American Entertainment 1982

 Remarks on the completion of this book

I finally finished writing it. Although the story was completely different from the one I originally wanted to write and was a complete mess, I finally finished it, and I finished it to the best of my ability.

 In fact, what I originally wanted to write was a story with distinct stages. Old readers may still have some impression that the title of this book was changed twice soon after it was published, and not only the title, but also the outline was changed.

How should I put it? In the original outline, it contained a total of eight volumes of stories. Each volume actually has independent events, just like the first and second volumes of the current book. These two volumes are also the only ones. According to The story was written in the original outline.

Moreover, each volume has reference-style film and television dramas. For example, the first volume refers to "Fake Family", the second volume refers to "Admission Notice", the third volume refers to "Instructor Schmidt", and the fourth volume refers to "A Good Man Is Not a Good Man". Soldiers" and "Three-Legged Cat Troops", the fifth volume refers to "Political Melee", the sixth volume refers to "Parks and Recreation", the seventh volume refers to "The Ugly Truth", and the eighth volume refers to "The Edge of Politics" and "Commander of the Armed Forces".

Perhaps all of you readers have noticed something in common. Yes, the eight-volume story I originally envisioned, and all the film and television dramas that I referenced in style, are all absurd comedies.

 But now looking at the finished product, only the first two volumes retain a certain absurdity and comedy style, and the style begins to completely collapse in the third volume.

In fact, now that I look back at the chapters in the second volume, I can still vaguely see that the third volume should not be the current content, because many of the foreshadowings written in the second volume are not used in the finished book, such as the godfather of Otilia. Mr. Fei, the mentioned letter of recommendation from Mr. Governor, as well as the difference in the image of Otilia’s father and the subsequent plot, etc., all point to another development that the story should have taken.

Although it is useless to talk about these now, I think it is still necessary to sort out the previous story trends, even if it is used as a summary of experience to avoid making similar mistakes again.

In the original design, the third volume should have the protagonist attending West Point Military Academy with a letter of recommendation. It should be the story of campus life and fraternity at West Point Military Academy. Why do many readers think that the fraternity plot at the beginning of the third volume is too exaggerated? It seems extremely distorted at Stanford, but it would be very suitable at West Point. I want to write about the protagonist and a group of fraternity members finally using various weird means and tactics to defeat the British military academy cadets who have no lower limit than West Point, and win the international military competition. In the end The comedy story of graduating top students is about a group of American cadets who thought they were already very shameless and ungrateful. They met British cadets who broke through the lower limits of human beings. The two sides confronted each other. In the end, the American team relied on the likes of Tommy The story of a man making the final decision and winning.

The fourth volume is actually the story of the protagonist serving overseas. I wrote some of it as Dennis. It is actually very simple. It is that Tommy Hawke led the platoon and braved the flames of war to go deep behind enemy lines and robbed the enemy's bank. A ridiculous story about achieving military exploits and making all the soldiers under his command a fortune at the same time. A group of outstanding soldiers were always scolded by their superiors when they obeyed orders. However, when they were persuaded by the protagonist and plucked up the courage to take risks, they were clearly committing a crime. He was convicted of robbery, but he became a hero.

In the fifth volume, the service period has expired. The protagonist does not want to join the army and chooses to return to Rhode Island to study political science. Otilia's godfather is running for Congress. The protagonist joins the campaign team by chance and helps the opponent plan an election plan and defeat him. Regarding the opponent’s story, I also wrote part of the campaign as Jeff in the current fourth volume, but because the idea changed at the beginning, no matter how I force the story onto someone else, it will look weird. In fact, it was originally all kinds of weird stories that happened during the election campaign.

The sixth volume is about marrying Otilia, completing major life events, and Tommy being recommended by Otilia's godfather to enter the Mayor of Providence's office as the mayor's assistant, wiping the **** of the weird mayor. , stories such as solving the sanitation workers' strike, the mayor's prostitution scandal, disaster relief during the blizzard, etc., using various weird methods to solve various weird problems, and finally ended with him preparing to run for the next mayor.

