In today's post, I want to talk about the essence of web novels. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Some people say that the web novel is a popular novel, some people say that it is a light novel, some people say that it is a YY novel, and some people think that it is unnecessary to figure out this topic, as long as the story is written wonderfully and beautifully!

And 101 believes that this topic is very, very important, 101 has been unclear for up to 3 years, so that he wrote 15 novels, totaling more than 1 million words, and could not sign a contract;

After learning from the pain, 101 found all the mistakes made and fell on his heels, although there are all kinds of mistakes, but in the final analysis, they have not thoroughly understood the essence of the currently prevalent online novels, so that there is a deviation in understanding, resulting in the writing going into a misunderstanding and unable to meet the reading needs of readers.

In order to avoid detours, the content of 101 today is very important, and it can be said that it is the cornerstone of the 101 theoretical system, and the various principles and techniques extended from this cornerstone can stand.

Okay, now that the opening remarks are over, let's start talking about them in detail.

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First of all, to clarify the definition of genres such as popular fiction, light novels, etc.

Popular fiction is a major genre of novels, which is a type of novel created to meet the needs of the widest readership in society and adapt to the public's interests, reading ability and acceptance psychology. Popular novels are created for the purpose of entertainment value and pastime, and pay attention to the twists and turns of the plot arrangement, the legend and otherworldliness of the characters, and pay less attention to the excavation of the deep social ideological meaning and aesthetic value. For example, American novelist Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" is the most typical. It is mainly divided into romance, martial arts, and historical popular fiction

Light novels are a kind of novel classification that originated in Japan and emerged in recent years, with young readers as the main readership, usually using manga style as an entertaining literary work of illustration, because of the casual writing technique, most of them are easier to read, hence the name.

YY novels, referring to obscene novels, occupy a high proportion of online novels, and the content is mostly fantasy things that cannot happen in reality, so as to release the suppressed emotions of young people. The authors of YY novels are mostly young people, usually first published on the Internet, yy novels are usually used to achieve things that cannot be achieved in reality, and they are naïve ideas, huge content, and the storyline is seriously not in line with the logic of facts, which is generally called yy. Excellent YY novels include "Looking for Qin", "Back to the Ming Dynasty as a Prince", etc., generally speaking, common novels, online novels and other genres belong to yy novels, such as: travel novels, fan fiction, etc.

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The above definitions are all 101 from Baidu, it can be seen that the three are to entertain the public, to meet the needs of readers to relax, happy mood, and kill time, so it seems that as long as the story is good-looking, the imagination is rich enough, the book should not be unsuccessful? So, 101 According to the definition of the three, the following is a random list of examples that have been pounced on before, and even many people have just entered the industry of online novels, and the mistakes they are making are making to show that the above understanding is not accurate, and there is still a great possibility of hitting the street according to that understanding.

1. The beginning of the story does not start with the main character, but tells the story of the person related to the main character, if this kind of plot is more than one chapter, rest assured, the book will definitely not be signed.

For example: The author has written more than 10 books before, almost half of them have made this mistake, "The Legend of the Dragon and Wolf" is the most typical, the beginning of the hero's grandfather took him through, and the protagonist was still a baby at the time, and it turned out that it was not easy to write about his grandfather, using magic to protect the protagonist, cultivate him to grow, and write more than a dozen chapters in a rambling way, and finally died in a battle to protect him, the protagonist's pain ah, determined to avenge his grandfather.

The story is written in the name of self-confessed and interesting, but it can't be signed because of a big taboo.

2. Although the beginning of the story revolves around the protagonist, the protagonist has been in a state of soy sauce, either with a strong person with him, or drowning in the author's gushing throwing set.

For example: the protagonist is in a certain catastrophe or an event, the supporting role is extremely eye-catching, and the protagonist is talking and jumping, and the protagonist suffers silently, without letting the protagonist be in the dominant position of the plot; ,The hero appears in a closed space.,Only the hero and another person.,That person is in the information transmission position.,The hero passively accepts.,And then that person keeps talking.,Or pull hatred (enemy),Or explain the setting (friend or author),In short, the protagonist is like a fool and only passively accepts information.。

This kind of problem is extremely detrimental to the sense of substitution, and generally only the life of hitting the street.

3. Although the story has always revolved around the protagonist, the protagonist doesn't do his job, and the gold finger either doesn't get it quickly, or he doesn't play it quickly, in short, he is drowned in all kinds of trivial things.

For example:The protagonist is burdened with a deep hatred of the sea of blood.,The beginning is determined to take revenge.,If you want revenge, you have to cultivate and enhance your strength.,And then you entered a sect and began to practice hard.,In the process, I fell in love with a beauty.,And then I made a lot of efforts to soak in beauty.,In the end, the beauty is in trouble.,And to save the beauty.,Save the beauty is not strong enough and practice.。。。

Have you seen it, starting from saving the beauty, at least tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of words in the pen and ink deviate from the first revenge aspirations, which gives people the feeling that the protagonist is not doing his job.

For example: the protagonist is a small person, bullied, determined to become stronger, after setting a goal, he happened to get the gold finger, and at this time he faced a crisis, being chased or rescued, so the gold finger was too late to develop, first run for his life or save people, the pen and ink spent tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of words, the reader looked, I wiped it! The protagonist took the gold finger and was bullied so much, don't look at it!

There are many, many similar examples, and I can't finish them for a while, basically 101 has been made, and at present, I have made these mistakes when I read the draft to newcomers, which shows that 101 is not the only one who was confused at the beginning, and there are many people who are not aware of this misunderstanding.

