Chapter 287: Art Comes from Life [Second Update]
Now that he had decided on a military novel to be written, Gowen immediately began to write.
As Kitajima said, the inaugural issue of "Tongpao" was released before the Spring Festival as planned, so there was really not much time left.
There are many procedures for publishing a regular magazine, and the composition and typesetting are only the initial work.
After the sample is completed, it must first be sent to the Press and Publication Bureau for review, and after the review is no problem, it can be sent to the printing house for large-scale printing, and after printing, it will be distributed to bookstores and newsstands all over the country, and then at a certain point in time, generally at the beginning or middle of each month, it will be sold nationwide.
These tasks require a lot of time, and they are not decided by the magazine, and they require the cooperation of many people in many departments.
Moreover, the situation of Beidao is a bit special, and several people in Beidao are compiling the magazine "Tongpao" in Beijing, but the office of the Veterans Foundation is in Shanghai, and all the formalities, the higher-level authorities, and the printing house are all in Shanghai.
Therefore, once the final version of the sample was determined, Beidao had to send the sample to Shanghai as soon as possible, and then go through the Shanghai Press and Publication Bureau branch for filing and review, and after the review, print it in a printing house registered with the Press and Publication Bureau to print the magazine, and then send it to the whole country through Shanghai's postal system.
Because facing the Spring Festival, the work efficiency of all units and departments will definitely decline, in order to make the follow-up work easier and avoid all kinds of accidents, the finalization time of the previous sample journal must be as early as possible.
So Govin was pressed for time.
Fortunately, the TV series version of "Bright Sword" in the previous life was very good, and it detonated the whole of China back then, so that "Bright Sword" has become a god film similar to "Journey to the West" and "Huaizhu Gege", and there are TV stations broadcasting almost every summer vacation. Govin was very impressed by this TV series. So he didn't have the slightest rustiness in writing, the plot of the TV series in his mind emerged from his mind one by one like a movie pull, the pen in his hand did not pause at all, and the words appeared on the manuscript paper line by line.
Just like the TV series, Govin also started directly from Li Yunlong, who was demoted to the director of the clothing factory for disobedience, and received an order from his superiors to serve as the head of the independent regiment to block the Japanese Yamazaki Brigade that attacked the Taihang base of the Eighth Route Army.
Since ancient times, writing articles have the habit of being surprised rather than peaceful, and the tiger's head unicorn belly leopard tail is the experience summed up by writers over the years, and every writer attaches great importance to the beginning of the novel, and wants to rely on the beginning of the novel to attract readers. For an old bird like Gowen who has read a lot of online novels before crossing over, what are the golden chapters and what routines are simply a piece of cake.
He spent about 10,000 words writing about the ups and downs of the annihilation battle between Li Yunlong and the Yamazaki Brigade, full of tension.
Through these 10,000 words, Govin portrayed Li Yunlong, a middle-level commander and fighter of our army, vividly, flesh and blood, which not only highlighted Li Yunlong's unruly and courageous personality and peasant-like slippery head, but also vividly described his fighting talent of opposing authority and not playing cards according to common sense.
Speaking of which, after Govyn published "Soldier Assault", he also consulted the military-themed works of this era, but the portrayal of the characters in the works he saw was too magnificent, which made people feel fake, empty, and routine when they read it. As long as we say that our party is bright and majestic, it is only to save the country and the people, when it comes to the Kuomintang, it is mediocre and corrupt, and when it comes to the Japanese army, it is a perverted bushido, and there is no humanity. Character designs like this are very thin and don't impress the reader at all.
And when Govin was writing, he naturally wouldn't make such a mistake again.
"Bright Sword" was originally known for the real, plump, and distinctive personalities of the characters, and Ge Wen even used the plot to portray the personalities of Li Yunlong and other characters vividly, as if they were real people, which greatly strengthened the sense of reality and life.
In the plot of Li Yunlong's battle against the Yamazaki brigade, Li Yunlong, who must be called "Lao Tzu", has his trademark foul language -- "dog-day-of", "his grandmother's", "damn", "bitch-raised" appeared more than a dozen times, and some life-like colloquial words are even more numerous.
Waiting for a plot to be written, Govin carefully re-read and checked it several times before taking the manuscript to Kitajima, and at this time, only three or four hours had passed since Kitajima asked him to write a military novel.
"So fast? You can't be scribbling, right? Kitajima looked incredulous.
"Damn, I'm too lazy to pay attention to you!"
Govin asked angrily, "Do you want to?" Don't let me go out and send it to the People's Liberation Army Daily in a moment. ”
"Don't, don't!" Kitajima hurriedly took over the manuscript, laughing quietly on one side, but on the other side he looked at it at a glance.
"Hey, you're writing about the War of Resistance Against Japan?"
"Look at it, I'm talking after reading it." Govyn waved his hand.
The manuscript of more than 10,000 words is another preliminary extensive reading, and Beidao finished reading it after a while.
Then he asked with some hesitation: "Why is your novel a little different from the current military novels?" ”
After reading the manuscript, Kitajima realized that Govin had turned out to be a different kind of military novel, which was a little different from his own "Soldier Assault".
This manuscript called "Bright Sword" has simply made a historic breakthrough, and the portrayal of the Eighth Route Army is quite special, whether it is a middle-level commander or a senior general, not only is not as high as the previous military novels, but the exit is dirty, flesh and blood, and very down-to-earth.
