Chapter 31: Apprenticeship

Mailbox in front of the door.

It was filled with subscribed newspapers, as well as sample issues of "Martial Arts and History".

In 1980, the seventh and eighth issues of "Martial Arts and History" were serialized by Zhang Shaojie's original manuscript, and only some typos caused by hand errors were corrected by the editorial department, which was basically unchanged.

However, the novel version of "Ming Pao" serializes about 2000 words ~ 3000 words every day "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", but it is the version edited by Jin Yong.

Zhang Shaojie admitted that after Jin Yong's polishing, it seems that the text is more charming!

Huang Yi is the originator of many genres of later online novels, especially for the layout of online novels.

Originally, the writing and typesetting of online writers did not consider the reader's reading experience. After 1999, "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" was widely circulated on the Internet, and many readers, writers, and editors read Huang Yi's novels and found that the reading experience of Huang Yi's novels was as smooth as that of his peers, and he could read a lot of words in one breath without getting tired.

More and more online writers and editors are aware of the importance of Huang Yi's style to online novels.

And the typography and style similar to Huang Yi's novels that can make most readers read many chapters without feeling tired are called - smooth surname!

The "fluent surname" of the text began to become an important indicator in the Chinese network around 05 years.

Compared with Jin Yong's novels, which repeatedly revise and temper the text, Huang Yi's novels pay more attention to the typesetting of short sentences and short paragraphs that are convenient for the reader's reading experience, so as to obtain the reading effect of "fluent surname"!

The excessive pursuit of "fluent surname" is actually just a sideshow.

Really good-looking text, even if it is a bunch of long sentences and long paragraphs, will not let the reader interrupt reading!

After Zhang Shaojie saw Jin Yong's revised and polished version of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", he was deeply moved.

Some repetitive words begin to become subtle and rich. Some of the cumbersomes were cut, while others were added. Between the addition and deletion, the smoothness of the text is not damaged at all, but adds a level of attractiveness to the text. Some of the dialogues, polished by Jin Yong, make the reading more natural and catchy.

"A master deserves to be a master!" Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but praise.

In fact, Master Jin Yong's writing ability is not only manifested in the writing of martial arts novels, but in fact, Jin Yong is also proficient in script writing. As early as the 50s, Jin Yong's movie script could sell for more than 3,000 Hong Kong dollars. However, Jin Yong gave up script creation for personal reasons, and instead focused on the creation of martial arts novels and the operation of "Ming Pao".

Jin Yong's experience in writing film scripts when he was young was also integrated into his novel writing skills. Therefore, Jin Yong's martial arts novels basically don't need to modify many lines and plots to adapt to the filming of TV series and movies.

And Huang Yi's novels, although their influence is second only to Jin Yong. However, most of the plots of the TV series adapted from Huang Yi's novel have been modified in a mess. Especially the bastard screenwriter of TVB TV station, basically adapted the TV script of Huang Yi's novel into a mess, except for "Xun Qin", which has very few changes, and is recognized by readers and viewers as a classic, the rest of Huang Yi's novels "Rain and Clouds", "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and other novels TV series versions, the plot has almost not seen the original taste.

The reason why most of Jin Yong's novels are based on respecting the original works, while Huang Yi's novels adapted from TV series have always been changed beyond recognition.

This is also because Jin Yong's novel language is very suitable for film and television scripts, and if it is changed, the film and television screenwriter is not confident that it can be changed better.

And Huang Yi's novel is very different from the film and television script, according to the original version of Huang Yi's novel, it cannot be adapted to film and television dramas, so the screenwriters can't help but overturn it all in one go.

Now Jin Yong's polishing makes the style of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" more suitable for film and television drama adaptation. It is this level of perception that makes Zhang Shaojie know that the success of the language of the novel is not only in the novel.

When a successful novel is adapted from a film and television drama, the less changes are made by the screenwriters, it also shows that the more successful the language and plot setting of the original work, the more classic it is.

Of course, although Jin Yong's language skills are very strong, Zhang Shaojie is still a little worried.

Jin Yong is influenced by classic novels and has a bit of tragic feelings. For example, the little dragon girl in "Condor" was forcibly annihilated by Yin Zhiping, this description, if it weren't for Jin Yong's fame, would be enough to make most readers give up reading.

It is precisely for this reason that the next day, Zhang Shaojie personally came to the "Ming Pao" company.

At this time, Jin Yong was already at work.

Zhang Shaojie expressed his intention and was invited to Jin Yong's office.

"Thank you Jin Lao for taking the trouble to revise!" Zhang Shaojie said with respect.

"It's not true, the plot hasn't changed, it's just that the sentences and vocabulary that don't go well have been changed! I'm guessing you're worried that the plot you originally designed will be changed beyond recognition by me. Jin Yong said with a smile.

Zhang Shaojie was embarrassed and said, "No." ”

Jin Yong waved his hand and said: "There is no need to hide it, my novels have been scolded a lot." For example, "Blue Blood Sword" cut off Princess Ah Jiu's hand, and also made Ah Jiu unable to be with Yuan Chengzhi, the little dragon girl and Yin Zhiping in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". Hehe, young writers don't dare to write like this now, and if I hadn't become famous, I wouldn't have dared to write like this. The plot style of your "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", I didn't move at all. In fact, you have your reasons for writing this, if I change the plot, if you have foreshadowing later, it will not be easy to write, right? ”

Zhang Shaojie nodded violently, if "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is a word, a small number of dialogue changes, it doesn't matter. However, if the plot has changed, how should he copy it later! Zhang Shaojie is not confident, after the plot is changed, he can still fill the loopholes caused by the changes!

The face-to-face communication benefited Zhang Shaojie even more.

Zhang Shaojie himself, his writing ability is roughly equivalent to that of a third-rate writer. If you are serious, the writing can be slightly inferior to Huang Yi, and the theme creativity can surpass Huang Yi.

But for the control of the plot, there is definitely no tension and relaxation like Huang Yi and Jin Yong, and they can build a magnificent world and wonderful conflict plots like "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and "Dragon Babu".

Of course, in addition to communicating with Jin Yong today, I learned martial arts novels. In fact, Zhang Shaojie is also very interested in film and television script creation, but he has never met a famous teacher for guidance!

Hong Kong and Taiwan novelists are famous for writing scripts, including Gu Long, Ni Kuang and others. And these two people have been guided and influenced by Jin Yong.

Therefore, in fact, Jin Yong is also an excellent teacher in screenwriting, especially the screenwriter of martial arts dramas, Jin Yong should be a master!

Zhang Shaojie suddenly took the liberty to propose and said: "Old man Jin, I want to worship you as a teacher to learn script writing, I don't know if you are willing to accept me?" ”

Jin Yong smiled and said, "Apprentice? What's not to do, but I can affirm that I've only been a third-rate screenwriter! Gu Long and Ni Kuang are the gold medal screenwriters, you look at Gu Long dramas, from the 60s to the present, there have been at least more than 100 Gu Long movies in the past 20 years. Ni Kuang is not bad, the script he writes can be sold for a high price regardless of whether it is filmed or not! ”

Hearing that Jin Yong was so good at talking, Zhang Shaojie was overjoyed, took the hot iron, and bowed: "Disciple Zhang Shaojie meets the master!" ”

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