The first taboo: No matter how beautiful the writing is, don't let description bring your narrative to a halt.
Writers of fiction must keep this in mind: Don't over-describe anything, whether it's the Tetons, a sunset, or zebras on Waikiki Beach. Otherwise, the power of your narrative will be affected, and you'll make the reader's interest in
Dangerous gaps in attention. Remember Elmo Leonard's wise words: "I always try to get rid of content that readers will skip over." Readers are indeed willing to skip content that is ineffective.
The second biggest taboo: don’t waste too much time describing unimportant environments.
Novelist David Roggie once declared: "Description in a good novel is never just description. The danger with most background descriptions is that a series of beautiful statements and narrative interruptions push the reader into a drowsy state.
Situation." Remember Roger's motto, type it on a piece of paper and stick it to your computer or typewriter: "Description in a good novel is never just description."
The third taboo is: don’t waste the reader’s attention on an insignificant thing. This is the most common mistake for beginners.
The fourth taboo is: don’t generalize, be specific.
Regarding the taboo of generalization in writing, no one said it better than the great Russian writer Chekhov. In a letter, he warned a writer friend to avoid generalization and commonplace: "I believe that the true description of nature should be quite
Be concise and relevant to the subject. You should avoid clichéd descriptions, such as, 'The sunset is bathed in the waves of the black ocean, and the purple golden light pours down', etc. When describing nature, grasp the details.
, and to such an extent that even if you close your eyes, you can still see the scene you are describing.
So when you sit down to write, remember, not “a drink” but “a martini”; not “a dog” but “a poodle”; not “a bouquet of flowers” but
It's "a bouquet of roses"; it's not "a skier" but "a budding young girl"; it's not "a hat" but "a hat"; it's not "a cat" but
It's "an Abyssinian cat"; not "a gun" but "a new .44 caliber automatic pistol"; not "a painting" but "Manet's 'Olympia'".
Combining the description of the Four Taboos with Chehefu's golden words, we get a rule that all good authors should follow when describing: Be specific!
You need to be able to accurately depict scenes and make characters believable as they go about their daily business with their own senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. - Ravel Spencer.
"How can we make things look real and believable?" When a writer is asked this question, it is actually a compliment to him. If someone further says to him: "I seem to be there,
Being able to hear, smell, and feel these places is like walking into the pages of a novel." Then what he gave readers is indeed extraordinary. When I was asked the same question, my answer was
: "With the help of the five senses". Some authors never realize that they should use the reader's five senses to obtain a sense of reality. It is common to use the reader's visual experience, but using the reader's smell and hearing (except in dialogue),
How many times is touch or taste? I started writing in 1976, and I still keep five words on the wall of my office: see, hear, feel, taste, smell. Whenever I write, I will refer to it.
In this list, I consciously wrote something with a smell. In fact, some disgusting things have a miraculous effect in creating a sense of reality.
Think of the smell of rotten fruit when one opens the refrigerator; the smell of rancid fat when one skins a bear; the smell of rancid fat when a woman fills her tank at an unserviced gas station.
Your hands will smell like gasoline. It's not enough to mention the smell at the beginning of the story. You have to refer to that table again and again as you narrate the plot. Let's imagine that a man and a woman are arguing about something. The man
He rushed from the door to the kitchen and shouted at the woman: "I can't stand your mother living with us anymore. The old lady must move out before I come back, otherwise I will leave this home!" When setting up this scene!
, I could have a woman baking pumpkin pie (which tastes sweet, heartwarming, and reminds me of happy times like Thanksgiving), but add in the smell of pickling spices and vinegar, and the scene takes on a moral. I would
At one point the reader is asked to imagine the smell: "I solemnly warn you, Laura, with her and without me, with me and without her!" he said, in a way that was as sour as the smell in the kitchen. Don't forget, there was an argument.
At that time, Laura was still filling the jar with pickles. When she was arguing loudly, she might burn her hands, and then put her hands into cold water to rinse. Of course, she might also be pouring salt water into the pickles and spill some.
She also wiped her hands on the cheesecloth apron. She could wipe the sweat from her forehead (which was hot and itchy) and she could yell and wave.
Hold a spoon (hard with a wooden handle) in your hand and throw it at the man. These will enhance the visual effect. When the quarrel becomes more and more intense, what sounds might be heard? Is a dog sneaking in and drinking?
Water in the tin pie plate?
Is there a car making a rattling sound on the road? Is it the sound of children playing in the yard next door? Is there a clanking sound when the water on the stove is boiling?
How hot is the water? Did you tell the reader the temperature? Did the heroine place a cup of iced tea or iced coffee next to the pickle jar? The argument ended with the man storming out, but the problem was not resolved.
, at this time, does the heroine pick up the cup, drink the iced coffee, find that the coffee is very bitter, and then make a face? As you can see, in a plot similar to the above, it is necessary to arouse the five senses of people at the same time.
It's possible, but in order to be able to do this, the plot must be carefully arranged. Most plots cannot use all five senses (especially taste, which is the most difficult to write about), but you can easily arouse the reader's
Four feelings, in most plots, can arouse at least three feelings in readers. When you doubt the authenticity of the dialogue in the novel, read your dialogue aloud, pretend you are an actor, and use it as a movie
Speak your lines with the kind of cadence required on screen and stage. If it sounds stiff and unnatural, it needs to be modified. Don't forget that the thoughts people express in language are always unprocessed and polished.
So keep your characters' words short. In life, people always ask questions one by one. The characters in your novel should do the same, especially when they want to get to know each other. People often sigh and purse their lips during conversations.
Smiling, scratching their heads, puffing out their cheeks, and looking at their fingernails are some of the things you want the characters to do in your novel, and have people continue their conversations while they go about their work.
Use closing words to create imagery. Consider the following two examples: "You never liked my mother!" Laura yelled. She put the kettle down with a bang. "You never liked my mother.
!" Laura suddenly threw down the kettle. The second sentence increased the tension, moved the plot forward faster, eliminated redundant words, and hinted rather than told the reader that Laura was yelling. This is me
The principles mentioned are the best moments, and it is by these principles that I measure all my work. The tense moments use fewer but more precise words. I learned this from my English teacher. In
When I was writing my second book, there were several plots that I couldn't write down, but I couldn't figure out the reason, so I gave the manuscript to the teacher and asked her for criticism and suggestions. After she told me this rule, I
I applied it to my novel and everything became clear.
When the plot is tense, use short and concise sentences, use short words in the sentences, use less endings, and write suddenly. When you do this, the tension will arise spontaneously. In contrast,
In a plot with a relatively dull atmosphere, where silence and tranquility are everywhere, it is necessary to use longer sentences, longer words, longer paragraphs, and more concluding remarks. Doing so will naturally ease the tension.
When you are conceiving a novel, you must establish a realistic attitude. Only through observation and thinking can you accurately depict scenes and make the characters credible. They use their inherent sense of sight, hearing, smell, touch and
The tastes go about their daily business. Well, as I said before, taste is the hardest to write about in fiction, but having four out of five isn't so bad.
Apply these five senses and use sentence structure to create a slow or tense atmosphere, and you'll write novels that readers won't be able to put down because they're so authentic and believable.
Seize the excitement:
For a novelist, being able to always capture that magical excitement is the greatest reward. - Fritz Whitney
There are many exciting moments in a writer's life. It would be even more joyful if these moments came after rejection and disappointment. I will never forget those moments when I first heard an editor say something about me
Words of encouragement, the ecstasy when seeing your words printed for the first time, or holding your first novel in your hands. I firmly believe that for any novelist, the real "peak of excitement" is
It's everywhere. And it keeps popping up as we learn how to inspire it. I mean that magical moment when a new novel is conceived, when that first sparkle comes to mind.
When the initial idea of a new story (or novel) keeps flashing through, the author will have a dazzling feeling, and we usually feel that this will be the best work he has ever written.
This wonderful feeling may often occur for a moment, and I will live with this feeling for days or weeks. These flashes of thought gather so much strange brilliance that they seem to flicker continuously due to some magic.
With.
So, I wrote them down. I was always happy to write the beginnings of one story after another, but occasionally I only completed a complete story. What I wrote was never as perfect as my dream, I was too impatient,
When I realized that I had just started the stories and had to continue them, I lost interest. The magic was gone, and I kept giving up on the stories.
I envy the kind of writer who can follow the original idea and develop it into a novel. But I can't do it overnight, so I have to clarify the direction of writing before I start writing. I have found some effective ways to protect those original ideas.
I find that when I write about 30 pages, if I can still maintain the initial state of excitement, my interest will be highly aroused until I complete the work.
How long the initial excitement lasts varies from book to book. I first spend some time in my notebook designing characters, collecting bits and pieces of the plot, clarifying my writing direction, or jotting down things that have come to mind, until
The moment comes when I have to put pen to paper. That moment always comes before I have completely designed it. I never refuse that push. At least I can get a beginning for my story. To reward myself, I usually
I will write a few pages first, which is good for the continuity of writing. It can help me return to the idea of characters and plot at any time.
When I read through the completed parts again, the feeling of pleasure surged up again. I really want a reader to share these beautiful words with me. I don't expect to get a lot at once, but I do hope to get praise and recognition.
, even though I know I'm the worst judge of these works because I'm so caught up in the creation that I can't see its faults
Usually the readers I choose are well versed in this set of rules, and they will encourage me while gently giving me some advice to keep me from getting carried away. Sooner or later, I will read the first chapter again to see what happens.
If you are new to writing, it is dangerous to ask for criticism too early. It will easily extinguish the initial excitement. A safer approach is to wait until the writing is finished.
Then ask others to read and judge.
Now, I no longer expect that the extreme excitement will last forever. I know that it will reappear, exciting me and motivating me to keep going. You know, the impact of a single wave of excitement is not enough for a story of hundreds of pages.
.In the process of writing, some wonderful new ideas will make me turn around, create unexpected turning points, and lead me to the peak of excitement again. Novelists should be emotional people, if our writing becomes without passion
If you exercise consciously, the novels you write will definitely be bland and unremarkable.
It is also unwise to wait for a sudden burst of inspiration. When I can't continue writing, I often ask myself: What unexpected actions might the characters take in this situation? What kind of plot is both logical and unexpected?
I was living the movie in my mind, letting the sparks of inspiration keep hitting me.
Let us analyze three types of excitement situations that are often encountered in novel writing. The first is the most important, that is, the author's excitement about the story to be described; the second is when the characters in the novel play a special role.
experience. If you can discover the motivations that drive your character's excitement, you've reached another level of excitement. The third level of excitement is about the reader. If both you and your character's interest are high, then the reader will also learn from your
Get satisfaction from the story.
The author's purpose is to let readers and characters share the same fate. However, it is not easy to keep the author in a high mood and spend months or even years completing his novel.
Being bored with what I write and not having a long-term plan are the main problems. In order to keep my writing fresh, I set a rule for myself, that is: don’t look back too much at what I have completed. When I start every day
When writing, I only read the last few pages, which gives me the motivation to continue writing quickly. Although I want to understand the completed part and see what it is like, I never allow myself to turn forward.
Read more than 5 pages, even just for a short time.
That moment finally came, and when I began to believe that what I wrote was just a bunch of messy stuff, I lost interest and confidence. So I simply started reading from the beginning until I got to the place where my writing got stuck.
.However, they turned out to be much better than I expected. Ha, I was full of energy and continued writing. I found that after browsing this time, I understood the characters more thoroughly. In the process of writing the novel, this kind of
This happens often.
