Responses to book reviews
Reply to "Messy Donnyema" readers:
The other day, the reader "Messy Donnyema" published a long book review: it reads as follows:
By the way, dare to talk about the author's masterpiece. With the development of martial arts to this day, it should be very difficult to surpass Jingu. But this book makes me feel that there is still hope. The work is very well written. Although it is an old-fashioned plot, it has a completely different feeling when the author writes it. The author's exploration of human nature is very thorough. This is a very good place to start. Of course, at the same time, we should also pay attention to the pursuit of novelty and change, and not fall into the strange circle of creating novelty for the sake of creating novelty. It is necessary to start from the personality psychology of the characters. As long as the characters are vivid, the whole plot will be vivid and believable. The writing is very thick, and the words are full of talent, and the author has eaten quite thoroughly about the martial arts of his predecessors. But can there be some unexpected plots? Now it feels like it's still a relatively old-fashioned plot. I hope that the author can break through the shackles of traditional martial arts and truly break a new path for martial arts.
Reading Brother Tang's book review, Feng Jiang was very moved, on the Internet, it is not easy to read a work seriously, and Brother Tang even wrote this long review to evaluate the work, which made Feng Jiang feel more rewarded, and it is a twelve-point gratitude.
Although Fengjiang used to study engineering, he has always had a special preference for literature, and he has tried to write lyrics, poems, essays, essays, fables, etc., but writing novels, especially novels, "The Legend of the Heroes" is the first time, a newcomer and a new work, the penmanship is still very immature, and I dare not guarantee that there will be no impulse or time to write the second part, compared with some professional writers, Fengjiang is just an amateur.
Brother Tang's book review of "The Legend of the Easy Heroes" is indeed very well written, pointing out some inherent shortcomings of the novel, which Fengjiang does not deny, and very much agrees, on the whole, the novel is too focused on the description of human nature, but it is very insufficient in the plot design, "the plot is very old-fashioned", one is the lack of experience in this area, and it may also be because it is more traditional, the plot design is always stuck to some character portrayals and the rationality and continuity of the development of things, and does not do it imaginatively, Reasonable and unexpected (this is a relatively high realm of plot design), it is still a testimony to the lack of Fengjiang's heritage.
In addition, there is another shortcoming of the novel, which has been pointed out by some other readers, that is, the story narration is a bit verbose, paying attention to the description of the environment, paying attention to the description of appearance, and paying attention to the psychological description, but it has caused the words and sentences to be not concise enough, which may also be that Fengjiang is used to traditional literature, paying too much attention to literature and lacking a sense of modern fast pace.
What are the characteristics of young people in online literature, which takes modern young people as readers and spreads quickly? The fast pace of life, the high pressure of life, the need to vent, the need to be impulsive, it is difficult to hold a book to make a cup of tea and read quietly for an afternoon as a few decades ago, and to taste the world in the book.
But this creates a contradiction, how literary, is this fast-paced, fast-food book? I'm afraid this will be a matter of opinion, but one thing is relatively clear, the novels on the Internet (referring to the finished one) are thousands, vast as a sea of smoke, but the vast majority of life is very short, and the novels that can really make people circulate and read for a longer time are often not the kind of fast-food literature, several more influential novels in online literature, I am most impressed by "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", this book is very special, from another perspective with humorous penmanship to narrate some serious historical events, Created a new literary form (later there were a bunch of imitations of "Those Things in the Qing Dynasty", "Those Things in the Tang Dynasty", "Those Things in the Yuan Dynasty", etc.), this style has both literary and interesting, fast food culture characteristics, for which I admire very much (it is said that the author is also a deputy county magistrate, which makes me even more admired). However, in addition, it is really difficult to find a web novel that can circulate for a little longer, and it is often lost and forgotten after a while.
For Fengjiang, writing novels is not our way of making a living, not for making a living, just an interest, just a hobby, just want to write something, "no desire is just", since there is no purpose, then there is no need to deliberately cater to the characteristics of some fast food culture to pursue click-through rates, the pursuit of remuneration, just write casually, want to write a few novel characters more abundantly, the plot is more reasonable, the portrayal is more in-depth, the text can withstand reading a little, and circulate for a longer time...... If there is really a chance to publish a book, let people hold a cup of tea and read it carefully for an afternoon, this kind of return is more exciting to me than tens of thousands of remuneration, and similarly, I can have three or five readers to read carefully, appreciate it well, and recall some characters and plots after half a year after reading, which is more gratifying to Fengjiang than those passer-by readers, because it means that what I write can make people really like it, and people will be willing to read it a second or third time.
From this point of view, Fengjiang can't be regarded as an online writer, at most he can only be regarded as a lover of "traditional literature", but I am willing to stick to this "tradition" and this "loneliness".
It's far away, back to Brother Tang's book review, Brother Tang's evaluation of "The Legend of the Easy Heroes", for the flaws pointed out, is indeed very in place, Fengjiang is very humble to accept, if there is still a chance (I don't know if there is, casual) let me have the urge to write another novel, these aspects must be paid attention to, but it is certain that it will still not be the kind of fast food culture that only cares about attracting attention, and will still pay attention to the portrayal of characters and human nature, and pay attention to the description of psychology, appearance, and environment, I just try my best to make a breakthrough in the plot design, and try to learn from the realm of "unexpected and reasonable".
Thanks again to the reader "Messy Don Nyima", Brother Tang, thank you.