The opening 60,000 words determine the main tone of a book and the market direction of the book.

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If you were asked to optimize your first 60,000 words, how many aspects would you plan to start with?

A good beginning is half the success, and most of the authors upload it on a whim without preparation, and most of the authors start with a mess, including those great gods.

When we write about 100,000 words, we have an urge to fill in some of the previous mistakes. However, the question is how to fill in the gaps and optimize your beginnings?

Everyone actually has an answer in mind, but this answer is often simply filled in from a certain aspect, rather than optimized.

Optimization means to optimize the article as a whole, from the optimization that we can use our existing capabilities, our existing writing capabilities. Instead of filling in the blanks.

So, what is the length of our so-called beginning?

This beginning, using the numerical requirements required by the Taiwan publishing house, is about 65,000 words per volume, which is actually very clear.

Yes, a full-length work, it begins with more than 60,000 words.

In other words, we have to find a way to turn the more than 60,000 words at the beginning of the article into a crested head.

Of course, in this crested head, you can also subdivide the crested pork belly unicorn tail, which doesn't need much. Therefore, we have two goals for this optimization, one is the first 60,000 words of the whole book, and the other is the first 10,000 words of the whole book.

So, how can you really optimize instead of filling in the blanks?

This brings us to the outline and the outline.

Yes, let's first sort out the 60,000 words and outline.

The 60,000-word outline and outline are about 3,000 to 5,000 words.

When you sort out a 60,000-word outline, we can find out what is the main line and what is the branch line. Can't find it?I'm sorry, but you wrote it crookedly......

After we sorted out the outline at the beginning, we found out the main line, separated the side plots, and looked at it according to the main line first.

Is there any foreshadowing in the first 10,000 words of the entire main line? If not, will it have to be made up?

In the whole main line, did the author let your protagonist and supporting roles successfully portray, create an impression in the reader's heart, and even successfully substitute into the growth of the character?

So, the first step of optimization is to extract the outline, and then the main plot is extracted.

The second step is to bury a 60,000-word plot foreshadowing at the beginning of your game.

The third step is to arrange the character portrayal to strengthen the impression of the character in the reader's mind.

Let's focus on the third step.

How to reinforce the impression of the character in the reader's mind.

First, determine the character's personality, determine the character's iconic appearance, determine the character's mantra and signature actions. To put it simply, it is to determine the character's attribute card.

For example: Chu Liuxiang, male, loves to touch his nose, lustful but not lewd, wise superman, etc.

In addition to the need to use the plot to catalyze the character's character, we have to focus on the iconic description in the character attribute card and constantly strengthen the impression of this iconic description in the reader's mind.

It's like Guo Jing, we remember that he is stupid, Ouyang Ke, **, Yang Kang, a little bad.

Here I would like to ask those authors who like to add a lot of appearance descriptions to their characters, have you ever seen Jin Yong use many, many adjectives to describe a person?

What eyebrows are like spring mountains, noses like gall and so on?

It can be said that in the eyes of today's readers, if more than four adjectives appear in a row in the description of the character's appearance, the reader either thinks that the author is selling the pen, or thinks that the author is flooding, or thinks that the author is a novice.

Well, that's off topic, press it and leave it alone.

After determining the character's personality, the second step is to determine the character's fate.

As the saying goes, character determines fate, and a person who spends money like flowing water, if he lacks the source of money, then, what is his fate?

The fate of this character is to ask us to check the first 60,000 words through the character we just set, the behavior and fate of the protagonist, has it come out of the character we set? It's like arranging Yang Guo to marry ten wives, and Ouyang Ke only loves one, as soon as this kind of plot comes out, it's over, and your character setting has failed.

As long as these two points can be done well, plus some branching plots, and a certain character of the protagonist is strengthened, then it will be easy for readers to remember.

It is important to note here that there should never be a character with multiple personalities. Which one is easier for readers to remember, a single character with a constantly reinforced character, or a character with many personalities and less reinforcement?

If the author likes to play with multiple personalities, sorry, please take a look at your collection and subscription.