My own method is to read, and I communicate with novels. The purpose of reading novels is not to imitate or get new ideas, but to discover a certain emotion. My attention wanders between the pages of the book, and when something suddenly touches me
I could keep writing because I could convey that emotion to my characters. I rewrote the dry love scene, and it worked great this time. I also discovered
One way to deal with loss of interest: Replenish your brain with new food.
"Anxiety" is one of the effective methods worth using, but I do not recommend this method with negative effects. It is just a method. We can use various methods to convey excitement to readers and make it continuous
Enhance to maintain the original sparkle of ideas. For novelists, being able to always capture that magical excitement is the greatest reward.
Suspended tension method in novel creation:
One of the secrets why micro-novels can attract readers with only a small length is to skillfully use the "suspended tension method" in the description. The "suspended tension method" is also known as suspense, "selling off the clues", "setting buttons", "
It is a common and very important technique in novels. This is how Chernyshevsky used the "suspended tension method" - in the preface of his novel "What to Do"
Says: "I invoke a common trick used by novelists: to take a few showy scenes from the middle or end of the novel, place them at the beginning, and add a layer of mystery to them." In "What to Do?"
, it is written at the beginning that Ropkhov faked his suicide, which caused suspense. Then he flashbacked to his past relationship with Vera and Kirsanov and explained the reason why he faked his suicide. In fact, "suspension of tension" is not only
It can be used at the beginning, in the middle, or even at the end. For example, in the movie "The Gunshots of the Secret Bureau", the ending scene is Chang Liang accidentally shooting and killing the spy team leader, rescuing Liu Xiaochen and Aji, and then
Following the retreat of the Nationalist Army - who Chang Liang is, the film does not explain until the end. This kind of "suspense" at the end will definitely arouse various speculations and associations from the audience. The content of "suspension tension method"
It can be divided into two categories: one is that some characters in the work have "numbers" in their minds, but the readers are completely "kept in the dark", allowing the readers to judge and guess the progress of the plot. For example, in "The Straw Boat Borrowing Arrows", Zhuge Liang's mind
It has been predicted that there will be heavy fog, but one hundred thousand arrows can be "borrowed" within three days, but the readers have no idea at all and are anxiously worried about Zhuge Liang's fate. First, the readers already know most of the plot, and in the work
Some of the characters are "kept in the dark", allowing readers to open their eyes to see how these characters will act. For example, in "Fifteen Guans", readers already know that Lou Ashu stole the money, but all the characters in the work except Lou
Except for A Shu, no one knows, so readers are looking forward to it with concern: How will this unjust case be dealt with? When using the "suspension tension method" in longer novels, you can tie in small "baggage" within the big "baggage".
Big "buttons" are connected with small "buttons", one link after another, one "suspense" after another, pushing the conflict to the climax. Micro-novels are very short in length, and they often only set up a small
"Suspense" suddenly shakes off the "baggage" at the end of the description, surprising the readers, thus achieving good results. When using the "suspension tension method", first of all, we must pay attention to its authenticity. It must be "suspense" but not
"Mysterious" means that you cannot pretend to be mysterious and destroy the artistic reality of the work; secondly, you must pay attention to "suspending tension" closely around the theme. If you "suspend tension" on the details, it will only weaken the theme of the work.
Twelve Commandments for Writers:
One of the twelve precepts for writers is to avoid following the trend: "Don't write about cultivation if it is popular. If the Three Kingdoms looks good, write about the Three Kingdoms."
2. Avoid ‘I’ “I won’t go into details here. For all writers, writing in the first person is a taboo.”
3. Avoid running accounts: "The article is too simple. There must be more dialogue, description of the environment and description of the characters."
Fourth, plagiarism is not allowed "At least it must be plagiarized in such a way that readers cannot tell that it is plagiarized. Some people's works can be known to be plagiarized from the plot of "Quest for Qin" at a glance.
5. Avoid writing articles that are too short. “Don’t write a book in a way that cheats click-through rates. One chapter should be at least four to five thousand words.”
6. Avoid being too shaky. "It is okay to drag out scenes, but you must have skills and cannot prolong them indefinitely. You must try your best to explain some useful things and foreshadowing, and lengthen the length of the article in some words. But if you are not skilled enough, don't force it.
.The article cannot be too short, nor can it be too long. It must be of appropriate length.”
For example, it is best not to combine science fiction works with martial arts. The martial arts science fiction comics written by Xiangman are the most unsuccessful because they insist on balancing martial arts and science fiction. Each novel has its central theme, science fiction.
As far as science fiction is concerned, martial arts can be used now, but the role it plays is insignificant. Because it is science fiction as the theme, everything must be explained from a scientific perspective, rather than both science and martial arts."
8. Avoid Superman. "The most taboo thing in the article, apart from following the trend, is to make the protagonist become a superman overnight. The protagonist encounters an adventure and gets unexpected abilities. It's okay! But he gets super strength overnight. Afterwards,
If your power is too strong, how can you write it to the end?"
9. Avoid too many names. “Readers will not have the patience to remember the names of places and names you have cited. They can only explain them slowly (very slowly) in the article for readers to digest slowly. If the author is too impatient
It will only make readers dizzy and turn it into a running account."
10. Avoid examples: "The theme setting is always for your own reading. Don't force it into the article. Readers will not be interested in reading your setting. Doing so is like telling the ending of a book in advance, making people confused.
I have lost the taste of reading.” Example: The author of The Thief did not have any settings when he wrote The Thief. At first, I thought he was writing a story about a nobleman in the Middle Ages. In the end, the magician suddenly
It suddenly appeared. What a talent!
I clearly understood that this is a fantasy work, which gave me countless surprises. Moreover, the author did not appear more magicians for a long time, which made the readers interested in reading more. Long Shiyao was also the last one.
Appear slowly, describe one by one, rather than give examples all at once. In other words, the author has only made me understand what this world is like so far. (The dragon has only appeared twice so far, and the goblin has not been seen at all.
(Have seen it) used his writing style for a long time to build that world in my mind one by one. This is where he succeeded.
11. Avoid what is said: "As an author, you should try your best to read and write from a neutral standpoint. Therefore, in the article, please do not write the full name of the character and call her xxx or xxx to save trouble."
.The article must give people a neutral and cold feeling. Nicknames are used to replace names for the sake of closeness between relatives and friends. I have never seen people with superb writing skills use these nicknames to replace the names of characters. You are the author and
What does your character do to create intimacy? "
12. Avoid confusing relationships between superiors and subordinates. “There are many works in which the protagonist tries his best to build relationships with the characters around him.” For example, when the protagonist orders the elder brother next to him to do something, he says: “Brother so-and-so, go and help me with something.”
"Hit me down." instead of: "So-and-so listens to the order and shoots down xxx for me." Public and private affairs cannot be made public, and the relationship between superiors and subordinates is chaotic. Look at which army in the world will fight. This is used in the workplace.
This kind of tone can only show the author's lack of social experience.
Another point is that in many works, the author is too obviously on the side of the protagonist, and the serious war is written as an awkward domestic fight, like a child's play. "Ah! I was a step late. That so-and-so actually killed them all, leaving them alone."
"Give me some!" "You are such a good boy, you defeated all the enemies, so what should I fight? Don't leave any for me." This is not what a soldier should say!
Military ~ a major event of the country, a place of life and death. How can we let the relatives and friends of these protagonists do what they want? Where has the military law gone? The battlefield has become like a child's play. - Comment on the gains and losses of writing. Comment on the gains and losses of writing first.
For an author, many novices like to use me to write books, or the first person. I don’t understand why they think this way. Books like Stranger’s Proud World, Business Three Kingdoms, etc. have gradually become more popular in the end.
I switched to using he, the third person. Because this writing technique has many shortcomings, people who have traveled online know that generally using 'I' will never produce a good book, especially for novices. Therefore, many people
Most readers don't have a good impression of the author who wrote the book. They stopped reading after reading the first page. Unless they were VIPs and expected that he would improve in the future, they could not bear to read. So, write
It is best not to use me to write the book. Jin Yong has never used this writing technique. Huang Yi used it once in The Great Sword Master and then stopped using it. However, the authors actually asked themselves that they could be more powerful than these two masters. I really admire them.
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Second, women, I don’t know how much love experience these authors have, or the ratio of men to women in China’s current market is so outrageous that the protagonists in the book have lost the character and self-esteem that a man should have, leaving women to do whatever they want.
No matter how I scold you, it seems that just having a girlfriend is enough. Even if the girl makes any mistakes, I can't see the protagonist getting angry or anything like that. This is too saintly. There are so many such protagonists, ah!
The protagonists of this kind have lost their own character. Especially some books about kings. The king will never let anyone threaten his authority. He must be ruthless and ruthless. Sometimes he must give up his beloved woman.
Extremely cold-blooded, but many authors insist on writing a perfect love story. Go!
Neither the reality nor the novel world is perfect, because the readers themselves do not believe in the existence of perfection. Doesn’t writing like this clearly tell the readers that this is just my delusion?
Also, I am a man, and 90% of online readers are men. If authors want to write about love and love, they can consider writing romance novels. I don’t think the element of love should appear in men’s books, but
I have seen that many people have adjusted the proportion of love elements in novels to an absurdly high level. The novels that are obviously about kings insist on having a relationship with love, while the novels about iron-blooded characters insist on making it look like playing house, which seems to be more important than the country.
Women are more important. Ha!
As the saying goes, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Sometimes you have to choose between a woman and the country, but many authors insist on writing a perfect ending, okay!
The sentence "Only love beauty but not country" is a classic enough. It is a satirical portrayal of these readers. It is impossible to insist on writing it perfectly. In addition, the protagonists in many books are too soft-hearted, at least I have not seen any
Beating and killing a woman happens, no matter how bastard and arrogant that woman is. Alas!
Wu Zetian’s world is under control.
Third, you can choose to skip the things you are not good at, just click on it, and take it over lightly. Don't force yourself to describe it in detail. If you really have to write it down, you can look up the information, but love
There is no information to look up, so I advise those of you who have no love experience or who only understand love from comics and novels not to write about it, as it will only make flies stick to the rice.
Fourth, what should be described in detail and what should be simple? If it is abstract, then the main purpose is to describe the power of the empire established. In common parlance, it is the YY of a country, not the YY of the protagonist. The difference between military and abstract
The only difference I can make is between historical facts and non-historical facts.
The fifth is fantasy and military. Not many people will like to read purely military books. From the beginning to the end of the war, how many readers are so single-minded about blood and blood. The most important thing for fantasy books is to describe the power of China.
Because we are dissatisfied with reality, don’t get it wrong. The protagonist is insignificant in this fantasy book. Like the Commercial Three Kingdoms, his yy lies in Qingzhou’s strength, and the comparison between the lives of people in Qingzhou and other places has become his selling point. So it is fictional.
The most taboo thing about a book is that it always revolves around the protagonist. All methods should be used to describe the improvement of people's lives, the strength of the military, and the people's sense of self-esteem. These are the selling points. There are also people's livelihood, politics, science and technology, diplomacy, military, etc.
Wait, don't just focus on the military. We prefer to see how people's lives have improved and what kind of Datong Duhui will be. The military is only placed at the end. I'm tired of reading a book from beginning to end. And
Another selling point of Overview is diplomacy, a strong country, contrasts with each other, and national pride. These are all features of Overview.
Sixth, the most important point is 'taste'. Don't follow the trend. Write whatever book is popular and will be affected. Write about cultivating immortals when it is popular, and write about the Three Kingdoms when it is popular. Nowadays, except for a few old works, these two kinds of books
I believe most people have stopped. Create, create, the so-called creation means to create. An author must have self-confidence and not be affected by comments, but he must know what readers like to read, not what he thinks.
