Therefore, it is easy to get started, difficult to innovate, not easy to succeed, and may be popular, which are the characteristics of fantasy genre works. If you want to get ahead www.biquge.info writing fantasy genre, you need to use your brains and come out of your own new ideas in the general direction of clichés, that is, the second mode mentioned in the topic selection article - new wine in old bottles.

Example: "Otherworldly Veterinarian". When the book was first uploaded, it was the period when the otherworldly literature was overflowing, and it was not a pioneering feat for veterinarians to be the protagonists, however, it was these two cliché elements, which showed some characteristics slightly after being put together, which not only retained the attention of popular themes, but also threw away the boredom of old-fashioned works, and under the author's smooth text and well-conceived plot, the book quickly accumulated enough popularity and became popular in one fell swoop.

Fantasy is a big category, but if you choose the fantasy type, then it is easier to take the small route, small abilities, small people, small stories, small fights, slightly new, such works may not be able to become popular, but the easiest to get ahead, especially for newcomers, it is very suitable for them to take the first step.

Example: "Awe-inspiring evil". In the book, the protagonist only has a ring that can regulate luck, and it is not simply to improve the good luck of the owner, but to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall. Compared with the characters in other works, it can be said that the ability of the protagonist of this book is quite chicken. However, it is such a small skill that has created a strong book that is very popular and very popular. In fact, the protagonist's ability is smaller, which also means that he has more room to develop, and at the same time, his victory over the enemy will be more difficult and realistic. Such works are often more appealing than those novels that open their fingers.

Because the fantasy type has a lot in common with the urban ability, you can refer to the description of the urban ability below for more details. Here, I mainly remind the author that the fantasy genre is a hodgepodge, which is nothing, but if the work is written as a hodgepodge, it will be very dangerous, and it is easy to appear a mess, so that readers lose patience and interest in reading. In contrast, it is easier to succeed by reluctantly abandoning some ideas and strengthening the characteristics of the work.

2 Fantasy

It's a traditional genre that predates fantasy even before it, as it largely originated in Western fantasy fiction, and as such, its works tend to have a strong Western cultural tinge, with swords and magic, dungeons and dungeons, dwarves and elves......

Fantasy novels have strict setting restrictions, but with the influx of a large number of authors who are not familiar with fantasy settings and readers with more popular reading tastes, the setting restrictions of fantasy novels have been broken little by little, although there is still a circle of authors and readers who love rigorous fantasy settings, but the fantasy classification on the Internet has actually become fantasy with Chinese characteristics, or in other words, it is a fantasy novel with a fantasy world as the background, which is essentially close to fantasy, It's just that the use of nouns is more Western-style. The fantasy novels mentioned below refer to fantasy novels whose definition has been expanded and has been sinicized.

Fantasy fiction has had its golden period, but with the passage of time, it has gradually retreated from its original position, the reason is very simple, the fantasy representing the West is essentially closer and closer to the fantasy representing the East, the only difference is the shell of personal names, place names, and races, however, it is the difference in this shell that makes the majority of readers who grew up under the influence of Oriental culture choose more familiar fantasy, and although fantasy novels of different cultural systems can also bring a certain freshness, this freshness can not last, once it passes, It's hard to keep readers. Therefore, compared with fantasy, fantasy has its disadvantages and shortcomings, but it has no winning strengths, and it is not surprising that it is gradually declining.

However, in the process of deviating from the original definition step by step, fantasy novels have gradually embarked on a new bright road, that is, complete betrayal, innovation across the board, and the reversal of the original narrow fantasy novels, and finding another way, which is easy to succeed. The main points are as follows.

First of all, it needs to be clear when writing that what is now written is pseudo-fantasy, not authentic orthodox fantasy.

Orthodox fantasy works have a large market in the West, but this does not mean that it is also feasible in the East, because of the differences in the cultural background of the East and the West, the social composition that readers are familiar with, the familiar knowledge and etiquette system, the familiar language style, and even the familiar name system are very different. The fantasy he writes is accepted by readers without any obstacles, so obviously, what he writes is not authentic, and if it is really authentic, then it will inevitably have a certain impact on popularity.

Therefore, if you want the work to sell well, don't stare at the orthodox fantasy system, don't limit the work to what DND rules, or other rules, before writing, you can read some popular fantasy works with the highest subscriptions, see what their background settings are, and then take advantage of their strengths and develop their own system, and even, you can use completely similar settings to write, because, at least those works have become popular, and those settings have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. There is already a broad mass base, and it will undoubtedly be easier to move forward in the footsteps of predecessors, although it has lost a piece of the glory of a pioneer.

Example: "Apprentice Magic". The genre of the book is Western-style fantasy, and at first glance, it looks like an orthodox fantasy, because the author's narration, the detailed and harmonious Western world, the perfect magic system, and other factors can bluff most readers, however, if you are really familiar with fantasy readers, you will naturally find that this book can be said to be a fantasy novel that can no longer be fake, but what does it matter? For most readers, they want to read good novels, not a certain type of novel.

Secondly, try to focus on personal heroism, unfold the story around the protagonist, and highlight the ability and role of the protagonist according to the traditional YY model.

