'Song of Shao' and the creation of online literature and the literature of the times and the chat
Today is the 21st. The comic "Shao Song" is officially launched on Tencent Animation. Yuewen's own business is considered to be, and Yuewen itself also cooperates with the promotion, so I openly use the space to advertise. I hope everyone will go to Tencent Animation to collect it and see if you can join it. New pit... I personally highly recognize and respect the comic style. Teachers from Tencent Animation Tushan Studio also communicated with me several times, and the sincerity was far beyond my imagination.
The specific path is to go to Tencent Animation, find the hometown editing team or Tushan Studio, or directly search for "Shao Song".
I would like to take this opportunity to systematically talk about "Shao Song" itself and my superficial understanding of literary and artistic creation.
About "Shao Song".
The creation of "Shao Song" started unconsciously and was never carefully considered. After writing "The Overthrow of Han", you have realized that if you want to eat this bowl of rice, you have to write a new book, otherwise there will be no royalties, and then the editor will also Reminder, readers are also asking, I am going to write a new book anyway.
Then in an author group, there was a bastard who said to write about Jingkang or Zhao Gou... Then I said give it a try, so I wrote it.
While I was writing the opening, I flipped through "History of the Song Dynasty" and "Xutongjian" and read some biographies. I kept writing until it was put on the shelves, and then I bought Teacher Wang Zengyu's "The Biography of Yue Fei" and "The Biography of Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty", Nanyang For the plot, I just started to read the "Dictionary of the Official System of the Song Dynasty"..
Looking back now, it is entirely a case of rushing to the shelves, which also shows that the demand for detailed historical materials in historical online articles should be at a delicate stage.
But at the same time, I have to admit that "Shao Song" was also my golden period of creation.
The most obvious point is that some plots or chapters really cannot be run or planned by an individual. For example, when there is no information in the early stage, the plot of the protagonist defecting to Han Shizhong and the plot of Zhang Yongzhen's death are just a matter of course. , but it was created suddenly.
I don’t want to use the word inspiration, because when I write, I really do it without thinking.
The plot of defecting to Han Shizhong was driven by readers. The well-intentioned reader interaction in the previous chapter was there. After I set up the keyboard, I naturally thought about what kind of reader reaction this paragraph would have when I wrote it, and that paragraph. Write out how readers will laugh at you, and smooth out the plot at the same time.
Zhang Yongzhen's death was only a slight reuse of some literary techniques.
The key thing is the foreshadowing in the previous volume, the descriptions in the previous chapters, so that when I wrote this chapter, he was already dead. The protagonist must pretend to be in that position, and the drama between both parties has become natural. , it is impossible to change again, but at this time, you will think, what should a real hero be like? Can he really be selfless, loyal and filial piety first? Can the protagonist really be hypocritical and disguise to the end?
Therefore, two simple reversals allowed Zhang Yongzhen to return to the mortal world and make the protagonist lose control, which constituted the best plot before this book was put on the shelves.
This natural sense of smoothness is indeed something that can be encountered but not sought after in the creative process.
As for "The Fallen Eagle", it was actually a plot that I had anticipated in the early stages of creation. How early was it that I decided to write about Jingkang, but before I even started the book, I thought of this specific plot while listening to the soundtrack of the puppet show, and The specific actions and lines - it must be expressionless, and it must be shot for me!
Of course, when I was writing this sentence, I changed it to "Shoot it down for me"... Because the protagonist is in a state of collapse at this time, so it is a forced language expression, which should be a weaker tone, and even though he is
No matter how weak it is, no matter how weak its sentences are, it has actually constituted the strongest voice of the era, so the effect is even better.
But after "The Falling Eagle", everything went out of control and collapsed.
The decline of personal writing status, empty knowledge reserves, and stereotyped interpretation of characters all began to be exposed uniformly at this time.
Many people don't understand why there are so many unfinished online articles and so many eunuchs. In fact, not only online articles, but also any kind of serialized commercial literary and artistic works have to face the huge wear and tear caused by continuous updates. That kind of wear is
In all aspects, from the creative passion to the body, to the work itself, it will make your teeth sore, your bones ache, and your heart will grow calluses. After writing millions of words on the Internet, it is natural and normal for the quality to decline. It is the same serial work.
It is a rare state to write better and better in a cycle.