Write whatever you want. Old authors will all feel that although there will be a market in this way, they cannot fully meet the needs of readers. Otherwise, changes and novelties will be lost. Therefore, taste is needed. Just like the day family, with
The more you are exposed to art, you will naturally have your own taste in beauty, and it will become higher and higher. I believe that the old readers on the Internet will no longer be interested in ordinary martial arts authors. Because they are exposed to too many books, they are single.
It cannot satisfy what you want. So only people with taste can write good works, and if you want to have taste, you must read thousands of books. Now is the world of the Internet, and the meaning of these thousands of books is broad, not just a single reference.
Chinese history requires an understanding of world history (recommended Roman history). It is not just Chinese politics, but world politics. Many things can be found online. Therefore, readers become more knowledgeable and wiser. The author uses a narrow view of knowledge.
If you face it, you will not be able to keep up with the times. So increase your own vision and opinions. Otherwise, if others can do it, you can't do it. Why do you ask others to read your book? You must know that there are thousands of authors online now.
Thousands, instead of the previous situation where the total number of novel authors in the country did not exceed a hundred. Taste, only those who have read a lot of novels will have it. It is a way of judging whether a book is good or bad. Old readers will understand what I am saying below. What is taste at the beginning?
Every book is beautiful, but gradually I started to become picky about food, hey!
And only such people can write good books. Finally, as an author, your position should be as neutral as possible. You should be biased towards the protagonist but not make everything smooth for the protagonist; we are not gods, and we cannot be realistic, but we should try our best.
Giving readers a sense of reality is where success lies.
Taste is very important to an author. I don’t know what taste is, but it is an experience gained after reading thousands of books. It represents the author’s knowledge and reading ability. Taste
The higher the level, the more people have a deep understanding of the quality of books. Such people can see the potential of books at a glance. Nowadays, only those who have been online for more than four years have this qualification. This is just like in the 1980s.
At that time, there were no cartoons to watch. There were only Mickey Mouse and Transformers. So for children at that time, any cartoon was interesting. But now, let’s look back at the design and transformation of Transformers.
The plot actually feels a bit childish. This is because the taste has improved. Novels are different from comics and movies. Comic books and movies are expressed through pictures, directly conveying the impression of the characters into the readers' minds, but for novels
No matter how carefully you describe a person's appearance, readers will not remember what this guy looks like. For readers, the appearance of the protagonist in their minds is always vague, and only a few are left.
Subjective impressions. For example: the protagonist is handsome, the protagonist is cowardly, the heroine is cruel and quiet. These things cannot be explained in just a few words. They can only be explained slowly in the long plot.
Only those who understand this point can write well. Therefore, as an author, you must have taste, but your taste cannot be narrow. Like some authors, their life circle only has one town, and they can only sit in a well and watch the sky.
What objective works can such a person write?
But we can’t travel thousands of miles to see everything. So what should we do? The only way is to read, which is very complicated. I’m afraid you must think that the United States is the first democratic country in the world before reading the history of Athens!
Then I think democracy is the most perfect politics in the world. I thought so before reading the history of Rome and Athens, but unfortunately I was wrong. Democracy in Athens was earlier than that in the United States, and Athens embodies the failure of democracy. After reading
After understanding this history, I realized that the all-democracy in many novels is simply nonsense and an unrealistic delusion of some people. Because I understand that the conditions for democracy are very strict, and forcing democracy without these conditions will only be bad. I recommend it.
Roman history and Greek history are must-reads, because their histories have tried almost all political systems in the world. After reading them, the authors will understand what it means to be naive. Therefore, I suggest that an author can read comics.
But don’t think you can write down things in comics, let alone the plots of soap operas. Watch more Western movies, Egyptian history, and Rome to see various civilizations and understand current affairs and the political systems of other countries.
Good or bad (this is very important).
A piece of advice for authors. Today’s authors generally have a few bad ideas. If you want to write like this, think carefully before writing. God: Many authors use human forms to describe God without knowing what influence they are under. Why must God be like that?
Where are the people?
And why angels!
God!
Devil!
Must there be human emotions?
Can't you write without these?
Why does the protagonist have to fall in love with a certain woman?
Why can't the protagonist be more arrogant and dismissive of women like the protagonist in Peerless Twins?
Why must men be nice to women?
I remember that some women admire you the worse you treat them. Of course, a man must be proud. Why can't the protagonist be as ruthless as the protagonist of "Riding and Shooting"?
Why must the protagonist have feelings?
Why can't the protagonist be a subjective life like the protagonist in "Demon Star"?
Why must the protagonist be human?
Is it because you are not human that you cannot describe the relationship between women?
Why must the protagonist be a magician or a samurai?
Why can't the protagonist be a pharmacist?
You must know that if a pharmacist is harmed, he can be a master of poisoning, and dispensing medicine can also bring him power and money. Why must the protagonist be very powerful?
But why can't we be like Wei Xiaobao in The Deer and the Cauldron who has no power to defeat a chicken?
Do you think that if you write it like this, no one will read it?
Why must the protagonist become an immortal?
Can’t you practice magic?
Why must magic and magic come from the same source?
Why is it necessary to practice both magic and martial arts?
Is the protagonist not strong enough to write anything?
Why is it that in urban novels, apart from cultivating immortals, there is also martial arts?
Instead of learning the black magic from the West?
I have nothing against writing about women, but I would like to ask each author how much experience he has in love?
Where does it come from?
Did you learn it from various comics and movies?
Or is it the realization of one’s own life?
Is it a love that is truly touching and goes straight to the heart?
Or do you not know the so-called infatuation?
If you understand love, then you will definitely understand that it is very difficult for a girl to fall in love with a boy, and there must be a reason. So let’s talk about women!
Young and ignorant little girls, their love is influenced by comics and novels, and they have a love-first mentality. These girls usually only like the appearance and pay attention to the inside. I believe you have noticed that many female comic heroines are like this.
They are the same thing. So young girls don’t have much experience in love and getting along with others. They are willful, they act recklessly, and they don’t know what it means to hurt others. The world revolves around them, and men are born for them.
This type of girl is very difficult to get along with, so mature men will only have sex with young girls instead of falling in love, because they are too young and do not know how to take into account men's feelings. When girls wallow in life and get hurt in their relationships,
With the maturity of life experience, they gradually realized how naive it is to pay attention to appearance. Countless injuries made her put appearance in a secondary position, and thus two types of women were born. One is realism, and they pursue wealth.
They are scheming, they don’t care about a man’s appearance, they only focus on the man’s property and money, and hope that one day they can climb the branches and become a phoenix. The other type of women are virtuous, they will only be attracted by men who are gentle or talented.
Still second. But no matter what kind of women, men must have their own capital to attract them. The most natural capital is that the protagonists in the book do not see any capital to attract women. The author of The Thief wrote
It's very good. He describes the attitudes of various women clearly. He is not so naive as to think that all women fall in love with the protagonist. Some go to bed with the protagonist for profit, and some are forced to fall in love with hatred.
The female protagonists all have their own different reasons, and those reasons are fully explained in the plot. The most important thing is this, because readers recognize that their love is reasonable. Everyone, everyone!
Love at first sight may exist, but in this society where interests are paramount, how many have you seen?
Don't vent your unpopular frustrations on novels. Novels must be objective and are an art. Only by respecting them can you write well. If you make fun of it, it's better not to write. Only those who regard writing and novels as hobbies or professions can do it.
They write good works because they are serious, and being serious can make them progress. Let’s use an analogy!
There is a book that says that a girl took the protagonist out of the car and sent him to the hospital, so she cried guiltily beside the protagonist's bed. Good!
When we met for the first time, I accidentally brought an unknown boy to the hospital. Then I felt very guilty and sad for him. Huh!
I have nothing against writing about women, but I would like to ask each author how much experience he has in love?
Where does it come from?
Did you learn it from various comics and movies?
Or is it the realization of one’s own life?
Is it a love that is truly touching and goes straight to the heart?
Or do you not know the so-called infatuation?
If you understand love, then you will definitely understand that it is very difficult for a girl to fall in love with a boy, and there must be a reason. So let’s talk about women!
Young and ignorant little girls, their love is influenced by comics and novels, and they have a love-first mentality. These girls usually only like the appearance and pay attention to the inside. I believe you have noticed that many female comic heroines are like this.
They are the same thing. So young girls don’t have much experience in love and getting along with others. They are willful, they act recklessly, and they don’t know what it means to hurt others. The world revolves around them, and men are born for them.
This type of girl is very difficult to get along with, so mature men will only have sex with young girls instead of falling in love, because they are too young and do not know how to take into account men's feelings. When girls wallow in life and get hurt in their relationships,
With the maturity of life experience, they gradually realized how naive it is to pay attention to appearance. Countless injuries made her put appearance in a secondary position, and thus two types of women were born. One is realism, and they pursue wealth.
They are scheming, they don’t care about a man’s appearance, they only focus on the man’s property and money, and hope that one day they can climb the branches and become a phoenix. The other type of women are virtuous, they will only be attracted by men who are gentle or talented.
Still second. But no matter what kind of women, men must have their own capital to attract them. The most natural capital is that the protagonists in the book do not see any capital to attract women. The author of The Thief wrote
It's very good. He describes the attitudes of various women clearly. He is not so naive as to think that all women fall in love with the protagonist. Some go to bed with the protagonist for profit, and some are forced to fall in love with hatred.
The female protagonists all have their own different reasons, and those reasons are fully explained in the plot. The most important thing is this, because readers recognize that their love is reasonable. Everyone, everyone!
Love at first sight may exist, but in this society where interests are paramount, how many have you seen?
Don't vent your unpopular frustrations on novels. Novels must be objective and are an art. Only by respecting them can you write well. If you make fun of it, it's better not to write. Only those who regard writing and novels as hobbies or professions can do it.
They write good works because they are serious, and being serious can make them progress. Let’s use an analogy!
There is a book that says that a girl took the protagonist out of the car and sent him to the hospital, so she cried guiltily beside the protagonist's bed. Good!
When we met for the first time, I accidentally brought an unknown boy to the hospital. Then I felt very guilty and sad for him. Huh!
Do you believe it?
A ten-year-old girl is still crying at this age?
Have you seen it?
For a boy you met for the first time?
It reminds me of the plot of a soap opera. This author tried hard to build a woman's love for the protagonist, but I think he failed extremely. Well, these aspects show the author's superficial understanding of women. Since they don't understand women, I
I advise you to jump over and stop writing about women, at least don’t mainly write about women. Well. If you want to write, then I can only give some objective opinions. There is a kind of woman who is a strong woman, a spy, a wealthy elite and a wealthy person.
Strong women, princesses, etc. These women are unlikely to fall in love with men. They will only be close to men because of benefits. Therefore, if the authors of such women do not have sufficient reasons for falling in love with the protagonist, then simply describe them.
She is close to the protagonist because of interests and some purpose. (If your work is forced to do so, it will lose its convincingness due to insufficient reasons. This is what an author fears most.) The other kind of woman will not love the protagonist at all.
But they are forced to sleep with the protagonist, and they even hate the protagonist. For example: the female family wants to beg the protagonist and uses their daughter as a bargaining chip. (Political marriage) A kind of woman is by the protagonist's side because of professional needs.
For them, the existence of the protagonist is dispensable. The most typical ones are the Y-ring and the female secret book. So!
If you can't describe it, don't force it, settle for the next best thing!