In orthodox fantasy novels, the protagonist often starts from an ordinary little person, and in the end, he may still not be a very powerful person, or the protagonist is a hero in his twilight, and he has reluctantly witnessed the development of history...... The magnificent scenes, the epic sense of reading, are often seen in orthodox fantasy novels, and at the same time, the protagonists are undoubtedly quite small in such large-scale scenes, and their attention is naturally lower than that of other types of works, but the importance of supporting characters is greatly enhanced, and the description of the team often overrides the individual.

This kind of writing has its merits, but it is not suitable for the reading taste of most online novel readers, they prefer to see a very legendary and highly personal heroic protagonist, and they want to see a shining protagonist who conforms to their own concepts and can substitute themselves, and they also hope that the protagonist will occupy more scenes and be active in the whole book. In this way, readers will be happy to read it, and will look forward to the update of the work day by day, and will not abandon the work because the protagonist does not appear for several days in a row.

Example: "The Soldier Crawling Out of the Grave". Reading this book, in fact, is to see the protagonist in the book, the protagonist is not only the strongest character in the book, but also occupies the center of focus of all scenes, all the stories revolve around him, all the characters revolve around him, although the protagonist has also joined some teams, but it is still the protagonist's team alone, his personal role, greater than everything.

Thirdly, although it is set in a Western-style world, it adds elements of oriental fantasy, especially if the protagonist can be set as an Oriental.

The simplest is to add the element of time-traveling, and set the protagonist as an Oriental who has traveled to a fantasy world, he can be a modern student, an ancient knight, or an Oriental immortal, in short, he must have an Oriental identity background, and have Oriental living habits and thinking patterns. This change is often not necessary, and does not really change the structure of the original story, affecting the progress of the plot, it only needs to add a short description or explanation of the crossing at the beginning, and interspersed with some small details from time to time in the later text to show the oriental atmosphere of the protagonist, which is enough. But if this element is added on the basis of the original work, the popularity of the work will immediately be greatly improved, which is also an important reason for the flood of otherworldly literature in the previous period.

Of course, adding elements of oriental fantasy does not necessarily have to set the protagonist as an oriental, so it is okay for him to have a little relationship with oriental culture. For example, although the protagonist is a pure Westerner, he has an Oriental as a teacher, or he has received the inheritance of Eastern culture, or he will become a hybrid of Chinese and Western.

Example: Thunder Samurai. In the book, the protagonist was born and grew up in another world, but unlike others, the protagonist has received a little inheritance of the earth's technological civilization. This setting not only gives the protagonist the premise of being superior, but also promotes the development of the plot to a certain extent, and at the same time, more importantly, it adds a bit of intimacy to the protagonist and adds a bit of reader's love.

3 Martial arts

In the field of physical publishing, martial arts novels have had a long period of glory, and even now, martial arts novels still have a certain influence. However, in the field of online novels, martial arts novels have never really flourished, although there are not many new martial arts articles appearing on the Internet, although there are authors with martial arts dreams, but martial arts novels have indisputably declined. If you insist on which genre is not suitable for writing, martial arts novels rank first among all thirteen categories, even surpassing romance and supernaturalism.

What is the reason for this phenomenon? Is it the author's fault, or the reader's problem, or is it the change of the times? Martial arts novels, is it really not good?

Obviously, this is not caused by the author's low ability, because many times, the authors who write martial arts and other types of works are the same people, and it is obviously impossible to have a difference in writing level. As for why martial arts novels have become unpopular, the most fundamental reason is that the development of the times has led to changes in readers' reading needs.

A few years ago, both the number and variety of fantasy works were far less than now, and in the absence of comparison and choice, martial arts novels have fulfilled the heroic dream in the hearts of readers, and naturally have received widespread attention and popularity. But now, all kinds of weird and mysterious fantasy, fantasy, Xianxia, games and other types of works have emerged one after another, compared with them, traditional martial arts novels inevitably seem a bit routine, those protagonists who distinguish between good and evil, the ambition of the country and the people, and the unchanged rivers and lakes, read too much, and naturally get tired of it. Moreover, after the rise of Xianxia fantasy novels, readers gradually became accustomed to the fact that the protagonist can destroy the world, or at least have the ability to move mountains and seas. In contrast, the iron palm gravel in martial arts novels, the upper house and the tree, it seems pediatric, although the strength of the characters in the book is relative, but the reader will inevitably feel that the protagonist is not enough, and will feel that the protagonist is nothing more than that.

One of the more important reasons for the weakness of martial arts novels is that readers' demand for a sense of substitution is stronger, which is also the factor mentioned above. In recent years, readers' tastes have changed a lot, especially after the rapid development of online reading in the past two years, the trend of fashion has developed faster, and now Internet readers need a stronger sense of substitution, a smoother development of the protagonist, and a more bizarre plot. This sense of substitution is the basis of everything after that, if the work lacks in this point, then no matter how wonderful the plot is, it will be difficult to resonate with readers. Because of this, the vast majority of traditional martial arts and orthodox fantasy that exist outside the modern society that readers are familiar with are ignored by readers, and the fantasy novels with urban life as the background that are familiar to the public are gradually emerging.

In addition to the above, we can also analyze the fundamental reason for the decline of martial arts novels from another angle, that is, the evolution and development of novels.

