Chapter 52 The Disciples
In order to implement all work as soon as possible, the company in Mingqian asked the legal officer to directly send the contract to Xu Yingying, so he changed the signing in Hong Kong. For this reason, Xu Yingying stayed in Hong Kong for two more days. She was originally going to take a vacation, and she took into account her work, so she was fine.
Hongju Publishing House is also very fast in doing things and has a strong execution ability. After signing the contract, they immediately held a press conference and announced the simultaneous advancement of two film projects with a cast and crew. The original story is really a "feast" with a very good momentum. They originally invited Yue Qingyan to attend the press conference together, but Yue Qingyan refused.
Now he is barely considered a reporter who can deal with cultural lines, but he is completely unsure of how to deal with entertainment reporters in Hong Kong. Besides, he was not prepared to show off too much. Before the press conference, he flew back to SH.
Fang Anxin was very happy this time, and she continued to go out for research and went home to draw without any pressure. Yue Qingyan appeared in the literary theory interest group in time, and then again gathered friends who can now be considered as doing writing research together.
Yue Qingyan is quite concerned about the improvement of his friends' abilities. However, the types of people are completely different, and it is really a very scratching thing.
Guan Xi’s method is to improve his ability in a simple way, especially the kind of thinking in depth.
What Yue Qingyan assigned him was to do human observation and experiment repeatedly and write various biography of characters. Guan Xi's writing attitude was really unspeakable. On average, a very high-quality biography of characters was published every day. Under Du Xiao's contact, Guan Xi's human observation notes, plus plots and comments, as well as some simple sketches, opened a column in the newspaper. This column was unexpectedly popular. On the one hand, it had income from royalties, and Guan Xi's writing status was easier to maintain. On the other hand, it received various feedback and recognition, which was also very helpful for him to increase his confidence. Although the royalties in the newspaper were not high, only 100 words, it was still very helpful to open a column steadily, even if it was just to increase his popularity.
In addition, he reads a large number of books and materials related to or irrelevant to his writing direction. Among them, the top priority is various social science papers. There are a large number of comments and research on various social phenomena, as well as a large amount of basic data. Through understanding and studying these data and referring to other people's opinions, Guan Xi has an increasingly in-depth understanding of the people he wants to write.
Guan Xi is an absolute literary youth, and he is very willing to work hard on writing. Yue Qingyan also revised his manuscripts, and he would tell him why he changed it and suggest that if he felt that it was inappropriate, he would sort it out according to his writing logic. No two people's logic is exactly the same. If Guan Xi learned from Yue Qingyan the most important thing, there is no doubt that it is this writing logic. Guan Xi cannot do the writing like a continuous flow, but through careful design and deduction, the logic in the text can be constructed. This alone makes the readability of his article almost exponentially.
Moreover, he was really ruthless in revising manuscripts. The manuscripts he gave to Yue Qingyan to read often moved three or five times, but he still made many notes about specific words, expressions, and modifications. Yue Qingyan always discussed and revised the parts that were problematic, so as not to misjudgment Guan Xi's meaning in reading. But as long as it was really a problematic expression, Guan Xi never made any mistakes again. The notes he used to record his writing progress and various problems, and he had already written several notebooks.
Originally, I thought Guan Xi might be a natural author who achieved through hard work, but after thinking about it for a few months, Yue Qingyan felt that Guan Xi seemed to have begun to show his talent.
It is more troublesome to solve Kaka's problem. Kaka's writing habits are too fixed. She started writing very early, and her reading structure was too old, and she passed the natural writing level too early, and she has a considerable sense of style. However, the sense of style, the reading structure and her specific writing ability are out of touch. Kaka can complete the writing plan and write long articles before, but she herself knows that what she wrote is very problematic.
For this method, Yue Qingyan modified the method to guide her several times before finally finding a perhaps useful method. It was very difficult, but it was really useful. He first sorted out the entire structure of a novel with Ka Ka and turned it into a very detailed structural and functional outline. Then he split the outline into each paragraph about 10,000 words, and asked Ka Ka to write at least three different styles of manuscripts in each paragraph, and the similarity between them should not exceed 20%. Then, combined with the three versions of manuscripts, he explained to Ka Ka almost paragraph by paragraph, where the specific text structure is right and where the text deviates from the style, and where the reason is bad...
A short long article worth more than 100,000 words has been ground for half a year. Generally speaking, it is normal for a mature author to write one or two books a year. After writing in a month, then rest for a few months, and modify the manuscript, it will be fine. But in the past six months, Ka Ka has been buried in the manuscript every day, revising the manuscript over and over again. The discussion time with Yue Qingyan is also several hundred hours.