Don't think that all women will care about the life and death of the protagonist. Even if some women fall in love with the protagonist, they will not go to hell with the protagonist. Only writing this kind of imperfection can make readers feel real. A movie that loses realism
The work is the failure of the author. Because a perfect world does not exist. Please write women like women. It is impossible for women not to be jealous, and jealousy is also their characteristic. Many authors say that several women have the same characteristics when describing.
It is impossible to serve a man without being jealous. A woman’s jealousy is a thousand times stronger than that of a man!
Two women may be able to live together peacefully, but three women cannot.
——Why write a comment? Why write a comment? Do you know why I opened this column?
This is not to teach you how to write, but to make a summary of what you have learned. For me, writing is a hobby, so I pursue progress in writing and thinking. As an author, I like a comic book and a movie.
Sometimes, I will carefully analyze why this plot attracts me, and then leave it deeply in my brain. Then one day, this plot will become my instant inspiration, and I will also seriously study some writing.
I have long forgotten the techniques, metaphors and metaphors, and now I can only pick them up again. Many people who write college papers have much better writing skills than I do, but they do not put their heart into attracting readers. It should be said that
It is not necessary to do this. But the novel must attract readers. Making such a writing summary will allow me to review the skills that I have forgotten, and then emphasize that I will not make this mistake. In this way, my writing style will be better
It has been promoted, so I suggest that you express your opinions on online articles if you have nothing to do. My suggestions are not perfect. They are only for those new writers and some people who write spoofs. I extremely hate those who are irresponsible for writing.
A guy with a non-serious attitude. This kind of person is not worthy of my respect. It’s better not to write a joke!
——On gods and gods!
Authors all have their own definitions of God, but few authors can write successfully. Most people like to use human definitions to write about God, which is a failure. People who have read Huang Yi's novels will understand
You know, in Huang Yi’s impression, what his God is like. In today’s world, God’s human nature is not shown at all. Apart from Christian doctrine, there is nothing to see, and even whether it exists is still a question.
question.
So when you say that God is human and original, readers will not agree with it. If the author says that he wrote it as a prank, then as I have always said, you might as well not write it. If you want to write it, write it seriously and try your best to be reasonable and logical. Huang Yi
In his early works, he believed that God was just a vortex of energy, and described the mystery of this great power in his works. In the Bible, God is supreme, and its intelligence and behavior are beyond human understanding and speculation.
Therefore, when writing about God according to this standard, we must show a supreme existence, looking down on the swarms of ants below. Therefore, my "holy war" tries my best to describe God's supremacy and His unpredictable behavior. I will never be stupid.
To explain the behavior of God, we will not give the reasons for its behavior in the work. The reason lies in my heart, but I will never tell the readers. After all, guessing is also a kind of fun. Some people think that the gods on earth are the result of alien intervention.
Some people also think that the world is a huge electronic calculator, time is God, and this so-called God is just an irreversible management program. No matter what God looks like in your novel, it must be convincing to readers.
For example, in the new work "Magic Warrior" by the author of Demon Thief, his gods are humans, just highly intelligent humans who have abandoned their bodies, and the earth was built by these settlers. There are still two points, rationality and logic, think
In order for readers to agree with the God in your article, you must convince them why you use the God in the Bible in jihad?
That’s because I don’t need to explain God’s behavior at all, and God’s decision can be solved without explaining it to you. Ah!
Why did God choose the protagonist?
Why should we help this land and not the Mongols?
Maybe he has his own reasons, but there is no need to explain it to a puny human like you. Can you understand my intention?
Most people who have read the Bible will agree with my way of expression, right?
Nor will I be forced to explain the unreasonable aspects of God’s behavior.
Chapter 11 of Novel Techniques: 1. What is a novel: Apart from being the original material of a movie, apart from being a toy in the hands of a publisher, what else is it? When you have time, read Henry James's essay "The Art of the Novel".
This issue should have been explained very clearly there - "The novel is an art, and it deserves all the honors and rewards that have so far been reserved only for successful industries in music, poetry, painting, and architecture." The novel is an art.
It has its own history, whether in China or abroad; the art form of the novel has never lost its vitality for hundreds of years, even today with the proliferation of film and television. The degree to which a country attaches importance to the novel as an art form actually has
It indirectly reflects the overall cultural accomplishment of the people in this country. For many years, Chinese people have been muttering about the "Nobel Prize for Literature." In my opinion, the Nobel Prize for Literature is certainly a literary award shared by the world, but everyone
Don’t forget, it is issued by the country called Sweden. The first point in writing novels is: learn to speak clearly, express the meaning clearly, and use the perseverance of a dancer to practice to train our feeling for words. Second,
The subject matter of the novel: Generally speaking, before a novelist writes a novel, he needs to choose a subject matter that can be written on. The so-called "subject matter of the novel", in layman's terms, means "What do I want to write?"
To put it another way, it is "What is worth writing about?" Whether it is a novel or other types of art, before invisible ideas are transformed into concrete visible works, they will face the problem of selecting a subject. Varga
In his book "Chinese Box" about the creation of novels, S. Llosa said this: "The novelist does not choose the subject matter, he is chosen by the subject matter. The reason why he writes certain things is because of certain
Things appear in his mind." This is certainly true. A novelist's life experience, his education, his character, his interests, his personal history, family background, and his interactions with people or groups of people,
The social environment he lived in, all of which affected his choice of writing themes.
Therefore, this seemingly active process of "selecting a subject" is often completed in the subconscious mind of the novelist. If a novelist is an excellent novelist, he will respect his personal inner interests and conscience and choose
The subject matter of the novel he is about to write is, in other words, chosen by the subject matter that is infiltrated by his personal thinking. On the contrary, a mediocre novelist often pays more attention to the needs of the local external environment at that time when choosing a subject matter.
A truly excellent novel is the crystallization of an idealistic spiritual activity, which is inseparable from the novelist's stubborn exploration of human nature. More importantly, an excellent novelist's choice of subject matter should be a
An independent decision with personal dignity is about what he wants to say, what he must say, and what he has to say about certain things, rather than judging the situation - what can be said, what cannot be said, what can be said to a large audience, and what should be said.
This is the result of a small audience. Only in this way can "novel" continue to exist as a powerful art form. Lev Tolstoy commented on a writer I had never heard of before, Victor...
Von Polenz’s words end this article: “This novel (referring to the latter’s novel “The Peasants”) does not belong to that, this, or the third kind, but is a true work of art, in which the author says
What he needs to say is what he needs to say, because he loves the things he talks about..." Third, the fiction of the novel: For a while, I always heard the words, "Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric." It is said that
This is the famous saying of the German philosopher Theodor Adorno. I don’t think this sentence is very beautiful. Because I think this sentence itself is poetry. Writing poetry is used to oppose writing poetry, just like people do not rely on other things.
It's just like trying to lift yourself up from the earth with your own hands, which is artificial and ineffective. The "real life" people often refer to is nothing more than work, eating, sleeping, shopping, studying, socializing, etc.
Maybe it also includes reading books, watching TV, and watching movies. Then the reading part may also include reading novels. We can analyze the psychology of a person who reads novels. Why does he want to read novels? Naturally, it is because novels attract him
Some of his dreams that cannot be realized in real life can be fulfilled by novels; his life is too boring, and novels can give him spiritual and emotional support; or he can get some kind of moral support from novels.
education, and resonate with it; or he just wants to satisfy his private hobby by reading novels. In short, everything described in the novel should be related to his real life, but it is not just a faithful copy of his real life.
.Novel must bring him thinking, dreams, emotions, spiritual strength, etc. Among the many purposes for him to read novels, a very important point is that he wants to equip his real life with something like wings and let him fly.
stand up.
To use a famous saying of urban girls, it is to "get high". And such things like wings are produced from the novel's "fiction" of real life. In other words, the novel also fictionalizes the real life on the level of real life.
It creates another kind of life, perhaps it can be called "life in novels". It is precisely because of the existence of "fiction in novels" that novels have value to people. And the value of novels makes people's real life
Don't always seem so worthless. - Although novels are fictional, people's behavior of reading novels (reading books) is real and is a part of people's real life. It can be said that everything fictional in novels and their
The impact on people's thoughts and emotions makes people's real life richer and more interesting. Oscar Wilde said in the article "The Decline of Lies" that "life imitates art better than art imitates life." It is vaguely
This is what I mean. At this point, I have to talk about the "truth of novels". It is true that fiction in novels is the life of novels. But the source of fiction in novels comes from some real life. Novels must
If you want to have an impact on readers, you must make them believe that everything fictional in the novel is true. You must make readers think that the "fiction" in the novel is possible, sincere, and real. Otherwise, the readers' wings of fantasy will be
It can never be installed, and the fiction in the novel will not be fiction, but hypocrisy or nonsense. The novel will be unable to exert its shocking magic because it appears unreal. Back to the sentence "Os
It is barbaric to write poems after Weisin. As far as I understand, one of the meanings of this statement probably means that the cruelty of human beings has far exceeded the cruelty that works of art can describe, and at this time, people are engaged in artistic activities (
For example, writing novels), then it will be impossible to truly reflect the human condition, and the necessity will be lost. The person who said this has a good starting point and intention. He reminds us that fiction in art will ultimately only be related to
Only when a tacit understanding is reached in people's real life can it have meaning for people's survival.
Whether it is "fiction" using words, paint, or other media, it can only be considered art if it is illuminated by the light of "reality." - But he ignored one thing, that is, if the human spirit shrinks to the point where it cannot
We no longer need excellent works of art that are sincere, heartfelt, and can cultivate and inspire his spiritual will in a fictional way. If human beings no longer imagine a better life than the current life, then Ost
Weisin will come again. 4. Characters in novels: Characters are a very important element in the art of novels. Of course, due to the diversity of novels, it is possible that there are no characters at all in the works of some novelists.
Some people may question: "Why do novels always have to write about people?" Yes, I don't think that every novel must write about people, and there must be characters traveling through it; but after thinking about it, I
I still feel that no matter what form of art, whether it writes about people or not, what it ultimately expresses is everything related to people. It is impossible for us to fictionalize something that is outside our (human) observation and thinking abilities.
, for example, when we make up the appearance of aliens, we often use our appearance as a reference. The reason why aliens or non-human things appear in literary works is because we humans need to explain and explore ourselves.
This also shows that it is normal for a large number of novels to directly use human beings as research objects, directly describe people's lives, and directly tell people's stories. The people in novels are the "characters" mentioned here.
In a novel whose main feature is fiction, the characters are of course also fictional. The characters we talk about so much, such as Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, are just fictional characters written by Cao Xueqin. We can say that the prototypes of Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai are
So-and-so and so-and-so in Cao Xueqin's life, but Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai are not equivalent to their prototypes. They will always be just characters living in "A Dream of Red Mansions". Without "A Dream of Red Mansions", they are nothing. This
Probably this is the unique power of the novelist - the novelist has the right to pick many living prototypes from his life to shape the characters in his novels without being held accountable for fabrication and false accusation. If this is clear, I
I think there is no need to add a notice in front of the novel such as "This novel is purely fictitious, please do not take it personally." This seemingly arbitrary and unreasonable power is given to the novelist by the art form of the novel itself. Because the novel is
The real source should be real life, or things related to real life. To make the characters "alive", the characters' actions, inner activities, dialogues (including monologues) and relationships with other characters should be portrayed.
It is indispensable. All these can probably be done by experienced novelists. The question now is, why do novelists spend so much energy to portray characters? What kind of motivation motivates novelists to
Portraying this type of character instead of that type? What kind of views on life does he want to express through these fictional characters? These are determined by the novelist's own interests, hobbies, his thoughts, artistic views, etc.
