3. Martial arts

Obviously, this genre is not suitable for newcomers to write, and it is too difficult for newcomers to become famous by martial arts, after all, the overall decline of traditional martial arts works is a foregone conclusion.

Many writers have a martial arts dream in their hearts, but when they really realize this dream, most of them feel disappointed, lamenting the decline of martial arts and their works on the street. Is this the author's fault, or the reader's problem, or the change of the times?

I don't think that the current authors are worse than the original ones, nor do I think the current works are much worse than before, but the sluggish popularity of traditional martial arts works is indeed an indisputable fact. In the first two years, the situation was slightly better, but now, martial arts has almost become synonymous with servant streets, as for why there is no one to care, there are many factors, I personally think that the most fundamental reason is the change in readers' reading needs caused by the development of the times.

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 categories of works have emerged one after another, compared with them, traditional martial arts novels can't help but 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.

It can be said that in the current environment, traditional martial arts have inherent disadvantages, but it is not correct to say that martial arts are declining, because martial arts are quietly evolving themselves, and tradition and trend are becoming more and more closely integrated. The new generation of authors has reversed the innate disadvantages of martial arts and even turned them into advantages through some clever transformations.

From the most important sense of substitution, it is difficult for martial arts novels to resonate because they describe an environment that readers are not familiar with, and they portray ancient people who are completely out of touch with modern people. 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.

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.

The other 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.

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

Some people may say that such martial arts can no longer be called martial arts, but in fact, martial arts novels themselves do not have a strict definition, and I personally tend to classify these works as martial arts. In fact, from the legendary novels of the Tang Dynasty, to the old school of martial arts before liberation, and then to the new school of martial arts after that, martial arts novels have been changing. From the beginning to the present, martial arts novels have adhered to an important principle, which is to adapt to trends and cater to readers. Fundamentally, it exists to entertain readers. Martial arts novels are not textbooks, entertainment comes first, and what it entertains is naturally the readers of the period when the work was created. Therefore, it is necessary to make appropriate changes to the mode of the novel to cater to the needs of the current reader.

If you follow the spirit of entertainment and write from the reader's point of view in a commercial mode, then the type of work is not particularly important. As mentioned above, if you change the traditional martial arts mode a little, such as just changing the background, the work can immediately turn from a servant street to a popular masterpiece, although it still has such a story inside. In fact, if you can grasp the psychology of readers, even if you write traditional martial arts novels, you can still achieve very good results.

However, anyway, the current martial arts is a weak type after all, as a newcomer, it's best not to touch this type, after all, this is a thankless thing, writing martial arts, not necessarily necessarily servant, but with the same skills, to write other popular themes, the subscription will be higher, so why bother to give up the easy? Of course, if you insist on fulfilling this martial arts dream, it is also your freedom, I just advise you, even if you want to write martial arts, don't write traditional martial arts, according to the points I said above, change the martial arts and carry out a new packaging, so that there may still be a glimmer of life.

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 suitable to be placed here, it is the same as traditional martial arts, it also belongs to the servant street type, but its situation is slightly better than martial arts, after all, some flying things are added, the attraction is slightly improved, of course, overall, this is still a servant street category, it is not much better than martial arts.

However, it should be mentioned here that although traditional martial arts and classical Xianxia are both servant street categories, if the two are combined to make a weak combination, it will not become weaker, but there is great potential to be tapped, of course, it depends on how to combine and how to write.

Generally speaking, it should be to let the immortal cultivator enter the world of martial artists, and the high-level protagonist goes to the low-level world to develop, so that it is easier to write and easier to yy. It's just that,This kind of work is easy to get out of control.,It's possible to completely destroy the balance at the beginning.,After a while.,Soon there's nothing to write about.,To solve this problem,There are roughly two ways.,One is to limit the ability of the protagonist.,For example, set him to be knocked down to the mortal world.,Mana is lost.,He's just a person with great potential.,At the same time, it's very special in the martial arts;The second is to write an invincible text.,The protagonist is clear that the world is invincible.,The work is also clear that there is no balance of relaxed casual texts.,Combined with pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger、 Traditional YY methods such as recruiting younger brothers, such books are still more popular.

