How do you write a tragic beginning that is engaging and interesting to keep reading?

I don't know how many writers have thought about this question, when he first decided to write the beginning of "The Age of Teachers" as the tragedy of the last battle that was popular, Lu Yang did not consider this issue, and just wanted to write it in his usual writing style.

Later, when he wrote more than 3,000 words, his brows suddenly furrowed, he paused to continue writing, and began to read the more than 3,000 words he had written from the perspective of a reader. As a result, after reading it, his brow furrowed even tighter.

Because he suddenly found that writing in the usual way was unappealing.

This is the beginning of a tragedy, and if there are no other elements that attract readers, how many readers will continue to watch after reading such an opening?

Maybe most of his hardcore book fans will chase it down, but what about new readers?

The update of online articles is very fast!

Not only are the styles and popular themes of online texts changing, but the readers of online texts are also constantly being updated! Old bookworms are becoming more and more stressful in work and life, and many people will gradually stop reading online texts, but at the same time, a large number of junior high school and high school students who have just come into contact with online texts will become new readers every day.

For a writer to stay popular and stay popular, he or she must not only try to capture the hearts of old book lovers, but also keep attracting new readers.

But if the beginning of "The Age of the Teacher" is not brilliant at all, and it is just a tragedy written in a decent way, there is no doubt that it will definitely turn many new readers away.

Like the "Loneliness of the Master" by the original time and space Landi Meichen, it has been regarded as a classic by countless people. It is known as a classic masterpiece of stream of consciousness, but it has also been rated very low by countless readers. Many people even bluntly said that this book is just the beginning and can't be read.

The reason for this. A big part of it is at the beginning of the book.

The book begins with a long paragraph with no bright spots, and it even tastes like chewing wax to read.

There have been book fans who like it and joked that this is a test set by Emperor Lan Meichen for readers, and those who can't pass the test at the beginning are not qualified to see the excitement behind it.

If the beginning of the book is as wonderful as the middle and late stages, its popularity and evaluation will definitely far exceed its original version.

Not to mention, is that a test set by Emperor Lan Meichen for readers, at least Lu Yang has no intention of setting any test for his readers at the beginning. He wants to write on his own terms, but he doesn't get along with the reader.

So, in the first two chapters, it uses some novel settings as a selling point to attract readers.

These novel settings may not be his first creation, but they must be something that most readers have never seen, and as a veteran writer of two lives, he still has this confidence.

Like what. The first scene at the beginning of "The Age of the Master" is the plot of Feng Xingyun handing in the time after receiving the task.

"Turn in time", at first glance it is incomprehensible, "time" can still be handed in?

Lu Yang once watched an American movie. It's called Time Authority.

The story of this movie is set in a futuristic world, and in the setting of this movie, the currency of the futuristic world. It's no longer money, it's time. Every human being is microchipped in their arms by the Time Authority from birth. The chip stores the person's time, and this time in the chip is like the money that everyone keeps in the bank.

Unlike the normal monetary system, the Time Authority quantifies your life in the form of a number at the beginning of each person's birth.

Usually, everyone needs to use the time in the chip to buy, such as 10 minutes to buy a hamburger.

In the setting of this movie, in the future world, human beings have overcome all diseases and deciphered the secret of human genes aging with the passage of time.

So, in theory, everyone can live forever.

But if it is true that everyone has achieved eternal life, then the babies that keep being born will make the total human population swell indefinitely, and eventually all resources will be exhausted.

So, even though everyone can theoretically live forever, someone has to die.

The purpose of the establishment of the Time Management Bureau is to let the life of the person who spent the time in the chip end.

This kind of end is very cruel, obviously a teenager, as long as the time in the chip reaches 0, the whole person will immediately die like an electrical appliance that has lost power.

When Lu Yang saw this movie by chance, he felt very amazing!

It's not that I'm amazed by its plot, but this setting of this movie.

The more I think about it, the more I feel that if in the future world, human beings can really decipher all the secrets of genetic disease and aging, then an institution like the Time Administration is really likely to appear.

The only people who can really live forever are those rich people whose time will never run out, and the human beings at the bottom work hard, but they can't enjoy the benefits of immortality brought by technology, and can only die without a disease when time runs out.

Lu Yang believes that most online readers have not seen this movie, so at the beginning of "The Age of the Master", Lu Yang used the plot of handing in the time before the popular mission to introduce this setting.

