Chapter Twenty-Three: Writing in Progress
After getting all the information about the preliminary round, Wen Xun felt a long breath. Although 5,000 words doesn't sound like much, it's really like Wen Xun reading martial arts novels when he was a child, and if he reads ten lines at a glance, he will finish reading it in ten minutes. But it's quite a long time to write, at least much easier than 1,000 words, right?
In this way, Wen Xun, who was relaxed in his heart, was naturally full of confidence, and even after coming to school, he didn't feel the surprised eyes of his classmates. The surrounding classmates all knew about Wen Xun's bet with Zhang Lei. Or at this time, almost the whole school knew about it - who would really make such a bet on the average student? As soon as this kind of gambling appears, not to mention who the two people who placed the bet are, just the news of the gambling game itself, can send out a strong smell of 2B youth......
With a lot of joy among 2b youth, can you expect this news not to spread throughout the school? Not to mention spreading throughout the school, it is estimated that over time, it will slowly spread throughout the high schools in Kaixian County, and then spread to universities across the country as all high school students in Kaixian County go on to higher education......
However, after the students in the school knew that the two people who placed the bet this time were Zhang Lei and Wen Xun, everyone suddenly felt that this very 2b gamble should appear! Why? That Zhang Lei himself is a particularly arrogant 2B youth, isn't he from the national focus? What's so good about bull x? Do you still look at people with your nostrils every day? If it weren't for the fact that Kaixian No. 1 Middle School is a key middle school, someone would have cleaned up Zhang Lei a long time ago!
This thing is self-righteous all day long, and he said that he came to Kaixian because he wanted to reunite with his parents? I don't care about you! Is it really stupid to be a student in No. 1 Middle School? It's not that he can't get along in Huanggang Middle School, and his parents will transfer Zhang Lei to Kaixian?
Just when the whole school was very unhappy with Zhang Lei, Wen Xun, a natural "tiger hero", went out to clean up Zhang Lei, isn't this a normal thing? What is Wen Xun's reputation in the whole school? That's simply Zhong Kui who fights ghosts, and Wu Song who fights tigers!
Can ordinary people clean up the master of the political and educational department who is more like a hooligan than a hooligan on the first day of entering the school? And the source is just because the teacher misunderstood him and said two words to him in class. In this way, in the eyes of all the teachers and students in the school, isn't Wen Xun a nuclear elastic personality with a super strong sense of justice? As long as Wen Xun is slightly unpleasant, he will definitely fight the tiger immediately!
Therefore, Wen Xun and Zhang Lei's gambling game with a 2B youth atmosphere really made the teachers and students of the school feel that it was "unexpected and reasonable"! Yes, in addition to students, many teachers also know about it. But these teachers did not make a statement......
Because although Zhang Lei, who is very good at learning, may improve the admission rate and reputation of Kaixian No. 1 Middle School in the future, who knows who will be his homeroom teacher in the third year of high school? I don't know who picked up the bargain in the end, why did the teachers come out at this time to stop Wen Xun from cleaning up the 2b youth? They were also very unhappy to see Zhang Lei!
So, after the confident Wen Xun just entered the classroom, he saw a classmate who usually didn't communicate with him walk in front of him. "Wen Xun, this is my experience of the first prize in the essay competition in the first junior high school in the past few years, although it is not a good thing, but it is also a heart......" The girl said to Wen Xun with a very concerned look.
“…… Thank you? Wen Xun couldn't react at this time, and he subconsciously felt that he should say thank you in this scene.
But before he could fully react, he saw that classmates from his own class and other classes kept coming forward to cheer him up. Some sent an essay selection, and some patted the shoulder to encourage it...... It's a big deal! All of these people came forward and chose to take sides, right?
Wen Xun glanced at Zhang Lei's position and found that Zhang Lei's 2b youth hadn't come yet, which made him feel a little sorry - this kind of scene where the teachers and students of the whole school chose to cheer on the camp should obviously let Zhang Lei, who is much happier, see it with his own eyes......
But at this time, Wen Xun didn't have time to stimulate Zhang Lei, for him, Zhang Lei, a young man with a lot of joy, was just a stone that he kicked away by the way when he heard the news, nothing to be particularly careful about, nothing to be particularly serious.
Sitting in his place, Wen Xun began to think about how to write his own novel. Now he knows that the submission requirement for the preliminary round is 5,000 words or less, so it is best to end the whole story within 5,000 words. According to Wen Xun's own feelings, he thinks that this story is best divided into 4 parts.
