The ninth episode of "" has been written, and I praise myself as usual. The ninth episode is doing well and has achieved the goal set when I started writing.

I started writing "Hidden Kill" and realized my lack of ability in the big structure. All the planned climaxes of "Hidden Kill" were barely successful. When I started to train deliberately, I mastered the skills in the second half of "Alien" and then to "", when I recalled, it has been ten years since I looked back on the whole process.

After the ninth episode is finished, the exercise of controlling the structure of millions of words can come to an end.

The remaining two episodes will slowly end and warm up, and I should go to a new direction of exercise.

Looking back at the episode "The Great Land", the main text is 140 chapters, more than 700,000 words, which is probably the longest episode in the whole. It took nearly two years, but overall, it should be the episode I am most satisfied with. From You Hongzhuo, to the Zezhou Incident, to Wang Shitong, Juzhen's death to Lin Chong, Tian Shi's death, Lou Shuwan's resistance and the rebirth of Liangshan, to the collapse of the Wu Dynasty... It is written very slowly and trembling, but what should be portrayed is also shaped with the fullest emotions.

I think it corresponds to "The Great Land", so there is no off topic.

There are two more episodes, the next episode is called "The Long Night Over Spring", which is Lu Xun's poem:

I am used to the long night of spring, when I take my wife and get my hair into silk.

In the dream, the tears of a loving mother are vaguely seen, and the flag of the king changes on the top of the city.

I endure to see my friends become new ghosts, and I am angry at the swords and search for poems.

After chanting, I lowered my eyebrows and left nowhere to write, and the moonlight shone like water on my black clothes.

This poem was written in the background of some patriotic poets who were killed in the third year. The title was written in the second and third sentences. The artistic conception of the second and third sentences: the tears of a loving mother in the dream are vaguely, and the flag of the king changes on the top of the city. I am reluctant to see my friends become new ghosts, and I am angry at the swords to find a poem.

The changing king flag on the city wall is about the princes rising up, and the small poem "I am angry at the sword" is about awakening, so this will probably be the tone of the tenth episode.

Of course, this is a very cool novel. The reason why it is so literary here is just to lead to the next topic and talk about writing.

I have talked about some basic ideas about writing before. In the single chapters of readers, sometimes I don’t want to talk too deeply. I still want to emphasize that every chapter is very pleasant, but as you can see, I accidentally got the first place in monthly tickets, and people like this will appear. Some people are very superficial, and even scold them. Some people feel that they have a lot of connotations, and they come over to talk about some basic and inconsistent literary understanding. Sometimes they will interfere with the readers’ reading emotions, and even create the idea of ​​“this book is very low-level” for readers. This morning, I saw everyone discussing such troublemakers in the book friend group.

I don’t have much confidence in talking about monthly tickets. This monthly ticket list is really not my operation, but when talking about literature... I’ll just talk to you in the simplest way, why this book looks like this.

First, we want to talk about two pre-concepts: the essence of art and the essence of words.

It is a little boring, but it is necessary. Of course, after reading it roughly, please pretend that you have never read it, because these things have nothing to do with reading.

For art, in college, you will tell you a lot of definitions and features, which are characteristics derived from the backwards of all objects we currently define as "work of art". But in fact, for me, art is very simple: art is thinking.

Any of us, the emotions or perceptions at any moment can be an art. Let’s put it this way, the crystal clear thinking of a six-year-old child is an art, the youthful ignorance of a fifteen-year-old boy is an art, the stumbling of a twenty-four-year-old young man is an art, the thirty-year-old runs is an art, the thirty-year-old runs is an art, the thirty-year-old runs are an art, the thirty-year-old wandering, the bursting of a fifty-year-old, the letting go of a sixty-year-old... Your thinking at any moment is an art, but we usually extract a pure section or all feelings with chaotic attributes to convey it.

Feeling the moment of your mind, the complexity in your mind is much larger than people imagine. The problem is that our thinking is opaque, so we need to pass it through two steps. First, see clearly every feature of our thinking, and second, convey this feature through a carrier. Everything can convey complex, strong or pure thinking and manifest objects, which are so-called art.