Lu Yang believes that such a novel setting can at least capture the hearts of readers who have not read "Time Authority" in a short period of time.

In "Time Administration", there is no plot where soldiers must hand in time before they go on a mission, Lu Yang borrowed some of the settings of "Time Administration", and at the same time, he also extended a new setting on the original setting.

This new setting is that in the future world, the common currency of mankind is time, and in order to ensure that the soldiers who perform the mission are not afraid of death, every soldier who goes out on a mission must hand over most of the time in the chip before the mission, and only the time specified in the mission is in the chip.

Once a soldier deserts or mutinies in the process of performing a mission, once the time in the chip is 0, the life of the soldier who escapes or defects will end immediately, and only the soldier who actively completes the task returns to the barracks and gets back the time that he handed in, so that he can continue to live.

This is the first selling point set by Lu Yang in the first two chapters of "The Age of Teachers".

In addition to this, there are several points.

The feelings that run through the entire plot of the last battle of Fengxingyun are the second point.

The same plot is written with feelings, and it is completely different from not writing with feelings, giving readers a completely different reading experience.

In order to give readers an immersive feeling, these two chapters, Lu Yang spent several hours brewing feelings before writing, and then deleted, deleted, modified, and cut out some details that affected the emotional coherence of the entire plot before it was finally finalized.

The third point is the novel mecha setting.

As the beginning of a book, be sure to give highlights!

As a mecha-themed work, the setting of the mecha must naturally be brilliant. In the first two chapters of "The Age of Teachers", there are only a few characters who appear, but Lu Yang has designed the mecha controlled by each nine-star ace master who has appeared with heart.

For example, the wind and clouds of amphibious mechas! Just like Transformers, land, water, and sky, as long as one transformation, you can immediately adapt to the battle of these three environments.

In Lu Yang's setting, the popular amphibious mecha, on land, is a tiger-type, which is also the appearance of the mecha when he first appeared on the battlefield.

On all fours, with sharp teeth and claws, and a steel whip tiger tail, it can spray lasers when it opens its mouth, and it can also form a tiger roar, using sound waves to interfere with the operating system of the mobile phone mail.

After the transformation, it can become an eight-legged spider, and the soles of each foot of the spider have energy turbines, and when the energy turbine is activated, the eight-legged spider can not only quickly pass underwater, but also walk on the surface of the water.

The last change is a four-winged fallen angel.

Of the eight-legged spider's eight legs, four become wings and the other four become hands and feet.

This is the mecha that Lu Yang set for Feng Xingyun.

The opponents of the final battle of Feng Xingyun, August, Ronagal, Bailot, and Mayi Haragami, Lu Yang also designed mecha that was enough to make people shine.

For example, Augustus, the blonde man, the mecha designed for him by Lu Yang is the ultimate model of the Knight series.

Lu Yang looks at all the mecha works, and the mecha has no mounts.

But in Lu Yang's setting, the knight series of mecha has mounts.

This kind of mecha is a combination of an energy mecha and a breeding mecha.

Augustus' mount, the Flame Horse, is an energy and chip-driven energy mech that can charge on land or fight in the sky after activating the golden flames under the horse's hooves.

The mecha he was wearing was a colonized mecha, small in size, driven by mental power, and when he took it off, it was a suitcase, and once it was driven, it quickly covered his body.

Bailot's mecha is different, his mecha is controlled by a child and a mother.

This kind of mecha molecule parent two, when controlled, Bailot enters the mother, the parent body is in the form of local area networking, and all the instructions of the mother can be transmitted to other child mechas.

The stronger the master, the more daughter mechs can be remotely controlled.

As a nine-star ace master, Bailot's mother body has nine child mecha that can be controlled at the same time, and the nine drone mecha are controlled by him alone.

In the end, the original true Yi took a different route.

Her mecha is the most traditional humanoid mecha, but it is characterized by the humanoid mecha she controls, which is a knife outside of the mainstream humanoid mecha.

The mainstream humanoid mecha is not only equipped with cold weapons such as knives and swords, but also with hot weapons such as laser guns and homing missiles.

Just like the food carving industry, there are dozens of schools of carving with knives and two schools of carving with one knife in hand without any other knives.

The original true sword, all the battles, only with a knife in the hand.

Lu Yang's setting for her is a combination of mecha and ancient martial arts. (To be continued......)