Chapter 74, Fundamentals

Jiuli asked, her eyes constantly wandering over everyone.

"Mentor Jiuli, is self-awareness the author's ability to restrain me, or self-discipline?" someone said, raising his hand.

"So to speak. Jiuli nodded and said.

"The so-called self-consciousness is only a vague concept until now, but it can be divided into two aspects, the first is mentality, and the second is self-awareness.

The first one, mentality, I don't need to say it in detail, you all understand one thing, these two words, from the beginning of your study, the teacher said, when you are at home, your parents also say, including after you come out to work, the leader will also say these two words.

It's the same with our writing, we need to maintain a good attitude when writing, only in this way, when we write, we won't bring in our own negative emotions, resulting in poor content of the article.

In one is, what kind of attitude determines the level of your future writing achievements, I believe, people who have been in the workplace for two or three years have heard such a sentence, mentality is greater than choice, choice is greater than ability.

Strong ability is not as good as being able to choose, and being able to choose is not as good as mentality. Mentality is closely related to our life, work, and the people and things we come into contact with, so no matter what kind of mentality the author has before, I hope to pay attention to my own mentality from today onwards?

Second, what we call self-knowledge, self-knowledge, to put it simply, is self-knowledge, and what kind of height an author can stand at in the future depends entirely on how high the author's self-knowledge is.

To be more specific:

It is whether the writer really knows what he is writing for, whether he is capable of achieving this goal, and if he is not currently able to achieve it, then what efforts and sacrifices should be made to achieve it.

Next, let's slowly disassemble the elements of self-knowledge.

The first is the purpose:

Do most writers really know what their essential purpose is?

Some authors are very direct, saying that they write books just to make money.

And there are many authors who say that I don't write books for money.

It may seem like a lot of nothing, but what might this author have gained from other things?

For example, more readers who can empathize with his work, more readers who recognize his ability, and so on.

None of the above is a problem?

When it comes to writing, it's good to have a purpose.

Because the act of aimless writing is actually not writing in online literature, it can only be the expression of self-emotion, which is only helpful for the repair of self-psychology.

So under these goals, what kind of attitude should these authors have towards their own writing paths?

This is the second point in the author's consciousness that we are going to talk about, self-knowledge.

First of all, you must be clear about the distance between yourself and achieving your goals.

For example, if the ultimate goal is money, then it is important to be clear what the type of work is popular in the current situation

This kind of information is best to solicit opinions from multiple parties, and to collect, summarize and summarize it yourself.

Once you've figured out what genre is popular, you need to look at your existing writing style and whether you're willing to cater to that type of work.

If you are willing, and whether you can master the writing skills of this kind of work.

Similarly, for writers who write for the purpose of immateriality.

In the process of writing, it is also very important to have a sufficient understanding of your own writing style and writing level.

Because with this kind of self-knowledge, it can help such writers adjust their writing mentality.

For example, I met a lot of extreme readers, who were not the audience of the author's work, and accidentally saw the work, and expressed very strong dissatisfaction with it.

When the author sees these readers' feedback, does he want to adopt these extreme opinions?

Will these extreme opinions affect the normal creative mood?

These are all related to the author's personal mentality and self-knowledge.

In the process of writing, the author must be aware of the importance of mentality and self-knowledge. After Jiuli finished speaking, she felt that her throat was about to smoke, so she picked up the water cup and took some water, and then she felt much more comfortable.

"Okay, the above is the author's content about consciousness, now, let's talk about the author's precautions, and about the author's precautions, not only including newcomers, but also many gods will also appear to make mistakes in the precautions. Jiuli said, emphasizing the four big words of precautions on the blackboard.

"Regarding the precautions, we divide them into three categories, which are preparing to write, preparing to submit, and signing a successful contract.

So, when I say these three categories, some people will ask, "Teacher, we all know what you said, why do you have to repeat it, or say, we have all signed a successful contract, why do we still need to learn this, aren't these for those who have not signed a successful contract?"

If you think so, then I can tell you that it's wrong, and it's a big mistake. Jiuli said.

"By the way, can you keep up with the pace when I'm in class? If you can't, try to tell me as much as you can, and I'll try to slow down the lecture so that you can all understand. Jiuli said.