Under heavy pressure, I was on the verge of collapse several times. I went out to a convenience store with a unkempt face and bought food and drink before going home. The whole process was in a state of no mind. Of course, after I woke up, I screamed and felt that I had no image.
However, the results were also quite amazing. In a few months, in addition to reading novels and making stylistic analysis notes, she wrote the manuscript repeatedly and carved sentences. Half a year later, the first draft of the novel was basically implemented, and only the last step of overall repair was missing. She read the full text of her novel in full for the first time.
She actually cried while reading her novel.
This... is really written by myself? There are many small plots and memes that are constantly rendering and promoting the characters and plots. If according to the analysis method, almost every small paragraph has multiple functions, rendering, advancing, laying out, and describing. All links are like flowing water, making people unconsciously entangled in the story and characters. And moving is not the kind of scattered, but as if it has become a physiological reaction. As long as you are serious and unique, as long as you follow the characters' path so far, it is almost impossible not to be moved...
She carefully sent the novel manuscript to Dong Shiqiu. Since she began to write and revise the manuscript with Yue Qingyan, Dong Shiqiu has basically not asked about her progress. When Dong Shiqiu got the manuscript, she only looked at a few pages and called and asked: "Is this the manuscript you wrote or the manuscript that Yue Qingyan had revised?"
"I discussed it repeatedly with Lao Yue, but I wrote it. Every draft is."
"How many drafts have you been?" Dong Shiqiu exclaimed and asked afterwards.
"In the beginning of the three or four chapters, I abolished the manuscript of about 300,000 words, and it is not considered a Qing Dynasty. Later, the part that was gradually abolished was much less." Ka Ka said: "Now... what level am I at?"
"Don't be proud and complacent. If you persist in thinking about a few books like this, don't need to be more, two or three books. You must fix this state and feeling. Now, how do you say your level? As for this book... the top 30 female authors in the Chinese language circle should not be a big problem."
Dong Shiqiu turned pages of manuscripts, and felt a huge uproar in his heart. Yue Qingyan took half a year to bring out a completely qualified author... Even without Yue Qingyan's guidance, his level would decline a little. It is estimated that Kaka can still stand among the authors who have more qualified lines. It is probably incomparable to the top ten authors like Miwu, but he can already gain a foothold and live by writing things. With his connections and resources in hand, he has also become confident to push the top female authors. After all, writing level is a very concise thing, and Yue Qingyan's discovery of Kaka is a very pleasing route, a route that is easy to attract fans.
"Well. Lao Yue is so amazing. This is the first time I read the full text. Before... I rewrite it one by one, and I was almost exhausted. But it turns out that it feels like writing well." Ka Ka's eyes were still in tears at this time. This was the first time in her life that she felt that she had written well, although it was not entirely her own strength. But this manuscript did let her see the direction and method of her efforts.
"I can't believe it was you who wrote it. But this is the best. I thought I had made a mistake in taking you into this industry. Maybe it's great if you did something else. But seeing that you can write such a novel, I finally breathed a sigh of relief." Dong Shiqiu said: "After a while, you can ask Yue Qingyan and I'll talk to him. There are some resources in the circle, how is it more suitable to use on you? And... Ask Yue Qingyan if you have any further plans for your writing route."
"Well, I'll go find him now!" Ka Ka said, "I'm so happy. I finally wrote a qualified novel."
With tears in his eyes, he said he was happy, which was really what Ka Ka thought now. Compared to the excitement at this moment, the hardships in the past six months were really nothing. Whether it was collapse or sloppy, or only writing things in his mind every day, everything was rewarded. This is also the author's greatest happiness.
Ka Ka didn't have that kind of consciousness, but Dong Shiqiu had it. He also knew that Du Xiao sent Guan Xi to Yue Qingyan for Yue to lead him, and the results were also very good. Yue Qingyan actually really has the ability to bring out good seedlings? Can such ability be copied? And, what kind of foundation and characteristics can he lead him?
Maybe in a few years, Yue Qingyan will have a group of amazing disciples. However, it also depends on how much time he can spend on others.
Ka Ka didn't care about Dong Shiqiu's imagination of the future at this moment. She seemed to have lifted some kind of seal and became more happy and confident. She washed up, carefully selected clothes, spent extremely exquisite makeup, and immediately took a taxi to Yue Qingyan's studio.
Chapter completed!