Chapter 8: Pause

Genre online novel writing enriches human imagination and is also one of the new forces of China going global, which should be fully recognized. The reason why excellent web novels are sought after is mainly because after their genre is set, they present the author's personal originality, that is, the unique discovery and artistic expression of human wishes and emotions.

The phenomenon of genre of online novels has attracted more and more attention, and people often attribute it to a commercial product driven by capital, or a representation of popular culture, while the real reason for the genre of online novels and the creative achievements of online novels have been ignored by critics.

Genre online novels are constantly taking shape under the enthusiasm of mass readers, and the fundamental reason for their development lies in the needs of various human life emotions. Genre fiction responds and places human emotional needs in a categorical manner. If readers lack a certain emotional experience, they will appreciate "genre novels" or "genre movies" that can provide a certain emotional experience, and substitute and integrate the emotional experience of the protagonist of the story in the fantasy, especially the peak experience, in order to achieve psychological compensation and balance, produce a sense of pleasure, and restore a positive attitude. This instinct of living beings also makes it possible for literary and artistic works to play their various functions.

The "novel genre" is formed in the practice of creation, and the content and form characteristics are stable, which can arouse similar reading experiences among readers, including the desire and motivation of the protagonist, the relationship between the characters, the chain of the storyline, the situation, the prescriptiveness of time and space, and the basis of logic and reason. The formation of the genre of fiction is usually manifested in the proximity of some works to certain works that have a profound impact, in which the factor of repetition gradually becomes a kind of writing "stereotype". Its main function is to be able to prominently present certain emotional experiences, effectively mobilize readers' psychological expectations and emotional participation in reading, and meet readers' psychological needs. With the changes of human society, the genre of fiction has been constantly invented, expanded, and updated to create a new world of human emotional experience, such as science fiction, detective, reasoning, suspense, etc., which are all recent inventions, while martial arts, history, and fantasy, which have a history of hundreds of years, are innovations on the basis of the original.

Human emotional needs determine the shape of the fiction genre. Most human behaviors are controlled by the basics, and if they are satisfied, they will be happy, and if they are inhibited, they will seek psychological compensation and pain release. It is not difficult to understand why the pursuit of power, wealth, and the fulfillment of basic human desires such as power and love is a common theme in folk tales, popular fiction, and film and television, because these desires are essential for human survival, development, and reproduction, and are the goals that human beings are most likely to feel deprived of. At the same time, this also constitutes the core and significant characteristics of some novel genres, such as officialdom novels that show the success of the protagonist's power and the satisfaction of the public's desire to snoop on power (similar to the themes of European and American political novels and Ming and Qing condemnation novels), financial novels that express the theme of wealth and success, romance novels with the theme of love experience, urban novels that comprehensively express the realization of power, wealth, and love wishes, and so on. The historical novel, the urban rebirth novel, and the interpretation of contemporary people traveling to the past time and space are a new and ferocious genre of novels. Watching the stories of contemporary people travel through time, "social and historical changes" are happening in the present tense, giving readers a strong sense of presence and enhancing the reader's sense of substitution experience, so it is very popular.

Fantasy novels are the most remarkable part of online novels, rooted in human beings' desire for immortality, superpowers, and transcendence from life and death. These aspirations are important themes of artistic expression, and they are the main reason for the emergence of the myths of various peoples. In the modern society where science is prosperous, fantasy novels, movies, and television are more popular. In the real world, the basis of social operation is the logic of science and big industry, and the individual's body and soul feel depressed in front of skyscrapers and large cranes, and the individual seems insignificant, so it has become people's strong desire to liberate the body and mind from the weight of material civilization and obtain the experience of life force. This desire promotes the expansion of fantasy elements such as magic, fighting spirit, martial arts and other divine imagination, the protagonist of the novel obtains a powerful ** and soul through cultivation, according to the logic of myths and fairy tales to evolve the storyline, in the path of cultivation - battle - upgrade - become a god, change the world, create the world, readers draw strength from it, suppress emotions are released, life runs are tuned, and the indispensable life pleasure of human beings is generated.

There are some types of fiction in which the emotional experience seems to be opposed to the pleasure experience, such as thriller and horror novels, which lead to emotional experiences such as fear, tension, anxiety, etc. These negative emotions are disgusting to everyone, but thriller and horror novels are very popular, which not only shows people's stubborn search for every emotional experience, but also reflects the reasons for the development of the novel genre. These negative emotions are of great significance to the survival and safety of human beings, which remind people to perceive and respond to dangers, and mobilize the energy of the human body to fight against the enemy, which is a deep-rooted life mechanism of human beings. In the peaceful years, people's awareness of danger decreases, so they will instinctively look for horror and exciting scenes from literary and artistic works, seek tense experiences, and get compensation for survival experience, after these tensions, anxieties, and fears are released, readers will feel relaxed and happy about their real safety situation, and this psychological need stimulates the development of related genre novels and movies. Martial arts and military novels are rooted in human fighting instincts, which can make readers undergo the test of will in various existential crises, and shape tough and heroic life emotions in the experience of bloodshed and sacrifice.

There are also some novel genres with multiple functions, such as romance novels that move female readers, in addition to providing a pleasant experience of love, they also often present a "mourning" situation, from Lin Daiyu's "crying fan" in "Dream of Red Mansions", to the grief novels that flourished in modern history, to the sensational Qiong Yao dramas, to the romance and palace fights in some online novels, it can be said that sentimental novels have flourished from generation to generation. Life is inevitably frustrated and painful, and people need to release negative emotions in the sad situation and tragic character experience of romance novels, movies, and dramas, heal emotional pain, and let life bodies be happy and relaxed.

The first taboo: no matter how beautiful the writing is, don't let the description bring your narrative to a halt.

The writer of the novel must keep this in mind: don't overdescribe anything, whether it's the Teton Mountains, the sunset, or the zebras on Waikiki Beach. Otherwise, the strength of your narrative will suffer, and you will leave a dangerous gap in the reader's attention. Remember Ellemo. Renard's golden words: "I always try to get rid of what the reader will skip over. "Readers do want to skip what doesn't work.

The second taboo: Don't waste too much time describing unimportant environments.

Novelist David. Rogie once declared, "A description in a good novel is more than just a description." The danger of most back descriptions is that a flurry of beautiful declarative sentences and interruptions in the narrative push the reader into a lethargic situation. Remember Roge's adage and type it on a slip of paper and stick it in front of your computer or typewriter: "A description in a good novel is more than just a description." ”

The third taboo is: don't waste the reader's attention on an inconsequential matter. This is the most common mistake beginners make.

The fourth taboo is: don't generalize, be specific.

No one has said better about the taboo generalization of writing than the great Russian writer Chehev. In one of his letters, he admonished a writer friend to avoid generalizations and generalizations: "I think that the true description of nature should be rather brief and relevant to the subject. Cliché depictions such as 'the sunset bathed in the waves of the black sea, the purple golden light pouring down' and so on. When depicting nature, it is important to grasp the details and to the point where you can still see the scene you are describing even with your eyes closed.

Therefore, when you sit down to write, remember that it is not "a cup of dilution of the emperor of the ∧ of the curtain of the emperor The new automatic pistol of 44 caliber", not "a painting" but "Manet's 'Olympia'".

Combining the description of the four taboos with the golden and jade words of Chehefu, we get a rule that all good authors should follow when describing: be specific!

You need to be able to accurately depict scenes and make the characters believable, who go about their daily work in their own country of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. - Ravel?;; Spencer.