101 On Writing (7) "A Short Commentary on "Will Night"

I've been with me 101, and I probably have an idea of tasting books

I have always advocated the four elements of writing a book: 1. the idea of the subject matter, 2. the sense of substitution, 3. the sense of expectation, and 4. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info refreshing

Add another five, the resonance of the soul, that is, the depth of the novel

Let's use these 4 elements today to set up the night and see what can be analyzed?

1. The theme is intended

I can't see anything about the theme at the beginning of this book, it's very vague

It seems to be an alternate history, because the Tang Dynasty is mentioned

The first chapter is vague and vague, as if it were a supernatural ability.,Fantasy.

Until the tenth chapter, the Great Sword Master, Nian Shi, came out

When I mentioned the college, I vaguely touched the subject matter of the book

A chapter is more than 3,000 words, and by chapter 10 it is more than 30,000 words

The theme is not vaguely understood until 30,000 words, which is not something that we newcomers can learn

Newcomers should learn "The Legend of Cultivating Immortals in the Film World", and the first chapter of 2000 words begins with a clear explanation of the theme

Therefore, summing up the idea and theme of the night, newcomers can't learn, and it's not too novel

However, he has a bright spot at the beginning, and the first highlight is to write about the Tang Dynasty in the way of alternate history

This one is kind of interesting

When I first read it, I wanted to see how the author integrated fantasy into the history of the Tang Dynasty

That's a selling point

Another one, we newcomers can't learn it, it's just that the writing of this guy is too unique, and it looks more attractive

Let's move on to element 2

A sense of substitution

What questions do you have to ask?

Okay, let's talk about the sense of substitution

Let's see when the protagonist of the night will come out

Chapter I, Middle Part

Okay, counting the 4,500 words of the prologue, the first half of the first half of the first chapter is 1,500 words, and a total of 6,000 words before the protagonist comes out

This sense of substitution came out late enough

Newcomers are also not allowed to learn, this is the patent of the great gods

If you're going to let the protagonist come out so late, you're going to die

However, the protagonist's sense of substitution is still very successful

The fist section portrays the image of the protagonist who is witty and cunning

When he returned to the thatched hut and let the maid serve him, he had an image of an evil young man who was easy and hardworking, and he was also very attractive

Here, the sense of substitution is created along with the suspense

Readers will naturally want to know what hole cards such a pretending teenager has?

Why does that border general respect him so much?

Why did that servant girl listen to him so much?

Why did that maid ask him to be a guide?

What does the protagonist want to cultivate immortals for?

Of course, the reader still has a big question, is this protagonist the child who was killed in the prologue?

Is this child good or evil, and why is he so bad to the servant?

Therefore, when creating a sense of substitution, the killer feature used by the cat is "strange"

The protagonist has a strange personality and a strange storyline

The reaction of the supporting characters is strange

Basically, as long as the protagonist is not a big evil person, even if he has a little bad intentions, readers want to follow it down

The protagonist here has always sold "bad", "strange" and "smart"

and Gu Long's peerless double pride Zhongjiang Xiaoyu is a way

Including when he left later, he put on a pose, and the uncle and aunt gave him eggs to celebrate that he was finally gone, and there was some humor here

But to be honest, it's not as good as the feeling of the ancient dragon

In the ancient dragon book, in order to write about the bad of Xiaoyuer, a few bridges were specially arranged to trick those wicked people who ran away

And Xiao Yu'er went to see Uncle Medicine Jar, which directly showed his kindness

And until the night is here, I can't see the kindness of the protagonist

Including escorting the princess, I have always scolded her in my heart for being a stupid princess

Bargain with the side general

Without a chivalrous mind,

The characterization is inferior

Of course, it's compared to the ancient dragon

The side general asked the protagonist to escort him, and his mental activity just didn't want to go

And Xiao Yu'er's kindness was shown at the beginning

The protagonist of the night, the first choice is to save himself, and the second is to help others