So, do the above three kinds of street fighting situations deviate from the meaning of popular novels, light novels, or YY novels? Aren't there no entertainment for the public, and there are no fantasies? Why do they hit the streets? What are the key points that we have overlooked?

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Bell Bell ......

101 brings together many years of experience in hitting the street into one sentence, this is the golden rule of becoming a god, friends, please see——

Today's commercial online novels, in essence, are "personal inspirational fantasy novels", which are subordinate to popular novels, but have more stringent writing requirements, and it is not an exaggeration to call them "eight-strand writing".

Personal: Since the story progresses, including the perspective, it must revolve around the protagonist, if you don't focus on the protagonist and open a route with two protagonists, you must pounce!

Inspirational: The main line of the whole book is to meet the ambition set by the protagonist at the beginning, if it is to become stronger, it is to become stronger, if it is revenge, then it is revenge, even if you want to add some pickles, treasure hunting, cultivation and other plots, you must always remember what the protagonist's ambition is?

Fantasy: It's YY, it's the use of novel goldfinger pretend, and now it's difficult to write a pure realistic novel to satisfy the reader's curiosity and pleasure psychology, so everything is not compact YY with the characteristics of the golden finger, and help the protagonist realize the novel's personal aspirations, must pounce!

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"Personal inspirational fantasy novels" seem easy to understand, but why do they have to do it? How has the reading psychology of readers changed now, causing tens of millions of readers to prefer this bite?

101 Try to analyze it -

There are several types of people who read books today:

1. Students.

Between the ages of 10 and 20, they are facing academic pressure, confused about the future, and have all kinds of adolescent confusion in their hearts and cannot communicate with their parents and teachers, such as being bullied, poor academic performance, low self-esteem, unhappy when they see the rich second generation showing off their wealth, and uncomfortable when they see Bai Fumei unable to chase after them......

For this kind of readers, they want to see the story of a certain campus protagonist, who used to be a sling, but turned over overnight because of an adventure, and has since pretended to rise, in order to satisfy their unattainable wishes in reality.

2. Office workers.

Between the ages of 20 and 30, they face the dual pressure of work and family, buying a house, buying a car, getting married, having children, etc., career promotion, salary increase, etc. In the process, they will face office politics, workplace darkness, and some negative phenomena in society, and the bitterness in their hearts cannot be vented, so they must be discharged by reading online novels.

Fantasizing that he was Han Li's kind of little person, he grew up gritting his teeth in the cruel reality, and eventually became a great cultivator and a great supernatural person that everyone admired.

For this kind of readers, the depth and complexity of the story they require are higher than those of the first type of readers, so they can't simply overturn the rich and handsome. They require the realism of the story to be more reasonable, at least the environment in which the protagonist lives should be similar to reality, and the characters are not N...... , the story is not simple.

3. Successful people.

Over 40 years old, this kind of readers have long been free of the pressure of material life, successful and famous, stable career, but without the impulse and vigor of their youth, they fantasize about one day being younger and pursuing things and ideals that they did not do back then.

They have higher requirements for the rationality and authenticity of the story, after all, the life experience is too rich, and the slightest unreasonableness can be seen, they prefer historical texts, officialdom essays or doctor essays, etc., while pursuing pleasure, they also have to follow the protagonist to experience a big adventure.

4. Professionals.

This kind of readers have a special preference for certain types of books because of their own specialty, such as military literature, such as doctor's literature, such as treasure gambling stone themes. This kind of reader can do just as long as the story is written in such a way that it satisfies their fantasy needs for the subject matter.

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The above further analysis, 101 is to hope that everyone can write novels from the perspective of readers, we are engaged in commercial writing, and making money is the supreme criterion, so if you want to make money and make a lot of money, you have to cater to the reader's psychology, and we will satisfy the reader what he wants.

Based on this criterion, 101 will often review the grievances and desires in life, such as 101 was sprayed into a pig's head at the starting point bar before, and many people said that 101 was pretending to be forced! The lower limit of the show is ridiculous, and so on.

At that time, I was so angry that I thought to myself: One day my brother will become a god, and I must slap my face back!

That aggrieved experience lasted for more than half a year, and all the grievances turned into motivation to work hard, studying the principles and skills of writing day and night, and my heart grew stronger and fuller, and I didn't care about those rumors, and I was grateful for this experience!

Therefore, 101's real great epiphany came from this experience, and 101 thought to himself: Isn't the unwillingness and humiliation of reality exactly the oppression of the master in a novel? Isn't the strong desire to become stronger and get ahead in reality exactly the desire of the protagonist? In reality, after some hard work, he finally succeeded, isn't this the final direction of the story?

So in connection with himself, 101 finally knows what online novels bring to people?

From the point of view of inspiration, online novels convey enough positive meanings to people, unlike some people think that it is purely for picking up girls, making a fortune, and pretending to step on people, the real cool point is that the characters' inner supreme ideals are satisfied, and the great pleasure of the spirit is not the satisfaction of low-level wishes.

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At this point, this post is almost over.

101 hopes that one day, he can set up his own writing studio, dedicated to the research of online novels, to help the majority of writers improve and make money.

101 hopes that in the future, hundreds of thousands of writers can form a new industrial chain, operating in the mode of free training and paid training plus brokers, and eventually everyone will make money and provide more and better novels for the online literary industry.

On that day, 101 felt that its self-worth had been maximized, and hundreds of thousands of writers in China finally did not have to grope alone in the dark!