"Kirin": At the moment when fast food literature prevails, a novel that is "slow to boil"

"Kirin" Zhouyou Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House

At the end of 2020, I received a 90,000 -word novel sample with the manuscript name "Kirin". From my first reading it, to the official listing of this book, it has gone through a year and a half. In this year and a half, I have polished copywriting, pondering the plot, drafting books, and conceived cover countless times in my heart. All because "Kirin" is the kind of "unable to look at the head" I always want to do. Yes, "not looking at the head" means that it may be outrageous or miserable. Among them, it is full of uncertainty. It is gambled with the eyes and skills of the editor. Of course, it also takes a certain time. When I consolidated the experience of all kinds of broken thoughts this year into a book review, I found that they all had a little "spitting".

The best -selling novels actually have some rules and skills to follow.

For example, the super best -selling "Twelve hours of Chang'an" and "Two Beijing Fifteen Days" are very clear in the plot. With the title of "Time+Place", readers can quickly understand it. To complete a very difficult task within a limited time, the wonderful and beautiful plot is to complete a wave of twists and turns in the task process, but the reader can always be convinced that the ending of the novel must be completed by this task. Just like "Journey to the West", experienced the difficulty of 1981. The final ending must be that four masters and apprentices have gained true monarchy to become Buddhas.

But "Kirin" seems not enough to be "coincidence" in this regard. Whether it is the title of the book or the structure setting, it cannot allow readers to quickly understand the development of the novel. Although we also tried to give it a simple and rude title similar to the "time+place", but the clue was too complicated. Although our final copywriting gives a few hundred words of content, this content introduction really saves a lot of exciting branches and a very preferred profile -I like it so much, like a saint, shining What about Paul with a glorious human nature? What about the bookmaker Zhao Jingting, who is attached to the "Kaihua Soul"? What is similar to Cao Xueqin? Su Yun, the spicy and enthusiastic Yuan Qiniang ... how many sorrowful and happy stories, how many personality characters, are connected into this 400,000 words of "Kirin". Only at the end of the novel can readers finally sublimate the emotions that unknowingly accumulated, and can realize that the author wrote a deep heart for writing this book.

It is true that the "unpredictable" in this structure setting will persuade some readers. They may abandon the book when they read one or two chapters or even one or two pages, but I believe that a large number of readers will stay. After reading the full book, it was as addicted as Xiao Zhou's inspection.

The current literary market and fast food literature are popular. People are pursuing the plot stimulation of novels like chasing dramas and chasing movies. As as the standards of literature and depth of thought, it seems that it is no longer important. This reading trend makes many novel creators reluctant to work hard on the polishing of words, as if it is a laborious and unpleasant stupid thing.

Recalling "A Dream of Red Mansions", Cao Xueqin read ten years and added and deleted five times, only to have the peak of this Chinese classical novel. In "A Dream of Red Mansions", not only the character image of all kinds of fresh and full characters has been shaped, but several large families sigh history from prosperity, and at the same time, we cannot ignore a large number of poems in "Dream of Red Mansions". Writing a novel, not only to shape the characters, but also to write poetry works for the characters. It is a difficult thing to think about it, because not only is it good to write well, but also to show their personality characteristics through each character's poetry works. , Talent, life encounters. In our current opinion, it would be unimaginable if it was not a collective creation of a story team. Thinking of the phrase "very slow in the past", yes, people lived in a "very slow" world before, and only need to write one book in a lifetime.

Of course, "Kirin" cannot be compared with "Dream of Red Mansions", and the author Zhou You did not give each character's skill to customize poetry. But he made a bold attempt in this work -a book. Because of my amateur study classical novels, the author has done a lot of research on the relationship between the scholars and the transformation of the novel. Therefore, in the novel, the image of a bookmaker has been created, and the story of the novel's perspective and the role of the role storytelling tells the story. In other words, there are many paragraphs in the novel in the tone of the book. The story in the book echoes the promotion plot. It is commendable that the author is very in place about the language and tone of the scholars. Readers are like reading a real Song and Yuan dynasties. The author's skill is evident. But to be honest, this labor -intensive attempt reader does not necessarily buy it, so I want to say that in such an era of "fast", there are still people who write novels in such a "silly" way. Courage is true!

In the current book market environment, it is necessary to publish a novel work with a newcomer who is not well -known, and it is not casual to publish, but it is difficult to hope that it can be amazing.

This difficulty comes from all aspects of pressure and some negative sounds. I was attracted by the author's text from the first chapter, and was immediately attracted by the plot and characters. When I read the whole novel, the feeling of emotion, if it was lost, and endlessly, I firmly believed that this novel Can be successful. However, from my first reading and officially published, I experienced a long wait and polishing for more than a year. A few times, I heard some negative evaluations and sounds, because the emotion that was immersed in the novel at that time had retreated, because I started to doubt my judgment -Is it really my limited experience and accumulation of accumulation and accumulation. Limited, is it wrong to judge the topic? Unwilling, open the manuscript again, and read again. It is still a surging heart. There are even many unexpected surprises in the process of re -reading. I found that many details that I ignored in the first reading were actually the foreshadowing that was secretly buried in the back. This kind of echo and tenon -and -mortise was really amazing! My confidence is repeated in such ups and downs. Until the book was officially printed and launched on Douban, I was moved, inspired and encouraged by everyone's various heart reviews. Although the novel was not written by me, as editors, I was honored, readers' love for this book at least verified the vision and judgment of my selection of books.

It is difficult in the early stage. After listing, it will be more difficult to make the market recognize. It will be more difficult to obtain satisfactory social and economic benefits. Our team is trying to explore. It is better to give everything to time. Since this is a work that "Wenhuo is slowly boiled", let it be fermented slowly.

(Original title: At the moment when fast food literature prevails, there are still people writing novels in such a "silly" way. Novels that "Wenhuo boiled slowly")