Chapter 97: What an Author Should Do
"It's still a little bit missing. After Xu Ergou came back from the toilet, he always felt that he was still missing something, and the key point was that he still didn't figure out what he was missing.
"What the hell is it?" Xu Ergou was thinking while swiping the video of the training course of the University of Wangwen, and suddenly, a video appeared in Xu Ergou's sight, Xu Ergou clicked in without thinking about it, the person who gave the lecture was still Jiuli, Jiuli seemed to have contracted all the videos of the training courses of the University of Wangwen, and at least eight of the ten were videos of Jiuli's lectures.
However, Xu Ergou quickly understood the reason for the arrangement of Xingchen Literature Network, because Jiuli itself is different, in other words, Jiuli itself is very strong, so arranged, others can also learn more knowledge from Jiuli when they look back, not that other tutors can't, and Jiuli is better than any tutor.
"Okay, now let's start class. Today is the last big lesson of this special training class.
But it's not the last class, there is a special training class, the last theory class, all the preparations that should be done before writing, that is, this class.
The content to be taught in this class is as the title, which is just one word, writing. Still wandering in the world, still staring at the screen and giggling...
Forehead...... Stare at...... To get used to this kind of instantaneous concentration, we let the 10-minute routine be done, mainly to let everyone develop the habit of quickly concentrating into the state.
At least familiar with the feeling. After the special training, I have to be nervous every minute, and the content of this class is like the title, which is just one word, writing.
We have said again and again that no matter how many theories you listen to, no matter how many truths you understand, and no matter how many methods you understand, if you don't practice and apply them, it will be all in vain, and no matter how great a work is, if it is only in your mind, it will not produce any value.
It's always nice to imagine, and we usually say "Let's say I've made it" in high spirits. Of course that's beautiful......
Of course, I feel like I'm a great guy, and all editors should bow down at your feet and kneel down to read your article......
However, it takes a lot more energy to actually get your hands on that super good story in your head and turn it into a valuable text like you can imagine. You have to hone your skills in the specific act of "writing" for a long time.
It's about writing, doing and doing it, not simply saying that I understand a certain technique. Just as honoring your parents is incomparably right, you also feel that you love your parents deeply, when was the last time you called them, writing, love alone will not succeed, you need super patience,
Persistence and, finally, the right operation and a bit of luck are added.
Everything is easier said than done, everyone has been coming to us for three weeks, and every day we push and walk,
Some felt okay, some reluctantly, some had nothing to do, and some didn't waste time, but squeezed out of our lessons in their own way, and made significant progress.
But this is always a minority, people are slowly distancing themselves from each other, not only writing, but also any thing in life that really needs to work hard is like this, and there are many students who maintain a good feeling, such as feeling good when they listen to the first few lectures, thinking that they are still very rewarding,
So, ask yourself, how much of the things you feel you know completely, and how much of them can be used in practice? This lesson is about "writing", and this is the last time I will reason with you, writing is one of the hardest things in the world, because it is creative labor.
You're not trying to improve your proficiency and beat your opponents who are more skilled than you, you have to beat yourself the hardest to beat, which is actually good news for everyone, because there are a lot of people who are born out of this.
People who can't write novels will never write novels, and people who can't play the violin will never think of playing the violin... Unless I was forced by my parents when I was a child, it doesn't count...
If you don't know how to draw, and you're not interested in drawing, you'll never really paint, at most a chick eating rice...
The bad news is that writing is actually one of the easiest things in the world. Because it really doesn't have any threshold other than the basic requirements for talent. Anyone can write, if he wants to. Anyone, if he wants to, can become a novelist. As long as he overcomes himself.
For everyone, this means fierce competition. It means that you think that only you have advantages, but in fact, there are a large number of people who have the same as you.
The author, who often submits papers, proudly tells me that since he was in elementary school, his essays have been used as model essays by teachers.
Read aloud to class. I just want to ask him if he knows how many elementary schools there are in the country, how many classes are in each grade, and how many people are read aloud at least once or twice from elementary school to high school......
