101 On Writing (25) "On "Creating Expectations" Revisited

Today, I saw a post in Longkong

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Dragon Ball raised a question, why are some new gods' new books unstable, such as the new book "Invincible Divine Vein" by the author of "Endless Divine Skills", I remember that the new book period of Endless Time was the first place on the first click list of the first page of the new book, and it was more than 50,000 to the collection, but it has been more than half a month since the new book Shenmai was opened, and the collection is not more than 10,000 now. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Dragon Ball proposed "Anaconda Disaster" again, and the results jumped quickly, but I feel that the collection will not be very good after it is put on the shelves.

101 "Zerg Crushes the Xiuzhen Realm" that I have seen was also very popular at the beginning, but the results were very dismal after it was put on the shelves.

Looking at it on the other hand, was the beginning of "The Legend of Mortal Cultivation of Immortals" very drastic? Is the golden finger very novel? When it was put on the shelves, it was only 6,000 collections, and 1 million were boiled out.

Is the beginning of Tomato's "Star Change" and "Panlong" very intense? I wrote a lot of foreshadowing, showing family affection and practicing hard, why did the results be so good after they were put on the shelves?

Looking at "Tang Brick" again, how many people say that the first volume of "Tang Brick" is too ink, a lot of descriptions, it looks unpleasant, but after it is put on the shelves, it is more than 10,000.

There are also "One Sleep for Ten Thousand Years" and "Gu Zhenren", the former author is a eunuch, and he was called by readers to complain at the starting point and ask for updates;

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So why are these two situations happening?

101 I would like to take this opportunity to analyze that I will review what I said earlier in Making Expectations (Part I and Part I), that readers' expectations for a novel come from three aspects-

1. Expectations arising from the novelty of the subject matter;

2. Expectations arising from the personal demands of the characters;

3. Expectations arising from the suspense of the plot itself;

4. Add one more, the expectation of the author's unique style of writing.

So are endless, python, and zerg all playing cards with novel themes? A certain theme or idea is very novel, and readers are interested in it at a glance?

The answer is yes!

101 said that when all the new ideas are written in 200,000, at most 300,000 words, they will be written, and the readers will get bored of reading it, so 350,000 words is just the threshold for the shelves, if there is no other thing to continue to attract readers, who will continue to watch it? This has created an embarrassing situation of high income and low subscription, and the so-called problem of how to balance defense and offense.

Tomato's book, Forgotten Words, and Tang Brick all show extremely powerful character portrayal and plot control capabilities, and when you read 350,000 words, readers will love the protagonist very much, be concerned about the predicament he faces, and desperately want to reveal the world conspiracy......

These things are slowly arranged in the first 350,000 words in an unhurried rhythm, and readers are likely to feel that the pace is slow when they read it, but when it comes to the 350,000 words on the shelves, the plot begins to exert force, which is really unstoppable!

If you don't believe it, I'll give you another example, Cangtian Baihe, his book can be said to be the best in the opening 200,000 words YY gold finger creativity, the first 200,000 words are addictive, but as soon as the plot reaches the shelf, it is pale and powerless, even if it is not cool to fight monsters and treasure every day.

Therefore, if a book wants to attract people to come in, it needs to do a good job in the first point and make the new idea of the golden finger more beautiful, and if you want to attract people to pay for it, you need to do a good job of 2, 3, and 4 to improve the overall ability of storytelling.

Not to mention anything else, Hentai was criticized the most at the beginning, that is, the protagonist's hatred was too hard, the characters were too white, and the pretending mode was too simple, otherwise how could the collection of 50,000 be ordered more than 2,000?

The novelty of the new book Shenmai Goldfinger is a lot worse than endless, the first point that the author is best at is not good enough in the new book, and the plot of the characters' bitter waste wood is only written in one chapter, and even family affection or anything is not paved, so he hurriedly played the goldfinger card, and the reader didn't even hang up enough expectations, and then looked at the goldfinger boring, who would look down?

Of course, it's too early to make a conclusion about the vein.,I also know the author.,I can see that he tried to do more foreshadowing in the new book.,Compared to the previous book, I want to make the plot fuller.,This is a good phenomenon.,Maybe it's 350,000 words on the shelves.,The plot will be more than the last book.,Subscription may also exceed the previous book.,In addition, it's hard to say what the results of wireless will be in the future.,There are many wireless whites.,Maybe you think this beginning is more innovative, right?

Let's wait and see.