Recently, 101 read a book "Crossing to the Game Store", this book has a good score, fast hot type, the first chapter can hang people's appetite, and it is quite refreshing, it is a typical urban ability fast hot book. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Then 101 reminds me of other online text opening routines, such as the first chapter introduces the protagonist, the second chapter pulls hatred, and the third chapter gets a golden finger......

I can't help but wonder, what determines the different opening plot directions of different books?

Why do some great gods' books start with family affection, write about the growth of the protagonist, and pave the way for more than a dozen chapters to get the golden finger?

Why are there still books, the beginning is a fierce conflict, the protagonist faces the siege of countless enemies, and finally dies and crosses, and lives again, such as "The Nine Heavens of the Proud World", the beginning of the description of death is nearly 10,000 words.

Some people say, "Hey, it's not easy?"

Slowly paving the way are all great god patents, and the newcomer author should be hot quickly, show the gold finger as soon as possible, and attract the reader's attention as soon as possible.

In this case, why did the "Legend of Mortal Cultivation of Immortals" written by Forgotten Words be written so slowly, and it could still succeed in the end? He was a pure newcomer at the time, and the editor of the first book did not sign the contract immediately, so he ran naked until 400,000 words before signing it, and it was completely picked up by the readers, and it is said that there were thousands of collections when he did not sign the contract.

If it's a garbage at the beginning, how can so many people be able to read the beginning?

All these doubts, and listen to 101 try to analyze them one by one:

101 After countless days and nights of tossing and turning, scratching his hair and knocking on his brain, he finally figured out that it was an invisible clue that determined whether the reader was interested in the opening story.

This invisible clue is a sense of anticipation.

Take "Crossing to the Game Store" as an example, the beginning is very simple, a college student's computer is burned, so he inexplicably travels to ancient times, pushes the door into the Yuelai Inn, and pushes the door and comes back.

The next time he went again, Xiao Er of Yuelai Inn asked him what he ordered to eat? He ordered sauced beef and other dishes, but found that there was no silver, so he excused himself to go to the thatched house, pushed the door back, took the silver commemorative coin, and then pushed the door back.

He couldn't eat, so he packed it and brought it back, set a table full of it, and then called all the brothers in the dormitory back, and everyone had a good time.

In the first chapter of just 3,000 words, the protagonist has pretending to be compelled and refreshing, suspenseful, has a basic sense of substitution, and strong suspense, so the first chapter can hook people.

The reason for this is that 101 sums up one sentence - "accurately set the sense of expectation of the story, and then tightly unfold the story around the sense of expectation, and the reader will read all the way with the idea of wanting to know."

Abbreviated as: Tell a story around anticipation.

What does that mean?

Take the above as an example, it's not uncommon for the college student protagonist to cross, and it's not uncommon to play computer crossing, but then it's unusual, the protagonist pushes the door over, and then pushes the door back, this kind of space-time door setting is interesting.

But the setting of the space-time gate is also available in some books, and it cannot be said that this book is original, what makes the beginning of this book unique?

It turns out that with the addition of the following plot, it is unique.

The protagonist entered the Yuelai Inn, Xiao Er asked him to order, but there was no silver to pay the bill, the protagonist was not discouraged, and he came back with a silver commemorative coin and killed back.

This kind of protagonist is not intimidated, and the cool point set around the highlights of the story for the first time is what really arouses the reader's interest.

Immediately, the protagonist takes the wine and meat that he can't eat, and then travels back to reward the bedroom brothers, which is equivalent to digging out the characteristics of repeatedly crossing the time and space gate to the fullest.

When we were in college, the most hated thing was the food in the cafeteria, and the annoying classes, and we all had an idea that there could be a wonderful world, let us hide in it, do whatever we wanted, and vent our dissatisfaction.

This book accurately captures this psychology and accurately unfolds the story around this expectation, so the reader pinched his nose and obediently took the bait.

