101 On Writing (One Hundred and Forty-Six) "On the Rise of the 'Rise of the Wasteland'"
101 recently read this book and was deeply attracted, the book now has a score of 3.64 million words, which is a high-quality product, ranking 6th in the best-selling ranking, and the monthly income is easily over 100,000.
But back a year ago, when the book was 200,000 words, it was only 2,000 collections, and when it was 500,000 words, it was only more than 4,000 collections, and the income was about 1,700 yuan.
And the author himself has been struggling on the road to the street for five or six years, and even quit his job for the dream of writing, and wrote full-time for 2 years without success, and what is even more unfortunate is that he is still trapped in investing in stocks, and he has lost a lot... (The above experience comes from the author's own account in the book, if it is untrue, it is not the intention of 101, please understand.) )
That's right, speaking of which, it's "Rise of the Wasteland", a novel that doesn't have a very good reputation in Longkong!
The reason why 101 took out this book for analysis is that I admire the author's perseverance, and secondly, this book has great analytical value from average grades to unnatural results.
Why did the results in the early stage be poor, but gradually showed strength in the later stage? Let me try to analyze one or two things, which may have some reference significance for the vast number of people who fight on the streets. If the author himself sees it, it is for reference only, and if it is inappropriate, please bear with me.
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Let's talk about the advantages of this book first:
101 Now I have only read 229 chapters, and the overall feeling is that this book is a plot flow, the plot is complex and exciting, the characters are brilliant and individual, the protagonist pretends to be forced and cool, and the contradictions and conflicts are strong, and the more distinctive is the contradictory evolution of gang battles in the last days, and the author's mastery of weapons and ammunition. Of course, as a male reader, there are some jokes about pickling girls, which are also pleasing to the eye, Lori has Lori's good, and mature women have mature women's wives wonderful!
Next, let's focus on the shortcomings:
Why did the early results be poor, and then slowly picked up? and listen to 101 slowly:
This book is opened, the early background is that the protagonist accepted a God's arrangement, entered the world of the wasteland, there are still a few days before the catastrophe, the protagonist knows the plot evolution in advance, he is ready to hug the thigh of Lawrence, the protagonist of the original plot, and in order to seize the opportunity, he needs to get an electronic dog named "dog meat".
Well, this plot doesn't look too bright, return to life and other predictable future goldfingers, plus wasteland settings, and then apply the mode of following NPCs and traveling back to reality to get supplies like infinite horror.
1. The main line of cool points comes out slowly.
If you follow the fast-paced online text path, you need to get the electronic dog in seven chapters, or even five chapters, and then the end of the world will come directly, and the protagonist will start to kill all sides. But the end times of this book are in chapter 50, and the dog is in chapter 55.
The synopsis of this book is written - a dog at the beginning, and all the equipment depends on picking up.
Then readers are looking forward to seeing how to make a fortune from a dog in the last days, but this gimmick didn't first come to light until after 50 chapters, so the main line of cool points came out a little slowly.
101 My own reading experience, in the first 55 chapters, I have the urge to abandon the book twice-
I watched 10 chapters at a time, and the protagonist didn't get the dog right away, but changed the plot by saving a **, intending to steal the money of a pair of gangster brothers. Although this climax is relatively well written, the protagonist is relatively weak and passive, always pressed by a Lawrence, and involuntarily led by the nose by various accidents, which is not very refreshing to watch.
The second time was when he killed a robber and was chased by the police, and even the big beauty of Laikarena abandoned him.
I was thinking, why is this protagonist so passive? How can he be led by the nose by a contradiction that has nothing to do with the main plot? The protagonist seems to have fallen into a whirlpool, spinning around involuntarily, getting farther and farther away from the main goal, rather than getting closer and closer through hard work.
Of course, as of now, the protagonist has only opened 2 hangings, one is to change the plot and save **;The other is to take the lead in one second, he can use one second to take the lead in the face of a crisis, and take advantage of the enemy. Of course, the protagonist uses this trick more to dodge bullets and shoot the enemy in advance.
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101 people think that the main reason is that the book has poor results in the early stage, too much foreshadowing in the first 50 chapters, and slow entry into the main plot;
Of course, the author writes this with his own considerations, he writes about the end of the world as a big climax, and he needs to pre-lay the contradiction of the Lawrence family, Katarina, and being wanted by the whole New York police, so that this big climax is cool enough to read!