There are as many kinds of characters as there are novelists. There are as many characters’ fates as there are novelists.
The handling of different characters, as well as the handling of different fates of the same character, is the key to judging whether a novelist is excellent or not. In today's era that emphasizes technology, as far as most novelists I have seen, they
Perhaps more attention is paid to the narrative method of the novel rather than the characterization of the characters in the novel. This has something to do with the fashion of novels in the 20th century. The continuous innovation of novel concepts has greatly destroyed the novelist's elegance in creating perfect characters. In people's eyes,
While talking about the "stream of consciousness" of Faulkner and Joyce, should we also care about the novel characters such as Quentin and Bloom that they have created?——
The so-called stream of consciousness is exactly the stream of consciousness of the characters in these novels. 5. The story and plot of the novel: The basic function of the novel is "narrative". If the "subject matter" of the novel refers to the "things" in the novel, it is a
If it is a static concept; then "the story of the novel" and "the plot of the novel" are two concepts in motion related to "narration". These three concepts (theme, story and plot) are expressed with light
They are just three different projections produced by shooting "novel" from different angles. A novelist with a very strong creative passion will probably not study the differences between these concepts in detail. He uses his many years of writing and reading experience to
Being able to write a decent novel is a novelist's instinct. Writing based on instinct is just like a child sucking his thumb or an ant carrying food. It is a natural process. If you care about the differences between various concepts in a novel,
I am afraid that it will cause the novelist to lose the ability to create; just like the person in the idiom "Learning to walk in Handan", he failed to learn the final step and could only crawl home. If I were not writing an article analyzing novels, I would not deliberately
To think about the specific reference of those vague concepts in the novel, of course I am defending myself. According to the British E.M. Forster, who has written novels such as "A Passage to India" and published
According to the famous speech "Aspects of Novel", "story" refers to "narrating in chronological order", while "plot" refers to "narrating in chronological order, emphasizing the causal relationship between events"
”.
In layman's terms, "story" means that the characters in the novel experienced another thing after experiencing one thing. For example, in "Water Margin", first Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian committed adultery, and then Pan Jinlian died of medicine.
Wu Dalang was killed, then Wu Song killed Pan Jinlian, and then Wu Song killed Ximen Qing. The "plot" seems to refer to why the characters in the novel experienced another thing after experiencing one thing. Or in other words,
, is there any necessary or accidental connection between one thing and another? Why did Ximen Qing hook up with Pan Jinlian? Not to mention that Ximen Qing is a playboy, but Pan Jinlian is not a good person either.
Why did Pan Jinlian drug Wu Dalang to death? Of course Wu Dalang was uninterested and verbose. Why did Wu Song kill Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing instead of escorting these two bad guys to the government? It was because of Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing
Kill his brother, and Wu Song himself is a man who is not afraid of heaven and earth, and the government is not a good person. People often say that a novel is very interesting. This sentence probably means that the story of the novel is very novel,
It is very unique, very twists and turns and charming, and the plot of the novel is very vivid, very thought-provoking, very touching, very profound. For novels that overemphasize the novelty of the story and ignore the depth and credibility of the plot, you can refer to the martial arts novels by Jin Yong and others.
As for novels that ignore the structure of the story too much and blindly go around in the logic of the plot, you can refer to some modern novels with extreme views in the 20th century. Having said that, in fact, there is no ideal novel creation method and method in the world.
The most ideal and perfect novel. Because there are not only two people in the world: an author and a reader, between them they can discuss the best design plan for "story" and "plot". 6.
Details of the novel: The description of details in the novel is the fundamental reason for the formation of the novel. The description of details usually refers to the description of visible things and the description of psychology. Visible things include the environment, natural scenery, and social background.
, historical background, the appearance of the characters and their actions, dialogues, etc.
Psychology, of course, refers to the psychology of the characters. On a very accidental occasion, I talked about the novel with a young man, and he said: "I am very tired of the word 'details'!" Yes, this word is indeed boring.
, but it is an unavoidable fact in novels (not just novels). There has never been a novel without details, just like there has never been a person without a body. A novel can only contain a certain type of detailed description, but
It is impossible to describe the story completely without details. For example, Hemingway's short story "The Murderer" is almost entirely dialogue. Those vivid dialogues are the details that support the novel. Some so-called novel genres, such as the French New Novel
The description of "objects" and the description of psychology in stream-of-consciousness novels are the products of emphasizing the detailed description of a certain aspect of the novel. A great novelist must be very unique and innovative in the description of details.
Novelist. The most outstanding masterpieces that have ever been produced in human history are also examples of detailed descriptions. For example, Hugo's "Les Misérables" contains almost all aspects of society, history, nature, character actions, psychology, etc.
Detailed description. The shock effect of such a novel on readers is naturally long-lasting and powerful. Because of the detailed description, the novel has length. The length of the novel is composed of vital details. However, the length of the novel itself does not
There are advantages and disadvantages. A bad novel, no matter how long it is, cannot compete with the enlightening effect of an excellent short story on human nature. Some less capable novelists pursue the length of the novel one-sidedly.
It has become a common problem. It seems that if they are not long, their existence as novelists will be questioned. In order to increase the length, they try their best to stuff the novels with vulgar taste, retarded and boring details. Nowadays, the more popular "popular"
"Novel" basically has this kind of creative mentality. The emptiness of details will inevitably make these novels appear bloated and hypocritical. From the bottom of my heart, I can also understand the authors of those "popular novels". We are all human beings, and we all have tricks.
Make a wish.
It's not a bad idea to piece together a novel and defraud the readers out of their money, as long as the readers are willing to bear it. Confucius once said, "I examine myself three times every day." I will also pretend to reflect on it. Those novels that have excited me
, the novels that I have admired, their length reaches the point where their extremely exquisite and touching details are piercing my body like needles. Dostoevsky's "The Quilted"
In "Insulted and Damaged", the words that the little girl Nellie said before she died, as well as the environment at that time, and Vanya's psychology, these descriptions can't help but make people cry. Although it makes people cry, it may not be a measure of the excellence and quality of the novel.
An absolute indicator of no.
Meaningful action description
Personalized movements can create vivid images and energize dialogue - William Taboli
When I first started writing, I took seriously a friend's advice about writing, who emphasized that the characters' actions play an important role in the development of the story. But in that calm scene, when the characters in the novel are in
I had trouble talking and listening. I mistakenly thought that a few concise "action" words would suffice here. So I peppered my scene descriptions with "He nodded," "She shrugged."
"He got up," "sit down," or "crossed his legs." I even have the characters in my novels look, yawn, smile, and sigh. These are all things I use in my character dialogue."
"Action", I mistook "meaningful action description" for writing a single "action". Because these dispensable words were so abundant in it, my manuscript had to be scrapped. Time and some seminars on novel writing
Helped me get rid of these problems. I learned that boring statements are no different from ordinary actions. They are the enemies of novels. I finally understood that when people's activities are linked to emotions, attitudes, postures or expressions
, they are meaningful actions, which are personified actions that can create vivid and vivid pictures and energize dialogue. Let me give you an example: Sergeant Hawkins and Lieutenant Carruthers are two police officers.
Detective, they were discussing a murder case in the sergeant's office. Hawkins looked at Carruthers, "There are a few things we haven't found out yet, Lieutenant. Whose is this blue shoe? And this key."
, is it a shoddy key, is it the one on the door, the padlock, or the suitcase?" Carruthers shrugged, and Hawkins put the two items in his drawer. Carruthers
Standing up, "Maybe we can get more clues from the coroner." He walked towards the door. "His autopsy report should be on my desk now. Don't worry, Hawkins, we will check it soon.
"To find out the truth." He left the office. The scene lacked drama. None of the dull verbs: look, shrug, put, stand, walk and leave described intention, attitude, gesture or expression. None of them
Express the emotions of two people.
Take another look. When these boring verbs are changed into vivid activities, the scene immediately becomes full of vitality. Hawkins leaned forward. His hand pointed to the items on the table: "There are a few items."
The facts are yet to be ascertained, Lieutenant. Whose are these blue shoes? And this shoddy key. Is it from the door, the padlock, or the suitcase?" He stuffed them in.
In the drawer, he closed the drawer with a bang. Carruthers stood up with a smile and patted Hawkins on the shoulder. "Maybe we can get more clues from the coroner. His autopsy report should be in my
on the desk. Don't worry, Hawkins, I'm sure we'll find out the truth soon." He sauntered out of the office. The emotion of the scene was now clear. Every movement involved gesture, attitude, and expression.
.We see Hawkins' troubles, and Carruthers' confidence in eliminating his troubles. These words and actions complement each other.
The following example is a conversation between two little boys outside the gate of an old house. "Come on, Johnny, let's go in." Billy said. Johnny looked at him, "I heard this place is haunted, people say they
Seen a ghost." "Oh! There's no ghost at all, that's all a scaremongering." Billy walked onto the porch. Johnny followed. Just as he reached the front door, he heard a scream,
Immediately turned around and ran. Here again appear some colorless verbs: say, see, walk, follow, arrive, hear and turn. The purpose of this dialogue is to let us know that Billy used provocation to encourage Johnny to enter a haunted building.
house. But the dialogue didn't involve gestures. Now, let the actions convey the attitude, posture, and expression that enlivened the scene. "Come on, Johnny, let's go in." Billy guessed he wouldn't dare go in. Johnny
His face was pale, and even his voice was trembling. "I heard that this place is haunted. People said they have seen ghosts." "Oh, there are no ghosts at all. Those are just words to scare people." Billy walked up the steps swaggeringly.
, he glanced at Johnny standing outside the door with a challenging look. Johnny glanced behind Billy's shoulder, and finally moved forward. He pretended to be bold, but he kept shaking at the front door.
Then he heard a scream, a scream of terror. He ran quickly down the steps and out the door. Now the scene had a terrifying tone and gave life to this little scene, the center.
The meaning is also very clear. In these two examples, the dialogue has not changed, but only the description of the actions has changed. It is these changed action descriptions that help readers better understand these scenes. As a writing exercise
, you could try adding meaningful action descriptions to the same two scenes without changing the dialogue. For example, you could try to show the humor between Hawkins and Carruthers, or Billy and Johnny.
A sense of adventure rather than fear.
At the beginning of the article, this article is aimed at novels other than fiction. The brief outline of the novel is very important. It is the window to attract readers. Most people do not have the patience to read your entire novel to comment on your writing unless they are recommended.
Otherwise, most people can just glance at the introduction and decide whether to continue reading. However, many website introductions are not in a conspicuous position. Qidian does a very good job in this regard. Readers can read the introduction first and then decide whether to continue reading based on the situation.
.When there are many novels that cannot be read in the introduction, then the title of the book can tell the author's taste. Usually an author with good taste and writing style will not choose those straightforward book titles. For example, I am
xxx, romantic xxx, etc., a burst of tackiness comes to mind at first glance. The structure and title of the book are determined, then it is time to start writing. As a good author, you must always think about the readers and devote yourself to writing.
, instead of doing it willfully. No reader will forcefully swallow a bunch of settings and information provided by the author at the beginning of the novel. The novel is not a report. I believe that many readers will skip the prologue and go straight to the novel.
Let’s look at the first chapter. Therefore, those so-called settings and information are all used by the author himself. It is not wise to include examples in the text. Judge others by yourself. No one will have the patience for those things. They are dispensable to readers.