China's novels, starting from the Tang Legend, to the Ming and Qing Dynasty novels, the Republic of China novels, and then to the new school novels that appeared after the liberation, have been progressing with the times, and online novels, in fact, are the same, and because of the medium of the Internet, the speed of its evolution and development has become quite terrifying, the development of similar works, the emergence of new categories, the appearance of online novels can be said to be changing with each passing day, and the definition of popular elements, types of works and other terms is also changing again and again.

However, while most definitions have changed, a few nouns, because the conventional concept is too deep, have basically not changed, such as the definition of martial arts novels, and even the scope and writing of martial arts novels, are similar to those of a few years ago. In fact, this is the root cause of the decline of martial arts novels.

While other types of works continue to develop and adapt to the trend, the martial arts genre is unchanged and will always be presented to readers with the same appearance.

In fact, there is no change and no development, it is not the martial arts novel itself, but the genre of martial arts novels, the new generation of authors through some ingenious transformations, has already reversed the congenital disadvantages of martial arts, and even transformed them into advantages, based on the popularity of martial arts There are not a lot of them, but, because of the restrictions of the genre of martial arts novels, they were forced to change their doors and changed to the city, fantasy and other categories, and what is left for the martial arts category is those works that follow the tradition, in other words, It is some of the works that have been eliminated by the times.

Maybe some martial arts lovers will say that after the change, martial arts can no longer be called martial arts. But is it really that important to uphold orthodoxy? In fact, the so-called traditional martial arts now is a new school of martial arts that has changed again and again, and there is no so-called orthodoxy at all, especially now that it is clear that more readers don't care about orthodoxy or not, they only care about whether the work is to their appetite. Of course, the genre of traditional martial arts has always existed, if you want to adhere to the orthodoxy of martial arts, both authors and readers can find their own paradise, and if you want to carry out commercial writing and write more works that readers love to read, martial arts is still a stage that can show off your talents, but it must undergo appropriate changes to meet the needs of current readers to have the possibility of success.

The most important thing about this change is to improve the sense of substitution of the protagonist of the work. Martial arts novels are more difficult to resonate with because they describe an environment that readers are not very familiar with, and they portray ancient people who are completely out of touch with modern society. But this problem is actually easy to solve, which is mainly reflected in three directions.

The first is to change the background of martial arts to modern society, take the contemporary city, or the future science fiction world that is very similar to modern times as the background, move all kinds of martial arts and martial arts schools to modern times, combine martial arts stories with modern urban life to write, and add elements such as campus, business, and love, so that it is easier to be accepted by readers.

Example: "Martial Arts Master on Campus". The book can be said to be a modern version of the martial arts novel, the protagonist is the pioneer general under Yue Fei's tent, the original god travels through time and space, and after being attached to a cowardly student, he finds that there are martial arts sects in modern society, and there are also martial arts handed down back then, to a large extent, the protagonist's struggle with his enemies is a continuation of the grievances of a thousand years ago. If this story is put back in the Song Dynasty, the appeal will undoubtedly be greatly reduced, and after moving to modern times, a vast sky naturally appears.

The second, on the other hand, is still set in ancient times, but the protagonist is replaced by a modern person. The protagonist can travel back in time and space to the past, or reincarnate as an ancient person, or transfer the soul to the ancients, and in the subsequent stories, from time to time reflect the protagonist's modern thoughts, combined with the martial arts world at that time, such a book is also more popular, although it describes the same martial arts world, and still reflects the same chivalrous spirit.

Example: "Chu's Spring and Autumn". The book describes a world of aerial martial arts similar to ancient China, and the protagonist of the book is a modern person who travels away. In the book, the protagonist uses the modern thinking mode to help him take advantage in all aspects, and the work is also well received by readers.

The third is to combine online games, move martial arts to the game, and add level settings to martial arts. In this way, it is basically still a martial arts novel, but to put on the coat of an online game, the text also shows some characteristics of the game from time to time, and occasionally combines with the real world outside the game. For such a book, the feedback from readers is also good.

Example: "Master Loneliness". If you take off the coat of online games, the book can be said to be a martial arts, however, with such a layer of disguise, the work immediately retains the reader and gets the opportunity to show the essence of the work, otherwise, the future of the book is uncertain.

The essence of the above three modes is actually the same, readers need bizarre stories, but such stories are best set in the world they are familiar with, in the characters they are familiar with, and best embodied in the protagonists who are similar to them in all aspects. In this way, it can resonate with it to the greatest extent.

In fact, in the above three examples, the works are no longer classified as martial arts, but are divided into urban, historical, and game categories. From these three popular works, we can see that what readers really remember is the works themselves, not their categories, if we uphold the spirit of entertainment, from the reader's point of view, and write in a commercial mode, then, in fact, the type of work is not particularly important. As mentioned above, if you change the traditional martial arts mode slightly, such as just changing the background, the work can immediately turn from a servant street to a big hit, although it still has such a story inside.

The above is mainly aimed at new authors whose skills are not deep enough. If you can really grasp the psychology of readers, even if you write traditional martial arts novels, you can still achieve very good results, but the pen is not too strong, and if you don't grasp the psychology of readers too well, it is obviously a thankless act to write traditional martial arts. If you must touch this type, you must change it according to the above, and make a new packaging, so that it can be popular.