Yes, this sense of substitution makes people feel a little uncomfortable reading it

For example, the mortal Han Li, he has a kind side

But a lot of things are done wisely

In short, there is a good side in human nature

Even if you can't do it yourself, you still have the idea of doing good

Therefore, it is difficult for the protagonist to win the approval of mainstream readers

So about the creation of a sense of substitution for the protagonist at the beginning of the night, the benevolent will see the benevolent and the wise will see the wise, so much I will say

Moving on, the third point of anticipation

In fact, there is no need to elaborate on this, his prologue is a big suspense

Three scenes were written

The three teenagers at the beginning, the monk, the boy with the sword on his back, and the most mysterious one

Watching the ants fight is a metaphor for the imminent chaos today

Very zen machine

The second scene is that the capital kills the protagonist's family, which is very shocking

The third scene is a certain worldly master standing on the top of the mountain, looking at the capital

Newcomers don't learn this kind of beginning, three things are pinched into one chapter, which is more scattered

The suspense is very strong, but the second scene is related to the main character

The other two scenes don't have anything to do with the protagonist for the time being

I used to think that the silent boy in the first scene was the main character, but then I found out that it wasn't, and it was a bit of a trick

Finally, let's talk about the refreshing feeling

The thrill didn't manifest until Chapter 10 when he killed the ambushers

With more than 30,000 words, it was a big climax as soon as it came out, and it was very refreshing

The protagonist pretends to be forced again and again

Here's a little mention of why the protagonist didn't make a move at first, and let the Nian master and the guard fight first

In fact, it is a foreshadowing, so that a group of people are bored, and then the protagonist comes out to act as a savior

What three arrows hit a position, and with three knives on his back, ready to deal with the assassin of that villain

In fact, it is a foreshadowing, so that a group of people are bored, and then the protagonist comes out to act as a savior

When I watched it, I was very enthusiastic, and after reading it, I felt that the protagonist was a little overdone, and that's how it felt

Why do you say that pretending is too much?

Because in the heart of the protagonist, he has no one to respect

He doesn't mess with anyone

Last time, the Nine Heavens of the World

The protagonist is so arrogant, but he respects his teacher

From the perspective of the four points, the commercialization of the night is average

First of all, the protagonist appears late

Secondly, the highlights came out late

The advantage is the suspense and the kitkat of the plot, which is very good

The character portrayal is a bit overdone

So this is the style of the great god, and newcomers can't learn it

Language Style:

1. Once upon a time, there were many unknowable places, and in those unknowable places, there were many unknowable people.

The first sentence of the opening chapter is a very Zen sentence

So if you want your text to look deep, use this sentence structure

Like what:

Once upon a time, there were so many lovely people who lived in a lovely world and did lovely things ... Until one day

This kind of sentence structure means that the same modifier is repeated in each clause

Agnostic

This is the use of analogy, which is repeated over and over again to deepen the reader's impression of a particular word

You can use your imagination to throw this kind of sentence in the first sentence of the opening paragraph, which is very addictive

2. The simplest way to interpret the four words of the world's masters is that the masters are generally outside the world, and those outside the world are easy to be masters, and there are actually some truths hidden in the nonsense, what they fear is what mortals can't touch, and what they like is what mortals can't understand.

Another example is this sentence: A master outside the world is a master who is generally outside the world, and it is easy for someone outside the world to be a master

A sentence is told around you, so that you have to think about every sentence you read, and there is depth

3. In the distance of the wasteland at dusk hangs a fireball, and the red light it emits is like a huge flame, slowly but surely spreading gradually. The nascent moss of the fields after the snow had melted, smeared everywhere like burn scars, and there was silence all around, except for the occasional hawk chirping from above and the distant sound of yellow sheep jumping.

This sentence is a simile

(1) Simile. Both ontology and metaphor appear, and the figurative words are used in the middle: "like, like, if, as if, as if, as if, as if...... It's the same, as if ...... Like, just like" and so on. The common form is "A is like B." For example, the leaves are very high in the water, like the skirt of Tingting's dancing girl.