In fact, a single character does not refer to a single character, but a portrayal based on a certain prominent characteristic, and the others as a width, rather than a multi-faceted flowering.

After talking about character portrayal, let's talk about the number of characters who appear.

Many people like big scenes, dozens of people and more than a dozen names come out.

Plagiarism is inappropriate.

It's not that this kind of writing is bad, but, first, does the author have the ability to control the fate of more than a dozen characters at the beginning?

Second, is there a way for readers to remember so many names?

So, in the first 10,000 words, it's best not to have more than ten character names. It doesn't matter the soy sauce party, we don't even have to give him a name. Through the optimization of the first few steps, we have basically built a new starting framework.

One has a clear main line, based on the emphasis on portraying one to three characters, and lays out the foreshadowing at the beginning, and within 60,000 words, the reader can immediately see the plot presented by the foreshadowing.

Isn't this kind of article better than the kind of work that starts with a background and dozens of people appear, and there is no foreshadowing and no suspense?

When a reader remembers a character, that's when you've succeeded.

The next thing to optimize is adjectives.

I don't like to use the word to describe authors who think they write well, but this group of writers is really selling their words.

Can a character be described by seven, eight, or even a dozen adjectives? When a reader sees a character's description, he or she tends to remember the first distinguishing feature of the character, and the others will be overlooked.

For example, Jackie Chan, big nose, Andy Lau, hook nose, Jacky Cheung, flat face, Aaron Kwok, handsome. How many adjectives are useful? It's not as good as two or three words of conciseness.

In addition to that, we can minimize those useless adjectives.

What is a crested head? A crested head is actually a chicken head with a pointed mouth, a small face, and bright colors.

You gave me a thirty or fifty word adjective in the first chapter to describe the character's appearance. Use two or three hundred words to set up the atmosphere of the scene, and then use three or five hundred words to set up the background. Basically, it doesn't say that the mouth is pointy, but the mouth is swollen. That's a pig's head, not a crested one.

Therefore, try to be as concise as possible at the beginning, and don't write those imaginary words to describe the details.

As long as there are readers who are willing to read it, you can write as carefully as you want in the future, because readers are already addicted.

Let's ask, who wants to read a book with more than 10,000 words that still talks about the background, more than 10,000 words that still can't see the character characteristics, and more than 10,000 words that haven't been foreshadowed?

With more than 10,000 words, how many people are piling up with adjectives?

After optimizing the adjectives, I want to say to most authors, use more enter keys, the keyboard is not expensive, and one is only 20 yuan.

Yes, it's a super long paragraph again, I'm too lazy to say it, anyway, if I see more than five lines, I use a sweep. And according to my survey, 80% of readers also use sweeping, reading hundreds of thousands of words of works a day, who has the patience to read word by word?

Compare the completeness of the article with the reader's reading habits, and weigh the weight of it yourself.

I have also talked about the error at the beginning of quotation marks many times, if you still don't know the error at the beginning of quotation marks and the remedy, read the information in the group or the log in my personal space.

Optimization is here, it seems to be over, but, is it really over?

No, we still have to lay the groundwork for the next stage at the end of the beginning of 60,000 words, so that readers have a reason to continue to read it.

Let me sum it up!

Therefore, we have two goals for this optimization, one is the first 60,000 words of the whole book, and the other is the first 10,000 words of the whole book.

The first step of optimization is to extract the synopsis, and then the main plot is extracted

The second step is to bury the foreshadowing of the next 60,000 words at the beginning of your life

The third step is to arrange the character portrayal to strengthen the impression of the character in the reader's mind

The fourth step is to reduce redundant words, i.e., superfluous adjectives.

The fifth step is to deal with extra-long paragraphs and extra-long sentences, as well as the handling of quotation marks (these are basic errors), and you can also add typos, as well as logical errors.

The sixth step is to lay the groundwork for the next stage at the beginning and the end, so that the reader has a reason to continue reading.

A total of six steps, after optimization, it is a direct entry into the theme, focusing on describing several main characters, highlighting the main line, no redundant adjectives, and a complete foreshadowing layout at the beginning. Will this kind of beginning be a little better than everyone's current beginning?

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