4 Xianxia class

Xianxia works can be divided into two categories, one is classical Xianxia, and the other is modern Xiuzhen. Among them, classical Xianxia can be regarded as an upgraded version of traditional martial arts, in general, the above comments on martial arts, it is also appropriate to put it here, it is the same as traditional martial arts, it also belongs to the genre that has not kept up with the times and is not loved by mainstream readers, but its situation is slightly better than martial arts, after all, some flying things have been added, and the attraction has been slightly improved, of course, overall, this is still a difficult type, not much better than martial arts.

However, I want to mention here that although traditional martial arts and classical Xianxia are the two major categories of servant streets, if the two are combined to make a weak combination, it is not to become weaker, but there is great potential to be tapped, of course, it depends on how to combine and how to write. Broadly speaking, there are two diametrically opposed patterns.

The first is to let immortal cultivators enter the world of martial artists, and high-level protagonists go to low-level worlds to develop.

This mode is to let the protagonist have a higher level of ability, higher insight, or a stronger magic weapon than others, which is to clearly bully the small with the big and the weak with the strong. Relatively speaking, this model is easier to conceive and easier to use, especially in the early stage of the work, it is easy to drive readers and make the popularity rise quickly. However, the disadvantage of this mode is that the work can easily get out of control, it is possible to completely upset the balance at the beginning, and after a while, there is nothing to write about quickly, and there are two easier ways to solve this problem.

One is to limit the protagonist's abilities. For example, if he was defeated to the mortal world and lost all his mana, he was just a martial arts person with great potential and at the same time very special.

The second is to write an invincible article, the protagonist is clearly invincible in the world, and the work is also clearly a relaxed and casual text that does not pay attention to balance, combined with traditional YY techniques such as pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, recruiting a younger brother, etc., such a book is still relatively popular.

Example: "Immortal Quest: Red Dust Encounter". Although the main line of the book is the path of the quest for immortals, it is obvious that it is carried out in the red dust, and the protagonist is a declining disciple of the Immortal Sect, he is learning the art of cultivating immortals, although it is still low-level, but walking in the ordinary martial arts world, it is invincible. When reading this novel, there is an obvious feeling that it is a martial arts novel that should be on the street, however, it is a little bit of Xianxia elements, so that the protagonist and the immortal are a little bit involved, and the story is immediately different, and it immediately turns into a red book.

The second mode is to go the other way, allowing low-level martial artists to enter the high-level Xianxia world.

Compared to the first model, such a subject matter is also feasible, but it is more difficult to write. If you write it like this, you must highlight the characteristics of the protagonist warrior, so that he can develop an alternative path of cultivation with a peculiar combat mode. For example, he can use martial arts moves to control spells, the same palm thunder was hit by him with the technique of the Tang Sect's secret weapon, and the same flying technique was combined with Ling Bo Weibu by him...... At the same time, the immortals other than the protagonist can be set to completely ignore martial arts, opening up the contrast between them and the protagonist. In this way, it is easy to arrange the plot where the protagonist defeats the strong with the weak when the initial ability is low, and then looks down on the world after the continuous upgrade.

This mode is generally more suitable for describing a strong protagonist, who has an unyielding character, facing powerful enemies, or even far stronger than him, however, the protagonist relies on his tenacious character to constantly improve his strength, and relies on his characteristics based on martial arts, defeating the strong with the weak, so that the reader can explode in breathlessness again and again. Of course, writing is never static, and here the protagonist can also have a large number of seemingly powerful but weak enemies for him to ravage and please the reader.

Example: "Martial Cultivation Sanctification". In the book, the protagonist relies on his love of martial arts and unremitting efforts to create a unique path of cultivation, he does not enter the path with martial arts, but the essence is still the same.

As far as the current situation is concerned, this kind of works that use the Tao to bully the military and enter the Tao with the martial arts is gradually increasing, and the readership in this area is also developing rapidly, and the two special types of intersecting models are gradually showing vitality. If you really want to write about traditional martial arts or classical immortals, you might as well combine these two servant street categories, and there is still a lot to be done.

Another major category of Xianxia works is modern Xianxia, which can be regarded as a branch of urban abilities, and it is completely possible to see Xianshu as a kind of ability, but it is more powerful and systematic than most abilities. This type is still very marketable.

In terms of writing type, urban fairymen are very cheap. Because the background of the modern city is familiar to readers, the protagonist of modern identity can greatly enhance the sense of substitution of the work, and the traditional Xianxia system is also quite acceptable among readers.

Writing urban immortals, it is easy to make a mistake of not knowing how to control the rhythm, not knowing how to control the range of high-level power, and the biggest taboo is that too many strong people will emerge at once, and the scene of immortals flying all at once will appear.

In fact, for most authors, writing to this point is the end of the work, because after that, the plot will be completely plunged into endless chaotic fights, and this kind of thing, which seems intense, but in fact is not attractive, does not conform to the spirit of YY. Moreover, too many characters appear at once, and the ability to improve too much at once, which is a great test of the author's pen ability, especially for new authors, it is easy to lose control of the overall situation and completely mess up the work, and for readers, the amount of information that appears at the same time is too large, which also increases the difficulty of their understanding and memory, and seriously affects the fun of reading.