Li Yunlong, who is obviously the protagonist of the novel, can be said to be a "big old man" and "mud legs", which has never appeared in previous military novels.
"What's different there?"
"It's pretty good for you to write, but is it good for you to write about the commanders and fighters of our army like this? So many swear words, as well as the descriptions of our army's commanders and fighters, are too unusual, don't pass the review of the Press and Publication Administration! ”
"What's this! Soldiers are also ordinary people, not non-people. Besides, soldiers are not bloodless, and it is normal to scold their mothers. ”
"Also, why is the plot you wrote about Li Yunlong blocking the elite troops of the Japanese army so familiar?"
When Bei Dao said this, he thought for a while, and then immediately came to his senses: "Why is what you wrote exactly the same as General Wang Jinshan's deeds?" The Li Yunlong you wrote about is him? ”
General Wang Jinshan, who is in the mouth of Beidao, is a well-known high-ranking general of our army, nicknamed "Wang Maniac" in the army, who served as deputy commander and acting commander of the Shandong Military Region, and was later appointed deputy commander of the Beijing Military Region and vice minister of public security of the People's Republic of China. Chairman Mao commented on General Wang Jinshan: There is a 'Wang Maniac' in the 129th Division, who is very capable of fighting! Wang Jinshan dared to fight a battle without orders. Deng Gong also said: Who did Erye have the greatest credit in the Liberation War? It was Comrade Wang Jinshan, and in many arduous battles, it was Comrade Wang Jinshan who finally completed it.
"Oh? Do you see that? ”
Govin was a little surprised that Beidao also knew about General Wang Jinshan's deeds.
In his previous life, after watching the TV series "Bright Sword", he saw from some posts on the Internet that Li Yunlong's prototype was General Wang Jinshan. Later, Gewen specifically checked the deeds of General Wang Jinshan and found that the experiences of the two were really similar, but no one was sure whether Du Liang, the author of the original work of "Bright Sword", had really referred to the deeds of General Wang Jinshan.
When Govine wrote the beginning of "Bright Sword", he did not deliberately change the content at the beginning of the original book, he used his own words and writing to write the plot of this ambush of Yamazaki's brigade.
So it is not strange that someone can see the prototype of Li Yunlong, and it is strange that the poet Beidao also knows the experience of General Wang Jinshan.
As for Kitajima's concerns, Govin smiled, "Art originally comes from life, and it is higher than life. This episode is similar to the experience of General Wang Jinshan, it can only be said that it is just a coincidence, even if you ask, I will not answer yes. ”
Bei Dao is still a little worried: "The follow-up plot of "Bright Sword" will not really be based on General Wang Jinshan, right?" ”
"I told you there, it's just a coincidence." Gowen emphasized the word coincidence.
He knew what Kitajima was worried about. As long as anyone who is familiar with General Wang Jinshan's experience knows that this general lived a very painful life in the second half of his life, if Li Yunlong's life is really applied to General Wang Jinshan's experience, it will definitely cause an uproar.
"Don't worry, the beginning of "Bright Sword" is really just a coincidence, in fact, it's not just the shadow of General Wang Jinshan in it, in fact, there will be more and more shadows of our army's high-level generals involved in it, in the final analysis, this is just an ordinary military novel, not a memoir, not a biography of someone."
Seeing that Kitajima had been worried, Govin could only comfort him like this.
That being said, Govyn was preparing to do the same.
Govin doesn't plan to write it according to the TV series version of "Bright Sword".
As long as you have read Du Liang's original work, you will know that the emotional sublimation of "Bright Sword" is a reflection on the buzz.
The main plot of the TV series is war and Li Yunlong's love, but there are only 15 chapters about the Anti-Japanese War in the 42 chapters of Du Liang's novel, and the focus is on the back.
So Gowen's version of "Bright Sword" is like this - the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation are of course the main ones, the Korean War is brushed aside, and the buzzing period is also a key point.
In the original work, Li Yunlong's ending was that he could not bear the persecution of the Red Guards and committed suicide, and his wife also committed suicide; His old partner Li Gang also committed suicide after being persecuted, and his lover also committed suicide; Ding Wei, who is also known as the three heroes with Li Yunlong, was sent to the farm for renovation in the buzz, and then there was no news, and Kong Jie successfully passed the buzz; As for Chu Yunfei, who fell in love with Li Yunlong and wanted to kill, he went to Taiwan, and later served as the commander of the Kinmen garrison, and when Li Yunlong died, he mourned Li Yunlong with a radio in Kinmen, and returned to the mainland to do business after the reform and opening up, and bought Li Yunlong's former residence as a souvenir.
In Gowen's plan, he did not intend to let Li Yunlong commit suicide, but wanted to borrow the deeds of another general of our party and let Li Yunlong go to Taihang Mountain to fight guerrillas until he was rehabilitated. As for Li Gang, well, please forgive Govin for favoring only Li Yunlong, Comrade Li Gang can only suffer a little grievance, and then it exists as evidence of the accusation, and the others will keep it according to the direction of the original work.
Bei Dao was still not at ease with Govine's comfort, and he said to Govern: "This 10,000 words will be like this first." Hurry up and get all the manuscripts out! Otherwise, I really can't let go of it! ”
Looking at Beidao, who has been busy with a lot of blisters on his mouth these days, Govin can only nod helplessly.
It seems that except for "The Da Vinci Code", why is it so short and fast every time I create! (To be continued.) )