The seventh volume was written when Tommy was forty years old. At that time, he was the governor of Rhode Island and began to try to get the Republican Party to nominate him within the party. He met another female opponent in the party. The two people fought openly and secretly, and how to find gold. Lord, promise, exchange of interests, after a struggle, it seems that both parties have a good impression, but in fact they are taking advantage of human weaknesses, waiting to catch each other in scandal, and finally rely on Tommy's shamelessness to eat up the woman and send him in to win the story .

Volume 8 can be replaced by one sentence. In the 2008 general election, Tommy ran on behalf of the Republican Party and ran against Comrade Guan Hai and won.

 Just write about Tommy learning the results of the election and winning, and then end the whole article without writing about the subsequent story of becoming president.

There is no complicated and rigorous information, just comedy stories one after another. Through Tommy’s experience, I wrote some stories that I think should be quite fun.

But at that time, the editor said that if the story needed to be changed, it would be best to focus on business, write about entertainment, and not involve military affairs. What’s more terrible is that the book had already been opened at that time, and it was difficult to get off the ground. I didn’t want to get a 404, so I had to make temporary changes. This was also As a result, I directly lost control of the rhythm of the story. First of all, the third volume immediately returned to the style I was used to writing before. Relying on Lao Ma's "The Wolf of Wall Street", I could barely hold on, but in fact I had no strength. Not caught, he even forcibly changed several speeches that were supposed to be used in the campaign and used them in the third volume. At the beginning of the fourth volume, I had really exhausted all my talents. I had no information reserves and no plot direction. In fact, as early as the third volume, I already needed to consult a large number of various English materials and data before coding every day, and then machine I tried to recharge my batteries by translating into Chinese that was completely fluent. By the fourth volume, this state of mind had already made me exhausted. In addition, my son started to get sick and I was busy running to and from the doctor every day. I didn’t know what to write anymore. It was completely I was thinking about how to round out the title of the fourth volume, White Devil. In fact, the title of the opening volume of the fourth volume was White Devil. I just thought the title was cool enough, and I had no idea at all. Then I thought that nothing else mattered. What was important was I just barely finished the story, don’t worry about whether it’s good or not, just finish it right away.

Now, I can finally finish these three words and start the next story. In fact, I couldn’t let go of Tommy in the first two volumes, but I also hated the subsequent stories, so I actually felt quite complicated when I finished writing the full text. .

 But anyway, it’s time to say goodbye to this book.

 This is probably the writing experience of this book.

To sum up, if you don’t understand English, try not to write about foreign subjects. It’s too tiring to look up information. If you don’t need to look up information and just change the direction of the story temporarily, you may not be so caught up.

So, for my next book, I’ll just stick to writing about China. After writing about Tommy’s past in the United States, I want to write about another past event in China at the same time.

The release date of the book should be within the next few days. Everyone is welcome to watch it. What I can say is that the outline and character design of the new book are completely completed. The total is about 50,000 words. Please refer to the physical material book 50 Seven books, if there is no longer the problem of temporarily changing the direction of the story, with an outline of this size, I think I should be able to write a wonderful story.

 Thank you readers for watching, and we will see you in the next story.

Attached is a tentative introduction to the new book (written casually, not representative of the finished product):

Rebirth In 1978, Xie Hushan felt that he was just a small village chief, and all the responsibility lay with the villagers' slander.

Xie Hushan: I think the journalist looked at me in the wrong way. What did you say to them during the interview?

Village A: I didn’t say anything. To tell the truth, I just said that our village chief is knowledgeable and has gone to Hong Kong to take the ring! The reporter was dumbfounded!

Xie Hushan: Who has ever been to Hong Kong? I mean I’ve been to Sheung Wan, Hong Kong! What else did you say?

Village B: We also asked why you want to stay in the village and make everyone rich instead of living in the city.

 Xie Hushan: What did you say?

Village C: I said he must dare? If there is no protection from the village, the village chief will do all the immoral things. He leaves the village in the morning and has to be buried at noon.

Book title reference: "All are reborn and still have to work as cows and horses" "The history of blood and tears of the ambiguous partners of the reborn people who were brainwashed into lesbians by a crazy critic"

By the way, I would like to recommend the new book "1982 Begins from Xiangjiang" by the dead **** who has been sleeping for a long time.

 (End of this chapter)