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It can be seen that the plot direction at the beginning of the story and the focus of the pen and ink design are indeed centered on the sense of expectation set by the author at the beginning.

Think about it, why doesn't this book introduce the background of the protagonist in the first chapter, such as who are the parents, who is the goddess of crush, why not arrange for someone to suppress him, and even the reason for crossing and the mood after crossing are all described.

Why?

It turns out that this information has nothing to do with the reader's expectations, so it needs to be omitted, or not written.

Readers want to know what's going on with the time and space gate that travels back and forth? What's going on with Yuelai Inn?

Does the reader care about the protagonist's mood after crossing over? Does he care about his parents and the goddess of his crush? Does he care if someone bullies him at school?

NONO, DON'T CARE!

So once you write these plots that readers don't care about, it will slow down the pace and even distract the readers, causing the readers to lose interest and abandon the book!

Many of our authors, including 101 himself, used to write books The biggest problem was that some of them were stuffed into the plot, and many times the readers' expectations were hung up successfully, but they wrote something else, making the reader lose interest.

It can be said that nine out of ten authors can't figure out what readers want to see, and they write nonsense, resulting in the writing going off track and the book hitting the street.

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Let's take a closer look at other types of opening books.

"Crossing to the Game Store" is a typical urban fast hot book, no need to pave the environment, story background, anyway, urban life, college students, many things are simple and everyone understands, so simple and fast hot, straight to the topic, is the key.

Then fantasy is different, the story world is fictional, the upgrade system is unfamiliar, and the cool point mainly comes from the protagonist's struggle, so it is very important to introduce the protagonist's goals and the crises and challenges he faces.

If these are not well paved, it is difficult for readers to integrate into a fantasy novel, so the opening story of this kind of book is very different from that of urban fast hot articles.

Taking "Panlong" as an example, Goldfinger is actually not very novel, it is nothing more than a portable grandfather instructing the protagonist to practice magic.

Therefore, its selling point is not in Goldfinger, it is different from the time and space gate that travels back and forth, and the selling point of "Panlong" is to look forward to the rise of the protagonist and regain the glory of the dragon's blood family.

This sense of anticipation is what motivates readers to follow this book.

It turns out that the source of the sense of expectation is different, which leads to the foreshadowing and direction of the plot, which is also different!

You can't copy it rigidly, regardless of type and theme, any book starts with three axes, what the first chapter introduces the protagonist, the second chapter suppresses, and the third chapter gets a golden finger.

Such a rigid routine will only make the writing stiff and will not succeed in attracting readers.

So going backwards from the source of the sense of expectation of "Panlong", it is logical why those plots were written earlier.

1. Introduce the protagonist who is different and leads to the dragon blood family inheritance.

2. Paving the family's current predicament, his father hopes that Lin Lei will work hard.

3. Lay out the power system of this world, introduce the warrior level and the mage level.

4. Focus on the strength of the magician, and pave the way for the next step of the protagonist's golden finger.

5. Pave the way for family affection, provide the protagonist with struggle, and enhance the sense of substitution.

Therefore, the larger and more complex the sense of expectation, the more foreshadowing and advancement of the plot will be, and the more layers there will be.

"Panlong" and "Crossing to the Game Store" are compared together, the former is paved after the completion of the foreshadowing, the sense of expectation is fuller and richer, but the pace is slow due to the foreshadowing, and the early reader will run away if the pen power is insufficient;

Therefore, it is difficult to say which is better or worse than a slow-burning book and a fast-hot book, and you can't take a routine and apply it to all books.

What we can really do is to accurately grasp the selling point of our own book, and then set a sense of expectation around the selling point, and then follow the sense of expectation to move down the plot.

As long as the line of expectation continues, as long as you don't distract the reader with irrelevant things, it doesn't matter if the pace is fast or slow, and when the gold finger comes out.

