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Some of the techniques and techniques in this article are common techniques from movies and dramas, and you can combine some images when you understand them, and I think you can use them when writing novels, so I will share them with you.

Besides, if you write a script, it is best to follow the rule of three, and the mode is mainly based on the beginning and the end.

[1] About the opening

There are two common techniques for the opening chapter:

1. Suspense:

As the name suggests, suspense is to set up a suspense at the beginning to draw the reader in, which is one of the most commonly used techniques, and suspense is divided into the following two types:

"What to do": This kind of beginning, often shortly after the beginning, shows the audience (reader) an extremely difficult trouble or distress! For such distress, the characters in the play cannot solve it, and the reader or audience is extremely curious about how to solve such a problem, and then the reader will enter the movie with such a problem. If it's not easy to understand, I'll give you an example, there is such a movie (I fictionalize), after the movie starts, what is shown to the audience is a bed, and a pair of men and women on the bed are hey, after doing it, the woman cries bitterly, the man frowns, and then through their conversation, we know that they are actually a pair of brothers and sisters, and the problem they face is, how to face it? How to solve it? With such a problem, the story begins ~ The reader will also look at it with such a curiosity.

"Why type": This is also a kind of suspense, I still give an example, take an example and say: they have a relationship, and the beginning just explains that they are in **, why will they **? This is also a question, is the man drunk, or the two really love each other, we will have such a question. If you still don't understand, I'll give you another example, the beginning of the film is such a scene, Ah Can and Gu Da Mei went to work together, the two entered the elevator at the same time, there was a man in black inside, when Ah Can chatted with the beauty, but found that the man had a knife in his abdomen, and he was already dead, why did the man die? How did he die? That's why the suspense begins.

All in all, the beginning of suspense is to lay out the result, that is, to put out what has happened at the beginning, contradictions, conflicts, and then solve the mystery later, that is, first effect and then cause.

2. Progressive:

This is the most ordinary opening, which is told in chronological order or the actions of the characters, as opposed to suspense, which is the first cause and effect, as is the case with the dance, starting with a character introduction, and then using Char's thunderous growth as a clue.

It's so simple that I won't say more.

[2] Handling of the main plot

Regarding the main body, I want to talk about only two aspects, one is about the maintenance of suspense, and the other is about the handling of some plots, that is, the commonly used techniques.

1. About the maintenance of suspense

In my opinion, there are three kinds of suspense: take the movie as an example

First, the audience knows, and the characters in the movie (generally the protagonists) don't. I can tell you how to maintain suspense in this way, such as a movie (I made up a movie): One day, Ah Can and his wife were shopping in the supermarket, but they didn't know that a time bomb was installed in the supermarket, and the bomb had been activated, and the only person who knew about it was rushing over, the bomb was activated, and the audience could know through the picture, but Ah Can would not know, and still accompanied his wife to shop, at this time the audience would think, can the person who came to the rescue rush over? Will this bomb explode? Will the protagonist be blown up again? In this way, the suspense is born! This is the first thing that the suspense maintains, the reader knows, but the characters in the play do not.

For another example, [Kangxi Weifu Private Interview], Kangxi is the emperor, every audience knows it, but the characters in it don't know? Those little corrupt officials swagger in front of the emperor, in fact, at this time, suspense has been generated, what will the emperor do? What will be the consequences of those people? When the emperor announces his identity, the suspense will be released! Every time at this time, the audience's heart will be very happy! The whole TV series uses such a technique to create suspense! In fact, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger is also like this, this technique has two advantages, one is to retain suspense, and the other is that when the result is produced, it gives people a huge feeling difference, which makes people feel very cool!