If the end of the world comes, and the mutation only happens to the author, you can still see a large wave of authors coming. Because the crowd base that can produce such a creature as an author is too large.
So, what is it that we have mastered the basic knowledge of writing that really allows us to cross that threshold and become a fiction author?
Just one word, write. You write it, you are the author. If you don't write it, you're nothing. No one listens to your reasons, no one cares how lonely, how miserable, how nostalgic you are. No one cares why you didn't write, why you were a eunuch, if you didn't write a book seriously, you would be nothing.
It doesn't matter how good your creativity is, how beautiful the individual sentences are, and how god-like the plot development is, and the protagonist full of noble sentiments... Who cares about you? If you want to code words, you write them. You're going to have to tie yourself to a chair and code honestly.
Before we act, we always give ourselves some reasons to procrastinate. Procrastination is really a disease that needs to be cured. Why are you slow to write? Why can't you write? Is it really because you don't know any writing skills or anything like that?
Then if you instill a bunch of "writing knowledge" in yourself, will you be like a god in writing? Of course it's impossible. The easiest thing for every self-proclaimed writer to do when trying to write a novel is to make a lot of excuses for himself to procrastinate.
Constantly delaying the time for myself to write a serious story. Sometimes it's a conscious procrastination,
Sometimes it can be unconsciously procrastinating, such as the most direct "I just want to play this time".
Don't run to play with honest code words, this kind of is actually relatively speaking, it is easy to recognize, and it is easy to restrain a little.
Because there will be guilt.
Ah, I played for another afternoon, and the time to become a god was delayed by another 4 hours and 18 minutes. I gritted my teeth and overcame, so I came back honest with guilt, and the most difficult thing to overcome was actually the procrastination of the unconscious state. All sorts of delays in the name of "preparation",
All kinds of procrastination that don't think they're procrastinating. For example, checking information can't stop stars from writing novels, and the materials are piled up with millions of words, and even the opening 20,000 words haven't been written.
For another example, writing an outline must be perfect for a star to write a novel, and the outline has written 100,000 words.
I also drew a beautiful map of my story world, and even made up a dictionary of elven languages.
The text is less than 20,000 words, and I feel that the outline can be fuller. All kinds of "can't stop making up characters", "can't restrain making names", "there must be chronicles", these authors from various alien planets, this is unconsciously procrastinating, and this delay is the same thing, that is, the thing that a fiction writer should really do;
Okay, officially into our lesson for today. So, all of you here need to pay attention to this, and if you find yourself kidnapped by aliens, find a way to return to Earth. Don't fall into the obvious misconception of "I'm seriously preparing".
You don't need to start with all the characters' names, you don't need to write a grand epic chronicle, you don't need to set up a perfect upgrade system, or you don't even need a complete outline
These are all fake actions after the author's procrastination has been committed. Looking at what I said above, some students may feel very contradictory, why is it different from what was said in the previous lessons, isn't it good to write an outline?
The outline, in fact, is not as important as you think, don't mythologize the role of the outline, especially don't try to perfect the outline alone. When you do this, realize that you are actually being hijacked by the "Syllabus Must Be Perfect". And the outline always needs to be prepared for adjustments,
What is a perfect outline that does not need to be changed is used to put it in a museum? What's worse, the more complete and detailed the outline, the more likely it is to dampen the creative passion, and even directly affect the quality of the final work. Because your daily energy is limited,
We actually mentioned one thing to you at the opening ceremony: your brain, the hormone secretion produced by the stimulation of creative thinking, is limited. When you first form a new and valuable thinking product in your mind, this is when your brain has the fastest nerves, the clearest logic, the most emotional, and the most active language center, because our brain's working mechanism is to stimulate "innovation".
"New", "unfamiliar", and "changing" ideas will excite your brain and reward you with corresponding neurochemicals, and when your brain realizes that you are "frying old rice", it will also appear "uninterested".
This is why we sometimes find that what was thought to be a good plot is greatly overshadowed when it is officially written.
Even tasteless reasons. That's why we let everyone talk less nonsense and don't talk about more code words. ”