Chapter 26 Preparation Determines the Author's Quality
After a happy dinner for the guests and hosts, Yue Qingyan's new residence remained cold as before.
And the day after that, he participated in the award ceremony, and he was not shocked. His work stands up to criticism, and he has a good relationship with the author and the editor. Yue Qingyan doesn't seem to be the kind of person with low emotional intelligence who will quarrel and contradict others casually. After calmly coping with the award ceremony, his big project finally opened.
He placed a lot of orders online, and there were still a lot of things coming in, at least to make the space look like a place to live. But for Yue Qingyan, the time that he must endure frequent interruptions in the past few days is also just before the creation that cannot be disturbed, and the preparation work must be done first.
What does a writer need to prepare for writing a novel?
Goldfingers and the like, even for online articles, are not necessary. This thing can determine how the character builds and consolidates his strengths, but in any novel, in the middle and late stages, it is still the character that determines the texture of the novel: how a character will say and do, how to deal with friends and enemies, how to deal with crises and risks, how to plan for the long term, and so on. If an author can write well how a character does these things, then he can already be considered a passable author. But, that's not enough.
That's a character growth at best, not fate. In a good story, the character can never go through everything smoothly, so what is called fate is the pressure that the author can put on the protagonist. What is Xiaobailiu? It is nothing more than the whole process of confrontation between the protagonist and fate, and the protagonist has the advantage, and it is becoming more and more dominant. But this kind of novel, Yue Qingyan didn't want to write.
In his previous life, he had never written pure white prose when he was a gunman, and he couldn't do it now. So what is he going to write about? Or is it the struggle between the individual and the great era, and the process of being involved and shattered in the irreversible and vast trend. Throughout, fate prevailed. A character's deepest charisma and irreplaceable personality, etc., are displayed in adversity.
But there are too many characters, too many scenes, and too many details that need to be worked out. Moreover, it is precisely because he is familiar and familiar enough with this book, and can even be said to be the initiation of his writing, that he also understands all the advantages and disadvantages of this book more and more. Now, I have the opportunity to reinvent this book, can I take it to the next level and push it to a higher peak?
It took him more than a week to write the main line, branch lines and various linkages between the timeline. This document alone is almost 30,000 words. Then, there are all kinds of character biographies. The main characters have biographies, as well as various dates, times, preferences, etc., as well as character descriptions. Even if the supporting role is a trick, there is at least a keyword definition. The character document soared to 50,000 words in just over a week.
Although writing the setting is different from writing a novel after all, I am not so picky about the text, and I can write it casually. But for more than a week, these documents still shocked everyone who followed Yue Qingyan's work.
Mo Ersheng went to Yue Qingyan's studio every once in a while. She called this place a studio, the main purpose was to make Yue Qingyan feel that it was a work-oriented place, and it would not stop her from going over again and again. Yue Qingyan really didn't care about this matter, anyway, if someone came, he would come. He was completely immersed in his work, and he didn't pay much attention to whether there was one more person in the family.
Mo Ersheng sorted out the settings of Yue Qingyan's writing, painting and painting every time, and sent a copy of the manuscript to the editorial department before the Ming Dynasty. With the help of the editorial department before the Ming Dynasty, many manuscripts were digitized in advance, which reduced a lot of problems for Yue Qingyan. However, Yue Qingyan's preparation document did more than 100,000 words, which still attracted great attention from everyone. Actually, looking at the setting, you know which characters are going to die, but how these characters die in the plot, everyone is really looking forward to it.
It is precisely because of the expectation that Ming Qian simply put down the book, and while waiting for Yue Qingyan's draft, he began to contact illustrators and online platforms, preparing to do a solid job in many aspects from the beginning. In the end, before the text began to be written, Yue Qingyan sorted out the preparatory work document through the editorial department, which had 270,000 words and more than 200 charts and graphs. Among them, the timeline and story summary are about 50,000 words. The various characters are set in 140,000 words, and there are a large number of characters that only mention names, identities, and keywords. Various forces, faction relations and historical settings, 50,000 words. Experimental drafts of different styles of writing, 30,000 words...... With all this preparation alone, the book will be published. Ming Qian also planned to do so, once this book became popular, just these initial source materials, with some illustrations and photos, were enough to make fans crazy.
Yue Qingyan took a break for more than a week after finishing all the preparations, and then officially started writing. He wrote the story with complete devotion. A monumental work that made people look up to in his previous life, he tried to rely on his own ability to push it a little higher.
