This summer, the big winner of the TV series should be "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", this drama is based on the background of the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the prosperous Chang'an, well-made, very cinematic, logical and meticulous, and has received attention from all sides from the beginning of the broadcast.
So far, Douban's 260,000 people have given a high score of 8.6, which can be said to be a fine product in domestic costume TV series.
But today I will not talk about drama, let's talk about the writing ideas of the literary genius Ma Boyong.
How red is Ma Boyong? Within a year, three of his novels were made into TV series, with a total investment of more than 1 billion yuan, and film and television companies took turns competing for the right to adapt his works.
In addition to "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", Ma Boyong's representative works include "Wind Rises in Longxi", "Secrets of the Three Kingdoms", "Central Bureau of antiques bureaus", etc., which can be said to be works related to history and professions, and his novels cover a wide range of topics, reflecting the historical outlook of a period of Time in China, and after strict search and investigation, otherwise it would not be possible to write such works that restore the grand scenery of the ancient capital chang'an.
Ma Boyong's novels are delicate and interesting, he is an expert in reading, he reads countless books, reading at least 20 million words a year, the collection is millions of books, many bookstores arrange shelves according to his book list, so for writing and reading, his experience is worth learning from many writers.
Ma Boyong is often asked the question: How to get creative and inspiration for writing?
Knowledge is like the ocean, too much may be suffocating or clueless, then you need to read a book with a task every time, with a clear direction, the result of reading must be different from reading it.
Ma Boyong's masterpiece "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" is about the professional knowledge of antique appreciation, generally this kind of book is not very friendly to outsiders, but this set of books plot twists and turns, suspense overlaps, digging pit layout, secret foreshadowing, flipping seems shocking, but can justify itself, when the reader follows the pace of the protagonist step by step closer to the truth, and can't help but clap and praise wonderful.
Now that the sales of "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" have exceeded 1 million copies, becoming a bestseller, When writing "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau", Ma Boyong was inspired by reading a lot of archaeological documents.
He feels that every good idea must first have the soil of materials and the foundation of reading before they can have inspiration and start creating.
How to capture the invisible imagination in life, and how to expand the imagination on the basis of the original materials and materials, giving them different meanings, is a problem that the writer wants to solve very much.
Many well-known writers have their own creative skills, some of them use joint ideas, look at an object, and constantly imagine its origin, use and extended meaning, and Ma Boyong also likes such "thinking games".
One of his favorite propositions was "What if a whole ten tons of gold is found in the desert?"
For many people, this is a trouble, say get rich, ten tons of gold to become private property is difficult, how to ship out? How to deal with it? Find someone to help, how to keep it secret? How can I split it into small pieces and sell them? How to find a buyer? How can you have the life to enjoy wealth?
These complex problems are very brain-opening, as long as you find a way to end it, deduce the process from behind, and the prototype of a suspenseful story will come out.
Ma Boyong has been playing this kind of thinking game for many years, and although the planning process is very laborious, it is very interesting to expand the imagination on the basis of the original material.
Although many of the thinking games he did not use in his novels, he had already constructed a large scene in his mind, allowing him to navigate in his writing.
Ma Boyong felt that the most important thing for historical novels to have a sense of history was the depiction of living objects and details and the presentation of social rules and concepts at that time.
In order to write the "Twelve Hours of Chang'an", Ma Boyong knocked the layout of Chang'an City into the table one by one when collecting information, and then referred to Yang Hongnian's "Sui and Tang Dynasty Two Capitals Fang Li Genealogy" and "Tang Dynasty Chang'an Dictionary", while reading, the functions, allusions, and celebrities of the various fangs were written into the annotations, the map was completed, and the appearance of the entire Chang'an was also displayed more thoroughly.
"The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" is about the prosperous Tang Dynasty, spending money, the Tang Dynasty with copper coins and cloth; "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" is the 1990s, the play presented in the era of utensils, decorations, these details of the description, can more flatter the environment, let the reader immersed in the scene.
Ma Boyong likes to be cleverly conceived, with a unique perspective and a special style, a little supernatural, but full of rationality and reasoning.
Ma Boyong's novels, more or less with suspense, this kind of subject is also the most able to grasp the reader's heart, and he himself is also a suspense novel fan, for him to read the first major case of the Republic of China is more exciting than to see Conan cracked the case, he will use an alternative perspective to see the world to interpret the work, help readers find a shortcut to enhance the knowledge of the compulsion, open the foundation of the advanced brain hole.
Writing, for many people, is worth practicing for a lifetime, but there are also many people who have read a lot of books, but they have not made much progress and have not found their own writing methods.
According to the writing experience of ma Boyong, a literary genius: books must be read, read more works of famous artists, but also read with problems, set up thinking games for themselves, expand imagination, open brain holes, and more importantly, write uninterruptedly, so that writing becomes an indispensable part of life, so perseverance, will definitely enjoy the harvest and fun brought by writing.