"On the other hand, Brother Yucheng, what do you think is the biggest difference between online texts and traditional novels?" Xiao Qi asked rhetorically, "From the perspective of the relationship between readers and authors..."

"The difference? I want to think about it..."Jiang Yucheng frowned and thought for a moment, "Well-it should be that the author is more susceptible to the influence of readers!"

"That's right, that's it-" Xiao Qi nodded, "The biggest difference between online novels and traditional novels is that the authors of online novels can interact with readers more conveniently and directly. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Of course, I'm not saying that there is a lack of interaction between the traditional writer and the reader of fiction - since the serialization, there has been interaction. Even in the field of traditional popular novels, there have been many cases of authors interacting with readers, such as Conan Doyle's snowflake protest letter from readers to bring Sherlock Holmes back to life, and Jin Yong finally didn't dare to let Yang Guo Xiaolongnu reunite. Actually, including myself, I've experienced something similar - the editor-in-charge of the magazine that serializes my works often comes to me with the opinions of readers who have collected them, asking me to change the direction of the plot, or asking a popular bento girl to spit out the bento or something..."

"Wow, there is still such a thing..."Jiang Yucheng sighed, "I originally thought that only in comics would have such a plot..."

"The same is true in reality!" Xiaoqi said, "After all, I am eating this bowl of rice, and the opinions of readers still need to be taken into account a little bit! Of course, compared with online articles, traditional physical published works such as my works are not so fast and convenient in terms of interaction between authors and readers—only in the Internet age can this kind of interaction really have a real large-scale impact on fiction works."

And for long-form web novels, which are usually done in a serialized manner. This kind of communication interaction is more pervasive and profound - if the reader has read a passage before and found it unsatisfactory. You need to write a letter to convey your opinion to the author, and now it's OK to just post in the book review section. ”

"Well, I can feel this too..."Jiang Yucheng nodded—there was no need for Xiaoqi to give an example to illustrate this point, Jiang Yucheng himself already felt the existence of this "interactivity": nothing else, just his own works. When he finishes a chapter and updates it, die-hard readers in his readership are quick to give him feedback, and the average reader is usually quick to leave a comment in the book review section.

Under normal circumstances, a popular novel usually swipes the screen quickly in the book review area - and when the author has just written some "high-energy" content, readers will usually immediately post their own complaints about the new chapters in the book review area, which can be said to be extremely immediate. The network as a carrier. While making serial updates fragmented and routine, it also greatly strengthens the interaction between readers and authors.

"This kind of interaction is not limited to the level of communication between ordinary readers and authors," Xiaoqi added, "In addition to providing information and expanding ideas for the author, what readers are most enthusiastic about is probably playing a role in their favorite novels - this Brother Yucheng must have seen this, right?"

"Of course I've seen it..."Jiang Yucheng said, "Recently, some readers have come to me to ask for a place to appear..."

This kind of "looking for the author to ask for tricks" atmosphere. When exactly it started, Jiang Yucheng didn't know - this should be something that could no longer be verified. In the beginning, these enthusiastic readers did play a cutscene. Many characters often just show their faces, or even simply become cannon fodder for quick lunch.

But with the development of this trend, gradually some authors began to use the characters played by the reader, consciously or unconsciously, to play a very important supporting role in the novel. For example, Jiang Yucheng once read, Zhao Slow Bear in the novel "Stealing Ming" (SC old man morningbear, he himself wrote "The Werewolf of the Kremlin", the protagonist of the book Berkov also appeared in "Red Dawn"). Examples of extreme points. There is also a situation like "The Golden Finger of the Great Song", where the main supporting roles are played by readers (or acquaintances of the author). On the forums where writers such as Longkong and SC are haunted, there are a group of dragon tricks who take pleasure in appearing in various novels...

These tricks frequently come and go in and out of the planes, and each of them has a familiar personality. Xiao Bailang, who is good at manufacturing machinery but always breaks the whip (the writer is a little white wolf, because of his habitual TJ, known as the "little white wolf who throws the whip and breaks the stream"), Zhang Fat Cat (Zhang Yu), who always dies heroically, Li Yilao, who likes to shoot cannons, Shenhe Sang who became a sieve in the middle of the gun (Jiang Yucheng doesn't know if the Lin Shenhe who asked him to make a record before is Shenhe Sang himself on the Internet), and the sister control Li Chiqi (the original ID is a real red knight, some people once mistook it for a "red lancer" , that is, Yu Baochen) Of course, we can't forget the ubiquitous Wang Qinian......

