Book information of the mysterious case of River God 1 Ghost Water

Book Review: Writing a book "River God" consumes the energy equivalent to eight "Ghost Blowing Lights", which is absolutely wonderful! Many words in Ghost Blowing Lights are just a few words. All the tomb-robbing novels on the market are imitations of my peerless arrogance. Nanpai's three uncles have announced the closure of the pen, and Muye Zhang, the author of the best-selling novel Ghost Blowing Lights, has just published a novel "The Mystery of the Legend of River God and Ghost Water", which is a corpse salvage team to salvage floating corpses and solve strange cases. Chongqing Evening News reporter learned from the publisher Times Chinese Bookstore that Muye Zhang will go to Chongqing Bookstore in Jie Fangbei at 2: 30 this Sunday afternoon to sign books. Yesterday, Chongqing Evening News reporter interviewed Muye Zhang by email. In addition to understanding the contents of the new book, I also learned the behind-the-scenes story of his coming to Chongqing to collect materials to write "Ghost Blowing Lights".

This article was written by Chongqing Evening News reporter Zhou Yuchang and intern Huo Cai.

The master of the body salvage team solved a strange case.

The story of the river god has a prototype.

Muye Zhang told reporters that "River God" is a story based on a real person in his hometown of Tianjin. Master Guo, the hero of the novel, was a member of the corpse salvage team in the old society, and later became a marine police officer of the New China Public Security Bureau. He crossed the river to find countless bodies and solved countless mysterious cases for decades. His life is so legendary that people in Tianjin call him "River God". "Some storytellers in Tianjin wrote his story into a book and told it to people." Muye Zhang said that the book "River God" made him most fulfilled by restoring the original flavor of street storytelling decades ago.

It is understood that there are two stories in "River God" strung together by a character, "Evil Dog Village Catches Demons" and "Haunted House in Hutong of Grain Depot". Muye Zhang told the Chongqing Evening News reporter that writing this book made him feel great pressure. "The story in the book has a prototype, and the place names and characters are familiar to local readers. Because of familiarity, it is easy to pick mistakes. "

500,000 words deleted 300,000 words.

It is difficult to restore the ending of the story.

Muye Zhang revealed that the book "River God" was written for four years. In the first three years, he was collecting information. At first, he wrote more than half a million words. Later, this book was only over 200,000 words. "300,000 words have been deleted and changed countless times." There are no words, so the author is very satisfied.

Referring to the biggest difficulty in writing "River God", Muye Zhang said that most of the anecdotes about strange people circulated by the people have a beginning and an end, with strong suspense but no ending. "I found an old gentleman who said a book before and asked him why he didn't tell the whole story when he told a book. The old gentleman said that storytelling pays attention to' three lows, five deductions and one weight', and it is always suspense to talk about this. After listening, I won't come back next time. " Muye Zhang said that he turned to all his friends for help, asked people who had heard the story in those years, and added some things of his own, and finally found out all the stories. Muye Zhang also revealed that some stories that were deleted were originally good in content, but unfortunately they were incomplete and could not find the ending. "If you can find an old man who understands these stories in the future, you may write them again."

Muye Zhang went to Chongqing to visit the master who salvaged the body.

Muye Zhang revealed that he was very interested in hearing the story of Chongqing's corpse salvage through a police friend in Chongqing, so he came to Chongqing to visit the former corpse salvage master at Ciqikou, and was deeply moved by the story of a rotting corpse and a bird. In Muye Zhang's eyes, the enthusiasm of Chongqing people is as hot as Chongqing hot pot. He said that he hoped to have the opportunity to write a novel set in Chongqing in the future.

Muye Zhang revealed that "Ghost Blowing Lights" has many words.

When writing Ghost Blowing Lights, Muye Zhang chose network serialization, while River God is a direct physical book, with only 5% content on the Internet. Regarding the choice of physical books, Muye Zhang talked about the pain of his serial "Ghost Blowing Lights". "Because it is updated every day, the first consideration is the number of words rather than the content of the story. The first thing I wake up every day is to owe thousands of words to the website. There are so many words in the book that I can't even finish reading a few. "

Muye Zhang said that due to the low quality of his writing, he gradually stopped writing novels online. "Maybe the story is beautiful, but the quality of the text is not high."

Chongqing Evening News: What books are you most satisfied with in the series of Ghost Blowing Lights?

Muye Zhang: I am most satisfied with the two books, Ghost Blowing Lights 1 Exquisite Ancient City and Ghost Blowing Lights 7 Angry and Sunny Xiangxi, because the manuscripts have been revised several times, unlike others, only one draft was written.

Chongqing Evening News: Is it a loss for you to stop serializing online?

Muye Zhang: There is no substitute for interacting with readers online. I hope to have the opportunity to write serials and novels online in the future, but don't write too much every day. Every day there is a great suspense.

Chongqing Evening News: Many readers like to compare your ghost blowing lamp with Uncle Nanpai's grave robbery notes. Do you mind?

Muye Zhang: All the tomb-robbing novels on the market are imitating my works, and no one can jump out of the "ghost blowing lights" routine. It is not surprising that readers will compare.

Chongqing Evening News: Will you continue to write novels about grave robbery in the future?

Muye Zhang: Most stories about tomb raiding, such as ghost blowing lights and ghost silence, are fictional, which is very different from the real tomb culture and tomb raiding. Maybe I'll write tomb-robbing novels in the future.

The script of the movie "Ghost Blowing Lights" has been completed.

There will be something newer than the novel.

At the premiere of River God at the beginning of this year, Muye Zhang revealed that the film version of Ghost Blowing Lights will start shooting this year, directed by Wu Ershan, the director of Painted Skin 2 who participated in the script creation. In an interview yesterday, Muye Zhang told the Chongqing Evening News reporter that the script had been written. "The movie is based on the fifth part (Huangpi Zifen) and the seventh part (Nuqing Xiangxi), and there will be a lot of new content in it." When the reporter asked what the new content would be, Muye Zhang sold a secret: "Everyone will know when the movie is released."

Muye Zhang's real job is to do financial futures.

20 13 wishes to get a driver's license.

Although Muye Zhang has written a series of best-selling novels, he is not a professional writer. He studied fine arts, and now his real job is to do financial futures, and he is an intermediary between coal mines and banks. When a reporter asked him if he could write a novel about the financial field, Muye Zhang said, "Finance is my job. I am tired of dealing with it every day. I don't want to write those things when writing novels. " Talking about the desire of 20 13, Muye Zhang revealed that he wanted to get a driver's license.