Chapter Ninety-Seven: Final Preparations Before Writing
told Lan Yang that the investment and output this time were carried by him Wen Xun alone, which made Wen Xun a little proud, and he hummed a song and slowly walked home. But seriously, if he were to stand in Lan Yang's position and look at it, he would also feel that this "Fullmetal Alchemist" would not be popular - at least it would be difficult to be popular in the Chinese market.
In fact, he originally had a similar opinion to Lan Yang, or simply go all the way to the market and formulate the novel completely according to the needs of the intended consumers. or it is completely artistic, with the idea of losing money, and specifically rushing for awards and fame. A half-deep, half-commercial and non-commercial theme like "Fullmetal Alchemist" is not very good at touching Wen Xun himself.
But who made this story fit with Wen Xun's spiritual world, and it will be a big hit in the future, so as Wen Xun himself, what reason does he have not to write?
Wen Xun, who returned home, did not give himself a holiday, and he began to write a detailed chapter outline. This kind of detailed chapter outline, or outline, is very good for writing. Through his previous writing experience, Wen Xun knows that the habit of not knowing what he wants to write before he writes every day is very, very bad.
Because in this way, there must be a lot of content describing meaningless events, and this kind of behavior is the same as pouring water pork. In addition to the suspicion of cheating manuscript fees, this actually affects the overall effect of the whole story very much.
What is a novel or a story about? In fact, what you see is a rhythm, and what you see is a telling skill! In this world, there are people who can tell a plain story compellingly, which may be a talent factor, but Wen Xun believes that it is more because the narrator has thought about the problem of "how to tell a story in advance to attract the audience".
Wen Xun also thought about this. The demerit that you think about is that you need to write a detailed outline! In the outline, he can plan in advance what plots will be written in this chapter. This way, he can plan the content in advance and make each chapter interesting and engaging!
At the same time, he can also think in advance about what angle the plot in this chapter needs to be described to be more attractive, or what techniques to use to describe it to be more attractive. Is it described in a positive way? Is it a white drawing? Is it a side accent? How many words should I write to get the best results?
All of this needs the help of the Fines. It can even be said that the ability to formulate a detailed outline is an author's ability to control the story! Why do Jin Yong's books sell well? It's because he has a high ability to control the story! And this ability to control is reflected in the ability to choose the plot and other abilities that fall within the scope of the outline.
Wen Xun began to toss the outline little by little, and soon, in a week or so, he sorted out the outline of the entire story. But this time does not mean that his work has completed a paragraph, it is still very early!
According to Robert McGee's theory, in this kind of creative writing industry, what is written for the first time is basically rubbish! Even the second time is rubbish! According to his theory, Wen Xun needs to rack his brains to come up with the first set of detailed outlines, and then rack his brains to think of the second set to see if he can make a better effect than the first set. Finally, get a third set out! After squeezing all the new ideas out of his mind in this way, and dying and unable to come up with new ideas, he broke up the three sets, selected the best clips, and combined them into one of the strongest outlines!
To be honest, before listening to Robert McGee's lecture, Wen Xun really never knew that writing was such a difficult thing! In his past, it seemed that writing should be a very free, creative and inspiring thing. It seems that it should be an inspiration, and it should be written into a good article with no more than one word and no need to change......
But in fact, this kind of thing is the level of mastery that can only be achieved after fully mastering all the skills. For ordinary people and newcomers, it is necessary to constantly spur themselves to come up with new ideas.
In this way, Wen Xun worked hard for a month, basically squeezing out all his brain cells! In the past month, when he went to class every day, his mind was full of various plots and pictures. He almost turned his brain into a DVD player, playing all kinds of pictures and scenes in his mind without anything, and then constantly trying to describe the best angle.
Even at night, when everyone else was resting, Wen Xun did not relax in his dreams. In his dreams, he also constantly tries to think about the plot and write the plot. After finally writing the final version, Wen Xun himself felt that he had put so much effort into thinking and revising it, if it couldn't be a big seller...... Then he's going to blow up the earth!
When the outline was finally written, Wen Xun was ready to start writing the book. However, speaking of which, Wen Xun learned from his dream that his "Fullmetal Alchemist" seems to be slightly different from the one set by Hiromi Arakawa. For example, Wen Xun slightly sinicized the character's name.
Although the whole story takes place in another world, in any case, Wen Xun first has to face Chinese readers. The habits of Chinese readers are different from those of Japanese readers, and perhaps because of the deeper Westernization, Japanese anime is often filled with the names of various European and American people. When readers or viewers come across some very cumbersome names, they will also be able to get used to it. But Chinese readers or viewers are different, and even if Wen Xun is used as an analogy, he gives him a long list of names, and he really can't remember who is who......
Therefore, in the final Wen Xun version of "Fullmetal Alchemist", everyone who originally had a rich Western atmosphere became a name with a bit of Chinese flavor. For example, the main character, Edward Elric, becomes Edward. And the original younger brother Alphonse became his younger sister Ai Fengsi......
Although these changes make Wen Xun feel very rustic, there is no way, but the rustic atmosphere is more effective......
In addition to the name, Wen Xun also changed some character settings. Although when talking about the outline, I didn't talk to Arakawa Hiromi about the character or anything. But when he began to set his character, Wen Xun unconsciously brought his own character into it, and even for the sake of dramatic effect, it was more extreme than his character!
For example, Wen Xun's Edward is no longer the teenager in Hiromi Arakawa's pen who laughs from time to time and worries about his height from time to time. And he has become a pure man who doesn't smile all day long, is a cool mess, and is completely activist!
Why this change? Because in Wen Xun's opinion, if a teenager loses his mother, and then takes his younger brother to resurrect his mother, he resurrects something similar to a synthetic beast. This in itself is quite shocking to the spirit of the teenager! And not to mention that this is still when he found out that he had lost an arm and a leg due to the alchemy of the human body, and his sister had lost her entire body!
In this case, ordinary people are already considered to be nervous if they don't go crazy! After such an experience, if this brother can still laugh, Wen Xun really thinks that this guy is heartless!
After such a change, Wen Xun basically put some of the jokes and jokes on his brother in Hiromi Arakawa's own setting on his sister. In this way, the elder brother has become an unsmiling action-oriented pure man in order to get his sister's body back, and the younger sister is in order not to put too much pressure on her brother, so she pretends to be crazy and stupid all day long and pretends to be cute to make her brother laugh......
What a beautiful scene of brother and sister in love!