There is no doubt that through this kind of role-playing of ID, readers deepen their sense of substitution for the novel, and the author saves the trouble of shaping the characters, especially the names, and directly selects the right people from the seekers to fill the hole. In fact, Jiang Yuben himself also applied to let his protagonist Jiang Fangding appear in "The Distance of the Fireball", playing a J-24A pilot of the PLA Navy's carrier-based aviation. Later, big families like Wang Qinian and Lin Shenhe were directly used by the author without even applying - Brother Shenhe, who is known as never getting shot, even discovered through Du Niang that he was actually rushing in many novels without knowing it...

Although the Dragon Trick Party can put forward its own opinions on novel writing, it can even grow into a pivotal supporting role. "But in the end, this kind of novel is just a variation of the traditional way of writing novels - the main line of the novel is still in the hands of the author, and the protagonist who determines the general direction of the plot is still the projection of the protagonist in reality, that is, the author himself." After all, the dragon set party or something is just a branch of the novel, not the root. ”

"Well, yes-" Jiang Yucheng nodded, "After all, this is our own work, and it is us authors who really write it by hand..."

No matter how many characters or materials the reader contributes, there is no way to directly turn these materials into a finished novel—it is the author himself who really plays a decisive role in stringing the materials together to write the novel. Therefore, the author's dominance of the work has not changed - in a work like "Stealing Ming", although the SC eunuchs have collected information and made suggestions for the novel, the overall plot structure of the story is still the work of the author, Grizzly Panda, and the contribution of the SC princes is to make the novel richer in detail and more resistant to history, and that's it. No matter how much the personalities of Zhao Slowxiong, Jin Qiude, Li Yunrui, Kazuo Kuroshima and others are like their actors, they are still from the Ming Dynasty in the final analysis, and they are not the owners of the corresponding ID on the forum, and there is only one protagonist, that is, the traverser Huangshi, that is, the incarnation of the author.

In this way, the subordinate position of the reader is still not changed - so the reader has the idea of "being the author himself". Xiaoqi said, "In other words, Brother Yucheng entered the circle of online literature, it should be for this reason!"

"That's right!" Jiang Yucheng agreed.

However, there are only a few people who can become an author like Brother Yu Cheng - the strength of the majority is not enough to complete the creation of a work independently. In this way, it is normal to huddle together to keep warm! And then the novel created by the group was born... Brother Yucheng, you should know "Lingao Qiming", right?"

"Of course I know!" Jiang Yucheng nodded, "I've been chasing until the latest update!"

In terms of the common denominator of "collective creation", in fact, neither "The Distance of the Fireball" nor the earlier "Lingao Qiming" is actually a pioneer. The earliest collective creation work is "Lost in 1629", which is the same as Lingao, which is the same as the later Lingao, which is based on a record of SC's running group that traveled to the end of the Ming Dynasty to build the story framework, which makes it possible for the people who originally participated in the running group to appear in the novel as their own identity, and then produce a feeling that he himself is the one who travels through.

"In the early days of the writing of 1629, there was strong support from the SC princes - but the writing mode of this book is actually the same as that of traditional novels, adhering to the principle that "the protagonist is the largest, and the supporting characters must revolve around the protagonist". This single-threaded novel model is undoubtedly contradictory to the vast majority of people who want to hold autonomy. Therefore, when the author disagrees with the majority of the party, the contradictions will erupt in a concentrated manner. ”

"Anyway... Xiaoqi..."Jiang Yucheng couldn't help asking, "Don't you also know how... Things in the online literature circle..."

"Ah, these are nothing-" Xiao Qi didn't care about Jiang Yucheng's praise, "At that time, although I didn't talk much in the old SC, I was also a senior diving party, and at that time, the big fat head fish (author ID) sprayed with other fathers-in-law, and I happened to have seen it... Later, the fuse was mainly the white princess incident, and the conflict between the dragon set and the author broke out completely, and then after the book lost the support of the SC princes, it became an ordinary little white text - I didn't read the rest of the book anymore..."

Wow... Xiaoqi is still an old SCer... Jiang Yucheng sighed - he only recently knew about the existence of the Northern Dynasty, and Xiao Qi was already a frequent visitor to the old SC forum a few years ago when he didn't have the phrase "Heaven is punished eight feet, return my public map" - in other words, even as a pseudo-military fan, Xiao Qi is more "senior" than himself. Jiang Yucheng felt more and more that Xiao Qi was too unfathomable: according to the time, Xiao Qi should still be in junior high school when she went to SC - for Xiao Qi during that time, Jiang Yucheng's memory seems to be only the little girl who either looked at the book quietly, or followed him Brother Yucheng was long, and Brother Yucheng was short. He never seems to be able to find out where his cute childhood sweetheart is...