write martial arts novels, you must first know that martial arts and fantasy are different.
The most important thing is the difference in settings. If you don't pay attention to this, then this novel will most likely become a fantasy novel rather than a martial arts novel.
For example, in terms of martial arts, the description of this aspect is indispensable, and it actually tests the author's imagination.
If the writing is too mysterious, it will become a fantasy, if it is too plain and unattractive, let each character have unusual stunts but be injured, bleed, and die just like ordinary people.
So this has become a nightmare for many writers of martial arts novels. Just these martial arts routines are enough for them, and they need to add character relationships and images. This is to force people alive. Crazy.
To sum up, writing martial arts novels is not directly proportional to income. If you write seriously, you need at least ten hours to write [-] characters. After such a long period of time, you will definitely get bored.
This is the reason why many authors can’t persevere. Most of the authors now write books as a side job, and few people regard it as their main job.
And some people have done statistics. Now martial arts novels only account for about 20.00% of the market. This number is scary when you think about it. Fantasy fiction is basically [-]%, which forms a sharp contrast.
The writing style of fantasy novels is poor, and the plot construction ability is poor, so I can still get a relatively good full attendance in fantasy novels, plus some guaranteed salary or something.
And you don’t need to spend so much time every day. Looking at martial arts novels, everything needs to be designed according to highly precise requirements. If you are not rigorous at all, the audience will complain.
This is why for so many years, these old works can only be remakes, because not many authors are willing to spend so much time and effort on writing.
But this is good news for Wu Sheng, because he needs to write such a novel that can last forever, and other novels are no matter how good they are.
It will also be slowly forgotten by the world. Only famous novels such as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji" can barely survive forever. Other novels will eventually sink into the long river of history after all. .
So Wu Sheng needs such challenging novels, not to mention that he now has a relatively big advantage compared to those seniors who wrote martial arts novels, that is, he has a huge amount of traffic in his hands.
As long as you have this traffic, you don't need to worry about your novel not making any profit in the early stage, and the most important thing is that you can return to the male channel.
The first two romance novels have always forced him to write novels in the female channel, and today he finally has the opportunity to return to the male channel, and martial arts novels are also liked by many boys.
Of course, the most important thing is the heroine in it. Since the setting background of martial arts novels is basically in ancient times, a new term can be formed, that is, Harem Literature, which is similar to Zhang Wuji after he finished acting. up.
The woman who has an affair with the protagonist, the woman next to the protagonist, writes more heroines, which means that hundreds of thousands of words of manuscripts can be written. Of course, these manuscripts are not completely waste products.
Now that we live in ancient times, there is no restriction on monogamy, only those thoughts of three wives and four concubines are left, and even if it is writing a heroine.
But it is also necessary to write more about some ambiguous situations with the male protagonist, so that the audience will naturally enjoy watching it more happily. Wu Sheng also thinks that this can be written through him.
There are so many girls around him, basically they have had some ambiguous situations with him, so it is basically the same to quote Wu Sheng's own emotional experience here.
Basically, all the necessary settings have been settled, and now it’s time to start the book, but Wu Sheng’s protagonist’s name has not yet been decided.
The issue of names also needs to be considered. For example, Guo Jing and Yang Kang in the novels of Senior Jin represent the historical event of the shame of Jingkang.
The names of other characters have more or less a meaning in this regard, so the name is actually quite important.
But I can figure it out for a while, so Wu Sheng is also busy writing the outline and the plot of the first few chapters.
"Why don't you give up!"
Wu Sheng stared at the sky blankly. To be honest, he really wanted to give up. It seemed impossible to create a completely new martial arts novel.
I feel that everything I want to think of has a shadow of the predecessors. For example, Wu Sheng wanted to add a more funny technique and let a thief practice it.
The first reaction in his mind is "Chaishan Eighteen Styles", but this is also used by others, but it is even more impossible to continue the worldview of those old predecessors.
So Wu Sheng finally understood why writers who wrote about martial arts starved so many people to death. If they wanted to create a brand new world of martial arts, there were so many things to consider, such as martial arts and light martial arts.
He needs to think and write these names by himself, and there is also the sect. Although Huaxia has some traditional sects that can be used for reference, he still needs to think of many small sects by himself.
However, the problem of martial arts can also solve most of the problems of martial arts. After all, the martial arts that have existed in China all have inherited martial arts.
So the name Wu Sheng borrowed is not a problem at all. After considering this issue, the next step is to consider the issue of the heroine, whether it is three wives or four concubines or something.
Anyway, there must be a junior sister who grew up with his childhood sweethearts. This can lay the groundwork for the subsequent plot, and then he meets the first woman in his life who likes him.
Thinking of this, Wu Sheng also immediately thought of how to write the setting of the protagonist, that is, to use himself as a template for the protagonist. The protagonist was unable to speak due to a certain loss when he was a child, and became the kind of dumb person.
Later, because she wanted to speak like other people, she was always looking for a way to restore her voice. On the way, she met a woman who thought she had run away from home.
The two embarked on the journey together. This heroine is actually the Li Yao from the beginning, and it would be good to just transfer all these things that happened to her and bring them into the novel.
This did not go against his original intention. He felt that writing novels is about writing so that the audience can feel your truth, so Wu Sheng seldom writes those fantasy ones, because there is no way to experience them personally, so it leads to Can't write well.
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