So, this leads to a spread of updates.
And updates are the lifeline of online articles. The problems they bring are all-round, and they will in turn entangle and promote other problems. At this time, I had a hunch that this book would not be able to end well. At that time
I began to tell myself, and at the same time, I began to tell a small number of other readers like I was asking for help. The ultimate goal of this book is to complete it.
However, what I didn't expect in the end was that the book would collapse on its basic structure.
Because of the spiral of silence and the traffic characteristics of the Internet era, many people are talking about "Bao Quan". Until last month, some Internet master scolded me on Weibo, but it is not like this... Although Bao Quan has caused a sensation,
It caused slander on the Internet that has not stopped until now, but it is more of a fermentation of public opinion and poor public relations.
Don't talk about the problems of the book itself, just talk about the sunspots. As early as after "The Condor", a group of sunspots that cannot be ignored has appeared in this book. They gather because of their dissatisfaction, and then take it as fun to report successfully, even after the report is successful.
Message me privately... There is even a big V with hundreds of thousands of followers on Zhihu. He never tires of expressing his dissatisfaction and continued ridicule of me in the forum, and remains silent on Zhihu.
And these were long before "Preservation".
Putting aside these confusing and distracting things, where is the point where this book has truly fallen into an irreparable state and lost the literary quality it should have had?
In "Martial Arts", in the fifth volume of the trip to the south of the Yangtze River.
Other problems, from the mistakes in "Security" to the inadequate handling of characters and plots in other chapters, are just technical or off-site public opinion problems. This is a comprehensive structural problem.
From here on, the structure of the entire book spirals out of control.
In other words, I can no longer maintain it... If you are a diligent reader, you will find that the protagonist's trip to the southeast is too hasty, and the qualitative evaluation of the character that should be at the end of the volume is actually thrown out at the beginning, which leads to
I suddenly didn’t know what to write, so the plot of the Northern Expedition, which was supposed to belong to a new volume, was forced to start, and it started in the second half of this volume... Within one volume, the content before and after it did not match.
It's funny to say that after this chapter, I basically wrote with a tragic mentality.
But when I woke up that morning and discovered that "Preservation" had caused a whirlpool of public opinion, on the one hand I felt depressed, and on the other hand I had an unexpected feeling that it had really happened.
However, it is true that the whirlpool and online conflicts that resulted were far beyond my imagination.
It also directly led to a major change in the style of my new book and a substantial reduction in communication with book friends. I may not be able to get out of the shadow of this incident in my life, which will lead to a fundamental change in my personality. At the same time, "Deposed"
The problem now with "Dragon" is that the pace is too slow...but that's a story for another day.
Going back to "Shao Song", from a technical point of view, experts or readers with creative experience can see that the problem lies in the plot of Jiangnan, this omen, after "The Falling Eagle", the return of the two saints, the "White Horse"
Chapter has begun to take shape, but by "Martial Arts" it has completely collapsed.
In addition, my personal mentality was obviously worried about gains and losses after "The Falling Eagle", and it fluctuated with the readers and the plot. It can be regarded as a manifestation of knowing what is happening but not being able to do anything about it.
Of course, to be fair, looking back, "Shao Song" is still a book that exceeds my initial imagination. Both the results and the final impact are far better than I thought.
Returning to the evaluation system of online articles, its overall evaluation cannot drop to a certain level because of its loss of control and explosive mistakes in the later period. I can naturally say that it has a place among historical time-travel novels in 2021.
However, before it got out of hand and showed my exhaustion to the fullest, this book seemed to have more possibilities.
But once a book is finished, assumptions are meaningless, and you have to look forward. Readers are free to evaluate it how they want.
After talking about "Shao Song", let me further talk about my views on creation, online writing, and comic adaptation.
In fact, this point of creation has been said a lot before through "Shao Song" - good creation requires passion, a good state, and strong willpower on the part of the author. But in fact, everyone knows that thinking
It is very difficult to maintain this state during the serialization cycle of web articles.
Because Internet article writers are also human beings, and the online article serialization model is based on business, with excessively high-intensity updates, and is naturally anti-high-quality, or anti-literature, anti-serious structure, coupled with the low threshold of Internet articles, which leads to
It has eliminated the large-scale low-quality output of online articles.
At this time, everyone will stand at this intersection and look around, and then some people will belittle online literature, creating a seemingly irrefutable stigma.
