Chapter 52: The Disciples
In order to implement the work as soon as possible, on the side of the company before Ming, Lian Xingjie asked the legal counsel to directly send the contract to Xu Yingying, and directly renewed it in Hong Kong. For this reason, Xu Yingying stayed in Hong Kong for two more days. She was originally out to rest and vacation, and it was indispensable to take care of work.
Red Horse Publishing House is really doing things very quickly, and the execution is super strong. Immediately after the contract was renewed, they held a press conference and announced the simultaneous progress of the two film projects with a cast and crew. And the original story is really a "feast" that has a pretty good momentum now. Originally, they also invited Yue Qingyan and hoped to attend the press conference together, but Yue Qingyan refused.
Now he can barely deal with the reporters of the cultural line, but how to deal with the entertainment reporters here in Hong Kong, he still has no idea in his heart. Besides, he wasn't prepared to be too showy. Before the press conference, he flew back to SH.
Fang Anxin came out this time can be said to be very happy, and after that, she continued to go out for research, so she went home to paint without any pressure. Yue Qingyan appeared in the literary theory interest group in time, and then once again gathered friends who can now be regarded as doing writing research together.
Yue Qingyan is still quite concerned about the ability improvement of several small partners. However, the types of several people are completely different, and it is really quite a head-scratching thing.
The number of ways to view Xi is to improve his ability in a plain way, especially the kind of thinking depth.
What Yue Qingyan assigned to him was to repeatedly conduct human observation experiments and write all kinds of character biographies. Guanxi's writing attitude is really nothing to say, on average, he writes a fairly high-quality character biography every day. Under Du Xiao's contact, Guanxi's human observation notes, with plots and commentaries, as well as some sketches, opened a column in the newspaper. This column was also surprisingly popular. On the one hand, with the income from manuscript fees, Guanxi's writing status is relatively easy to maintain, and on the other hand, getting various feedback and recognition is also very helpful for him to improve his confidence. Although the newspaper does not pay a lot of money, only 100 words per 1,000 words, it is very helpful to keep a stable column, even if it is just to increase popularity.
In addition, I read a lot of books and materials related to or unrelated to my writing direction, and the most important of them are various social science papers. There are a lot of reviews and surveys on various social phenomena, as well as a lot of basic data. Through the understanding and study of these data, and referring to the opinions of others, Guanxi has a deeper and deeper understanding of the people he wants to write.
Guan Xi is an out-and-out literary youth, and he is really willing to work hard in writing. Yue Qingyan also revised the draft for him, and every time he would tell him why he had changed, and suggested that if he felt that the change was inappropriate, he would reorganize it according to his own logic. No two people's logic is exactly the same, if there is anything that Guan Xi learned from Yue Qingyan is the most important, then there is no doubt that it is this logic of writing. Guanxi can't do the writing like flowing water, but through careful design and deduction, he can also construct the logic in the text. This alone has made the readability of his articles almost exponential.
Moreover, he was really ruthless in revising the draft. The manuscripts handed over to Yue Qingyan to read were often moved three or five times, but there were still many annotations, about specific words and expressions, as well as issues of modification. Yue Qingyan always discussed and then revised something that he felt was problematic, so as not to misestimate what Guan Xi meant in reading. But as long as it is really a problematic expression, Guanxi has never committed it again. The notes he used to record his writing progress and various questions had filled several notebooks.
Originally, he thought that Guan Xi might be a true author who relied on hard work to achieve his achievements, but after pondering for a few months, Yue Qingyan felt that Guan Xi seemed to have begun to show his talent.
The problem of coffee is more troublesome to solve. The writing habits of coffee are too fixed. She started writing very early, and the structure of her reading was outdated, and she passed the level of natural writing too early, and she had quite a sense of style. However, there is a disconnect between stylistic consciousness, reading structure, and her specific writing ability. Kaka was able to carry out the writing plan, and she had written long stories before, but she knew that what she wrote was very problematic.
For this method, Yue Qingyan changed the way she guided her several times, and finally found a method that might be useful. It's hard, but it really works. He first sorted out the entire structure of a novel with Kaka and turned it into a very detailed outline of structure and function. Then divide the outline into paragraphs of about 10,000 words each, and require CaK to write at least three different styles of manuscripts for each paragraph, and the similarity between them cannot exceed 20%. Then, combined with the three versions of the manuscript, I explained to the coffee almost paragraph by paragraph, where the specific text composition is right and wrong, where the style deviates from the style, and where it is written badly for what reason......
A small story of more than 100,000 words, coffee has been grinding for half a year. Generally speaking, it is normal for a mature author to write a book or two a year. Write it in a month, then rest for a few months, revise the draft, and it's fine. But for half a year, Kaka buried himself in the manuscript every day, revising the draft over and over again. The discussion time with Yue Qingyan added up to hundreds of hours.
