Simplifying the plot is really not an easy task, this is how Mu Ming felt when she began to continue the new story after the completion of the opening story "Convenience Store No. 444" of "Soul Ferry".
The first game of the German team verified that the result did not deviate from Mu Ming's memory, so he no longer focused on gambling.
After all, gambling is only this time, and the real focus of his life and future is to write a book to enter the film and television industry.
The plot of "Soul Ferry" is roughly that Zhao Yan and Jiutian Xuannuya, who are soul ferrymen, sealed the demon god Chiyou into a baby's eyes and named the baby Xia Dongqing.
After growing up, Xia Dongqing successively met Zhao Yan and Xuannu according to the arrangement, all the way to the wish of the ghost, to solve the difficulty of the living souls, and finally to get rid of the demon god in the body together.
The original work has a total of three seasons, and after excluding the two episodes that passed the review, there are a total of thirty-five stories.
Mu Ming didn't write all the stories in the original plot order, one was that some of the stories that weren't very exciting were forgotten, and some of the stories Mu Ming didn't like very much.
The original work of "Soul Ferry" is really good, whether it is the character configuration of the protagonist or the logic of the plot, there is no big flaw.
But to be honest, there are still a lot of bugs in the play.
For example, what Mu Ming particularly can't understand is the system structure of the whole play, whether it is a Buddhist system or a Taoist system.
For example, in the first season, Zhao Yi, who is the soul ferryman, mentioned Meng Po soup, saying that as long as he drinks Meng Po soup, "the past will be written off", which is obviously Taoism's idea of "only seeking this life, not cultivating the next life".
But in the second season of "Ghost Wife", Zhao Yan asked the reincarnated boy to repay his wife in his previous life.
This is obviously the idea that Buddhism often says, "The cause of this life, the effect of the next life, there is a cause and effect".
Although the system of gods and goddesses in Chinese mythology is indeed complex, and has undergone the combined influence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.
But Mu Ming thinks that as a story, it is better to have a fixed background system.
Therefore, Mu Ming selected twelve from the original thirty-five stories as the plot of his adaptation of "Soul Ferry".
He also selected five stories with wonderful plots and suitable for simplification as his "Weibo Propaganda Edition" works.
The first story at the beginning is called "Convenience Store No. 444", and its main role is to introduce the three main characters, and the story is not very strong.
Mu Ming thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to write this paragraph first.
After all, there is no such preface-like plot, and it will be very troublesome to introduce the characters later.
The plot of the original work of dozens of minutes was simplified by Mu Ming to about 1,300 words, divided into three paragraphs, and uploaded to Weibo one paragraph after another every day.
This is also what Mu Ming planned before, a story is divided into three to five paragraphs, one paragraph per day, and it can be updated for nearly a month in total.
Well-if you can't attract attention in a month, Mu Ming has also prepared a big move.
If he fails, then he can only consider changing to a new book.
The first story is really not very attractive, and Mu Ming's Weibo account for three days is only a few dozen followers.
You must know that this is the 10 years of Weibo's rapid popularity, and even a dog can have tens of thousands of fans.
According to Mu Ming's previous plan, the second story is to choose "Erotic Commandment", which is the story of a girl who relies on the gods to have plastic surgery.
It just so happened that during this period of time, public opinion began to pay attention to the topic of plastic surgery, and the name was similar to the highly topical movie in the previous two years, which can be regarded as two hot spots.
However, after thinking about it again and again in the past two days, Mu Ming decided to take out "Ghost Goes to Bed", which was originally intended to be put in the physical book version, as the second story of the "Weibo Propaganda Version".
"Ghost Goes to Bed" is Mu Ming's favorite story in the first season of "Soul Ferry", and it is also the best story in the first season after the broadcast of the online drama in the previous life.
Even if you add the second and third seasons after that, you can still rank in the top three.
Well, the first two are "Eternal Life" and "Old Things", no way, these two stories have raised the whole drama to a higher level.
According to Mu Ming's understanding, the attraction of "Soul Ferry" is nothing more than three aspects: the arbitrary CP of the protagonist trio and the daily mouth cannon fight each other; A wonderful plot based on reality; Just the right and unforgettable literary and artistic recitation.
Limited to the requirements of story simplification, the first point cannot be shown.
But in the latter two aspects, the story of "Ghost Goes to Bed" is undoubtedly very good.
In terms of plot, from the flip of the heroine of the story saying that her husband raised ghosts, and then discovering that she was the ghost who was raised; From the frightening horror in the first half to the touching of only a sigh in the second half, these are particularly gripping places.
As for the two passages in the story, it is even more lovely.
Until now, Mu Ming still remembers the two passages deeply: "The rhino does not dare to burn, it burns with a strange fragrance, stains the clothes and belts, and people can communicate with ghosts."
"On the bank of the Lethe River, rest with you.
In the mud, entangled with Jun Fa.
There is nothing to express in the heart, only a wisp of the soul.
A furnace is lit, and dry bones give birth to mandalas. ” I have to say that this kind of literary and artistic style with a little bit of middle and second breath is really elevating.
Because of this, when Mu Ming almost rewrote the original story in order to simplify the plot, he still retained these two paragraphs word by word.
Mu Ming uploaded the first paragraph of the new story "Lingxi" - the original name "Ghost to the Bed" Mu Ming really can't watch - uploaded it to Weibo, and then leaned back relaxed on the back of the swivel chair.
Meow, it's much harder to simplify this story than to amplify, and it has to be coherent, and it's clear, and it's not too many words.
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It was easy to ask Mu Ming to write 300 words to 3,000 words, but it was really hard to ask him to write 3,000 words into 300 words.
In fact, Mu Ming also thought about not being so troublesome, just write the complete story and take it to the publishing house to publish it, after all, Mu Ming is very confident in the quality of "Soul Ferry".
But after thinking about it for a long time, I finally gave up this seemingly convenient route.
Mu Ming is a newcomer, and for a newcomer, there is a world of difference between the treatment that a novel with a certain popularity and a brand new novel can bring.
The simplest point is that if Mu Ming directly takes the complete version of "Soul Ferry" to those large publishing houses or publishing companies, the most likely thing is to get a thousand-word buyout contract, and it is difficult to give him a share contract.
As for the small publishing company, it may agree to Mu Ming's share request, but the channel restrictions of the small company lock the upper limit of a book.
Some people will say that when the word of mouth is good after the book is published, won't it be natural to have sales?
Well, when the reputation improves, the cheapest ones are those pirated booksellers, not Mu Ming.
Of course, there will always be the kind of new companies that have just been established, have abundant funds, and lack good works when the channels are perfect, and Mu Ming's goal is actually them.
However, it would be too unrealistic to let Mu Ming go to them, so Mu Ming planned to make a name for herself on Weibo first, and then wait for them to come to her.
At that time, the initiative was on Mu Ming.
However, the premise of all this is that "Soul Ferry" can really be popular, so Mu Ming's recent time is almost spent on the next few stories, except for going to the gym.