But let me tell you, I personally have always believed that online literature may be the right path.
The first is the origin of the creator.
I don’t want to talk about other places, just online articles... Internet articles are currently the only literary creation mode that can widely absorb new blood from society... I don’t need to say this, everyone can definitely feel that in today’s society, doctors can
, police officers, professors, programmers, students, delivery boys, and civil servants come to gain creative freedom and a creative platform, and use this to obtain creative incentives and material feedback. In addition to online articles, they are videos.
However, video currently does not seem to have scalability and continuity. Text is still the beginning of all orderly expressions... In a fashionable term, it is the starting point of IP incubation.
And this is the second point I want to make... I don't think literary and artistic creation will be better if it regresses to the non-commercial era... On the contrary, I think we should move forward and take the road of industrialization and commercialization.
My personal opinion is definitely biased. I am a person who always cares about the beginning and not the end, and goes forward rather than backward.
What's the meaning?
A very interesting question now is that people often ask, in this great era, where is the literature of the times?
No one can answer this question. There is currently no solution. I can only say that individuals have their own guesses and ideas.
My personal biased view is that the literature of the times has broken away from the narrow category of literature, and cannot escape commercialization, industrialization and high technology... Therefore, compared with novels, it is more likely to appear in film and television or
In the field of games, because these two things are made using industrial production methods, using the most advanced technology, concentrating the best talents, and working together.
One more thing, among these, I personally highly recommend games because it represents higher productivity and brings together more engineering dogs who love art.
It is easy for individuals to make mistakes and get very tired, and polishing their works is time-consuming and labor-intensive. However, the industrialized production model, layer by layer of adaptation and advancement, can erase these mistakes to a considerable extent, and can
With layer upon layer of collective effort, the work is made more full and delicate.
Now that I’ve finished talking about the big and unnecessary things, let’s get back to this comic revision.
Many readers often worry that comic or drama changes will lead to the vulgarity of the work. They may even worry about another situation where the magic changes are so unrecognizable, but I am very in favor of comic changes, including magic changes.
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First, if you have money to get it... don't laugh... it is a great incentive for the initial creators to get profits.
Second, different forms of literary and artistic expression mean brand-new, independent creations. For example, we must realize that comics are comics and words are words. The new comics are the works of teacher Li Xiaonan, who re-created them after cooperating with Tencent Animation.
The product of creation, comics have their own way of artistic expression, and the original novel is at most a participant and a reference.
Third, there are definitely good and bad creations, but multiple creations are the only way to polish fine works. Let’s return to the topic of literature in the previous era and the discussion of industrialized production. Does this seem like a new step in the industrialization process?
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Teacher Li Xiaonan and several editors in the hometown teacher's studio are also conducting secondary creations. The first step is to select the good ones and change them, and to change the bad ones. They will retain some of the advantages that have already appeared in the novel and leave some shortcomings.
Make up for it again, and then create a brand new work.
We shouldn't be afraid of new creatures and derivatives.
If you don't move forward, the road will be unreachable.
If "Shao Song" is stuck in Baima or Wulin, and doesn't move forward, it would be better if it becomes a eunuch... Only by working hard to move forward, writing new works, and doing new serials will it be possible.
Of course, I can only say this, because from my personal point of view, I don’t understand comics, and making excessive extensions and recommendations will appear unconvincing, but as the author of an online article from "Shaosong", I
There is no doubt that I hope that my previous works will have new life and new expressions after the beginning and end, and that I will become a part of the literary creators in the era of industrialization.
Of course, "Shao Song" is just a comic adaptation, and it is unreasonable to say that these are too big.
But back to me personally, just these few books...what reason is there not to expect and express?
The comic book adaptation itself is a kind of progress that is extremely in line with the aesthetics of an engineering dog like me.
Finally, I may be used to code words in novels, and I have long lost the ability to communicate honestly. If there is anything inappropriate or a joke in this article, I hope you will forgive me, and I hope you will be more tolerant.
Grenades are afraid of water, but they are still moving forward.
I wish the comic "Shao Song" a great success.
PS: I would also like to thank the new alliance leader, Weiweiweiweidu, for joining the alliance. My mind has been in a mess these days, and I feel like I am losing my ability to even give rewards... I can’t thank you enough.