For another example, in [Go Left, Go Right], the two protagonists, one lives on the left, one lives on the right, one is used to going to the left, and the other is used to going to the right, the two are only separated by a wall, but it seems that there will be no intersection, and the audience is looking forward to it, thinking about when the two will meet~

Second, the characters in the play know, but the audience doesn't know, or take an example, for example, in the movie [Pink Panther]: The Pink Panther diamond was stolen, and a policeman discovered the truth of the matter by chance, but the movie never said what the policeman found, just don't tell you, the police know, but the audience doesn't know? I'll give you another example, the beginning of the film (fictional): in a dance party, a gorgeous and incomparable beauty appeared, stunning the four, all the men looked for her like flies, asked her to dance, but she just didn't pretend, no one paid attention, when everyone was in vain, Ah Can came out and said a word in the woman's ear, so the two left hand in hand, opened the room and circled the fork, I damn it, what did Ah Can say? So awesome, a word to the girl? Do you want to know? I must want to know, but the characters in the play know, but you don't know, which creates suspense. This example is not very appropriate, hehe, everyone can just laugh.

Third, the characters in the play don't know, put out a lot of results, but don't know why, and then the audience discusses the reasons with the protagonist, for example, at the beginning of the film, Ah Can is a lawyer, and he went to pick up his daughter who is in college on Sunday, and when she saw her daughter, her daughter always vomited, and before her father could ask anything, her daughter was busy saying: I am not pregnant, and when I returned home for dinner, my daughter had a nose bleed, and my father asked, but my daughter gritted her teeth and didn't say a word, when the two went out, her daughter was shot and killed by a person with a burst of explosions, Ah Chan was depressed, what happened to my daughterWhy did you kill her? What happened to her? Ah Can didn't know, and the audience didn't know, so let's go and discuss it together~

There are three ways to maintain suspense that I understand, of course, there are many more, but most of them are specific methods, I'm just talking about the general, and I'll add to it, some other methods for maintaining suspense: the transformation of scenes, the addition and deletion of characters, and the constant addition of new contradictions!

2 plot setting skills, this is the top priority of this article, is some of the usual techniques to enhance the plot in narrative works, there are a total of ten, I will analyze and explain to you one by one, these are also some specific techniques for suspense, can add a lot to their works.

First, the twist, this technique is the most commonly used in narrative works, but also the most practical technique, everyone consciously or unconsciously will use it, if used well, it can make the plot swaying, produce unexpected development changes for the audience, and then be more interesting and increase artistic charm. I won't define this technique anymore, I think it will be used in all narrative works!

Second, the suppression, the suppression is also a turn, but it is an extreme turn. To give you an example, a landlord's house for the old lady to do a birthday, a show came forward to offer a poem, the first sentence is: "This old lady is not a person", everyone was in an uproar, so the second sentence came out: "The Nine Heavens Fairy went down to the earth", the old lady smiled proudly, but the third sentence came out: "All the children are thieves", everyone changed, at this time, Xiucai slowly said the fourth sentence: "Steal the peach to offer the mother", everyone cried and laughed.

This is the effect of suppression, if you don't use any technique to express its meaning, just a sentence "The old lady is the Nine Heavens Fairy descended to earth, all sons are filial, may the old lady live longer than Nanshan", but how is the effect of such words and the expression of suppression?

In this poem, the use of inhibition is concise and clear, the plot is up and down, a bunch and a release, and contrasts with each other!

The biggest effect of this technique is to bring about an emotional gap, I think, in online novels, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger is also a good use of this technique, in fact, to put it bluntly, some of the plots in the novel are also the same, the purpose is to create a huge gap in the reader's heart.

Let's take another inappropriate example, one day Ah Can came home, his wife was furious with him, the reason was that a woman's hair was found on Ah Can's body, Ah Can was afraid that his wife would misunderstand, so he tried every possible excuse, and even said in detail the day's itinerary, but his wife just didn't eat oil and salt, with a straight face, an absolutely unforgivable look, helpless, Ah Can had to sleep on the sofa, the next morning, after getting up, he found that his wife had made a sumptuous breakfast, and his face was full of smiles, looking like a little bird, and last night came a 180-degree turn, Ah Can was stunned, I, what's going onAs for the reason, this is casually pulled, maybe the hair is her own, and she wants to test you, or it may be that a colleague is to blame, and then a colleague calls your wife to explain.