You can open a new column and put it in it, but do not put it in the text. For example, this lowest-level method: 'Elf: at15dc20mv30' Another example: There are elves, demons, dwarves on this land... dwarves xxx
The demons are very cruel xxx' and we are not playing games. Not many people are interested in these digital materials. Writing novels is different from writing reports. Reports are a kind of rigid digital culture and not many people can.
I like reading that stuff. What's more, as far as writing is concerned, the information should be described gradually and quietly in the article, rather than explaining everything at the beginning of the article. The author should not tell everything at the beginning of the article at once.
The described world is forced into the reader's mind and should be gradually described in the text. This in itself is a test of the author's expressive ability. Novels are written things, and the author can not give examples in the form of examples. The use of words
Methods to describe: The middle method: 'Elves are long-eared creatures living in the forest. They love nature, are naturally beautiful, and are very agile, but weak in strength.' The upper method uses drama or contrast to describe what you want to describe:
'(Protagonist) There is an elf in the forest. This legendary creature has long ears. When he saw this elf for the first time (protagonist) was shocked by its beauty, he couldn't even tell who this elf was.
Male or female, I only know that she is so beautiful, like the flowers blooming on the grassland. But (the protagonist) also experiences firsthand that elves are not only beautiful in appearance, they are like roses with thorns. (the protagonist)'s bow and arrow can't hit them at all, in the forest
Among them, they were like fish in water, jumping nimbly between branches, using tree trunks to avoid (the protagonist's) bow and arrow. These methods gradually implanted the impression of elves into people's hearts. But these are the methods used in the text, so
There is no need to use it at the beginning of the book. Readers are creatures that are prone to trouble. Therefore, don’t make the water confusing at the beginning of the book by giving out a lot of names of famous people and forcing the reader to remember them like a chicken. Therefore, for example,
A relatively simple place, describe it, and then arrange the appearances of the protagonist and supporting characters in a reasonable manner. Don't appear too many place names and people's names, which will dazzle the readers. A good author goes from the simple to the deep.
The beginning of the article is a setup, introducing the protagonist's appearance and the scene of the first scene.
——The protagonist If the protagonist wants to make the protagonist unique, then the protagonist's character cannot follow the trend. This will be easier to describe for people with a lot of interpersonal relationships, because they have seen all kinds of life. But for some who are more autistic
For people, they can only consider the form of a protagonist in comics and movies. But remember one thing, that is, there are no perfect people in the world. If a perfect protagonist appears in a novel, then for a
For famous authors, it is a failure. Readers all have some shortcomings, such as being unpopular, so they will seek comfort in the novel. Then the protagonist in the novel will have some resonance with their similar background. This is based on
Some commercial writing that the market needs. But this is not important for a good novel. As long as the protagonist is written like a human being with a distinct personality, not an absolutely perfect handsome man, etc., this has low credibility.
Moreover, the writing material is too narrow and vulgar for the author. Today, the perfect protagonist is a failure. That is because many mediocre authors write their protagonists too perfectly. This kind of thing has just begun.
It's okay, but as soon as there are too many such books, readers will become bored, so the protagonist loses his sense of character. Therefore, try not to add handsome, rich, smart and other conditions to the protagonist. A protagonist who is too perfect will not have a good character.
Too much realism and presence, then there is nothing to write about. More importantly, there are too many such protagonists. Especially handsome. Many authors think that handsome is everything, but it is not like this.
For example, some of you must have seen some manga about girls. Ninety-nine percent of the heroines in female manga are in love, and they are all in love with handsome, rich, and cold male protagonists.
Personally speaking, the heroine in this comic has nothing to do?
Every day, I think about how to impress handsome boys, and daydream about how nice those men are to them. Men should be rich and handsome, and even more perfect if they are celebrities. I think...is there such a man?
Would such a man fall in love with such a woman?
Maybe I'm a man, so I can't understand a woman's mood, so I think if a book describes a beautiful girl who selflessly falls in love with an ordinary boy, this subject matter will be more attractive to me. And the ordinary-looking boy
The boy also has some hard-to-see advantages, and these advantages were discovered by a rich woman, which caused a love triangle... It's a long way to go. In girls' comics, the story of the boy and the girl is more attractive to me, because the stories in it are
The heroine has a very unique personality and gives people a different feeling from the heroines of other female comics. It is this difference that attracts people with distinctive personalities. Readers are looking at this different character.
Next, let’s talk about the protagonist’s abilities, which are usually strength, appearance, intelligence, and luck.
Not much to say about luck. It is said that no book is written without coincidence, so no author will make an exception to arrange adventures for the protagonist. My only requirement for this is that it is reasonable. I believe that every reader can write well because it is not too big to describe.
Although there are technical aspects that can be studied, I am not interested in saying more. But there is only one thing. After reading so many books, I don’t think handsome protagonists are popular in men’s books. Ordinariness is the most basic standard. Ugliness
Well~!
This has relatively high requirements for the author. When it comes to strength, let’s say one sentence, don’t write it perfectly. This is the opposite of intelligence. Usually I expect that powerful people will not have high intelligence, and smart people will not have the strength to beat a chicken. Of course.
There are exceptions in books, but they must not be the protagonists. There are too many books like that, and they have lost their appeal now. And when it comes to magical works about power, many people still hope to give the protagonists both magic and martial arts. Alas!
First, it is an old saying, there are too many such works. Second, if you write the author to be invincible, the time for your novel eunuch is not far away. There are also many authors who like the omnipotence of five elements of magic and have to write the protagonist to be perfect.
He is extremely special and does not follow the example of the author of The Thief. Ruibo said that his magic power is almost zero, but he has a good teacher who educates him to be extremely smart. He looks like a master of both magic and martial arts, but in fact
It’s all a lie. His power comes entirely from props. That’s right!
Every author will give the protagonist a special advantage in terms of ability, but a good author will not give the protagonist too many things, because this limits their performance. For example, the protagonist in Digital Life, in addition to electronic computing
In addition to being outstanding in the field, he is completely a technician, and the role of a businessman is very weak. The protagonist does not know martial arts, magic, and has no superpowers. He has also encountered several assassinations.
But such a protagonist is very attractive. What if the protagonist of this book also practices qigong, learns magic, and has a relationship with cultivation?
I don’t want to read it either. The best way is to give the protagonist only one kind of specialness, and the others are completely mediocre. This is enough for good authors, because they are good at using this specialness to bring benefits to the protagonist.
Maximum benefit. For example, in the Legend of Rebirth, the protagonist’s only advantage is that he knows the history up to 2003. Isn’t this enough?
For the author, it is enough. Therefore, he is an excellent writer. However, readers of some works go back to the past and learn martial arts and practice internal strength instead of going back to the past. Let me go~~!
Intelligence, this aspect is the most demanding for the author. How can we describe the intelligence of the protagonist? It can only be brought out through some plots. Just a few words saying how high his IQ is and how good his academic performance is is not convincing.
Powerful. Nowadays, there are too many powerful protagonists, and it is rare to see an intelligent protagonist. The generation of military strategists who follow the trend are representatives of the intelligent type. Intelligent protagonists are often incapable of fighting, but they are the most powerful ones.
A popular protagonist is also the most difficult protagonist to write. Because it also tests the author’s intelligence and writing skills, not many people dare to write it. The biggest feature of a good book is the author’s sense of mystery. The protagonist has an amazing secret.
But only the protagonist and the readers know it. No one else knows. I don’t understand that many authors like to let the protagonist reveal secrets to friends or lovers in order to get the so-called sincerity. This is bullshit. In reality
No one will reveal their secrets easily, not even their closest girlfriends.
The reason why I like "Chess Soul" so much is because the existence of Zuo Wei is the secret of the protagonist. No one knows it. Others can only guess, fail to guess or guess wrong. This is the selling point. So don't be fooled by soap operas.
Influence, it is extremely irrational to copy the plot of a soap opera. Think about it, if I really have this secret, will I tell others, and what will happen if I tell it? - There are many love affairs.
The author likes to pair the protagonist with a beautiful woman, or multiple beauties. There are many such authors, and every protagonist is the same. In too many books, the protagonist is too easy to give emotions, which makes me unable to express my feelings.
Understand whether those authors have ever been in love. There are many kinds of people in this world. There is one kind of people who have no chastity. They are basically like those idiot girls. They fall in love unconditionally as long as they are handsome, and they give money to them. This is called raising pretty girls.
.Although men and women are different, it is natural for men to raise women, but the protagonists in those books give people the feeling that they have too many feelings and are worthless. They fall in love with anyone they meet, as long as they are beautiful. Oh my god!
Do you know that love at first sight rarely happens? If girls fall in love with each other as long as they are drunk, then all the beauties on TV are enough for you to love. Worshiping celebrities and looking at other people's appearances is not love!
This is infatuation. It is impossible to be infatuated with a person so deeply that you will give everything to her, at least you will not share the joys and sorrows with her in life and death situations. But true love is indeed selfless. When you fall in love with someone, you don’t just look at her appearance.
One is to fall in love with that person's temperament and character. A girl with a violent personality, full of foul language, and looks very drunk. Will you fall in love with her?
very good!
Many of the protagonists are mean-spirited, falling in love unreasonably, and they seem to be crazy about being beaten, scolded, and blackmailed. When I read this kind of book, I feel angry. Is it possible that the status of men and women in China is no longer the same now?
How bad is it?
Every boy is like a male cat in heat?
Okay. Let’s talk about my love story. There was a girl in middle school that I liked very much. She was very ordinary and not as beautiful as a movie star. But she didn’t wear glasses and had long hair. She often talked silently.
Sitting in the corner of the classroom and reading quietly. She had no enemies in the class and was very nice to everyone. There was also a girl in the class. She was working part-time at that time and was only a model.
This person has very high standards, and men are worthless in her eyes. I am very disgusted with this girl. After we have been together for a long time, her beautiful face, piled up with money, is like an ugly witch, a false mask. But I like that girl very much.
She is a quiet girl. Because of her temperament and personality, I have a good impression. This is the feeling accumulated from being in the same class for three years. There is a monitor in the class who looks very gentle. Her family is poor and her father does not know where he is.
Well, my mother took great pains to support him in his studies.
Therefore, he works very hard and his grades are so good that I don’t even have the strength to be jealous. I know very well what the model girl’s ideal man is. No!
The whole school should know that he is strong, rich, handsome, gentle, etc. Do you believe it?
The beauty of that girl was unknown except that she had just entered the first grade. No boy in the school would like her. It was disgusting to even regard her as a target. This beautiful model finally gave up her conditions and fell in love crazily.
She married the monitor of our class. Except for being smart and gentle, the monitor did not meet her requirements. But this beautiful girl loved her so much that she even threatened to commit suicide by jumping off the building. But the monitor of our class was very cool.
He also had a firm stance. He said: "You are beautiful! I admit it. But it does not mean that I will like you. Your personality is not suitable for me." The monitor resolutely rejected her and fell in love with that girl.
A quiet girl. I didn’t quite understand the story, because I was about to enter Form 4 at that time, and I just liked that quiet girl and had a crush on her, not to the point of being desperate, so I didn’t pay serious attention to it.
But I heard that the girl refused and fell in love with a mediocre neighbor’s elder brother. I also heard that the elder brother had taken care of her since she was a child and was like a father. So then my poor monitor was heartbroken. As far as I am concerned.
Whether it is the squad leader or the quiet girl, their love is pure and reasonable, unlike most novels where they are unreasonably suppressed. Ninety-nine percent of love is produced after long-term relationship.