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Finally, 101 will list what is the sense of expectation of the books mentioned at the beginning of this post, and if you are interested, you can analyze and confirm it, I hope it will help you understand the sense of expectation.

"The Nine Heavens of the World": Rebirth and regain what you lost in your previous life, and take revenge. Therefore, a book with this theme needs to foreshadow the following plot at the beginning-

1. The protagonist's unwillingness and anger to be killed in his last life.

2. The people and things that the protagonist cares about.

3. The main enemies of the protagonist in different stages.

4. The opportunity that the protagonist has, such as a golden finger or a wealth of past life experience.

After being reborn, in order to make the reader angry, it is necessary to set up a crisis immediately, and then the protagonist uses the resource advantages of the rebirth to solve the crisis, so that the reader can sweep away the grievances of the protagonist being abused at the beginning.

This is the longan of the rebirth text, which must be well designed, if it is slow to come out, or if it is not written well enough, the reader will have a sense of disappointment, and it is easy to abandon the book.

"The Legend of Mortal Immortals": The grassroots protagonist works hard, is cautious + luck comes, and changes his life destiny from then on.

The selling point of this kind of book lies in the contrast between the front and back, and the degree of hardship of the protagonist at the beginning.

What do you mean?

The grassroots protagonist counterattacked!

1. To write about the hardships before the protagonist does not turn over, the poorer, the more miserable, the more unpopular, the more sympathetic the reader, the more I hope that the protagonist will turn over.

2. It is necessary to write about the protagonist's personal tenacity, intelligence, although he is from a low background, he has a good character, and knows how to work hard, so the reader will identify with the protagonist more and look forward to the day when he turns over.

3. When the oppression is almost there, the power level of the whole world is basically introduced. Suddenly turned over and the serf sang and died!

4. Carefully use the golden finger, rise little by little, change the previous unsatisfactory places little by little, hold back the **, and at a certain time it will be a blockbuster, and the stone will break the earth!

For example, the upheaval of the Seven Xuanmen of mortals and the plot of the bloody trial.

This type of book for mortals, due to the ruthlessness of the early pressure, the explosion exploded violently, and the secret coolness of secretly using the growth strength of the golden finger, which can be said to be a very royal way of writing.

But mastering is also the most difficult, not faster than the city, or reborn and crushing the text, mortals, Panlong are grassroots rises, mortals are even more thorough grassroots, Panlong is a declining family, the mortal protagonist has fewer resources, and the protagonist of Panlong still has a little resource.

It's like playing a game.

Mortal: 0 resources, 200% difficulty, base camp built in the backwoods, hardcore players choose.

Panlong: 10 resources, 100% difficulty, treasure map in hand, base camp built in the middle of nowhere, veteran players choose.

Proud of the world: 1000 resources, 80% difficulty, the base camp is built in the enemy's siege on all sides, all kinds of rioters are killed, all the way from the beginning to the end, it is the choice of players who pursue killing.

Shop: 1000 resources, difficulty 20%, the base camp is built in a peaceful place with abundant resources, and the computer will not take the initiative to attack, suitable for slow development, and white players choose.

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Finally, whether the gold finger is cool or not has nothing to do with whether the gold finger is fresh or not, sometimes an old-fashioned gold finger will make readers have a sense of expectation.

For example, the portable grandfather in "Panlong" is very old-fashioned, but now I still have a sense of expectation.

The premise is that Tomato laid a very solid story background in the early stage of the book, the fate and goals of the protagonist, and greatly accentuated the magician's awesomeness.

Therefore, once you get the opportunity to turn over, even if it is an old-fashioned old grandfather, readers will still have a strong sense of expectation and want to see the protagonist rise.

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Well, let's talk about that!101 thinks that this post is more valuable, so that everyone can think deeply about the plot direction of the beginning of the online story, what determines it?

In this way, the routine essay is mechanical and stiff, lacks agility, or the writing is deviated, and the plot is protracted and redundant.

Hope it will be useful to everyone.