101 On Writing (131) "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"

First of all, let's talk about clues, there are three bright lines and one dark line in the whole book:

1 revenge line, Guo Jing and Wanyan Honglie's revenge 2 Jiuyin Zhenjing treasure hunting line 3 Genghis Khan's hegemony line. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

1 In the revenge line, the grievances and contradictions involved are: the destruction of the Guo and Yang families, the gambling contract between the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan and Qiu Chuji, the grievances and entanglements between Yang Kang and Guo Jing, and Yang Tiexin and Mu Nianci, the conspiracy of Wanyan Honglie to plot Wu Mu's suicide note, and Qiu Qianren's ambition. Basically, a Wanyan Honglie strung these plots together, and those Sha Tongtian, Peng Lianhu, and Lingzhi Venerable were all his big hands, and they were all attached to Wanyan Honglie, forming an enemy against Guo Jing in the early stage.

2. The treasure line of the Nine Yin True Scripture, which involves the Northern Beggar, the Eastern Evil, the Southern Emperor, the Western Poison, the Divine Power, and the grievances of the old naughty boy, and then the story of the Black Wind and the Double Evil, Huang Laoxi's several apprentices were broken legs, and his wife died early, all of which were strung on Huang Laoxi's body, and the monks of the Southern Emperor, with Zhou Botong, Wang Chongyang, Yinggu, and on him.

In this context, the emotional entanglement between Guo Jing and Huang Rong is also a dark line, including a marriage proposal on Peach Blossom Island, three test questions, etc., including a misunderstanding later, which is a dark line, intertwined under three bright lines.

3 The third line, Genghis Khan's struggle for hegemony, this is only in effect at the beginning and the end.

From the perspective of plot advancement, the relationship between the various lines is very loose, and they are all driven by grievances between characters, for example, nominally Guo Jing's martial arts practice is for the bet between the master and Qiu Chuji in advance, but in fact, this desire is not urgent, and the middle is also interspersed with plots such as acquaintance with Huang Rong, competition to recruit relatives, and night break into the palace, but why do you know Huang Rong and don't feel that the main motive is separated? Because readers didn't know who Yang Kang was at that time? How to compare martial arts? Although there is an expectation for this wish, it is not urgent.

After getting acquainted with Huang Rong, the second plot is a martial arts competition, Yang Kang and Yang Tiexin both appeared, and the reader thought that the main protagonist appeared. In fact, it is still a topic, but the competition has already been compared first, which is equivalent to explaining the previous goal, so after the competition, the reader's focus is naturally the recognition of Yang Tiexin and Yang Kang, and how Guo Jing broke into the palace at night and rescued Wang Chuyi.

From this point of view, the structure of the condor is relatively loose and there are many clues, but every small scene has a goal, and there is foreshadowing around the goal, and there is pretense. So it's not boring to watch. It's just that in terms of arrangement and advancement, it doesn't necessarily follow the main plot, but combines a lot of side plots. Several side plots finally converged on the main plot.

The advantage of this style of writing is that the story world is full and the characters are vivid. The disadvantage is that the structure is not compact enough, and it is easy for the author to write down if he is not strong enough, because there are many clues, a three-dimensional surface is formed, and a character is placed in a three-dimensional background, which is natural and vivid. Jin Yong's writing style is the most high-end, and if the pen is not enough, don't learn, it is easy to collapse. Anyway, when writing a book, you have to divide a number of spaces in your mind and deduce the stories of different characters separately.

Jin Yong drew three main lines, in the text, alternately propulsion, when writing the A main line, lay out the content of the B main line. The next one writes the main line B, and then lays the C main line information, and the next one writes C, lays AB, and finishes the death of Yan Honglie, which is at the end of the book, when the Jin Kingdom falls, and the A main line ends. Huashan discusses the sword, which is also the end of the book. Genghis Khan unified the north, and the Great Khan died, also the end. It's rare that all 3 main lines have survived to the end

For example, when Guo Jing and Huang Rong met Hong Qigong, the two of them learned art from him, and through Hong's mouth, they introduced Western Poison, Northern Beggar, Eastern Evil, Southern Emperor and others. This is paving the line of the Jiuyin True Scripture, and then Hong said, your father likes a smart son-in-law, I'm afraid he won't like Guo Jing, and said that the courtship is called Huazi to help, this is the thread of the marriage proposal on Peach Blossom Island.

There are two impressions in the reader's mind: 1. The East is evil, but the personality is eccentric. 2 Guo Jing was afraid of difficulties in courting, so he looked forward to seeing the East Evil and looking forward to seeing how Guo Jing courted.

The next plot is that Ouyang Ke chased the snake This is to lead out the rival opponent in love, and the snake appeared on the trip to Peach Blossom Island, pointing out that his uncle is an old poison, very awesome, and Ouyang Ke never forgot Huang Rong, and then the pen turned, Mu Nianci appeared, and Yang Kang made a private agreement for life, which led to the line of the battle of Guiyunzhuang, followed by the trip to Guiyunzhuang, the purpose of the trip to Guiyunzhuang, one is to continue to promote Yang Kang's conspiracy to complete Yan Honglie, and the other is naturally Huang Laoxi's appearance to prepare for the trip to Peach Blossom Island.

In short, look at Jin Yong's book more layout skills, which is relatively much more complicated than the online text, and Dou Po only learned part of it, and the story became so exciting and full.