"It's okay, although I'm a little confused in my head, but we have made good notes, we don't know how to speak, we can study on our own, if we really don't understand, we are here to ask the teacher for you." Someone said, and others echoed.

Xia Youhan and Xu Ergou exchanged glances, and when Xia Youhan saw the scribbled handwriting on Xu Ergou's notes in order to keep up with the rhythm of Jiuli's lectures, she couldn't help but laugh, this is more than the masters who practice calligraphy, anyway, she can't see what Xu Ergou remembers, and she doesn't know if he can read it and understand that he remembers the notes.

"Teacher, it's better to slow down, I'm afraid some of them won't be able to keep up. Xia Youhan said.

"Well, I'll slow down a little bit when I'm lecturing, and you can always ask questions if you have any questions, or you can ask questions when I'm done. Jiuli said.

When the others heard Xia Youhan's words, they first glanced at Xia Youhan with some dissatisfaction, but when they saw Xia Youhan's appearance. Many people have withdrawn their gazes, and even scolded themselves in their hearts, when a beautiful woman sat in their classroom, they didn't even know.

Let's start with the first point, starting with the book:

We want to write a book, publish, sign a contract, and in any case, writing the opening always comes first.

And what we're going to discuss here is some confusion about newcomers before they put pen to paper.

First of all, we need to be clear about the story in our heads.

The story is not just a vague idea, but a clear thread.

It's best to be able to implement it on paper, and we call this a fine outline.

To put it simply, the outline is to list the story you want to write in the form of an outline, from what angle to cut into, what kind of posture the characters appear in, what are the key turning points of the plot, and so on.

It's like drawing an axis, we clearly list this axis, we don't have to stick to the form, we just need to understand it.

In this way, you can avoid writing wherever you want, and at the end of the chapter or two, you find yourself unaware of what you're talking about.

Make a list of two or three chapters, and you'll find that your thinking is clear.

If the outline of these two or three chapters does not allow you to figure out the context of your first three chapters, it proves that your story setting is problematic and the pacing is unreasonable.

At this time, don't write blindly, continue to study the outline, and wait for the outline to be really smooth, and then start writing the text. After Jiuli finished speaking, he saw that the blackboard was full of outlines, picked up the blackboard and wiped it clean, and then wrote down a few big words - the use of punctuation marks.

"Okay, let's talk about the use of punctuation.

Regarding the use of punctuation, I think that all of you here, as long as you have a slightly better Chinese score, you will never forget that the Chinese teacher told you how to use punctuation and the correct use of punctuation in class.

Punctuation marks are periods, colons, pauses, double quotation marks, ellipses, greetings, exclamation marks, and parentheses.

However, many new authors forget how to use our punctuation marks correctly when writing novels, and of course, not only new authors, but also many great gods will make this kind of low-level mistake.

Let's talk about the first one, the indiscriminate use of punctuation.

A common mistake that many people make, indiscriminately use punctuation, I have seen many people, have made a common sense mistake, for example, when the author wants to use an ellipsis, he does not use the ellipsis, just type a long list of periods, or pauses.

Here, I want to say that the so-called ellipsis, it only occupies two characters, will not occupy too many words, on the contrary, when you use a series of periods or pause signs you, a period or a pause account for a number of words, when you have a series of periods as high as seven or eight or even more than ten, the system will detect that you have the suspicion of making up the number of words, when you sign a contract, this system will provide to the editor, after the editor sees it, it will seriously think about whether to sign your contract.

Of course, this is still the most relaxed, and some authors, we really don't want to say, but we have to say, why, because he uses punctuation when he does. He gives you random matching, for example, he gives you an ellipsis in front of you, and a question mark or exclamation mark after the ellipsis is not allowed to happen.

Don't think it's so funny, when the reader reads the book and sees that the punctuation marks are used so messily, he will seriously consider whether your book is worth reading. After all, can an author who doesn't even use punctuation well write a good novel?

So, the best advice I can give you is. The full specification of the use of punctuation, by the way, there is another point I forgot to mention. That's about how to use quotation marks.

Many new authors, when writing a book, the quotation marks can't come back, and many authors selectively ignore this point, so when readers read this paragraph, they will think in their hearts how long your sentence is, or how long it is, and even the plot and speech can't be distinguished, which I also hope you will pay attention to. Jiuli said.