■ Novice guide to online writing (role-building)
As a new author, pull your spirit back from the fantasy world. Remember, because you saw a beautiful woman in your fantasy, you should wipe the saliva off your mouth. Put aside the fantasy of marrying Bill's daughter and getting rich and living a luxurious life. Don't go out and think you are a national hero just because you think you will lead the army to destroy Japan. When you are hungry, make a bowl of instant noodles honestly. In order to turn instant noodles into hamburgers, you have to sit in front of the computer, post what makes you happy in your mind on the Internet, make others feel happy, and then buy you money for hamburgers because of this happy feeling.
With your own topic, you don't have to write thousands of words immediately and then post them online. Then I dream at night, my book has clicked over one million, and my collection is flying all over the sky. The editor at the starting point said after me, Da, sign up. Pushing the seal and pushing the middle is a mess, and the contract is the same.
Basically, I understand the author's confidence and mood at this time, just like if you buy a two-dollar lottery ticket, you will think you won the prize. No one will feel unlucky before something happens, but 90% of writing will feel that what they write is interesting, valuable and will bring benefits to themselves. Of course, the scum who copied from the beginning simply to cheat money is not one of them.
With a theme, it is not a novel, especially a novel that can be used to sell money. Everyone has learned the three elements of writing in primary school, and I believe many newcomers have read many writing guides. For example, a writing guide written by an American author, which was quite popular not long ago, has Mr. Lao She's writing experience at my bedside.
But here, I want to tell those authors whose first goal is to serialize novels online, you can read them, but you can completely ignore what the writing manual says. Our goal is to write novels that we like and can be used to exchange money for readers to buy hamburgers on the website, instead of dying as poor as the great Mr. Cao Lu.
Once again, this article is aimed at writers who like fantasy and writing, but also want to exchange writing for income, rather than lofty writers who want to write shocking articles, hoping that celebrities will always regard money as dirt. I'm just a poor business writer, and I'm not qualified to tell you how to write.
There are basically only three kinds of online novels, especially long online novels with more than one million words.
First, shaping the role, the plot bridge is to highlight the characters and serve. In this respect, the representative work of introducing me into the net text, The Story of Charm, is very representative. Charm story, more than four million words down, no one can remember. But the charming characters make you forget the plot and still remember it deeply. Another classic work, Zichuan, is also a classic example of characters guiding the plot. Most of these writers and loyal readers have a lot of comic reading habits. I call it animation creation. About the advantages and disadvantages of animation writing, I will mention it in the later part.
Second, the plot promotes the work, the character is vague, and the theme and plot structure of the book are the core. Character is only part of the plot. Generally speaking, writers who are deeply influenced by traditional writing style like to adopt this writing style. This kind of writing is also more difficult than the writing with the role as the core.
Third, giving consideration to both, you can have a popular plot and a distinctive personality. Well, if you can write such a work in the first film, I'll call it a genius. Anyway, among the more than 40 thousand authors who have a starting point, there are probably less than two digits with this ability. So, new authors, be realistic and give up the third one.
For new authors, I encourage you to use the first one to shape your character and role. Frankly speaking, the plot of the novel, the difficulty of innovation and the speed of imitation will make people dumbfounded. But is it the old story that no one will watch? This is wrong. For example, women's Cinderella complex, men's erotic complex and war plot are eternal.
But since it is a cliche, why can readers pay for countless similar stories they have seen?
It is when readers like this role that they will be attracted to it. The same story has different reading feelings under different personality roles.
Of course, this is not for you to copy and paste. In the future, I will talk about some reasonable, legal and reasonable ways to learn from works. If you do such a stupid thing as copying and pasting, congratulations, your goal of making readers pay for it is more difficult to achieve than eating Northeast food and drinking beer every day without getting fat.
Looking back, let's talk about how to create a popular or personalized character image. But don't overdo it. For example, an author who claims to be a primary school student is so individual that the first editor is afraid to sign his book, which is not worth it.
The shaping of a role is essentially the shaping of a character, or the shaping of a character's face. How is a character's personality understood by readers? The tone and lines in conversation, the way things are handled, and some behaviors that are different from others.
Animation is the best teacher in this respect. What, you only watch h-man, then forget it.
New authors always want to write a world with a complicated background from the beginning. Well, a continent, what race, what imperial corps and so on, a lot of messy characters, did not write tens of thousands of words, even the names and races of the characters are messy.