So after 101 survived the first 40 chapters and saw that Anna, the daughter of a big conglomerate, was rescued, the protagonist was wanted in all New York City, and the protagonist saved the hostages as a wanted criminal, appeared on TV, and became a hero, so he gradually entered the play and felt that the book looked interesting.
After reading another 50 chapters, the catastrophe came, all the police and troops disappeared, the protagonist descended like a prophet, seized the opportunity, Anna did not die, suddenly appeared, and couldn't help but shout: Wonderful wonderful!
This is a kind of refreshing cheating!
Therefore, it is said: success is also Xiao He defeat Xiao He!
In order to pave this big climax, the author sacrificed the advancement of the main line in the early stage, resulting in poor results in the early stage, and before the book became famous, many readers only read the first dozen chapters, and I am afraid they gave up.
And the success lies in this, those readers who persevered, after seeing more than 50 chapters, the contradictions and climaxes of the foreshadowing exploded, and they couldn't help but be hooked, and since then they have become die-hard loyalists.
2. The setting of the main line of the reality branch.
This book has a branch main line that returns to reality, and this is really a success and a failure!
After an adventure in the apocalyptic world, the protagonist returns to the real world in chapter 90 to resupply.
If the plot is designed according to infinite horror, the role of returning to reality is to cushion the tension of the apocalypse, prepare supplies for the apocalyptic adventure, or advance the main plot.
But what the author deals with is that the protagonist returns to reality, runs to sell diamonds, takes the money and then pays off the debt, and deals with the conflict between the young couple in the neighbor's house.
What?
What do these have to do with the main line of the end times? Do you have anything to do with the main line of the end times? Do you have a pickle girl to relax?
To be honest, when 101 saw this, he almost gave up the book again, gritted his teeth and quickly flipped through these chapters, saw the little woman in the back of the door, killed 5 gangsters for her, and returned to the end of the world with a lot of oranges and corpses, only to be pulled back into interest.
Of course, there is still a purpose for the all-eaters to write this, after returning to reality for the second time, the murder occurred, the deputy director of the police station came to arrest people, the teacher who bought diamonds in front of him, the lady who paid off the debt, the little couple on the other side, and the 5 gangsters who were killed, all of which became useful plots.
Thus triggering a rather wonderful climax when returning to reality for the second time.
Therefore, the book of the Taoist, pay attention to the layout before and after, the foreshadowing in the early stage is often bland, and only when you see the back, you will shout wonderful!
From reality back to the end of the world, 100 chapters have passed in this book, seeing this, 101 still doesn't feel how high-end this book is, and is in a state of being able to read or not to read at any time, I believe that the book did not do well at the beginning, and many readers also have similar feelings as 101.
3. The cool point is too white.
From chapter 112 onwards, the Zhetas gang becomes the protagonist's opponent, and this gang is the strength of the Mexican drug lord, gathering tens of thousands of people to invade the protagonist's power range.
In the early days, this part of the contradiction was not very exciting, it was nothing more than the protagonist crushing it with his own superior resources.
A lot of Xiaobaiwen is this routine, it looks cool, but 101 really can't get in, I just think this book is good for the portrayal of women's characters, and the portrayal of a few brothers is more individual, so I just flip through it and look down.
This book goes into V in chapter 136.
The first 135 chapters mainly have the above three deficiencies, and the book can't be said to be unpleasant and unfocused, but it can't be said to attract people to that extent.
Maybe that's why the book's early results weren't impressive!
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Below, 101 will analyze the amazing places of this book, that is, these amazing things that make this book from an ordinary book to a fire book.
Amazing starts with more than 140 chapters -
1. The villain has an IQ and a personality.
The earliest Ivan brothers are the pair of mini-bosses who saved ** in front of the bar and then went to steal money.
The two of them caused dozens of chapters of trouble to the protagonist, and in the end, they even had a desperate struggle with the protagonist, in a building, the fire was raging, a brother was shot, and a broken arm, but they still wanted to kill the protagonist as if they were trying to kill them.
That kind of crazy aura is simply the protagonist!
And on the protagonist's side, the younger brother ran away and was about to lose, but he was saved by an unexpected woman, of course, this woman later became the protagonist's first lover.
101 Seeing the death of the Ivan brothers, it was really enjoyable, the general Xiaobaiwen, where would such a wonderful villain be portrayed, and only by defeating such a villain, the plot can be called exciting!
Next, the Zhetas gang has another pair of sniper enemies, which is not less troublesome for the protagonist's side.
The throat of the protagonist's brother was pierced by them, and the protagonist himself was ambushed many times, seeing this, 101 seemed to have a scene of "Soldiers in the City" in front of him, the kind of excitement of fighting wits and courage with snipers, couldn't help but emerge in front of him.
