Once, Lin Zixuan and Xiang Yiran chatted and talked about the topic of Xianxia.

Xiang Yiran's "The Legend of Jianghu" is very popular with readers, and unlike Lin Zixuan's martial arts novels, "The Legend of Jianghu" focuses on the word "strange", and the storyline is quite strange.

For example, there will be Taoist priests who can do magic and some magic weapons.

According to Xiang Yiran, this is a rural legend in southern Shonan, and he just added it to the story.

However, because of this, it adds a touch of mystery to the novel, which can be regarded as a story between martial arts and fairy tales.

During the Republic of China, there was no such thing as a Xianxia novel, but it was called a "Zhiwei novel".

Zhi Wei is to record weirdness.

This kind of novel is based on the narration of stories and legends of supernatural ghosts and ghosts, and was produced and popular in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

"Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the theory of immortals has prevailed, and at the end of the Han Dynasty, there was a great wind of witches, and the ghost road became more and more intense; Theravada Buddhism also entered Middle-earth and gradually spread. All of this are Zhang Huang ghosts and gods, praised as supernatural, so from the Jin to the Sui, there are many ghosts and gods in the book. ”

This is what Lu Xun said in "A Brief History of Chinese Novels".

Everyone is familiar with Zhiwei novels, even if you haven't read them, you've probably heard of them.

Eastern Jin Dynasty Ganbao's "Sou Shen Ji", Dongfang Shuo's "Divine Strange Scriptures", Zhang Hua's "Naturalist Chronicles", Ge Hong's "Legend of the Immortals", Xu Zhonglin's "Romance of the Gods", Pu Songling's "Liao Zhai Zhi Wei", ......

Many of the Xianxia novels on the Internet in later generations are based on these classical literary works.

However, there is a big difference between Xianxia novels and Zhiwei novels, and Zhiwei novels should belong to the mythological category.

In modern times, the pioneering work of Xianxia novels is "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman" by the owner of Huanzhu Building.

This is a huge work of nearly 5 million words, in which the setting and cultivation system of the Heavenly Tribulation are unique, which influenced the creation of most of the later Xianxia novels.

Interestingly, the owner of Huanzhu Mansion wrote "The Legend of Shushan Swordsmen" according to the martial arts novel, but he didn't expect to write a new pattern.

Lin Zixuan has no interest in writing "The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan".

Although he knew this novel and watched the movie adapted from this novel, he didn't finish reading the book "The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan" because it was too long.

He has read a lot of Xianxia novels in later generations, and the more famous ones are "Zhu Xian" and "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".

The latter belongs to the game, but there is an official series of novels.

Because of the hit TV series, he also watched "Flower Thousand Bone", and there are countless Xianxia novels on other networks, but the quality is uneven, most of them are mainly fighting and killing, and lack feelings.

As for the category of "Ethereal Journey", it should be regarded as a Xiuzhen novel with an upgraded stream.

Lin Zixuan doesn't plan to write martial arts novels, it's good to do groundbreaking work, it's too repetitive and meaningless, so he plans to write a Xianxia novel and create the genre of Xianxia.

He chose "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".

Not only because he likes the character of Zhao Ling'er, but also because this novel is relatively easy to make into a movie, and the storyline is easy to be accepted by the audience and readers.

The words of "Zhu Xian" are too magical, and it is estimated that readers in this era will not be able to understand them.

Xiang Yiran was more interested in the concept of "Xianxia" proposed by Lin Zixuan, and the two communicated and talked more casually.

Lin Zixuan casually took "Ethereal Journey" as an example.

A down-and-out young man during the Republic of China was taken to another planet by a monk through a teleportation array, where there were remnants of various dynasties and monks from various sects.

These people have magic weapons and talismans, use spirit stones to cultivate, compete for heavenly and earthly treasures, and can cross the starry sky by taking the starry sky shuttle.

With Lin Zixuan's narration, a story with the universe as the background, the starry sky as the battlefield, and all kinds of monks with advanced mana crisscrossing it, killing each other, unfolded in front of Xiang Yanran's eyes.

He suddenly felt that the pattern of the martial arts novels he wrote was still too small, and this was the big picture.

He understands that this is still a martial arts novel, but with a different method of storytelling.

Replace martial arts with magic weapons, cities for planets, and knights for monks, but there is no change in the way the storyline is written, and the poor and down-and-out little people become powerful through constant adventures and adventures.

Of course, being able to think of this idea is a remarkable breakthrough in itself.

He looked at Lin Zixuan and felt that this person was worthy of being a master writer who wrote popular novels, and casually saying it was a good idea.

In literary writing, good creativity is more important than good writing, and most of the novels written by writers of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School are a routine, the reason is that there is no better creativity.

"Then why don't you keep your pen open?" Xiang Ran wondered.

"I don't have time to write!" Lin Zixuan smiled bitterly.

If he writes down all the novels he has read, then he doesn't have to do anything else, he just writes every day.

Xiang Eran was extremely speechless, you don't have time to write, you can find someone to write it for you.

In Shanghai in this era, with the rapid development of the newspaper industry, a number of professional writers were born.

In order to make money, or because of personal relationships, some famous writers may write for more than a dozen newspapers and periodicals at the same time, and no matter how fast he writes, he will not be able to meet the requirements.

Thus, ghostwriting came into being.

As long as the writer sets the outline and explains the general plot, these ghostwriters can complete the manuscript quickly.

Ghostwriters are generally not well-known writers, with good writing, but poor writing talent, rather than being rejected by submitting to the newspaper, it is better to write for a living expenses.

As soon as Xiang Ran said this, Lin Zixuan suddenly woke up.

He actually knows this way, but he just sees the novel in his mind as his own personal thing, and does not want to share it with others.

The current situation is that he does not have time to write it, so it is better to find a group of literati to come over, send them the outline and setting of the story, and let them fill in the plot of the story, so that he can bring the novels of later generations to this era on a large scale.

Although these popular novels are not of high literary value, they have the potential to become bestsellers, make a fortune, and choose works that readers want to make into movies.

Just do it, Lin Zixuan found Ping Banya and told him the plan.

Ping Banya was overjoyed, feeling that the big boss had finally opened his mind, he had long wanted to find someone to write the sequel to "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and it was a pity not to write a sequel to such a popular novel.

Ping Banya was also a member of the ghostwriting circle two years ago, and soon recruited six writers who specialized in ghostwriting.

Thus, the Vientiane Writing Studio was established.

The novels they write can only use the same pseudonym, and the copyright belongs to Vientiane Books, which is called writing specialization.

Lin Zixuan took out "Ethereal Journey" and "The Legend of Zhen Huan" for them to test the waters, one is true and the other is romance.

He provides the outline and setting, others fill in the plot, and then he reviews it.

If the writing is okay and can be recognized by readers, it will continue to operate and produce best-selling novels like an assembly line, otherwise it will be regarded as an attempt, and there will be no loss anyway.