101 On Writing (One Hundred and Seventeen) "The Three Great Cultivation of Becoming a God
101 has been studying Jin Yong Gulong last year, wanting to break the bottleneck of the collapse of the main line of his own book, but he admitted that he had read through Jin Yong's 15 books and opened a new book ambitiously, but found that at the first level, the first 100,000 words were planted, the writing was slow and hot, and the protagonist was not active enough. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
After the countless powerful points of Longkong, 101 started to read online articles a few months ago, and finally found that the writing direction of online articles is not the same as martial arts novels, and the rhythm and narrative focus of the story are completely different.
After a painful experience, after reflection in recent months, 101 summed up the "three major ways to become a god", as long as these three levels are passed, basically becoming a god is just around the corner.
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The first trick: writing direction
The core of the value of online articles is personal inspirational YY, that is, if a person obtains a golden finger that can cheat and has new ideas, how to start a series of adventures, obtain wealth, status and fame in life, and so on.
This determines that everything is based on the protagonist as the core of the story, and the initial suppression is not the focus, the focus is that from the moment you get the golden finger, the protagonist's fate changes, and all subsequent contradictions and conflicts are waiting for the protagonist to solve them with the golden finger, forming a refreshing feeling of pretending.
Regarding the direction of writing, it has basic rules, which should be strictly followed within the first 300,000 words.
Like what:
1. At the beginning, you need to explain the protagonist and background information as soon as possible, as well as the troubles faced by the protagonist.
2. The highlights of the protagonist's personality need to be displayed as soon as possible to form the first cool point with a pretending character.
3. The gold finger then got it, and began to prepare the first small ** to slap the face with the gold finger.
4. The direction of the story is based on the protagonist upgrade and the development of the golden finger as clues, and there is a big contradiction in the background behind it.
Take "Wuji World" as an example, at the beginning of a prologue, he explained that the Rubik's Cube came from the Divine Domain, and after entering the text, he explained that the protagonist was grassroots and wanted to survive in a world where strength is respected, and his childhood sweetheart betrayed him and ran away with a rich and handsome, just because this rich and handsome man could promise her a better life.
This sense of substitution at the beginning is shaped neatly, there is no need for any suppression, no need for any emotional entanglement between men and women of mother-in-law, looking back on the above elements, suppression is not the point, the point is to let the reader accept and identify with the protagonist's situation, and then want to see him rise and slap his face back!
"Rise up and slap your face back" - this is the direction of writing, this is the core value of YY text.
So, the reader accepted this initial setting and waited to see how the protagonist rises, but remember that before taking the gold finger, the protagonist must first show his personality and his own advantages, proving that even if he does not have a gold finger, he is also a first-class talent, and the gold finger is just the icing on the cake, which can satisfy the reader's sensory identity with the protagonist superhuman and go deeper.
Otherwise, life completely relies on the golden finger to turn over and twist, which will inevitably seem that the protagonist has no real ability, which will affect the sense of substitution.
So how does "Wuji World" arrange for the protagonist to show his personality and his own advantages?
The author used it very cleverly, first let the rich and handsome Zhu Yan run to mock the protagonist, saying that you are just a disgusting toad, I am waiting to pinch you to death, you can't catch up with me even if you struggle for a hundred years!
The protagonist's counterattack is to tell the other party with a stubborn character, don't bully the young man and be poor, you wait, I will enter the martial arts assessment immediately, and then cultivate it, and challenge you, sooner or later one day I will defeat you!
This is tantamount to clearly telling the reader that the protagonist's first goal is to "enter the martial arts, defeat the rival in love, and be ashamed".
This is the motivation of the protagonist, which is very important, and determines the reader's expectations, and the subsequent narrative thread.
Next, how does the protagonist implement the plan, he was used by Zhu Yan with a disgusting trick, and sent someone to drive him out of the hotel, the protagonist's drag character plays a role, Lao Tzu will not sleep on the street, Lao Tzu will go to live in the most luxurious local restaurant inn.
Of course, he didn't spend money to live, he didn't have money, he went to the back kitchen to apply for a chef who would dismember the skin and bones of demon beasts.
This is the first skill that the protagonist carries with him, which is displayed through his personality highlights, forming the first pretending cool point, he got a job, and he was able to eat and live in the hotel, and he also successfully dodged Zhu Yan's first attack.
What is this called? This is the story that follows the first conflict quickly, and the protagonist pretends to be forced in each situation, and the reader is naturally stimulated with interest, waiting to see how he succeeds in fighting back.
So far, it is the beginning of the novel, which makes people have a basic sense of substitution for the protagonist, understand the background of the story and the basic contradictions, and explain the protagonist's motives and crises clearly.
Next, the Goldfinger Rubik's Cube appears, and when the protagonist dismemberes the corpse of the demon beast, he sees the swallowed Rubik's Cube, so it is obtained by the protagonist, and he begins to get the soul fragments of the power of the gods.
The clue of the story will be transferred to the development of the golden finger function, and the first one that can be used to pretend to be forced is the inscription talisman master, the inheritance of the power of the divine domain is several levels higher than the current world, and any inscription can make people's jaws drop.
