The literary era since 1979

Chapter 19 Movie Script
What will the next work be about?
Wasted City? White Deer Plain? Wouldn’t that just be criticized?
It must be safe, famous, and profitable!

Fangyan was stumped by the question for a moment and shook his head:
“I haven’t decided what to write yet.”

"It's normal that you haven't thought it through. Literary creation is not something that can be accomplished overnight." Hu Cai nodded in understanding.

"Yes, writing requires inspiration. A conversation, a person, or even an object can be a source of inspiration."

Lu Yao took out a cigarette box from his pocket and said, "My source of inspiration is cigarettes. As long as I smoke, inspiration will come naturally."

Fang Yan teased, "Good fellow, Bao Cheng! 2 yuan a pack, your inspiration is a bit expensive."

"Hahaha!"

Instantly, everyone burst into laughter.

"Lu Yao's old habit!"

Jia Pingwa also joked: "After receiving my salary, I buy a pack of good cigarettes first. Everything else is secondary. I want to look decent, but I don't care about appearance."

Lu Yao defended himself, "You don't understand this. Only by smoking good cigarettes can you have a solemn mood. Only by maintaining a solemn mood can you have inspiration and create solemnly."

"You, you have a lot of crooked ideas."

Hu Cai shared his experience: "The key to inspiration is to see more, think more, walk more, and talk more. For example, just now on the platform, you talked with Yanzi about this "reflective literature", didn't you come up with a lot of interesting ideas?"

"Teacher Hu is right."

Jia Pingwa, Mo Shen and others all agreed.

"There's still some time until noon, how about continuing the conversation?"

Fangyan is ready to brainstorm and listen to their opinions, which may provide some ideas for his next creation.

But what is disappointing is that it is either the same old scar literature or it just goes with the flow and jumps from scar literature to the framework of reflective literature.

After all, "The Shepherd" fired the first shot in reflective literature, and it is very likely to replace scar literature and become the new mainstream literary direction. There are countless writers who follow this trend.

Lu Yao, who had been active just now, smoked silently for a while before slowly saying:

"'A Thrilling Scene', I want to vote again."

Fangyan raised his eyebrows and noticed that the people who were talking and laughing suddenly fell silent. The entire partition became unusually quiet. The only sounds were footsteps in the aisle and the clanging sound of the carriage.

"You haven't given up yet."

Hu Cai sighed.

"Give up? What do you mean?"

Fangyan cast a questioning look.

"'A Thrilling Scene' is a novel I wrote in 78. It has been rejected many times. Now, more than a year has passed, and I don't know how many times it has been rejected. Even I can't remember it clearly."

Lu Yao smiled bitterly. In the Shaanxi-North delegation, he was the only one who had always been tepid and had no representative works to show off.

"why?"

Fangyan asked curiously.

"His novel is very good, but the theme is too bold, the ideas are too advanced, and even a little out of date."

Hu Cai shook his head.

Lu Yao simply told the whole story of "A Thrilling Scene", the background of which is that special period. It is based on both what he saw and heard, as well as real people.

“It’s really ahead of its time.”

Listening to the dialect from beginning to end, it is even bolder than "Maple", which is equivalent to Chunsheng's independent unit story in "To Live".

Or, write "To Live"?
I live by "To Live"? Then can Yu Hua still live?
"Yeah, I was planning to give up, but after talking to you about reflective literature for so long, and listening to your thoughts on revising The Horse Wrangler, I started to rethink it."

Lu Yao's mouth curled up, "At that time, I was influenced by scar literature, which focused on criticism and wrote too fiercely."

"Yes, it's like a denunciation." Hu Cai said.

Lu Yao said: "It needs to be revised to focus on the process and spirit of daring to fight and write about the positive side."

"It's done. Why don't we submit it to Yenching Literature and Art? I'll ask the editor to take a look. Maybe there's hope?"

Fangyan told people about his work as an assistant editor of Yenching Literature and Art.

"I didn't expect Yanzi to be in the same business as us now!"

Hu Cai said with great satisfaction: "'Yenching Literature and Art', well, it is indeed a good choice. Lu Yao, what do you think?" Seeing Fang Yan making more and more progress, Lu Yao was inspired. Since "The Shepherd" was published in "Yenching Literature and Art", he might as well submit his work to "Yenching Literature and Art" and start from the same starting line.

"Then it's settled!"

Fangyan should help him both publicly and privately.

In public, Lu Yao is one of the future pillars of northern Shaanxi's literary world. Although I haven't read the complete "A Thrilling Scene", it must be a good work since it was highly praised by the delegation.

Personally, it can be regarded as his first step after taking up the post. Even if it fails to pass the final review of the editorial department, it can help him get closer to Lu Yao and develop him into a general under General Fang in the future.

Book one of the Five Tiger Generals!

"If Yenching Literature and Art upholds the 'death sentence' this time, I will burn the manuscript."

Lu Yao made up his mind as if he was swearing a vow.

"No, not really."

"Yanzi, don't try to persuade me, just do it!"

"Ok."

Seeing that Lu Yao was as stubborn as an old ox, Fang Yan gave up the idea of ​​dissuading him and took out a Type 65 kettle from his bag:
"drink water?"

"Hey, Yanzi, give me some."

"And I!"

"Why hasn't the conductor come to bring water yet?"

Without waiting for Lu Yao to speak, Mo Shen and others took out their rice bowls, asked him for water, and rushed into the aisle shouting.

After a while, the conductor came with a kettle.

"Yanzi, what are you thinking about? The hot water has gone cold."

Lu Yao saw him holding the rice bowl and staring out the window in a daze.

“I’m wondering what to write next?”

Fangyan woke up as if from a dream and took a sip of water.

"Did you think of it?"

"No."

"If you don't have any idea, just think about it slowly. Do you want me to lend it to you to smell?"

Lu Yao jokingly handed over a Baocheng.

Fangyan gladly accepted it and jokingly said, "Give me another fire."

Seeing that he just put it under his nose and sniffed it, Hu Cai joked: "I didn't expect Yan Zi to be so young, but he looks like a heavy smoker. One look, two sniffs."

"Hahaha!"

Everyone burst into laughter, and the laughter spread throughout the carriage.

Fangyan laughed along, but when he thought about the fact that he still owed Wang Jie three novels, he couldn't help but have a headache. What should he write?
Once you write it well, the royalties, fame and honor will come naturally.

If you don't write well, you will be seen as "running out of ideas" and may even be criticized, not only by readers but also by editors and critics. Today's literary world is not the entertainment industry of the previous life.

Even with poor acting skills and making bad movies, he still gets paid sky-high salaries.

"Yanzi, if you really can't think of anything, why don't you try to write "The Horse Herder" into a movie script. But I don't know if you can write a movie script?"

Hu Cai gave some advice from a senior.

"movie script?!"

Pondering in dialect, making movies!

Hu Cai smiled and said, "Yes, it would be a pity if your novel "The Horse Herder" is not made into a movie. When I return to Chang'an, I plan to recommend the novel to the Xi'an Film Studio. They will definitely like it."

"Movie!"

Fangyan slapped his thigh and said, he adapted the movie "The Shepherd" into a novel, so why can't the novel be adapted into a film or TV series?
These days, film studios are hungry for literature.

Famous novels like "The Horse Herder" are favored by film studios across the country. If it is really adapted into a movie, I can not only satisfy my addiction to being a screenwriter, but also earn some extra royalties!
　Thanks to Maimai Miaomiao for the 500 Starting Coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)