Even if the author has enough pen power to control it, this situation will do more harm than good, because it will cause the work to lose a lot of YY points.

First of all, the process of the protagonist's upgrade has been greatly shortened, and there are many fewer opportunities to YY and a lot less fun to upgrade; secondly, as soon as there are many immortals, they will become worthless, and the ability to arrange for the protagonist will also lose the selling point that makes readers feel excited; Third, whether it is a high-level or a low-level ability, it has its special YY nature, especially the low-level ability, which is more suitable for contact with ordinary people, and is more suitable for YY among ordinary people, the protagonist uses his not too strong ability, on the one hand, he is left and right in normal society, super YY, on the other hand, his ability is constantly improving, and he defeats more and more powerful enemies in the cultivation world again and again, if these two routes can be combined well, it is difficult for the work to be hot, but if the power level of the work is raised too much at once, Then it is easy to lose the low-level power of YY, and lose the clue of ordinary people, so that the attractiveness of the work is greatly reduced, and even the characteristics of urban Xianxia are lost, and they are reduced to the pure classical Xianxia of the service street.

In short, Xianxia works with urban backgrounds are still very marketable, and overall, this is a good theme, especially if the author can grasp the intersection of cultivators and ordinary people, the story will be more attractive.

5 Urban class

There are roughly two sub-categories of urban works, one is urban ability, and the other is pure urban life without ability. Relatively speaking, urban abilities are more suitable for newcomers to get started, easy to write, and easy to keep the capital, while pure cities are more likely to become popular.

First, let's talk about the characteristics of the urban ability type and the key points for writing.

The works of the urban ability genre largely overlap with fantasy and fairy tales, and as mentioned above, in a sense, urban fairy can be regarded as a branch of urban ability, and urban ability is a branch of fantasy.

As an urban genre, this kind of novel already has a perfect world structure, and does not require the author to work hard to design a new world, and, as a real world, the modern city is not only familiar to the author, but also undoubtedly self-justifying, and there will be no contradictory setting mistakesAt the same time, it is precisely because of its novelty that it has no influence from the works of its predecessors, and there are no conventional restrictions, and the author is naturally more free to play.

The idea of online novels can start from the characters, the plot, or the setting, while urban ability novels are more suitable to start with specific abilities. When you think about the theme of your novel, you can choose an ability and then expand it to imagine the upgrade route, the development route, the system of the same or different kinds of abilities, the use of the ability, and so on. If it doesn't go well, then give up the ability and reimagine one, and if all goes well, then design another protagonist, put the ability on his head, and design a way for the protagonist to get the ability, and what the protagonist will do after they get the ability, then the novel is almost formed. Let me give you an example of an idea.

First, design an ability called perspective. Speaking of perspective eye,I'm afraid most people will first think of the voyeur function,Rely on it to peep at the opposite sex,To peep at other people's privacy,Obviously,This ability is very suitable for writing rubbing edge texts,Very suitable for playing edge balls,However,Like the starting point of such a regular book station,Rubbing edge text will be greatly limited in signing and recommending,So this function of perspective eye,It is not suitable as its main development direction。 So, what else can the claireye do?

Obviously, in gambling or betting-related activities, it is also a time for clairvoyance to shine. For example, the bridge of buying lottery tickets that often appears in online novels allows the protagonist to buy the kind of live lottery, that is, the lottery ticket that is scratched and won, so that he can rely on the perspective function to directly select the winning lottery ticket. Alternatively, you can let the protagonist play mahjong or poker, and he can completely see the hole cards in other people's hands, so as to be invincible.

In addition to gambling, the protagonist can work as a quality inspector or repairman, to check whether there is any damage inside some precision instruments, or to check which section of the circuit inside the wall is burned out. While the other repairmen are sweating profusely and measuring the resistance with a multimeter, the protagonist has found the right position and started repairing.

In addition, the protagonist can also be a special forensic doctor, who can directly see the abnormalities in the body without dissecting the body or even undressing the deceased, so as to determine the cause of death. And from this YY point, it can also be extended to ordinary medicine, when the protagonist has the perspective function, he is an old doctor with incomparably rich anatomical experience, countless patients, countless healthy people, all kinds of people, whether it is a man, a woman, an old, or a young, the protagonist has "dissected" them with his eyes, so no one knows the internal structure of the human body better than the protagonist. In reality, having this advantage does not necessarily make you the best doctor, but in the novel, it can be a reasonable explanation for the protagonist to become a top doctor, and if such a protagonist becomes the world's number one doctor, the reader will not have any doubts.

With the perspective ability, it's easy to develop some interesting and YY little bridges in your work. For example, when someone else points a gun at the protagonist, the protagonist can see at a glance that there are no bullets in the gun, or when someone else does magic, the protagonist sees through his trick at a glance.

The role of perspective is obviously much more than the above, but these alone are enough to support a long novel. So, it's now a good time to put the use of the ability aside and think about the ability escalation.

Here, the upgrade of the clairvoyant eye can be divided into three cases.