The essence of words is the carrier of thinking. It is a tool. We can use words to record the way to make big pie. We can use words to record a life insight. The former is a reference book, such as textbooks, and the latter is the words of a saint, such as "The Analects of Confucius". Later, a pure storytelling book appeared, describing a story and a life. However, if we use the existing or unreasonable principles in works such as "The Analects of Confucius" to finally empathize with it, it is called literature.

Of course, this is the current narrow literature, and it is not worth mentioning compared to the essence of the text. I don’t know that thousands or tens of thousands of years ago, our ancestors could not communicate their thinking, and then they created words, and various experiences and experiences were passed down. The superposition of human experiences from generation to generation, we stood out from animals. This instrumentality of words is the thing that makes me feel most excited.

Why do we talk about these two concepts? First, there will be some fools who come to ask for scolding with university textbooks. They say nouns they don’t understand to fool people. Don’t be fooled. Everything they say will not override these two concepts. The second is the content below.

I grew up reading all kinds of classics. I was in my early twenties and loved literature. However, I was in a period of powerless literature. Some people who came to make trouble would say that it would be better to read "xxxx" than to read books like you. Yes, what makes me wonder the most is why people don't read "xxxx", which clearly contains such good truths.

Later, I gradually understood the basic steps of people accepting experience. At the age of ten, it became twenty years old, and at the age of twenty, it was not because you told others the correct truth that others immediately understood. A ten-year-old person slowly understood the truth of twenty through experiences one by one, through the comparison and digestion of information. At the age of twenty, he also stood on his basis, accepted the information that he could accept, compared one by one, and experienced one by one thing. At some point, an experience at the age of thirty, he finally understood it.

What is important is to repeat the process, not to tell the conclusion. Many of the truths in the world may have been known to people five thousand years ago.

This is a very simple enlightenment thinking, but our entire modern literature has been abandoned. Those "authors" and "writers" are keen to come up with a conclusion and then look at most people in society: "Why don't you understand?" Then they are complacent and admire themselves.

There are also many literary classics and world-wide classics. Due to their timeliness, readers who are ten or twenty years old cannot have the first quiz in their minds, so they cannot be popularized. "" is an experimental text based on such a premise.

What we are in is a relatively impetuous era, with various anti-Japanese dramas and various logics lacking. In the process of writing this book, some people came out to think that the suffering era was just some people fighting for power and profit, while others thought that I was very humble and I was definitely afraid of death in that era, so those who were not afraid of death were made by some special materials. However, the fact is not, they are all ordinary people.

This is an experimental direction. The fundamental purpose is that I want to try it out. When I fully understand what our readers want to see, can I really pass on some of the things I understand, even the core of thinking that I have seen in many classic works in this way.

Since it is an experiment, there are many deliberate comparisons in it, such as blurring reality, increasing allegoricality and storylines, and highlighting purpose in some places.

At the beginning of the article, when I was writing a disaster relief booklet, I saw the idea of ​​a modern disaster relief booklet. When I wrote it, I blurred the specific things. It's just that, it's all right. It's not important. Many people think that various details are very important. But in this book, I tried my best to avoid many things, industrial system, and formation... "How do we reproduce the modern industrial system in ancient times" This is a game for science students, and it has no practical significance at all. Of course we can write it. Sometimes such deductions are very interesting.

I can't write either.

In this article, I also wrote the "reasons" to be output in a long and long way, which affected reading, but the purpose was to see if the plot reached a certain level, can such a method convey something and how much it can be conveyed?

To subtly, we must incorporate everything into the plot and let readers understand it. Who doesn’t know? But how many people can understand it well? The reason why "Water Margin" has become the four great classics is that it tells the weakness of peasants' rebellion. "It's good to surrender." How many people can see it? When writing a passage in Liangshan, some people shouted that Water Margin is a hero. Not long ago, there was a fool on Zhihu and told me that Water Margin is a recognized hero. Is it because of your prejudice... Prejudice to your sister! Reading comprehension is zero, take it back and change it! They also think they are guys with very ideological connotations.