This is in line with what 101 said above, follow the clues of the golden finger to unfold the story, while pretending to be forced to slap the face, while improving the strength, you might as well start a few conflicts with Zhu Yan's minions in the process, of course, the protagonist wins every time.
After experiencing a big **, the story advanced to 26 chapters, the basic interpersonal relationships and contradictions have been paved, and the protagonist's strength has also been greatly improved, and the next 26-47 chapters ushered in the biggest ** at the beginning - the assessment of entering the martial arts mansion and defeating Zhu Yan head-on.
At this point, the cornerstone of the success of "Wuji World" has been firmly laid, and as long as it is written not lower than the level of the beginning, the success of this book will be natural.
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The second trick: control
Control has two meanings, one is to control the main line of the long story, and the other is to control the part, in other words, it is called the big layout and the small layout.
Or take "Wuji World" as an example, the main line of the whole book is naturally to reveal the secret of the Rubik's Cube, the grievance conflict between the powers of the gods in the prologue, and the secret behind the Rubik's Cube, which is obviously the big spine of the book, and it is all supported by it.
In terms of a small layout, it is naturally the beginning of 47 chapters, how the protagonist obtained the golden finger, and used the golden finger to successfully enter the martial arts, and thwarted Zhu Yan's conspiracy in the process.
It can be seen that the small layout is in the service of the large layout, and when the first small layout is successfully completed, the reader will have greater expectations for the magical function of the Rubik's Cube, and will have a stronger interest in the identity of the powerful god behind it, and the protagonist frustrates Zhu Yan and enters the Martial Mansion, which triggers two follow-up reactions.
One is that it has attracted the attention of the higher-level and paved the way for entering a higher-level cultivation sect, and the other is that Zhu Yan has led out the backers behind him, and more powerful and powerful enemies have begun to eyeing the protagonist.
It can be seen that control is very important, it determines the structure of the whole book, as well as the partial structure, so that the story progression is clear, compact and clear.
To improve control, on the one hand, before opening the book, we should list a detailed outline, which is divided into-
1. Plot outline;
2. Character outline;
3. Structural outline;
4. The power system and background power outline.
On the other hand, to do a detailed outline, every time before writing, you should write the content of the rough outline in the notebook and draw a picture, such as "The protagonist was kicked out of the inn, he went to the largest local restaurant, and applied for a chef", this sentence is worth expanding and writing a detailed outline.
Otherwise, it may be written too much, or the cool points in it may not be excavated enough.
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The third trick: rhythm and detail.
There's not much to say about this, it's just the taste of a book, or how each section is best written.
The great god can write an ordinary event with great interest, such as the paragraph on the sale of pigs analyzed in 101 before, while the novice writes it tastelessly.
Among them, some of them can be improved through theories and skills, such as the analysis of these aspects in the previous posts of 101, what foreshadowing, accentuation, what pretending mode, what big ** how to explode, and so on.
However, after practical application, 101 found that the theory and skills only let the author understand the truth behind it, and in terms of specific application, you still need to read more books, especially the rhythm!
This one is very important, that is, I took a model book, carefully studied its detailed outline and structure paragraph by paragraph, and drilled into it to see how each of its bridges was used, such as "Wuji World", the most used and skillful pretending joke is to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger.
Every time others didn't think well of him, they misunderstood him, and in the end he shocked everyone.
For example, the protagonist goes to the wind tunnel to practice a certain way of flying against the wind, and at first he falls and is covered in injuries and his clothes are torn, and others laugh at him, saying that he can't resist this difficulty. In fact, the protagonist is practicing flying against the wind, not resisting the wind as ordinary people think.
Another example: the protagonist chooses basic marksmanship and basic pace, others laugh at him, he is really a hillbilly, why don't you choose awesome skills? Later, in the big competition, the protagonist used basic marksmanship and basic steps to completely explode the enemy, and everyone's eyes fell to the ground.
Of course, the cool point of this paragraph has not been fully explored, and after the protagonist became famous, the people who used to laugh at him flocked to grab the basic marksmanship and basic pace cultivation.
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In this way, these subtle things can only be mastered by "picking up books" and "picking up rhythms", that is, as the saying goes, read more books, learn to ponder the strengths of others, and then refine the principles inside, and try to use them when writing your own books.
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To sum up, the "Three Ways to Cultivate Becoming a God" is what 101 believes an author must master.
If there is a deficiency in a certain aspect, it will inevitably lead to a great lack of grades in the book, and it will not be able to reach the top.
One of the most important is the "direction of writing", if this is not accurate, it is easy to lead to writing off, writing is not what readers want to see, and it is the number one killer on the street.
The second is "control", if you don't grasp this well, the story will collapse, and you are the second killer on the street.
As for the third article, "details and rhythm", this can be slightly lacking in relative terms, and it can be slowly improved later, but it is also very important, the difference is that the story of the great god is written wonderfully everywhere, and the newcomer is written in a dull and boring way.
At present, 101 is working hard to practice and improve these three aspects, and I hope that through the training of this book, I can finally improve the ability of these three aspects!