This feeling is the understanding of a person’s character, attitude and strengths. It is precisely because of understanding that we can love. The reason why I like the quiet girl and dislike the model classmate are also the emotions accumulated from being in the same class for three years.
And I think the reason why the quiet girl fell in love with the big brother next door is because she has been with that man since childhood and understands all his advantages and disadvantages. There are many kinds of girls in the world, and they usually just look at their faces.
This kind of thing will only appear among middle school and primary school students who have not yet entered society, do not understand the dangers of the world, and have no experience in love. This kind of thing will not happen to mature girls. I am ordinary, and there are still some outliers. At least I know that there are some.
1. The second type of women are over-mature and extremely realistic. They only care about appearance and character. As long as they have money, they can do it. Even if they are powerful, I don’t need to say more about this. The third type is the most
Rare girls, who have a stable outlook on relationships, often fall in love with an ordinary boy who is not outstanding, and pay silently. Usually this happens to mature girls or those who have gone through too many bumps in the road of love.
Girls. And they are often older (young girls are absolutely impossible) and college students. They are also gentle, considerate, and understanding, because they can be said to understand men.
As long as this kind of girl is not ugly, she is definitely popular. After being in contact with her for a long time, any man will go crazy for her. I think even the rich kids will know how to cherish it, but unless they encounter difficulties, this kind of girl will be very popular.
It is difficult for women to be tempted by money. The fourth type of girls responded by saying that women have deep feelings. I don’t understand them and will never understand them. They are like aliens. I can never tell what they are thinking, so I avoid them.
End of the story: Boys fall in love with girls, and girls fall in love with boys for a reason. To make girls fall in love with the protagonist, you must give a reasonable reason, and you must describe the girl according to that reason.
Character. For example: A woman who loves the protagonist's money will inevitably please boys like a slave, and once the protagonist loses his money, he will abandon him like dirt. Girls who fall in love with the protagonist's appearance will only be as boring and childish as a groupie. Wait, let's see these
The author should control his own size. Don't be influenced by some tasteless comics. He should write a protagonist with personality. Do his best to write all the characters with a sense of reality. Don't write some soap opera-like love affairs that want to be like Fairy Sword.
It's impossible to be touching. If you don't have that skill, don't write hard. There is no information to look up about love. It depends purely on personal experience - the scientific nature of novels. The scientific nature of novels. Nowadays, many novels are not scientific when they are written. You must know that now is a
knowledge society.
Novels such as "Cultivation to Immortality" are novels that completely forget about science. If they appear too often, they will not be popular.
In urban novels, many protagonists come into contact with martial arts inexplicably. Moreover, the definitions of martial arts are all the same. They are all meridians and internal forces, which is boring to watch. As creative as the Japanese are, they do not use Chinese martial arts in their comics at all.
Paths and those old-fashioned meridians have not appeared once. Anyway, science now does not have a clear and public definition of martial arts, so it is up to the author to write however he wants. What the readers see are also these newer things, and they follow the trend every time.
People are tired of seeing the internal forces and meridians in Gu Long's novels. This is why Huang Yi is so popular when he defines martial arts with a theory full of novelty and metaphysics. It is also why magical works appear.
After that, it became popular because readers were tired of seeing internal strength. As one of the Chinese cultures, every reader knows about internal strength. It is impossible to completely throw it away, so another new set of martial arts was created to attract readers. It is simple
To understand, we need to have new ideas. Japanese comics like "Guardian" have a new definition of Chinese martial arts. They never explain how Chinese martial arts are practiced and what kinds of martial arts exist.
It directly shows the power of Chinese martial arts, and shows the Chinese martial arts scientifically, logically and rationally. It does not explain any principles of martial arts, meridians and so on have not appeared, and the martial arts practitioners are very special.
They rarely appear, and the protagonists in the comics only know and learn a little bit. However, the few martial arts masters who appear in the comics simply ignore bullets and machine guns, and appear to despise all technology. Some of them take a hostile stance.
Some of them are teachers of the protagonist. Their appearance reflects the existence and power of martial arts in another way. The reason why the entire comic can be drawn so successfully is because it is logical and reasonable. Neither the protagonist nor the supporting characters are excessive.
Powerful, everyone's power is so reasonable. There are strengths and weaknesses. In response to my other sentence, a good author should not try to write anything perfectly. After perfection, it will lose its sense of reality.
Therefore, it is very important for novels to be logical and rational. To achieve these points, you must abide by some rules: 1. There must be gains and losses, and there must be good and bad. "The protagonist must pay to gain powerful power. If he wants,
There must be a reason for being favored by a woman. And there are good and bad ways to get a wife. Being attracted by a beautiful woman does not necessarily mean it is a good thing. Second, some things do not need to be explained, but they must be reasonable. For example, if you think ghosts are
It exists in this way, but you also said that there is Pluto after ghosts, which is unreasonable. Pluto exists higher than us. Many people in this world believe in the existence of ghosts, but few people who have come into contact with Pluto have heard of it, so
People believe in the existence of ghosts but not in the existence of Pluto. Therefore, if the author believes in the existence of Pluto, he cannot express directly or indirectly in the novel, "Ah! Pluto exists." He must reveal it implicitly in the novel, implying that there is such a high person.
Level things are above all objects. People are not omnipotent, and there are many things that cannot be explained. Therefore, in novels, do not force yourself to explain everything, let alone unscientific and unreasonable explanations. Like the existence of Pluto, you
It is only necessary to vaguely hint at the existence of Pluto through ghosts. There is no need to describe what Pluto is like or what the underworld is like. Sometimes all the author needs to do is to express the existence of something and borrow something.
Things achieve their own purposes, and the rest is left to the readers' imagination, creating a sense of mystery. Even if you have your own explanation for everything, don't express your opinions forcefully so that readers can see it the same way as you do.
Things. It is a failure to write some mysterious things in novels too plainly, because in this way, the sense of mystery is lost. Like God, the eternal supreme existence, no one can understand it, and whether it exists or not is a question. And describing God's
At that time, you couldn't directly define God, say what it is, and write down the character of that thing. You could even say that it was the protagonist, who created the heavens and the earth, and then in order to understand everything in the world
Go down to earth and become a human being. Oh my god! Can you believe that a creature that is used to living as a human being is such a childish and idiotic subject...
It is illogical for gods to come down to earth and become adults. Gods and humans are different. From the above point, I think everyone thinks this way.
However, those authors wrote about gods as if they were human beings, with emotions and desires, falling in love with human women, and even getting into disputes with the human world. Alas!
Influenced by the Bible and science, people now gradually like to explain the existence of God in a scientific and reasonable way. It is generally believed that if God exists, it is different from us humans. He is an extremely advanced existence and cannot be ignored.
It exists in a way that we humans understand. Compared with us, its existence is like humans and ants. And people now like to explain legends and myths in a scientific way. It is generally believed that the gods in those myths may be aliens or possess
No one in a race with powerful technological civilization would think that those guys are real gods. A being who is supreme and different from all others, or a protagonist who is a god. Which one is more convincing?
This world is mysterious and compact. Can you believe that such a guy can be the God who created all this complexity?
yy has gone too far at this point, so any creation god coming to the world is an undesirable work. It is these reasons that affect readers all the time, because everyone is now inseparable from science and is influenced by it all the time.
The influence of science, everyone puts science first in their hearts, so the logic and scientificity of a novel are so important. - Power There are many types of power, including financial resources, power, charm, and intelligence.
, physical strength, internal strength, magic power, etc., but many authors only know how to write about internal strength. These authors are very superficial. Many of their works have heroic characteristics. Heroism is okay, but they are too superstitious about Spider-Man and the like.
It’s a formality, thinking that only one’s body is strong is a representative of strength. This is a thorn in the side. Maybe many authors were often bullied in school when they were young, and they often fantasize about when they learned peerless magical skills, etc.
etc. And the platform of novels just gives these people an opportunity. If there are few novels of this kind, then I have nothing to say, but there are so many such novels on the Internet, all of which are superstitious about strength and physical strength, which makes people tired. And
It's all about internal strength training. Why can't the protagonist get a Western magic book or an Egyptian curse, or even a ninja's secret scroll?
Who says that the enemy's power cannot be trained by the Chinese? As long as you write it well and don't weaken the Chinese characteristics. But each power must have its own definition. That is to say, don't let the protagonist finish practicing ninjutsu.
To practice magic and internal strength to become omnipotent will be a failure. But in this world, apart from force, can’t the authors think of other ways to express power?
If you have the power, you can mobilize the army and even have a country as a background behind the protagonist. If you have the money, you can buy thugs and killers or even control a country's economy. If you have the intelligence, you can manipulate others or your smart mind can create robots or powerful robots.
Weapons to help themselves. In these situations, the protagonist is powerless, but who can deny their strength. Therefore, strength is not only about force!
Authors should not be so narrow-minded.
——Overriding and overriding means changing history, and the Taiwanese author is not interested in this.
But in China, dissatisfaction with the real society, political corruption, and hatred of Chinese history have led them to develop this parallel world. China's humiliations such as the Sino-Japanese War of 1888-1894 were forgotten, and they have not stood up after these humiliations.
Get up, this is really...
In short, because of the above reasons, the fictional world appeared, which describes a world of great harmony. Since building a better China is the theme of the fictional book, the author did not make a mistake and put too much attention on the protagonist.
In fact, the main character of books like this is the newly established government. Many authors are eager to establish democracy as soon as they go back to the past. In fact, this is incorrect. Establishing democracy too early will only be a bad thing. The author
The description should be based on the current environment. Dictatorship is inevitable. It will take at least nearly twenty years of dictatorship before power can be gradually decentralized. There are several prerequisites for democracy. One is the problem of people's intelligence. If power is delegated to a group of ignorant people, then it will be okay.
Yes, Athens perished because of this, so democracy is not necessarily a good thing. At that time, Athens was the first democratic country in the world, but due to a defeat (it cannot be said to be a defeat, it was just that the coach decided to retain
Most of the strength was returned to Athens and some people were sacrificed), which aroused the anger of the people. The stupid people all threw millet and executed the naval commander. Athens, which lost its maritime protection power, also perished. Before that, Athens was so powerful.
Defeat the 600,000-strong Persian army with China's thirty-six strategies. So democracy requires some conditions, and too much democracy is not a good thing. The second condition for democracy is citizen awareness. Every citizen must love this country.
Okay, only if they think this way will they think about how to do good to the country. Otherwise, power will be decentralized to those who have no patriotism, and they will only make all kinds of traitorous decisions. Therefore, many authors have proposed
Regimes are too impatient. Therefore, for the hypocritical authors, neither democracy nor monarchy is necessarily a good administrative method. There is no perfect thing in this world. Even the United States, the most powerful country in the world, has a series of internal problems.
Problems, some are even more terrible than China, but a country is more powerful than a country. There is another problem, the so-called man cannot stand without power, everyone in a high position has his own momentum, as some authors directly said
'xxx unknowingly exudes a king's domineering attitude.' This is not advisable. The threat of a king is whether the country behind him is strong or not. Domineering is nonsense.
Only if the king has a strong army, will his words have power, and others will fear him. Many authors like to impress their subordinates with the aura of the king, okay!
Who among you knows that there is such a thing as a king's spirit that can make people surrender when they meet you?
Then there would be no need for war in this world. Some people in this world have the ability to lead, but it is not because of their anger. It is expressed through their words and deeds in constant contact. Talented people will not see others.