People who have not yet developed their minds cannot see the meaning of the middle.

I know the standards of "literary classics". When written like this, anyone can see something. If the author does not provide any guidance, it is the standard. I know, but if I don't do that, that is not something that this society urgently needs.

I don't respect the literary theory that is as good as a fool but not the reason. I only respect the dignity of the text to this society.

In the process of writing this book, I have received a lot of praise and criticism. In a very malicious question on Zhihu, I once saw a review that made me feel that the direction of my efforts is worth it. The full text is as follows, from a student named Fang Chenguang:

"Dear experts, I don't know if Banana's online literature has made contributions and how much has it made. But as a graduate of a college and who has not received a higher education in the higher system, I can tell you that you are too overestimating the spiritual height of the students at the bottom. As for me, thousands of students in the college are full of desire, and more than 60 people in our class, and Internet cafe online literature gambling, drinking and falling in love is the spiritual pursuit of most people. Banana's articles are low-level or not. However, the powerful people, at least they taught me to read traditional literature and read the four great classics, and learned that the ancients were so smart. It turned out that there was something more meaningful than making money. This was something that teachers could not teach me for more than ten years of study, because I was forced to study and naturally resist knowledge. I think it is not important whether it is a classic. The key is to really do good things and give us real help to the bottom. We need to give us kind and kind tips, instead of shouting at the wake of the blow."

When I see such an evaluation, I can laugh it off all foolish comments based on "literary theories" that they don't understand.

Let me talk about the text. It was about ten years ago. When I was writing "Diary of Birth in the Foreign Land", I pursued gorgeous writing styles, similar to the heavy translation. One thing I still remember was that a friend sent me a link to this book for me to read. Historical texts, the author wrote them imitating ancient Chinese, and his friend was shocked. I was confused. This was just a small game. For example, when a cultural person is full, he can make a small game to have fun. Using this kind of thing to write books will affect whether you know how to write books.

Of course, writing was a kind of self-interest at that time, so I didn’t say much, but just before and after that, I began to determine the direction of my writing efforts, trimmed my unnecessary modifications and words, and used the proportion of thinking output as the only criterion for writing.

I have not completely fixed my writing style yet. I am very envious of Mao Ni. He did it in the early years. In the process of the last two episodes, I may look for directions and means to set it down. No matter how many years or ten years are, this is something that must be done.

So back to the beginning, what do I value most? It is the social nature of words. We want to make an art. We pursue art, but why should we pursue it? Because finding commonalities between people and passing your feelings to others can save other people's experiences and maturity time, and make people more aware of the beauty of this world. It ultimately plays a role in society.

When many people worship literary classics, but literary classics are high above others, people think this is a matter of course. Where is the pride of being a human being? Find a way! Many people think that this society has developed very well and has profound knowledge. In fact, it is not at all. There was no literature before modern China. The Dream of Red Mansions Water Margin is a small game that is not as good as cultural people. Starting from the enlightenment thinking of the Lu Xun generation, literature has begun to be purposeful and linked to everyone in society. It serves us. I hope everyone can slowly understand those good things through literature.

By the 1980s, enlightenment thinking had declined. People believed in various messy literary concepts, and they themselves did not understand why, so they produced large and self-admiring "literati". Then, now, it is difficult to say whether the so-called development of literature has a hundred years. Its purpose, its function, and where it can finally reach is not finalized. We are just beginning to start.

So "" is an experimental article like this, and I want to do something we can do in theory.

These words are very serious. The whole article should not be said here. I occasionally discuss with some teachers who have a very mature literary theory system. However, if someone takes some immature first-year theoretical textbooks and runs over to say that this book does not match what it is here or what it is, so this way and that will affect everyone's reading experience, everyone can tell them with confidence:

You know nothing about writing books!

Then everyone can forget it and read the book happily.

This is the single chapter of episode 9.
Chapter completed!