Of course, this villain is also very brilliantly portrayed, one died under the protagonist's electronic dog mouth and was bitten to death alive.
The other died under the bayonet of his younger brother, his name was Guzmán, and he was always fierce and domineering, bullying the younger brother, and finally the younger brother broke out and stabbed him with a knife.
These two pairs of enemies,Just choose a few of them.,There's a very cunning one.,It's the fifth leader of the Skull and Bones Society.,It's called "pretending to be a criminal", and it's also a dick with the protagonist's aura.,Several times almost killed the protagonist.,It's still the protagonist's skills.。
There is also a very cunning spy, a Chinese yellow dog, who is very, very individual.
In short, the gradual development of this book in 140 chapters is due to the plot tension created by these wonderful villains, which makes people have to expect the protagonist to defeat them.
2. Wonderful layout and climax.
This is also very important!
"Wasteland Rising" has a clear context and layout, and some characters seem to be unrelated to the plot, but they are all essential climactic components in the back.
For example, the conflict between the Skull and Bones Society and the Brotherhood is used by the protagonist and transformed into its own development. The kind of wit that goes from left to right makes people gradually fall into it from the early stage of Xiaobaishuang, and they can't stop.
It can be said that since 140 chapters, "Rise of the Wasteland" has been written better and better, and the plot and characters are several grades higher than in the early stage.
If there were no waves, heart-wrenching climaxes and conflicts, this book would not have been pushed to its current achievement.
3. The characters are brilliant.
The characters in this book are counted as one, and they all have their own personalities, such as a small character, Nancy, who is a female nurse who came out in the early days.
The protagonist goes to the hospital to summon the medical staff, she has to comply, thinking that the protagonist is a villain, and does not feel that it is safer to leave the hospital, but the protagonist knows that soon the cataclysm will become more and more intense, and then human life will be as cheap as a dog, in fact, it is to save her.
So without saying a word, he forcibly kidnapped her!
According to the treatment of ordinary books, this supporting character will succumb to and become a part of the halo of the protagonist, in that case, it will not be called a brilliant character.
But this character obviously has her own thoughts, she bravely planned the escape from prison in order to pursue freedom, when she climbed down from the window of a tall building, waved goodbye to her sisters, took a deep breath, only felt that the free air was so sweet, and the free sky was so blue, so she ran to the outside world without hesitation.
And a few blocks not far from her, murderous robbery, torture and rape were taking place, but she didn't know it.
is such a silly and sweet female character, because of her stupidity, her indiscriminate kindness, and her misunderstanding of the protagonist, it has attracted readers' concern-
First, I want to see her being slapped in the face by reality, and second, I want to see the protagonist save her, and her correct reaction to the protagonist.
As a result, a sense of expectation arises, and the fate of a small supporting role actually triggers expectations.
Of course, when dealing with this episode, the Taoist did not write that the protagonist learned that she ran away and went to save her angrily, but wrote that the protagonist did not know at all.
Push Nancy's line first, write that she ran to a neighborhood, because of kindness, let go of a villain, and then the villain rushed with a group of villains, burned and looted, killed all the men, and humiliated the women.
The plot progressed to this point, and it came to an abrupt end, jumping to the protagonist line, writing that he followed his newly recruited comrade-in-arms butcher, went out to practice, and after a competition, he found that there was a shootout in the community in front of him, and ran to take a look with curiosity, and solved those villains and saved Nancy.
At this time, Nancy sees that the protagonist seems to see God, and of course the protagonist has long forgotten who this stupid girl is?
We write online articles in order to pursue coolness, the pursuit of the protagonist pretending, and a supporting role can give flesh and soul to flesh and soul, and cleverly arranging a pretending bridge section makes the plot more brilliant! Here, 101 has to say that the Taoist chess is one higher.
In the same way, "Let Go of the Witch" is also used perfectly, creating countless characters that are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the promotion of the plot is also very clever.
Of course, the author of the role of Nancy did not give up, and later she was lured by the spy of the Skull and Bones Society, and almost poked out the big basket, and she led out Richard, an extremely treacherous and cunning spy, and the protagonist rode a motorcycle to chase him in anger, leading to dozens of chapters and nearly a hundred chapters of wits and courage behind.
In addition to Nancy, a more interesting character, there is also a cowardly boy named Nieto who has appeared in the villain camp and has been bullied, and he is also extremely brilliantly portrayed.