Anything is a metaphor, and it is also a characteristic of describing the night

If you say that my writing is dry, it doesn't read vividly

Then you use metaphors a lot

Put the book of night and tomato together

It's tiring to read the night

A lot of sentences can't be read in a hurry, you have to think about it

I'll tell you what makes a good novel

It's all about the plot and characters to attract people

Not writing and rhetoric

If a book relies on writing and rhetoric as a big selling point, it is not a good novelist

See for yourselves, the metaphor of the night abounds

4.

The door of the General Doctor's Mansion was closed, and the housekeeper looked nervously at the General's Mansion, which also had the door closed, listening to the sound of heavy objects cutting into pieces of meat from time to time on the opposite side, and listening to the sound of those bony watermelons rolling, his body couldn't help but tremble.

The watermelon here is a metaphor for a severed head

Metaphors, metaphors may be unclear to some people about how to use them

Can't you hear that I'm mocking?

Over-the-top the character of the night, and his style is also like this

He used it too much

I've read a lot of online articles, and there are really few novels that can use metaphors

The linguistic characteristics of the night are vivid in addition to the metaphor

There are also a lot of anthropomorphisms

5. In the distance of the twilight wasteland, a fireball hangs, and the red light it emits is like a huge flame, slowly but surely spreading gradually.

Firmness generally describes people, but here it describes light

6. The eagle is not afraid of ants, in its eyes ants are just black spots. Ants are not afraid of eagles because they are not even qualified to be eagle's beak food, and there is not even a powerful creature like an eagle in their world, which cannot be seen or touched.

However, for thousands of years, it is believed that there will always be a few mavericks in the ant colony, for some mysterious reason, who have decided to temporarily turn their gaze away from the rotten leaves and rotten shells to look at the blue sky, and then their world will be different.

Because of seeing, so fear.

And this, profile

metaphor

By writing that the eagle is not afraid of ants, and the ants are not afraid of eagles

In fact, it is written that people's realm is not enough, and they have no people and things to fear

When your realm arrives, you will naturally have people and things that you are afraid of

It also shows that if there is no conflict of interest between the two, there is no fear

So, these examples are given to illustrate that if you want to learn to be a night, write a novel with depth

Words cannot be said directly, they must be circumvented

The metaphor is a metaphor, the personification is personified, and the profile is never written in a positive way

Well, that's all I want to say, it seems that everyone will be very controversial in the evening

There are those who like and those who don't

In terms of characters, the protagonist has no respect for the princess at all, and since he knows that he will inevitably deal with high-level people when he goes to the academy in the future, he doesn't know how to befriend the princess, which also shows the arrogance of this character

To sum up, the authenticity and reasonableness of writing online articles can be reduced, and the key is to let the protagonist pretend

Pretending to be forced is to drag, which is the meaning of a cow

For example, if a big man asks you to be his attendant, you have to say that you have to think about it and look at the schedule

The master has made a move, and you must not be shocked when you give you some guidance on the side

If the bad guy provokes you, he will definitely come up with all kinds of tricks to kill the bad guy

The woman shows favor to you, you must not be tempted, you should be cool

It's okay to talk about ambitions and ambitions, tell stories or something

As for what the girl has understood, that's her business, and you must be cool

Lingyin Fox said something similar

Reasonableness and truthfulness can be lowered when appropriate

The pursuit of refreshment comes first

With the idea, the first theme is conceived

The theme idea, the sense of substitution, the sense of expectation, and the sense of pleasure - four elements

The fifth is the depth of the work, the resonance of the soul

When I saw 30,000 words, there was a problem with the sense of substitution, and Jiang Ye couldn't let me continue to play the main role

So I was pulled out

Well, I forgot to summarize today's lecture, the suspense of the opening of the night, the pretense of the characters, and the cheerfulness of the plot are what everyone has to learn