The first part is naturally the part where the four children get together and start living together. In this part, the four children know each other, and then start dating, forming a relationship similar to childhood sweethearts, but the four of them have each other's status. At the end of the first part, the four children know that they like people, and finally the son of a long-term worker leaves home to join the Communist Army.
The second part was the Liberation War, and the fate of the four people began to change. The People's Liberation Army hit the nearby county seat, and the landlord hurriedly "released" the female No. 1 and recognized the female No. 1 as an adopted daughter. Changgong's son became a squad leader in the army at this time and became an admirable comrade of the People's Liberation Army. And the son and daughter of the landlord, who had always maintained a high status, had to keep a smile on those two people.
The third part is that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the son of a long worker married the female No. 1 of the free body as he wished, but at the same time, the son and daughter of the landlord's family became patriotic capitalists. Soon, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out, and Longbow's son went to the battlefield again, and the female number one was worried all day long, afraid of hearing the news of her husband's death. At this time, the son and daughter of the landlord began to make counterfeit medicines and sold them to the state as military supplies and made a fortune!
The last part is that in the middle of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the son of a long-term worker who was blown off a leg was discharged from the army and returned to his hometown and became a cadre of the police force in his hometown. However, the landlord's son, daughter, and son-in-law were sentenced or shot for making counterfeit medicines for military supplies......
When these four parts were separated, Wen Xun simply felt that he was a natural writer of novels! It's really not deceiving, look at the four parts that Wen Xun has divided like this, does it look like a blockbuster? The first part gives the audience a warm joy, and at the end of the first part, there is an abrupt change, and the rhythm becomes gripping and attracts the audience's attention.
The second part, which begins to surprise the audience to see the change in the identity of the people, begins to change from inequality to equality, and finally has a small ending similar to a happy ending.
But in the third stage, the fate of the three people began to change again, and the male No. 1 and the female No. 1 who had just changed their fate fell into a "predicament" again, while the opposite "male No. 2" and "female No. 2" seemed to usher in another spring. This stage can definitely whet the audience's appetite and prepare for the finale of the fourth part.
Now, Wen Xun feels that his outline can be directly changed into a movie script!
After looking at the structure of his work for a while, Wen Xun began to plan further. He didn't come from a fiction class, and he hadn't learned how to write novels systematically, but he subconsciously felt that to write such a long thing, he probably had to plan the number of words in each part in advance.
Now he doesn't have too strong operational ability, so he simply decided to divide it evenly and distribute the 5,000 words evenly among the four parts. In this way, each section is more than 1200 words.
Looking at it this way, Wen Xun began to feel a little difficult. Although at first I thought it was quite a lot of 5,000 words, but now one part is 1,200 words, and I have to divide it into four people to write. That's the equivalent of 300 words for each person, and they have to describe how his or her fate has changed over the years......
Just thinking of this, Wen Xun felt as if he couldn't write a dialogue. Because if you write a dialogue, these 300 words are definitely not enough to describe this part of the scene! In this way, it seems that it can only be narrated in a way similar to the plot synopsis......
In this way, there is no way to add more descriptions, and there is no way to fully portray the characters...... Although Wen Xun doesn't have much writing himself, he has read a lot of novels, and he still feels that he needs to get some space to portray the characters. But think about it again, in fact, the disadvantage of a small number of words is only good for Wen Xun in some aspects!
Why? Because Wen Xun is worse than other students who are good at composition, his basic skills are poor! He can't depict a landscape like flowers, he can't use gorgeous language to describe a scene, and he can't use the shortest and most simple language to describe the image that impresses the reader the most.
But such a word count shows that Wen Xun just avoided the description? forced Wen Xun to use language similar to history books to describe the fate of the four people, so that the reviewer will definitely feel that Wen Xun can't describe it fully because of space limitations, not because his own strength is not enough!
In addition, Wen Xun wrote novels directly, and how many of his peers in the country dared to write novels in the essay contest? They all only dare to shrink their eggs to write essays, there are woods! Such an intentional lead, coupled with the teacher's misunderstanding, can't you get a high score?
The more Wen Xun thought about it at this time, the happier he became, but he didn't know that he happened to inadvertently meet the standard procedures in literary creation!
Just as a painter needs to divide a rough area on the canvas before painting to make a big plan, a writer should also have such a process when writing a novel. But because there is no specific word limit for novels, writers sometimes don't have to deliberately plan for it.
They just write as they want to write, and at the end of the writing, there will be an editor to help him look at the whole picture! Help him plan where to write more and where to write less. And Wen Xun is now subconsciously dividing it because he doesn't understand, which is just similar to the editor's "cutting" after the fact......