Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

So, what should you write?

Talking, I was depressed before that if I copied a famous book, it would undoubtedly be a new creation. Why did I think about it for a long time, and finally got around to writing a book by myself?

Well, just write it yourself.Anyway, it's just writing a popular book, and it's not about building morality. As long as it can make money, it doesn't matter whether it can be passed on to future generations.

Most of the vernacular scripts in the Ming Dynasty consisted of 10,000 to 10,000 characters per episode, and just three volumes of short novels of [-]+ characters were published.There is no way to compare it with the novels of millions of words in later generations. Because of the space limit, it is not easy to write brilliantly within [-]+ words.

When he was in college, he also taught writing courses. For example, a story should be composed of three parts: cause, process, and death.

Let's go deeper, a novel that catches people should be written like this: It starts with a suspense, and then it is the foreshadowing part, just like putting a pot of water on the stove, and when the foreshadowing reaches a certain part, the water boils, and it is over. **part. After sex, it is to enjoy the feeling after sex, and there needs to be a good ending.

Among them, the setting of suspense is very important, and the story also needs to be linked one by one, advancing layer by layer, and constantly digging and filling holes, so as to attract readers to chase after it in one breath.

When it comes to storytelling skills, pure literature is naturally not enough, but network literature has already formed a set of fixed models.

It is a good way to learn from the text.

"Zhu Xian" is a romance novel, it's about the love between children, if you change the background, it's a modern love story.The ancients couldn't understand that kind of love, resentment and hatred?

Xianxia novels, leveling up, passing levels, killing people, winning treasures, or forget it?

This set of Xianxia system is really complicated, and the protagonists of Xianxia fantasy novels are all decisive people who kill and attack at best, but at worst they have no moral bottom line. In the Ming Dynasty, where the three cardinal guides and five constant rules were strictly hierarchical, it was unacceptable.

Su Mu knew all the literary skills, but he couldn't figure out what kind of story he should write.

As soon as Su Mu came home, he stayed in the study room grinding ink, frowning and thinking, Xiaodie thought that her young master was studying hard, she was happy in her heart, and didn't dare to disturb her, so she just made a cup of tea and put it on the desk lightly on, about to leave.

But Su Mu stopped her: "Xiaodie, do you read books on weekdays?"

Xiaodie wondered: "Master, why do you ask such a question, don't you know that Xiaodie is illiterate, how can she read?"

Su Mu: "I forgot, let me ask you, have you ever heard of going to a teahouse on weekdays, have you seen a play?"

Xiao Die said angrily: "The family is so poor, there is no next meal after eating, how can there be any spare money to go to listen to books and watch plays, the young master is not confused, right?"

Thinking of this, the little girl looked worried: No wonder the young master hid in the room after returning home and didn't speak. I thought he was working hard... Could it be that he was angry and stimulated by others when he was working as an accountant outside? Arrived, sick?

Seeing Xiaodie's strange expression, Su Mu hurriedly explained: "I'm fine, but I don't have much to do. I saw Mr. Li in the accountant reading a story book to relieve boredom. I've never read that kind of book before, and I don't know what's good about it? "

Only then did Xiaodie pat her chest, and breathed a sigh of relief: "So that's it, the stories told by the storyteller in the teahouse are also from the books. Although I haven't been there, I have heard people in the clan tell about the teahouse. I heard stories in the teahouse, such as the "Legend of the White Snake"...the white lady turned into a big snake after drinking realgar wine...it's so scary!"

Thinking of this horror story, Xiaodie's pretty face turned pale, and she said: "This storyteller is really, what do you do with this kind of story? However, the story is really good, it makes people afraid and wants to hear it."

"The Legend of the White Snake has come out these days..." Su Mu was startled, and immediately laughed.In fact, many classics in classical literature were previously widely circulated folk tales, but they were reorganized by literati and recreated for the second time.For example, the version of this story that has been handed down is Feng Menglong's "Warning the World" during the reign of Chongzhen.Before that, the ghost knows how many people wrote it into the book.

Xiao Die snorted again: "Then Xu Xian is not a man, Bai Suzhen treats him so well, yet he gangs up with Fa Hai to bully her, this kind of man, I don't care if he dies, why bother to go to Yaochi to steal Ganoderma lucidum to save him? Come to think of it, this story is not good, the ink is too much, not refreshing enough."

"Fresh, refreshing, refreshing, fast-paced, isn't this Internet literature?" Su Mu's heart moved: fast-paced, with a background of gods and monsters, and the story is refreshing without being aggrieved. I have never seen such a novel in the Ming Dynasty. If it comes out As a matter of fact, it should be able to attract readers.It seems that I have a suitable one on hand, so I will give it a try.

When I had an idea, I relaxed my mind, picked up the pen and wrote down the three big characters of "Journey to the West" on the paper.

That's right, he planned to copy the book "Journey to the West" in exchange for some money to improve his life.

The author of "Journey to the West" Wu Chengen was born in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. This book was written more than ten years ago in the Wanli year. Now Wu Da is just a kid. This book has been published for at least six to seventy years. Not afraid of crashing.

As for the pen name, I planned to use my real name.But after thinking about it, in an era when everything is inferior and only fame is high, it is not a very honorable thing to write a storybook novel.

Hey, wretch, this is not bad.In Mr. Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", didn't Lu Chengfeng call himself a waste of five lakes, so he used this.

As for what name Mr. Jin should give Daxia Lu in the future, this is not something that Su Mu should worry about. It would be very interesting to be able to create some trouble for Jin Yong.

Just now Su Mu had already figured out that there are several advantages of copying "Journey to the West".

First of all, the story of this book is very strong, the fighting is fierce, and it is full of pleasure to read, especially the scene of Havoc in Heaven.Monkey hits the invincible hands all over the heaven with a stick, and he is so excited that it can be said to be the first of its kind in Shuangwen and Yywen.

Second, the book reads straightforwardly and smoothly.It is nothing more than helping Tang Seng go to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures, open roads in the mountains, build bridges in the water, and kill a few monsters. The readership covers all age groups, ranging from old men, seven, and eighty-year-olds to six-year-old children.Only when the readership is large enough can you earn enough money.Unlike "A Dream of Red Mansions", there are too many romances in it, and it is a famous wit book, which may not be liked by people who attract cars and sell pulp.

The most important thing is that if Su Mu copied the other three books of the four great classics, because Su Mu couldn't remember all the stories, he was afraid that there would be loopholes in writing.In fact, as far as "Journey to the West" is concerned, Su Mu only remembers thirty or forty of Tang Seng's ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties, such as Gao Laozhuang, Che Chi Guojiang Three Demons, and the true and false Monkey King. Famous articles.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, each chapter of this book is a separate story, and there is no relationship between the stories.Writing fewer chapters does not affect reading.

Unlike "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", if you miss one story, the book cannot be read.

"Water Margin" is also a unit drama, but the structure of this book is very weird, it is a typical ball-ball structure.Although each story is a separate chapter, the characters in it have a causal relationship, and one character leads to another new story.

For example, at the beginning of the story, Wang Jin, the head of the 80 imperial army, was persecuted by Gao Yu, went away to Huayin, and then led to Jiuzhilong Shijin; after the story of Lu Zhishen punching the town of Kansai and went to Tokyo to become a monk, Lin Chong was led out, and then the fodder was burned. On the field, if you are forced to go to Liangshan, there must be a story.