"In 2801, the center of political unity moved from Earth, the third planet of the solar system, to Deoria, the second planet of the Aldebaran (Taurus α) system. The human beings who made the declaration of the founding of the Galactic Federation there were changed to the first year of the cosmic calendar in the same year, and began to expand endlessly into the depths and borders of the galaxy. After the 3700s, the most striking feature was the chaos of wars and the collapse of order, which led to the complete halt of human development to the outside world, like an energy about to explode, and a profound crisis was brewing.
The development of the "three beautiful gods" that enable human beings to fly back and forth between stars - subspace jumping navigation method, gravity control and inertial control technology - is constantly evolving, and human beings are driving spaceships to the other side of the sea of stars in order to explore the unknown space world.
"Forward! Forward!"
It was the common language of those days. ”
The novel begins like this, the story called "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes", the first "Dawn Chapter", is more than 50,000 words larger than the original book. "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" is, after all, Yoshiki Tanaka's Virgo, and in hindsight, there are still many places that can be modified and improved. Moreover, the tone of "Yinying" is still too Japanese. Even if it is later corrected by the translation, it will not improve much. If it is first launched in the domestic market, especially for the current reading speed and readers' tastes, there are many places that need to be adjusted.
First of all, the description of the environment and world view, "Yinying" gives people the feeling that the characters are great, but the sense of presence in the scene is insufficient. This is also related to the times, on the one hand, Yoshiki Tanaka is in an era when science fiction has not yet fully emerged, he is a history fan, but there are still some obstacles to how to build a world view of science fiction concepts. On the other hand, even the various visual presentations of the year did not give him enough support and reference. But now, as a person with many years of experience in watching science fiction dramas, Yue Qingyan has enough confidence in the various elements that need to be involved. Regarding starship engines, jump technology, jump formations, etc., Yue Qingyan even wrote a special document to sort out the relationship between various science and technology.
Then there is the deepening of power and conspiracy. Many of the original plots were too superficial, and the tension and tension were insufficient.
Finally, there is the description of the battle...... Somewhat pale, no tension.
These problems,Many of them are the common perception of Yinying fans who have been innovating for more than 20 years.,A lot of length and details even have very powerful authors who wrote fanworks back then.,There's a lot to learn from.。
Yue Qingyan didn't dare to say that all of these problems could be solved, but at least some of them had been greatly improved.
"Dawn" was finally delivered at the end of November. Then, in early December, it began to be serialized online. The pen name used is "Yanhuo". (I have registered this pen name)
I can't really see anything just by watching "Dawn Chapter", and when I first uploaded it, the popularity was extremely limited. This book is really super slow to heat. Back then, Yinying had a fax machine subscription model, after all, in the past, in addition to reading, there were few other entertainment items. But now, readers themselves have been baptized by the modern online text model, and the requirements for reading are no longer the same.
Fortunately, there is enough tacit understanding between Ming Qian and the website platform, or, as everyone knows, a novel with such a complete structure, coupled with Yue Qingyan's stylistic ability, is not bad. In addition to maintaining readers and continuing to promote it, some sketches of the setting were released almost at the same time. Some of them were sorted out from Yue Qingyan's casual scribbling and let the artists realize them, and some of them invited painters to make illustrations according to the set character and storyline.
Because of the joint and continuous promotion of the company and the website platform in front of the Ming Dynasty, the book "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" has finally entered the attention of some readers. Then, as the plot of the book continues to unfold, it becomes more and more gripping, and it becomes a typical work of mutual recommendation and Amway between readers. After reading the first volume, do you think it's average? Of course, let's read it down...... I have to say that the art cooperation of the Ming Qian Company played a great role.
There are so many handsome guys with different personalities in "Yinying", dressed in uniforms, with the starry sky as the background, how handsome. And there are many male characters, so everyone has room for imagination. At the beginning, a few painters who participated in the setting and illustration consciously put the novel in the illustration circle and many pictures in the comic circle. According to the original set of settings, some good and idle painters began to draw sketches on the plot. In the first volume, the most interesting thing is, of course, the various daily interactions between Willy Yang and Julian.
But to really say that the first big flashpoint of the book comes from the death of Gizfias. Seeing that Yue Qingyan did not hesitate to kill such a likable character, and thus caused the blonde lion Reinhardt to fall into a psychological black hole...... Readers feel that they can't bear it! This is a proper rebellion!