One day I was watching a rehearsal at a Taiwan television company, and most of the rehearsals were my friends, and most of my friends were very good actors.

One of them is not only an excellent actor, but also an excellent playwright, an excellent director, who once directed an excellent and unconventional film, which has won a reputation in many film festivals.

Such a person, of course, is very wise and cultivated, and he suddenly said to me: "I have never read a martial arts novel, when will you send me a set that you think is the most proud, let me see what is written in martial arts novels." ”

I smiled.

I could only laugh because I knew what he meant.

He thinks that martial arts novels are not worth reading, so he wants to read them now, just because I am his friend and I am a little curious.

He believes that the readers of martial arts novels will never be people of his class, and they will never be high-level intellectuals with novel ideas.

He said that he wanted to see it, but in fact, he had already denied the value of martial arts novels in his heart.

And he has never read martial arts novels at all, and he doesn't know what martial arts novels are written about.

I don't blame him, not because he's a friend of mine, but because martial arts novels do give people a deep-seated notion that they can know what they're about even if they don't read it.

He is not alone, and many people have said the same thing to me. The attitude and psychology when speaking are also almost identical.

Because martial arts novels have indeed fallen into a fixed form.

The forms of martial arts novels can be roughly divided into several types:

How can a young man with ambition and "talent" learn martial arts hard, and how to raise his eyebrows and get in and out of the ground after he has completed his studies.

This journey of course includes the mythical coincidences and adventures of the unculted, of course, it also includes a hatred, a love, and finally revenge, and the lovers eventually become dependents.

An upright chivalrous man, how to use his wisdom and martial arts, to break the rivers and lakes of a wrongdoer, a huge scale of evil forces, this chivalrous man is not only "handsome young man, both civil and military", and very lucky, sometimes he can even use "disguise" makeup into all kinds of people, even these people's relatives and friends, parents and wives can not distinguish the authenticity.

This kind of writing is not bad, and the characters include heroes and knights, strange people, women and martyrs, as well as heroes and bullies, gangsters and villains, ****.

So this kind of story must be bizarre, tense and exciting, and it is also very beautiful.

This form is not bad, but it is a pity that there are too many words, it has become a cliché, it has become a formula, if someone writes a story more mysterious, it will be considered "new", and the story will be considered "changing" if there are more changes, but in fact, it has not broken through this form at all.

"New" and "change" do not mean that.

"Red and Black" writes about the psychological process of how a teenager seduces another **. "International Airport" is about how a person rediscovers himself in extreme danger, "Little Women" is about youth and joy, "The Old Man and the Sea" is about courage and value, and about the preciousness of life, and "Between Men and Men" is about the pride and humility of human nature......

These great writers, because of their keen observation and rich imagination, powerfully portrayed human nature and expressed their themes, so that readers can not only be moved by the joys and sorrows of the characters in their books, but also see the people and things in this world more deeply and farther.

The way they behave is often stunning.

With such a story and such a way of writing, martial arts novels can also be used, why hasn't anyone written it?

Who dictates how martial arts novels must be written in order to be considered authentic martial arts novels?

Martial arts novels are also like other novels, as long as you can attract readers and make readers moved by the stories of your characters, you will be considered successful.

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One day I met a girl I really liked, she didn't read much, but she wasn't stupid.

When she knew that I was a "writer", her eyes immediately lit up and she immediately asked me, "What kind of novel did you write?"

I lie, but I never want to lie in front of the person I like, because there is no one in the world who has a memory so good that he can always remember his lies, and if I like her, I will inevitably get along with her from time to time, and if I get along with her often, the lie will definitely be exposed.

So I said, "I'm writing martial arts novels." ”

When she heard this, the excitement and care in her eyes immediately vanished.

I didn't even dare to look at her, because I had already guessed what kind of expression she would have.

It was a long time before she told me with some apologies: "I never read martial arts novels. ”

It wasn't until I got to know her well that I dared to ask her, "Why don't you watch it?"

Her answer surprised me.

"I don't understand," she said. ”

Martial arts novels are popular, why do people feel incomprehensible?

I thought about it for a long time before I figured it out.

What she can't understand is the kind of "self-contained" dialogue in martial arts novels, the complicated and difficult move names, and she can't understand the kind of four-word sentence, very "ancient" description.

She wondered why martial arts novels couldn't write the words more simple and clear, and why didn't the dialogues be more life-like and humane?

I can only explain: "Because we are writing about ancient things, ancient characters." ”

She immediately asked, "How do you know what the people of old times were like?"

I was stunned, I couldn't answer!

She also said: "Do you think that the kind of dialogue like in Pingju and ancient novels is the way ancient people spoke? Even if it is, you don't have to write like that, because the biggest purpose of writing novels is to make people read them, and if others can't understand them, they won't read them, and if others don't read them, what do you write?"

She doesn't speak very well, but she is very direct.

She may not be entirely right, but at least there is some truth.

Writing novels, of course, is for others to read, and the more people who read them, the better.

Of course, some people read martial arts novels, but the readers of martial arts novels, almost like martial arts novels themselves, are too narrow, and there are many more people who don't read martial arts novels than those who read them.

If we want to win more readers, we need to think about people who don't read martial arts novels to read martial arts novels, and we want them to change their concept of martial arts novels.

So we need to be new, we have to change!

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To be new, to change, to try, to absorb.

Many people think that the most thriving place for fiction today is not in Europe and the United States, but in Japan.

This is because Japanese fiction not only maintains its own long tradition, but also absorbs it.

It has absorbed Chinese classics, but also many kinds of Western thought.

Japanese authors can first melt the essence of foreign works and create a new national style, why can't the authors of martial arts novels.

Someone said: "Since the biography of Taishi Gong's rangers, there have been martial arts novels in China." ”

Since martial arts novels also have their own long traditions, if we can absorb the essence of other works as much as possible, one day, we can also create a new style, an independent style, so that martial arts novels can also occupy a place in the field, so that others can not deny its value.

Let people who don't read martial arts novels also come to read martial arts novels!

That's our greatest wish.

Although our strength is not enough now, we should at least go to this road, break free from all shackles and go to this road.

It's a little late to start, but it's not too late!

The above is Mr. Gu Long's expectations for martial arts novels, to be new and change, this is what every martial arts novel author should strive to do.

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