Why is there such a big contrast between the wife before and after? In this way, suspense arises. This technique is also to create contrast.

Third, discovery and sudden turn, this is a combination of techniques, which belongs to the reader's discourse system, discovery + sudden turn, in fact, it can be regarded as a kind of transition, a common language suspense reasoning drama. The so-called discovery is that the willows and flowers are bright, and the clouds are open and the moon is bright, and the sudden turn is full of fog! The clouds are deep and nowhere to go, in short, a matter without a clue suddenly makes a major discovery, but later it is a 180-degree turn! It no longer develops according to the previous plot, and there is a major change.

For example, since the examples are all made up by myself and the time is limited, it may not be very appropriate, so please don't find fault with my words, thank you.

For example, in a homicide case, the criminal police brigade made no progress, but just when they were about to give up, a phone call came in, saying that he had witnessed the homicide (discovery), the criminal police's eyes lit up, and with a new discovery, the criminal police decided to immediately go to the person who called, but when they passed, the person who called the police was also assassinated ( Turn), but this time the murderer was in a hurry, but left a lot of evidence, (discovered), but the murderer pointed to by these evidences was the first person to be killed (turn), many reasoning suspense dramas are using such a technique, discovery + turn, discovery of the turn~ is to have a new progress, and then immediately change for you! Not only suspense reasoning, many types of works can be used!

Fourth, Zhang Chi, I don't have to say much about this, Zhang Chi is for the control of the plot, I can give you another popular saying, that is, rhythm, Zhang Chi, is the soothing of rhythm~

Regardless of the novel or the movie, blind tension will cause aesthetic fatigue to the reader, and blind relaxation is difficult to be fascinating, and the reader will walk away~ Therefore, the novel should pay attention to the relaxation and try to achieve the slow and urgent staggered ~ In order to show the charm of the novel to the greatest extent.

In my opinion, the best thing Zhang Chi uses is, taking Wu Song's plot as an example, Wu Song saw Song Jiang, the brotherhood was deep, and he was reluctant to give up when he broke up, this paragraph is soothing, and then Jingyanggang fights the tiger, this paragraph is thrilling and tense, exciting, and then next, it is the brother and sister-in-law, the plot is soothing, and then later, it is to kill Ximen Qing...... Wu Song's chapter can be said to be a wave of life, with both urgency and slowness, and a large part of his artistic tension comes from this relaxation. Control the pace of plot development, that's all, don't say more.

Fifth, the process of accumulation, release, release, and opening is slow, release, release, and opening! The process is urgent! If the reservoir is impounded, the accumulation is gentle, but when the accumulation reaches a certain level, the reservoir will collapse and the flood will break out!

Accumulation is such a technique, the front is slow, the back is urgent, and the soothing part in front is all the final outbreak.

Not much to say, for example, take O'Henry's novel, it's Christmas, and the Della couple want to buy a Christmas gift for each other, but the family is poor, very poor, except for eating, they can't take out the extra money to buy gifts, the Della couple have two treasures, a husband's ancestral pocket watch, and another thing The wife's long hair, the story has been very soothing since the beginning, it is about two people in office preparing gifts for each other, nothing attractive, the husband sold the pocket watch to buy a gift for his wife, the wife cut off her long hair and bought a gift for her husband, when the two exchanged gifts, The outbreak came out, the drama came out, the husband sold the pocket watch and used the money to buy a beautiful comb to match his wife's beautiful long hair, and the wife cut her hair and bought her husband a watch chain!

Although the first part was a little fearless when first read, once it broke out, it was evocative! If I can't express myself clearly enough, I can go to the Internet and look up O'Henry's novels by myself, and after reading them, I will understand!

Sixth, ups and downs, the so-called ups and downs, is to first make the reader have a strong sense of expectation, and then the plot process is deliberately delayed artistically to make the rhythm "dragged". The colleagues who made the audience anxious and angry increased a desire to watch.