There have been several times when I was on the verge of collapse under heavy pressure, and I went out unkempt to the convenience store to buy food and drinks and then went home, and the whole time I was in a state of distraction. Of course, after waking up, I yelled and felt that my image was gone.
However, the results are also quite impressive. For a few months, in addition to reading novels and taking notes on stylistic analysis, I wrote manuscripts and carved sentences repeatedly. Half a year later, the first draft of the novel was basically completed, and only the last general repair process was needed. For the first time, she read her novel in its entirety.
She actually cried as she read her novel.
This...... Is it really written by yourself? There are so many small episodes and stalks that are constantly rendering and driving the characters and plots. According to the method of analysis, almost every small paragraph has multiple functions, rendering, promoting, laying out, and descripting, all of which are like flowing water, making people unconsciously encircled by the text into the snares of the story and characters. And moving, not the kind of stiff diaphragm to respond to people, but seems to have become a physiological reaction. As long as you are serious and unique, as long as you follow the path of the character so far, it is almost impossible not to be moved......
She carefully sent the manuscript of the novel to Dong Shixuan. Since she started to follow Yue Qingyan to write and revise the draft, Dong Shixuan basically didn't ask much about her progress. And Dong Shixuan got the manuscript, only read a few pages, and then called and asked: "Is this the manuscript you wrote or the manuscript that Yue Qingyan corrected?"
"I discussed it with Lao Yue repeatedly, but I wrote it. Every draft is. ”
"How many drafts?" Dong Shi sighed and asked.
"In the first three or four chapters, I scrapped the manuscript of about 300,000 words, which is not clear. Later, the part that was gradually scrapped was much less. He said, "Now...... What level am I?"
"Don't be complacent. If you insist on pondering a few more books, you don't need more, two or three. It's important to fix this state and feeling. Now, your level, how to say, is this one...... The top 30 female authors in the Chinese-speaking world should not be a big problem. ”
Dong Shixuan flipped through the pages of the manuscript, and there were huge waves in his heart. Yue Qingyan spent half a year bringing out a fully qualified author...... Even if there is no guidance from Yue Qingyan in the future, the level will decline a little, and it is estimated that coffee coffee will be able to stand in the ranks of authors who have exceeded the qualification line. It's probably not comparable to the top ten authors like Miwu, but they can already stand firm and live by writing. Coupled with the connections and resources in his hands, he has been promoted to the ranks of the top female authors, and he also has the confidence. After all, the level of writing is a very approximate thing, and Yue Qingyan's discovery of coffee is a rather ingenious route, a route that is easy to attract fans.
"Hmm. Lao Yue is too powerful. This is the first time I've read the full text before...... Rewriting paragraph by paragraph, I'm almost exhausted. However, it turns out that it is this feeling to be well written. Ka Ka still had tears in his eyes at this time. For the first time in her life, she felt that she had written so well, though not entirely in her own power. But this manuscript really made her see the direction and method of her efforts.
"I can't believe you wrote it. It's best, though. I thought it would be a mistake to bring you into this business, maybe you would be better off doing something else. But to see that you can write a novel like this, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Dong Shixuan said: "After a while, you can make an appointment with Yue Qingyan, and I will talk to him." There are some resources in the circle, how to use them on you is more appropriate. And also...... You ask Yue Qingyan if he has any further plans for your writing route. ”
"Well, I'm going to go find him!" said Kaka, "I'm going to die of joy." I've finally written a qualified novel. ”
With tears in his eyes, he said that he was happy, which is really the heart of coffee now. Compared to the excitement of this moment, the grinding of the previous six months is really nothing. Whether it's a breakdown, a sloppy one, every day the only thing in my head is writing, everything is rewarded. The author's greatest happiness lies in this.
Kaka doesn't have that kind of awareness, but Dong Shixuan does. He also knew that Du Xiao sent Guanxi to Yue Qingyan to take him, and the results were also very good. That Yue Qingyan actually really has the ability to bring out good seedlings? Can such an ability continue to be replicated? And what kind of foundation and characteristics does it take for him to bring?
Perhaps, in a few years, Yue Qingyan will have a group of amazing disciples. However, it also depends on how much time he can actually spend with others.
At the moment, Kaka doesn't care about Dong Shixuan's imagination for the future. It was as if she had lifted some kind of seal, and she became more and more cheerful and confident. She washed up, carefully selected her clothes, put on extremely delicate makeup, and immediately took a taxi to Yue Qingyan's studio.
However, when she was in front of the studio, waiting for Morsheng to open the door for her, what she saw was a work scene that made her jaw-dropping.