Ask for a Day Off, with the Master's Writing Experience

It takes one day to supplement + perfect the plot, adjust the status, and then carry out the sprint at the end of the month.

I have been talking about two updates before, but the result is still a single update.

Sorry, sorry, the green caterpillar will start tomorrow and try its best to make up for it! ! !

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[Starting point Masterpiece Hall writer: Yumu Burning Rope (Die Ju)'s writing experience, "The Days of Being a Spiritual Mentor in Meiman"]

Due to a screenshot of the manuscript fee I posted on the post bar, many people have come to me to read the article.

First of all, I want to say that because there are too many people, and I have to update 10,000 words every day, sometimes I really can’t read it. If you see that your message has been read, but you haven’t replied, just Explain that I don't have time to type, but will reply when I do.

I have to make a statement, first, I don't accept apprentices, and second, I don't charge any fees. Some people who add my contact information send me red envelopes, but I don't accept them, no matter how much it is.

First of all, I am not short of this little money. Secondly, when I post strategies or help others read articles, I am actually sorting out and summarizing my own ideas, so it is completely free of charge. If someone uses my banner to do something Please don't believe in fee-based consultation and the like.

The purpose of posting this post today is because most of the newbies who come to me to read the article have similar questions. I don’t need to answer them one by one. In fact, you only need to read more The skills of other great gods in the bar can be answered.

However, many people may be impatient due to the stimulation of manuscript fees, want to earn quick money, and want to enter the industry quickly, so here I also have a strategy that can be provided to novice authors who have not signed a contract or have signed a lot of books but their results are not satisfactory.

First, figure out what a novel is.

A novel is a literary genre, and an online novel is also a novel, and it must have all the elements of a novel.

time, place, person.

cause, process, result.

I hope that many new writers will examine their beginnings more, whether they have fully explained these six elements, novel writers at this stage must complete the six elements, and don’t use some foreshadowing to hide too much. Readers are confused.

Concepts that can be summarized and refined and written into textbooks must be in line with the aesthetics of most people.

You want to say, are there any niche readers who love to read some stream-of-consciousness novels?

There must be, but the size of this group of people is definitely not enough for you to make money by writing novels.

When you think of an idea and start to write, the first thing you have to do is to list these six elements, instead of just having a vague concept in your mind, or having dialogues between several characters.

When you list these six elements, you will find that there are many mistakes in the plots you have in mind.

For example, the cause of your story is not sufficient to lead to its course, and the course is not sufficient to produce this effect.

If this basic logical chain is not clear, then this cannot be regarded as a novel.

Only when these six elements are met, can it be called a novel, not a journal or a travelogue.

Many people feel that they have thought of a very wonderful brain hole at the beginning of the article, and call it inspiration.

But when you put it into practice, you find that it is not the same as you imagined in your mind, it is not exciting enough, it seems very dry.

At this time, you may suspect that my writing skills are not enough. If I have the writing skills of a master, then I will be able to present this brain hole perfectly and wonderfully.

But in many cases, the advantage of a great master lies not in the writing style, but in explaining one thing clearly so that readers can understand it. This is the most important thing.

Writing is the icing on the cake, and the basic elements are the basis for you to write a novel. Without this basis, any of your brilliant ideas cannot be called a story.

Here are the six elements in detail.

Time does not simply refer to the era in which the protagonist lives, it can also be a season or a certain time of day.

Why tell the time? In addition to being helpful for you to clarify the timeline later, it is also conducive to shaping your atmosphere. For example, what happened in the morning and what happened at dusk have completely different atmospheres, and can also be combined with your environment description , used to enhance the atmosphere.

The location is not just about simply writing where the protagonist is now, but adding a certain environmental description so that readers can substitute for your protagonist and watch everything around him.

Many people will find that the place where the great god writes a book may be just a sentence, simply explaining where the protagonist is, but the premise of doing so is that he can convey the current environment through the image of the characters and their behavior.

Let me give you the simplest example. The master can let readers see at a glance whether the protagonist is in the fantasy East or the fantasy West through the half-literal language style or the language style of translation.

But many people who don't have this kind of writing ability, how can readers feel where the protagonist is now and what kind of atmosphere he is in?

Then we can take a relatively simple method, that is, the description of the environment and the atmosphere.

Some people think that the description of the environment is more difficult, but in fact, it is the simplest and most straightforward method to enhance the reader's sense of substitution. If you want to present this sense of substitution by using dialogue character descriptions or detailed descriptions, etc., Only harder.

As for the character, I have already written about it in the chapter on character description and appearance before. The first time a certain character appears on the stage is the time when readers are most likely to remember him.