The first is to escalate from a defect to normal. Early in the novel, you can set all sorts of limitations and flaws on the protagonist's abilities. For example, you can limit the number of times you can use an ability, so you can use it only once a day; or mental power limitations, when the initial mental power has not been exercised, it can only be used for a very small time; Or it is a limitation of ability, the initial perspective function can only see through a very thin layer, or it is limited to a few kinds of items, and the scope is gradually expanded in the later stage. When the protagonist gradually remedies, it completes an upgrade process.

The second is to escalate from normal to supernormal. In the middle of the novel, you can develop the protagonist's already well-established abilities. For example, the scope of perspective is further expanded to penetrate all matter; The prevention of perspective is further enhanced, and complete reverse perspective can be achieved; Even, you can go beyond the scope of eyesight, see through the other person's heart, and reach the point of reading energy and reading thinking. This unlimited upgrade can help the author to continue to extend the work.

The third is to upgrade from single to multiple. In the middle and later stages of the novel, the function of perspective can be further extended. For example, from subtle perspective to astonishing farsightedness; From the enhancement of vision to the enhancement of hearing; From supporting perspective with energy to providing energy with perspective. This kind of extension has a certain danger, which can easily make the work lose its character and may cause confusion, but at least, it is a solution that can be considered when the plot is at an impasse.

Now that the ability upgrades are out of the way, the rest is easy to handle. The main character can be set up as a college student, which not only strengthens the reader's sense of substitution, but also gives the early imperfect perspective ability an excellent space for expression. The way for the protagonist to obtain the ability can be an accidental injury, or an experimental accident, or accidentally discovered during a whimsy, these reasons can be chosen, and it has little impact on the work.

Thinking of this, in fact, an urban ability work has been roughly formed, but for new authors with little experience, they may make the mistake of upgrading too fast, using up the plot and upgrade route in advance, in order to prevent this situation from being at a loss, it is necessary to reserve a back road in advance, that is, to design the motivation for the story to continue to develop.

Here, we can consider this in terms of the specificity of the ability. Perspective ability, which has the ability to easily combine with other abilities, or be the key to other abilities for the protagonist. For example, the protagonist can use it to read other people's secrets for free, and can secretly observe other people's practice or apprenticeship and learn more useful skills from them. It can be seen that the works of this theme are the easiest to develop, and the most suitable for subsequent development, is the traditional military route, taking the path of martial arts or Xianxia.

Taking martial arts as an example, normal people have to have a very high skill before they can have the ability to see inward, but the protagonist is not, at the beginning, he can look inward, he can use the perspective eye to observe his own practice route, and he can also observe the mystery of other people's exercises, therefore, not only can he win in innovation, but also the unique skills of other masters, for the protagonist, have ceased to be secrets, when fighting, what move they are about to make, the protagonist can also be completely through the perspective of the other party's exercise route, to pre-judge, Do the enemy take the lead and strike first.

With these points, it can create enough reasons for the protagonist to call for wind and rain on the rivers and lakes, and at the same time, it can gradually introduce the work into the field of martial arts or Xianxia, and the urban fantasy novels that have reached the end of the mountains and rivers can develop a new plot impetus.

Some people may ask, in this way, can the novel still be considered an urban ability genre? The answer to this is, does it matter? What we want to write now is a novel that can make money, not a propositional essay of a specific category. In fact, from the above example of conception, we can also see that the author does not have to consider the genre at all when conceiving, but should start directly from the subject matter, starting from a specific YY point, to think about how the work should attract readers, as for the specific classification, this is not important.

The above is the type of urban ability, although the types of abilities are ever-changing, but the urban ability works are relatively simple, in contrast, there are no abilities, or pure urban types that are not based on abilities, but have more branches, including urban business wars, urban life, urban technology, urban rebirth, officialdom life, underworld career and other distinct subcategories. The reason is that it's actually very simple, once the protagonist has the ability, then he has the capital and premise to be above others, in this situation, he can earn money effortlessly, fight opponents, and the existence of the ability has stifled the development of other routes in the cradle.

In several urban sub-categories, it is easy to violate the ban on themes involving officialdom and the underworld, and if the author does not have a deep understanding of these two and can grasp the political scale well, it is not recommended to write these two types of works; Urban science and technology novels are generally classified as science fiction, and rebirth works are more special, the following will be described in addition to the thirteen categories, as for urban business wars, it also requires the author to have a certain degree of professional knowledge, and it is attached to urban life to a certain extent, therefore, the above categories, here are not detailed explanations, the following focus on the type of urban life.

This urban life category is classified as a bit general, and it can be roughly considered that it is a story that takes place in ordinary people with a modern city as the background, not based on superpowers.

Compared with fantasy and fairy tales with extraordinary ability and hot fights, the first impression of urban life works is mild, even if the protagonist gathers hundreds of people, or even thousands of people to fight, it is far less than a finger of the immortals, and no matter how powerful the protagonist is upgraded, it is impossible to smash a planet with one punch, for readers who like fantasy, before reading the book, it is easy to feel that urban life novels are calm and lack passion, in other words, they feel bored, but when they really read the novel, But they are often attracted by the wonderful content in the book and are addicted.

This strange phenomenon stems from the concealment of YY, which is characteristic of urban life works. In fact, if we carefully analyze those popular urban novels, we can easily see that they are not lacking in YY, nor are they lacking in elements that readers love such as upgrading and fighting monsters, but these elements have been disguised with various fancy coats and hidden.

