After reading yesterday's chapter, some readers said that the protagonist has no goal and lacks internal drive. Let me explain this, in fact, there are two ways to write the main line promotion: one of them is the explicit main line, and the so-called explicit main line is the author clearly tells the reader at the beginning.

Let's take the most popular mystery master as an example, the main line of the first volume is the notebook, which is clearly written at the beginning. The protagonist has been working hard to find the missing notebook. In the second volume, the protagonist is resurrected in the hope of divination, upgrades and revenge in Beckland. Volume 3, Go on an adventure at sea in order to level up........... Until the end, the main author of each volume writes directly at the beginning to tell the reader, and then the plot is launched.

Think about it, isn't that so?

The other way to write is the implicit main line, which will not tell the reader directly, but all the conflict points, all the contradictions, are foreshadowed in advance. When the plot slowly unfolds, the reader will find that all this is natural, not abrupt at all, and even feels that it should be so.

might as well recall that the first volume of Jingcha Fengyun, is there a lot of foreshadowing?

Of course, some books really don't have a main line, and what comes to mind is written. But I'm not.

The advantage of the implicit main line is that you never know what the follow-up plot is, it could be comedy, it could be a knife. The downside is that sometimes the reader feels aimless because the plot hasn't arrived yet.

Take the content of the second volume of the Shifter as an example, you don't know what the main line is, so you can't guess its ending and process.

Another benefit is that, from the perspective of reading experience, it is the world that pushes the protagonist and the rolling torrent of history that advances.

As for the way the dominant main line is written, you already know his ending in advance, but what you don't know is the process.

This set of theories is my own blind speculation, but the way of writing has existed for a long time, take the four famous works as examples, the dominant main line: Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Invisible main line: Water Margin, Dream of Red Mansions.

We all know his main line and know his ending. What is not known is the process.

The Water Margin and Dream of Red Mansions are hidden, and the ending of Liangshan Heroes and Jiafu is something I never expected.

Most of today's online articles are explicit main lines.

Before opening the book, I had clearly thought about this issue, and after choosing to write with an implicit main line, I wrote from the perspective of the whole worldview, downplaying the goal of the protagonist.

Let the situation do the trick.