On the one hand, they leave their life-long affairs in the hands of the other party. They will only be loyal after contact and think it is worthy. And this is the momentum. Many authors are unwilling to write the king like a king. Looking at history
Among all the kings, the only ones who are soft-hearted are dead words. Especially in times of war, even those who love the people are utilitarian. Kings who stand up during wars are generally hard-hearted, capable and ruthless, and they also carry a
Mask. So don’t write about kings who are so kind and benevolent, without even using any shameless methods. What’s even more disgusting is that many kings written by authors are not cold enough and can’t do anything to women. Just forget about three wives and four concubines.
But there is no one to control the women when they are messing around. The protagonist will just shake his head and tail like a bitch, without any aura of a king. Moreover, those women are messing around in the military camp, and the protagonist does not punish them. There is no distinction between public and private. How can you ask the readers to agree with this?
An idiot can lead an entire army, and how can the protagonist's subordinates be convinced? Therefore, a certain degree of ruthlessness is needed. Don't write everything in favor of women. Thirdly, a fictional book is also a military book, so in
Women appear in the book as late as possible, and due to the identity of the protagonist, the person the protagonist likes will not be obtained by the protagonist when necessary, and the protagonist must accept a political marriage. Only in this way can the writing be realistic. Fourth,
Although there were three wives and four concubines in ancient times, authors should not pile one woman after another on the protagonist. Even a playboy does not have that much energy to take care of so many women. Playboys just throw them away after playing with them, and generally do not
Will meet the same woman for the second time. And the author's works all contain women under his banner, and what's even more disgusting is that all these women are described as filthy and virtuous. They don't even have the heart of jealousy. One and two of them can get along well.
Very good. How is this possible? If a woman is not jealous, she is not a woman. Again, the author writes too perfectly and tries to idealize everything, which again loses the sense of reality. Remember, a woman's jealousy can destroy
A country. And even in ancient times, it was impossible for someone to fall in love with multiple women at the same time. Favoritism will definitely appear. The protagonist must prefer a certain woman. And the protagonists in many people's works have become saints. Yes.
Every woman has the same love. Oh my God!
Do you understand love or not?
So one heroine is enough. Even other women who are also the protagonist can only be insignificant supporting roles. Another point is that it is impossible to fall in love with someone you meet. Can you say a few words to a beautiful woman on the street?
Falling in love with each other within just a week of contact?
Or maybe there is a model on a poster who is so beautiful that you fall in love with her without even knowing her name?
You can do it so that I admire you to death. So it is impossible to fall in love with the other person because of her beauty when you meet her. At most, it will just rise, which has nothing to do with feelings. Only after being in contact for a long time and getting to know the other person can you fall in love. Therefore, the authors
Our understanding of love should not be so superficial, and we should even write about things we don’t believe in. - From the shallower to the deeper, from the shallower to the deeper, from the shallower to the deeper, refers to the writing technique at the beginning of a book, which is the most attractive.
The key. Therefore, as explained in the previous article, do not create a lot of complicated information, such as xxx country n, xxx count nnn regiment, which will dazzle people. Readers are not in the mood to remember such a lot of things. This is not
When you are writing an argumentative essay, the literature teacher will give you a headache and have to read it. Will the author be satisfied if you write the book in this way?
This is the so-called writing style. Therefore, you must try your best to simplify it at the beginning of the book. It is best to only show the name of the protagonist. Unimportant characters are replaced by their identities. For example, the protagonist’s mother is called xxx’s mother, etc., because
These people only appear once. For the author, their names are not important. What is important is their identity. Therefore, the best way is to understand the identity they represent at a glance through xxx's mother or Count nnn.
The main purpose of using this trick is to make readers comfortable and make them feel that they are not reading a boring argumentative essay. Therefore, the author must think about the readers and add their identity after the name, such as the leader of the group.
, the Pope, etc., to help readers understand. Generally speaking, it is impossible for readers to remember the long and boring names of the supporting characters in the book, so doing so can also remind readers of who this guy is.
If an author uses xxxx (name) from beginning to end, unless this person appears many times and is very important in the book, in too many cases readers will have a headache wondering who this guy is. This kind of headache
The feeling will make readers lose the desire to read. Except for fictional books, because readers have probably remembered the characters in the fictional characters in history classes, so this suggestion is not valid for fictional works, but for fantasy works. Many books
Authors like to be lazy. They like to call some people's names "xxx", ah, the nickname of xxx. Nickname is a greeting used between relatives and friends. I have never seen an author blatantly use this word in a regular work.
It’s a joke. If you write a few more words, you will die!
A work should be careful to be formal. Although it is a popular work, it should at least show its own writing style. What does it mean to use nicknames?
Does it mean that your Chinese level is only high school?
None of the famous writers such as Huang Yi and Jin Yong used these things, but you dare to use them. I know that such nicknames often appear in some women's books, but women's theoretical examination methods and hobbies are different from ours. What should we learn?
Okay, let’s learn about those kisses in girls’ comics. Are you drawing girls’ comics?
Most of the readers on the Internet are men. Girls will not watch things about fighting and killing, right?
Therefore, boys all want to read something formal and cold, and the authors want to add tenderness to the cold stuff. Alas...
What other monsters, piranhas, and gods all pop up at once at the beginning of the article, and I rush to finish the whole world in the first chapter, man!
Isn’t this trying to undermine yourself?
When did Jin Yong and Huang Yi do this? To use another analogy, everyone must know about The Devil Thief. The author of this work has written so many novels. How have you ever seen him tell the whole world in one go?
The shapes of the world are slowly infiltrated into the works for the readers. And the authors who explained everything at the beginning of the article have all said it. What to write next?
Losing the sense of mystery also shows the shallowness of the author. It is okay to explain the history of that world, but it must not be named Chapter 1. It can only be named the Preface. It gives readers the option of skipping. Most authors like it.
Skip past it without reading. The article must be relaxed at the beginning, describe an environment, be simple, slow and detailed, not boring, and comfortable to read. The best way is to write about the scene before the protagonist appears. Remember, it is
In the past, it was best not to introduce the protagonist so quickly. The environment should be described and the scene explained to a large extent so that people understand what kind of world this is, and then the protagonist should be slowly introduced. But remember, do not appear.
There are so many people that it’s hard to tell who is the protagonist and who you want to write about. Don’t say: “Ah! This is our protagonist.” You can’t say it straightforwardly. This is a fate for a writer.
Hurt. To make readers find the protagonist by themselves, generally speaking, it is not difficult to focus on the description. But the most taboo thing is to directly say that the protagonist is the xxx sword of xxx country. What is writing style?
The writing style is to make readers feel comfortable, that is, it will not be too complicated and boring, and it will not make readers feel too simple and dull.
——Science Fiction and Military Science Fiction and Military For science fiction and military novels, it is not a good idea to write the protagonist as a soldier or general from the beginning. Maybe many authors have had military training and have experience and feelings about military training.
But please don’t forget that the military is far away from ordinary people’s lives, so it is not a good idea to write the protagonist as a soldier all at once. Many comics and animations will not choose to do this. The protagonist of Macross is a plane
The pilot became a fighter pilot by accident. The protagonist in zz Gundam is not a soldier. He is a young man who accidentally got on a Gundam and started his life as a pilot. From these aspects, it can be seen that the author must make the protagonist and the reader understand each other.
The distance between them is shortened, so they must work hard to write the protagonist's origin. Many authors are not good enough in this aspect. This writing technique is called the change of identity, which makes the protagonist forced or voluntary to change.
Readers have no interest in how to fight a war or fleet information. To them, it is just a bunch of information. But to the author, these things are information that the author wants to instill in the readers, so that the readers have
What the author wants to express depends on the author's method of expression. For example: the hugeness of the ship: failed expression: this ship is ten miles long and more than twenty meters wide. (In fact, readers have different understandings of distance and distance.
The feeling of size is very vague, so this expression is a failure.) The more successful one: This cosmic boat was twenty kilometers long, and its shadow shrouded half of the island of Taiwan, making the civilians in Taiwan invisible in those days.
.(The following sentences successfully show the size of the ship. The best way is to compare it with a well-known object. Everyone should have learned the comparison method in middle school!) Another example: "If the earth is me.
The small ball in your hand, then the hugeness of the sun is the twenty-story building we are in." (This expression is straightforward enough to understand.) The above are all contrasting techniques. Now let's talk about the role of metaphors in the article.
.In your works, you directly tell the readers what the thing is, without any sense of persuasion. For example: the round ball will emit a dazzling light. The picture ball will emit a ray of light like the sun, making it impossible for people to look directly.
Another example: This ship is unprecedentedly huge and sits on the sea like a whale. Metaphors, comparisons, and personifications are all techniques used to express the information that the author wants to let readers know, because these techniques are used
It will make the article more beautiful and readers will read more comfortably without being bored. These are the grammar learned in elementary school. Many authors have thrown them back to the teacher. Now let me review them for you. - The author's attitude
The author's attitude is to write a book for the readers, not for himself. Those authors who write as a spoof are unlikely to write any good books, nor will they last long. Because they do not have the proper attitude towards the book. To spoof is to be irresponsible.
The performance is that you are not writing a joke, but a novel. The text of the novel is cold and the conception is rigorous. This is not something that those authors who laugh at themselves as "spoofs" can understand. A good author should
For the sake of readers, always think about how to make it easier for readers to understand, how to make the article look more beautiful, and make the readers more comfortable. Is this expression too simple or too shaky? Those good books, I also
Why are the books I admire so popular?
Why do you like to watch it?
A good author will consider these issues carefully and learn from them. Lazyness is a taboo for authors, because laziness is a sign of irresponsibility, and there is no need to expect the other person to write something tasteful. To the author
Creativity is secondary, writing style is the most important thing. No!
It should be said that it is the expression technique. Without good expression skills, even the best subject matter will be written and lose its due color. Most of the writing styles of beginners are crude. They prefer to make a fatal mistake, that is, using the first person.
When writing a book, the protagonist appears too early, there is no detailed preparation for the protagonist’s appearance, no description of the environment, the language is too straightforward, and he does not know how to use contrast, metaphor, likeness, etc... But all the author notes
Keep in mind that the best authors are the best readers. They write books because they like reading. Then don’t make too many mistakes and dislikes that you have seen from other books. As the author reads more and more books,
The more you read, the more you will understand what taste is, what books are well-written, what books are ghostwritten, and what books are garbage.
——Author's Standpoint Author's Standpoint Many authors tend to favor the protagonist and write from the protagonist's standpoint. But this is wrong. Generally speaking, as an author, you should give the protagonist a final result, for example: the protagonist will finally be unified.
Empire. Another example: the protagonist will not die before the end of the book. Wait. This itself has given the protagonist a lot of advantages, which is more than enough. Then the rest must be to create a reasonable platform for the protagonist.
Performance. The so-called reasonable and logical, the author must stand in a neutral position, rather than wanting the protagonist to be good or good. Adventures are constant, and he is inhumanly strong. There is no logic in this. For example, what kind of creation god
He created the world and then liked human life, wandering around and becoming the protagonist. Do you believe it?
Do you believe that a supreme being with the ability to create the world will become a human being?
That's like a good person becoming a dog if he doesn't do anything. Is there such a thing in the world?
Where does the logic and rationality come from? What is the author thinking in his mind?
Nowadays, many Japanese comics have begun to make clichés. Why do angels come and wait for so long? Especially when several comics have almost the same content, all of which are about the cowardly protagonist getting a goddess?
Or The Care of Angels, just one or two books. It doesn’t matter that Japan has a small population. Wouldn’t you get tired of reading this kind of work?
Or as long as it's comics. In a word, Japan's comic culture is in decline, especially animation. The drawings are beautiful, but the love is too much, and the drama begins to drag on.