Take, for example, the most common upgrades found in web novels. In martial arts novels, the protagonist's internal skills are practiced to the first few levels; In Xianxia novels, which realm does the protagonist reach; In online game novels, the main character has practiced to what level...... These are quite intuitive, and can even have clear numbers to reflect, while in most urban life works, there is no such obvious level of reflection, but in fact, it also has no shortage of upgrade models.

The main character's money has increased, and he has upgraded from a poor man to a rich man; The status of the protagonist increases, and he rises from a homeless man to a university president; The relationship between the protagonist and the beautiful woman has changed for the better, from being looked down upon to being greatly admired...... All kinds of elements that are closely related to urban life can exist as a road to upgrade.

In fiction stories, the protagonist who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger is often very popular, and in fiction, in fact, the same is true. Although the hidden upgrade and hidden YY of urban life works do not look so dazzling, the reader's happiness or displeasure has nothing to do with the magnitude of the upgrade, and this kind of disguised YY makes it easier for readers to unconsciously step into the author's design and inadvertently get greater reading pleasure. This is because, before the reader is aware, they will be attracted by the reality of urban life, subconsciously think that this is a real person, or a fictional event that is likely to happen, they will subconsciously substitute themselves, struggle with the protagonist of the work, and fight together, and when the cheat is opened later, the reader's sense of cheating will be greatly reduced, but the excitement can be greatly increased.

The characteristics of this hidden YY determine the writing elements of urban life novels, and if you want the work to be more popular with readers and more commercial, you must take into account its characteristics.

Concealed YY, its key is concealment, and concealment, that is, to let the reader inadvertently accept, therefore, the authenticity of the work, the authenticity of the characters, and the authenticity of the plot have become the key to the success or failure of the work. However, complete truth, which means complete blandness, even if it is an extraordinary person, it may not be possible to experience many major events and dangers in a row, even if it has experienced these, it may not be twists and turns, ups and downs, and if it is an ordinary person, he may not encounter a special plot described in a novel in his life. How to strike a balance between the real and the extraordinary, or how to tell ordinary events wonderfully, is the key to the success or failure of urban life works.

Where to start to write a good urban life work, in fact, the answer has been given above, that is, to start from two different directions.

First, strike a balance between the real and the extraordinary.

The protagonist is a real person, but this does not mean that he must be an ordinary person, he may be a high-ranking official, maybe a rich man, maybe a killer, maybe a spy...... Choosing a suitable identity for the protagonist will largely determine the success or failure of the work. Of course, it is not that the more special the protagonist, the better, nor the stronger the protagonist, the better, a good protagonist, his identity, his profession, should be very familiar to the author, only familiar with this identity, in order to portray the protagonist truthfully, in order to achieve the primary condition for the success of the work, and only when the author is familiar with this profession, it is easier to discover the extraordinaryness of this profession, in order to make up a story with special attraction on the basis of truth.

Example: "Flower Hunter". In the book, the protagonist is a retired special forces soldier with extraordinary skills. The author made full use of the various characteristics of special forces to make up a series of stories that are difficult for ordinary people to encounter, but really happen among ordinary people, which attracted the attention of readers to the greatest extent.

I would like to add here that the so-called special identity and special occupation do not necessarily have to be special forces, but have to be a wealthy son, a teacher, a doctor, an actor, and a postman...... Any profession has its particularity and its unique charm, the key is only how to discover it, and this depends on the author's familiarity with the industry and good plot reasoning ability.

Second, tell ordinary stories in a compelling way.

There is nothing to say about this, because it depends entirely on the author's own skills, and there is no trick at all. It not only requires the author to have a deep literary foundation, but also must be good at observing life and digging out the shining points in the details, and the work, even if there is no special story, can rely on words and details to win.

6 Romance

This is a relatively special type, and it has completely different manifestations in different fields. In the field of physical publishing, especially in the field of simplified publishing, romance novels still have a huge market, and on some online book stations dominated by female readers, the romance genre also has a certain influence, but among mainstream online readers, on electronic paid reading platforms, romance novels are out-and-out representatives of the servant street, and its popularity is sluggish, even surpassing traditional martial arts.

In addition to the great differences in different fields, the peculiarity of romance fiction is also reflected in the peculiarities of the genre itself, in its definition. Unlike martial arts and science fiction, which can be completely separated from other types of novels, romance is often attached to other novels, no matter what type of novel it is, it is impossible to leave the emotional description, and it is more or less branded with some romance, but some novels are darker, and some are shallow.

Generally speaking, we classify those works that are mainly emotional descriptions into the romance category, but this classification method makes romance and urban life have a very vague intersection, and on the Internet, these works with vague definitions of the genre are often highly popular works, but most of them are still classified into the urban category.

Among them, works with some petty bourgeois sentiment and depicting the feelings of urban white-collar workers are gradually showing their vitality, and it is gradually becoming the mainstream of online romance novels.

"Beauty Fierce", "My Beauty Boss", "Eight Yuan Bubbled in the Best Flight Attendant", "Cheating Son", etc., from this series of popular works, it is not difficult for us to find the key words of this kind of successful works - beauty, boss, money, cheating. Obviously, this kind of work is in line with the reader's dreams in real life, and they are born with a considerable sense of substitution, which can easily resonate with the reader.