And if you insist on doing the opposite, allowing low-level martial artists to enter the high-level Xianxia world, such a theme is feasible, but the difficulty is higher. If you write it like this, you should highlight the characteristics of the protagonist martial artist, so that he can develop an alternative path of cultivation with a peculiar combat mode, for example, he can use martial arts moves in the control of spells, the same palm thunder, which was hit by him with the technique of the Tangmen secret weapon, and the same flying technique, which was combined with Ling Bo Weibu by him...... At the same time, the immortals other than the protagonist are 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 when the weak is low in the initial stage, and the plot that looks down on the world after continuous escalation.

In short, if you really want to write about traditional martial arts or classical immortals, you might as well combine these two servant street categories, at least before this theme is overwritten, you can still have a certain effect.

Another major category of Xianxia works is modern Xiuzhen, which can be seen as a branch of urban abilities, and it is completely possible to think of 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 cultivation is really very cheap, the background of modern cities, is familiar to readers, the protagonist of modern identity, can greatly enhance the sense of substitution of the work, and the traditional Xianxia system, the acceptance among readers is also quite high, at the same time, the combination of Xianxia and the city, the collision of immortal cultivators and high-tech civilization, it is easy to cause a strong contrast, triggering a series of stories, it is also very convenient to carry out yy.

Writing urban fairytales, the main mistake newcomers make is not knowing how to control the rhythm and not knowing how to control the scope of high-level power. One of the biggest taboos,There are too many strong people pouring out at once,All of a sudden, there is a scene of immortals flying all over the sky,In fact,For newcomers,Writing here,The work is also the end,Because after that, it will be completely plunged into endless chaotic fights,And this kind of thing,It looks intense,It's actually very boring,And it doesn't fit 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, if it is a newcomer, 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 affects the fun of reading.

Even if the author has enough pen power to control it, I think this situation is very disadvantageous, 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 be yy, and there is less fun of upgrading; secondly, as soon as there are many immortals, it becomes worthless, and the ability to arrange for the protagonist will also lose the selling point that makes the reader 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 againIf 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 the clue of ordinary people, so that the attractiveness of the work will be greatly reduced, and even the characteristics of urban cultivation will be lost, and it will be reduced to the classical Xianxia of the service street.

In short, the Xianxia works with urban backgrounds are still very marketable, however, it feels like it's slightly more difficult to write than urban abilities, and this kind of work looks easy to write, but it's not so easy to write well. Overall, this is a good subject matter, especially if the author can grasp the intersection of cultivators and ordinary people, the story will be more attractive.

The author has something to say

In fact, martial arts and Xianxia have never declined, and they will not decline in the future, even if the number of works will be small, there are internal reasons.

From the perspective of the novel, the emergence of Gao Wuliu undoubtedly impacted the low martial arts of traditional martial arts. But this is just a form, because the core of martial arts and Xianxia lies in writing people, one is to write people, and the other is to write immortals, but they all fall on a chivalrous character.

In other words, the overall core artistic conception of the book lies in the concept of "what is chivalry".

So now the flow of national art was once booming, and in film and television, the Ip Man series was well received, including Wong Kar-wai's "The Grandmaster", which all used Ip Man as the protagonist.

But the general author, when writing about martial arts and Xianxia, uses too many vulgar flavors, and they are really not martial arts and Xianxia.

Many years ago, online literature was just flourishing, and three Xianxia works were well received:

The Wild Fox Under the Tree's "Sou Shen Ji"

It's the thirteenth "Copper Furnace in Troubled Times" again

Jing Keshou's "The Wind Rises in the Violet Gorge"

Sou Shen Ji has a good grasp of all the characteristics of Shang writing, the troubled copper furnace writes out the "human" flavor in Xianxia very well, and Feng Qi grasps the non-human side of Xianxia and explains what he thinks is "immortal".

However, with the troubled copper furnace and the windy TJ, Xiao Ding finally received a lot of praise with "Zhu Xian", because Zhu Xian embodies the traditional impression of a fairy with a landscape painting.

Authors who want to take the Xianxia route can consider taking a look at these books.

As for martial arts, "Romance of the Dragon and Snake", which dreams of a divine machine, can be used for reference.

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