This technique is used very skillfully in the mouths of storytellers in our country, and those storytellers always stop abruptly when they are about to enter the juncture, and begin to sell the guanzi, but the audience can already "swallow their anger" and continue to listen, because their curiosity has been mobilized, and the more you don't say it, the more curious they become.

Next, let's take an example: Xiao Fei listened on the phone and got an amazing news, that is, his friend Ah Can was going to be assassinated in five hours, Xiao Fei was in a hurry to call, but Ah Can's mobile phone was down at this time, and the two were in different cities, Xiao Fei was anxious, and was ready to go to the rescue in person, but on the way to this rush, he always encountered all kinds of troubles, traffic jams, traffic police difficulties, car breakdowns, in short, it just doesn't let you go with peace of mind, and even someone chased and killed Xiao Fei on the road, and the trouble came one after another, and at this time, the reader's heart was also suspended, whether he could rush over on time to save Ah Can！

The examples are not good, but that's what it means, let your story go up and down, you have to do one thing, to whet the reader's appetite, but just don't let you reach it easily.

In fact, storage and ups and downs are more similar techniques, both of which drop your curiosity, but they just don't tell you the answer, and hang your curiosity, but storage is soothing, but ups and downs are nervous.

Seventh, the technique of Fu Ying (hiding dew) is worthless, in fact, it is also an ambush pen, that is, to set up a plot that seems to have no special meaning (generally speaking, mostly small, subtle plots), so that the audience has seen it casually, and does not seriously perceive it, and later, when the plot has a major or bizarre mutation, it feels that the previous plot has been foreshadowed or hinted, the use of this technique can make the plot develop new and wonderful, unexpected, and make the audience feel that it is really natural and reasonable.

I thought of some similar techniques in online novels, especially Xiuzhen and fantasy, maybe the protagonist picked up a small object at a casual time, a small magic weapon, and later the protagonist encountered difficulties and was desperate, but often this small object could be taken by surprise and save the protagonist from fire and water~ Therefore, when creating online novels, some magic weapons, treasures, must be accepted by the protagonist, and may be of great use when you write the protagonist in desperation.

Eighth, the barb (rebound) The so-called barb refers to: at the end of the natural and casual text, a new character embodiment or a sharp turn in the plot is suddenly generated, and the whole text suddenly has a deep meaning~ In short, at the end, the plot suddenly has a reversal, and the meaning of the ending has changed dramatically.

For example: winter is coming, the homeless man began to worry, such a cold winter, how to get through, that is, there is no food, and there is no cotton clothes, so the homeless man thought of a way, that is, to go to prison, where there is a house to live in, and food supply, so he keeps doing bad things, robbing things, molesting women, eating overlord meals, but without exception, he was not sent to prison, when he came to a church, heard the hymns inside, and immediately his heart was purified, and he decided to be a new person and live a good life, but just when he was about to end the article, he was arrested by a policeman for the reason"Wandering is not to blame!"

Ninth, coincidence, I will not explain this anymore, there is nothing to explain.

Tenth, misunderstanding, this is no longer explained.

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[3] About the ending

1. Related**: Generally speaking, the ending of a story will have a big **! What is the meaning of **? The explanation given in Cihai is: The main contradiction and conflict in the narrative work develops to the most acute and tense stage, which is a key link in determining the fate and development prospects of both sides of the conflict, and is an indispensable organic part of the plot. If you define ** according to this, the ending of many web novels is not **, at least there is no big **, at most it is a big ups and downs.

Next, I'll talk about how to achieve it, in other words, what is the manifestation of **? In fact, it is also a method of manufacturing, in my opinion, there are two main types:

First, the release of suspense!

Second, the intersection and collision of the contradictions and conflicts of the characters!

Narrative works are generally achieved through these two ways, of course, it is not excluded that there are other ways, such as coincidental misunderstandings, about **, I will say so much here.

Again, the traditional drama ends with suspense and release.

2 Two ways about endings:

First, locked, in short, some suspense released!

Second, infinite, in a word, I want to talk ~ The story has been extended~ It makes people have a reverie in their hearts~

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