Such works are quite different from other types of YY novels, but their essence is still the same. For example, some careful readers may notice that most of this kind of works with a relationship between superiors and subordinates are made by the protagonist as a subordinate, and beauties are often bosses and bosses, which is obviously in line with the spirit of YY.

What should be emphasized here is that YY does not only include strong strength in a narrow sense, it does not necessarily mean that the protagonist is strong, intelligent, and fierce, YY can also make the protagonist very rich, or very status, meet very capable friends, have special professional skills, be particularly lucky, or be particularly handsome, and have a woman's ...... In fact, this kind of thing is easier to combine with urban romance works, and while adhering to the romance route, the appeal of the work is as much as possible.

In addition to white-collar life, another type of urban romance novel has also been popular recently, and that is cohabitation novels. Works such as "Days of Living with School Flowers", "Strange Romance of Shared Housing", and "Super Cohabitation Era" are among the representatives.

As the name suggests, cohabitation novels describe the cohabitation stories of the protagonist and other people, especially the opposite sex, if white-collar life works reflect the yearning for a better life and the pleasure of conquering the beautiful women on top, cohabitation novels reflect a pursuit based on reality, which pursues a lower level, but at the same time, the pursuit is less difficult, seems easier to achieve, and has a more sense of substitution. These two types of novels can be said to represent the yearning and pursuit of the princess and the girl next door respectively.

Romance novels generally refer to urban romances, but its scope is more than that, ancient, future, and other worlds can all be used as the background of romance novels, but this kind of work is often extracted from the romance category and placed in other categories. In fact, authors who are good at describing emotional dramas can also take this as a direction to consider, put a coat of other elements on their romance novels, add a little fantasy, fairy tales and other elements, and write a light YY text.

This kind of work is different from YY novels in the ordinary sense, in which YY elements are not particularly emphasized, and the ability of the protagonist is generally not very strong, but can be performed in special situations. In this way, it can not only use the YY element as a selling point, but also not let it dilute the ontology of romance. This kind of pseudo-martial arts, pseudo-fairy, and pseudo-fantasy novels that have undergone a makeover, if the author's pen is strong enough, it is possible to become popular, and "Zhu Xian" is a good example.

In general, in the field of online fantasy novels, romance novels themselves belong to a rather weak genre, but if they are born in other genres, they show strong vitality.

7 Historical classes

Originally, historical novels were based on real history, bringing real characters into the book, and then carrying out artistic processing to interpret history and historical figures from a new perspective. In the Internet age, this type of historical biography still exists, but it is no longer the mainstream of historical fiction, and it is replaced by alternate history and historical alternate genres.

As the name suggests, these two types are extremely confusing, so in this book, I have changed their names to the traversal and mutated histories genres respectively to better distinguish between them. Obviously, the former focuses on modern people traveling through time and space to real antiquity, while the latter depicts a fictional world that resembles ancient times. Among them, the genre of time-traveling history is the mainstream of current online novels.

Among the major genres of online novels, crossing history is a very special genre, it has strong limitations and stability, its total number of readers is not much, but it has considerable loyalty, and at the same time, the works that travel through the historical genre are often similar, except for changing dynasties and changing character occupations, it is difficult to see truly novel changes. There is actually only one reason for these characteristics, and that is the fixation of this type of selling point.

For other types of novels, the genre is just a coat that can be discarded at any time, and the same genre can have completely different selling points to support the work, such as urban works can use the online game's monster fighting and upgrading mode to attract readers, and Xianxia novels can use the mode of urban business warfare to interpret the protagonist's magic weapon wealth acquisition, but the historical novel is completely different, it has a fixed and decisive selling point - the leading edge of modern civilization over the past.

It is precisely because of this that how to write about the differences between ancient and modern civilizations, and how individuals use advanced ideology, culture, science and technology to influence the backward whole, is the key to crossing the popularity of historical works, and to write this well, the author needs to have two aspects of ability, one is to be familiar with history, and even politics, economy, military, and culture, and the other is to be able to make reasonable use of the protagonist's modern identity, select his appropriate talents, and show them in the right scenes. If you want to write a good time-traveling work, you need to do one of them, and the other can be made up for with a few tips.

Traveling through history, the selling point is traveling, but the foundation is history, therefore, the understanding of real history, as well as some related knowledge, is necessary to write this kind of novel, as for how deep you need to know history, this is to first explore the readership of this type of work and their respective needs.

Those who read historical novels can be roughly divided into two types of readers: one is historical and military lovers, who want to see rigorous historical novels, hoping to see various political concepts, military tactics, and cultural strategies perfectly reflected in the novel. The other type of readers is to compare themselves with the protagonist who is also a modern person, and substitute it into the work, experience the superiority of being a modern person, enjoy the praise of others, enjoy the success of career and love, and they care more about the fate of the protagonist, and care about whether the protagonist can live happily.

These two types of readers make it possible for both professional writers who are proficient in history and entertaining writers who are good at YY, but one thing is for sure, no matter what type of writer they are, they must be proficient in one and not completely abandon the other.