The description method at this time can be described from the side, that is, don’t write about the character of this person from the perspective of God, and don’t use certain words in your outline to repeatedly stuff readers.

Instead, build a scene, let some passers-by talk or interact with each other, and mention this character.

If you must describe a character from the perspective of God, try to start from his life, and write the introduction of the character more like a traceable history, rather than a fictional setting to be imposed on readers.

In terms of the cause and result, it needs to be emphasized that not only the cause, process and result of a major event must be clearly written, but also a small event must be clearly written.

Let me give you an example. Xiao Ming was hungry, so he walked under the apple tree and picked up an apple. This is the simplest cause and result.

Xiao Ming was hungry. On his way to the apple tree, he met a wolf. He defeated the wolf and picked up the apple.

At this time, the event that he encountered a wolf halfway must also have a complete cause and result.

For example, why did you encounter a wolf? Xiao Ming happened to be in the wolf's habitat? Or was he walking too loudly, waking the sleeping wolves?

Xiao Ming's process of defeating wolves can be by using the most common tricks in online texts, such as systems, treasures, and exercises, or by using wisdom or tricks.

This solves the question of many novices, "Do novels have to have golden fingers?" My answer is that there is no need, but the process must be explained clearly.

Then the result is that he defeated the wolf, and he gained something after defeating, such as peeling the wolf's skin and using it to make clothes.

Many people have a certain awareness when describing the big cause and the result, but once they fall into small incidents, they will either not explain where the wolf came from, and suddenly a cyber phantom wolf appears out of thin air, or It is Schrödinger's wolf, which exists for a while and does not exist for a while.

The process is even skipped directly. I feel that this is a small incident in the incident. There is no need to elaborate on it, and the result is not mentioned. Some only write that Xiao Ming picked up an apple after meeting a wolf, which makes people confused. .

When you write these six elements clearly, then the brain hole can be transformed into a novel.

I believe that the reasons given by many newcomers when they are rejected are too plain, so the next thing I will talk about is the storyline of the novel. The so-called storyline is actually a dramatic conflict.

Looking at the works of many famous writers, you will feel that their writing is very real, but if you really analyze it carefully, you will find that the plot of the novel is completely different from the real life, and there are too many dramatic conflicts conceived by the author himself.

But this kind of fictional conflict does not affect it becoming a masterpiece, so when many newcomers are writing, it is completely unnecessary to worry about whether the conflict will be too deliberate.

If there are not enough conflicts and contradictions arranged, the story of the novel will definitely be lacking, and it will become more like an expository text.

To solve the problem that the beginning is too flat, the most important thing is to add a short and sharp dramatic conflict to your beginning.

And this conflict also has basic elements: motivation, technique, and harvest.

This may sound a bit like the elements of a detective novel, but in fact it can still be applied to novels of almost all genres.

Motivation refers to the motivation of all the characters appearing in this dramatic conflict, that is, why do they come here?

The technique refers to what did everyone do for this motive? how do they do it

And the harvest is what did everyone gain in this matter?

To give a simple example, Xiao Ming is hungry, and he sees an apple falling from the apple tree, and at this time, Xiao Hong is also hungry, and she also sees an apple falling from the apple tree, both of them want to get this apple.

Xiao Ming chooses to sprint, wanting to pick up the apple before Xiao Hong, but Xiao Hong is stepping on the skateboard, wanting to take advantage of the tools to be faster than Xiao Ming.

At this time, the dramatic conflict is that when two people want the same thing, they have to start a game.

And the point of your description and attracting readers is that readers will also be curious about who of the two will get the apple, and who of the two will use the smarter method.

In the end, Xiaohong was still faster, she picked up the apple earlier than Xiaoming, but at this time, don't stop thinking about this matter, and finally need to write about the harvest.

It’s not enough to just write that she got an apple. I should spare some pen and ink to describe how sweet this apple is to hungry people. Readers can get a sense of substitution from this kind of harvest, which is the refreshing feeling often said in online articles.

When you have the six elements of a novel and conflict with a most basic drama, there is definitely no problem in signing a contract. Even after mastering this part of the skills, it is no problem to get thousands of averages or even high-quality goods. As long as you can read the story If you make it clear, a large number of readers will buy it.

And if you want to hit big boutiques or even Wanjun, what you have to do is to tell the story wonderfully, to grasp the detailed description of the parts that readers want to read most keenly, and to skip the parts that readers don't want to see, and to condense and condense the structure. achieve a classic effect.

Of course, this is not what this article can talk about, after all, I haven't done it myself.