At first, the gangsters used the Soviet Union's method of pulling strong ding, driving these sheep who had not been on the battlefield to attack the protagonist's side, due to the lack of weapons, some people divided their guns, some divided magazines, and had to wait for the people in front of them to die, and grab their guns to use.
Nieto naturally divided the magazine bitterly, he was cowardly and afraid of death, he has always been submissive, driven by the murderous Guzmán, he survived by luck, and was set up as a model to praise his obedience.
also divided him into 2 women, a teenage girl, a mature woman in her thirties, he prefers girls, but he can't do without the considerate care of mature women.
He struggled under the weight of the end times, and on the one hand, he obeyed Guzmán's drive, entered dangerous places again and again, and exchanged his life for meager food to feed the two women who followed him, and the three of them depended on each other for their lives.
This kind of character building, on the one hand, highlights the ferocity and horror of the protagonist's opponent from the side, on the other hand, the cruelty of the troubled times, and on the other hand, it creates a flesh-and-blood character, which is worrying, and will intersect with the protagonist in the future, which can promote the plot more powerfully, which can be described as a multiplicity!
Of course, Nieto can be portrayed as the protagonist, whose life of hard work has just begun, and in the crucial battle to protect the gangster sniper, the protagonist's animatronic dog pounces on him and bites everyone to death, and when it is finally time to bite Nieto to death, the protagonist summons it back.
So the animatronic dog bit it, and Nieto blocked it with the butt of the gun, but left a terrible wound on his cheek, and luckily picked up a life!
After that, he went along with it, went with the flow, was still in the gang, was yelled at by Guzmán, and even Guzmán took his anger out on him and snatched his woman, and he swallowed his anger.
So the women in their thirties were humiliated and died, and the teenage girl ran away with Guzmán because of him, and the woman who took care of him died because of him! The woman he took care of was gone because of him! Nieto had nothing left but a rotten life.
But instead of resisting, he became confused, and the whole person was bleak, like a sleepwalking zombie, living as if he was dead!
This character is portrayed to this extent, 101 as Lao Bai, who likes to see Jin Yong, can be described as addicted, such a character is called flesh and blood!
Of course, the author's layout is far from so simple, and the creation of each character will eventually explain a fate and become a key figure in driving the protagonist's plot.
Until more than 200 chapters, the protagonist escaped from the subway with his woman after the nuclear bomb washed the ground, but he didn't want the enemy to be high, so he sent someone to block the exit, and Guzmán took a group of younger brothers, including Nieto, to fight with the protagonist.
Just when Guzmán was in a rage and repeatedly took the protagonist's life, the confused Nieto finally broke out, silently raised his gun, aimed at Guzmán, and killed his little brother with one shot.
Guzmán was furious: You dare to hit me?
The commanding subordinates rushed forward, and they were about to chop Nieto into meat sauce!
At this point, Nieto's outburst finally came, and he endured it for a full 100 chapters, and in the face of Guzmán, a murderous villain, he rushed straight at gun.
Here the author hangs for Nieto, and the gun that shoots at him is either missed, or the school furniture is off, or there is a stink bomb, but in short, he is a dozen and a right, picking up a bayonet and killing one by one, frightening the enemy, and finally rushing to Guzmán, stabbing him alive with a bayonet, avenging his unjustly killed friend, and avenging all the wrongs he has suffered, and becoming a real man!
Guzmán, a very brilliant villain, couldn't believe it until he died, he was arrogant and died in the hands of such a docile little brother under his hands, which is really outrageous!
This scene 101 is heart-wrenching, this is a novel, this is a story, thanks to the Taoist people for being able to create such a flesh-and-blood and touching character under the premise of satisfying the online text pretend.
In the end, Nieto killed the enemy, and after taking revenge, he sat at the entrance of the subway covered in blood, watched the protagonist come out with the sunset, and said calmly: "I killed everyone, and I don't want to live anymore, you can do it!"
But the protagonist says, "I don't know who you are, and I don't know why you killed my enemy, but you saved me, and I never owe favors, so come with me!"
With this little brother with a lot of personality, walk towards the sunset...
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The analysis of this book ends here, 101 feels that the Taoist has written a good book, a wonderful book, and the rise of the wasteland, not only the title of the book, but also the rise of his personal struggle, from the perennial old to the street, the struggle has become a god with a monthly income of more than 100,000.
Here's wishing that "Rise of the Wasteland" will get better and better, and Taoists will write more and more exciting plots.
I also hope that the writers who read this post can understand one or two, and then 101 will not be written in vain. :)