In fact, when a book was first conceived, it was determined that the protagonist was generally male. If it is the heroine, I admire your courage. But on the current network, the possibility of becoming popular by a heroine is really pitiful. Well, it's almost the same as the odds of winning 13 games in the football lottery.
We have confirmed that it is the hero. It's time to determine the character of the character. Personality, environment, ability. With these three points, basically a role is basically available. At this time, it is necessary to highlight the special features of the characters. Here I remind you that appearance is also a personality setting. If the protagonist you set is a beautiful teenager, you should figure out how to express it.
Most authors use role attraction. For example, when my sister sees him, her heart secretly moves. When her man sees him, she thinks he is the real dragon son of heaven. This kind of stallion, the spirit of the king, actually hopes to show the characteristics of the protagonist himself. Don't think this is out of date and can't be written just because you scolded the stallion and the king in the forum or book review. Being good at using it is still very attractive to readers.
But the premise is to give the protagonist an acceptable explanation, such as the classic sweet potato is a model. I am an exorcist. Although this book is of average quality, it has a great influence on the writing of online merchants. )
But it is precisely because most authors have used the spirit of stallion and king that it will be more popular to go further on this basis. For example, the popular novel The Legend of Baal became a double doctor at the age of ten, which is a successful model. Such a talented person must be very popular. Because of this unreasonable setting, readers have subconsciously accepted countless possibilities after the protagonist.
But newcomers often make the mistake of writing the protagonist as an ordinary person, or that he is not an ordinary person, but wants to be an ordinary person or something. As soon as this setting came out, it was written that the protagonist was infinitely charming, which attracted countless young ladies and heroes to bend over. The reader will subconsciously think, doesn't he want to be ordinary? Why? This unreasonable feeling will make many readers cancel the book directly.
Many serious newcomers will feel that they should set very strict and reasonable settings at first, so as to write a good book. Well, let me tell you, this is pure nonsense.
What in this world is more incredible than magic, rebirth, repairing the truth and changing history? Since readers don't even hesitate to accept this kind of thing, they can accept any abnormal settings. But remember, fallacies are also fallacies. If there is no fallacy, it is really hopeless.
Just like the beginning of a book, the protagonist is worth trillions, and his pocket money is hundreds of millions every month. Then someone knocked at his door, and the protagonist answered it. Among them, it is absolutely absurd to be worth trillions and spend hundreds of millions of pocket money, but it is acceptable to most readers. Because, for readers who have not been exposed to real life, it is not important to have one or two zeros in a certain number. Anyway, at this time, they won't think that Comrade Bill Gates, as the richest man in the world, is worth only tens of billions of dollars.
But when such a rich man lives in an apartment and opens the door in person, it will make readers feel unreasonable. How can money be like this? Although it is basically difficult for newcomers to write about the extravagance of the rich, even two old farmers will say that he will definitely eat meat buns every day, not that the emperor eats buns every day.
So when setting, especially when writing the protagonist of fantasy novel, the principle is to give yourself a reason why a character is in this environment. Then give a character's personality range in this environment.
Of course, I don't object that newcomers don't need to be reasonable when writing books and setting roles. But remember, this is never the focus of role setting. Instead of thinking about rationality, we should think about how to make the role reasonable.
Strengthening the characteristics of the role to express the character of the role has a common and always useful thing, which is to say that the role is great and powerful through the mouth of the enemy. Well, that's what I do when I write a book. Because when the reader is immersed in reading a book, he will feel that what the enemy says will be more powerful than what the character wants. And further, it is to highlight the role identification environment through a lot of dialogue with the enemy. This way of writing is easier to remember than standing on the side of the role.
In the setting of characters, one thing must be remembered, that is, today's readers hate cowardly and hesitant protagonists. Unless your writing style is as good as blue crystal, don't try to write such a highly creative personality setting.
When setting a character, it is best to give him a prominent point, and then often mention it from different people in the future, or the protagonist often expresses it with a behavior. There used to be evil laughter, tiger body shaking and so on. Of course, it is better to change some new words now. Actually, you can put a little more pen and ink on it. For example, the hero's road idiot in Miss Tian Yun. In The Tale of Charm, the protagonist is a rude orangutan, the popular role hunter is greedy for money, Nell's great power, the explosion of Aileen's finished products and so on. In the book, they mention these characteristics almost every time they appear. Repeated appearances also give readers a very deep understanding of these characters and their identities.
As for what to give, it doesn't matter When writing, you can think about what kind of hero you like, and then let your hero be like this.
But a popular writing method in animation writing is that the protagonist is used to develop the plot, the supporting role is used to show the character, and the enemy is used to radiate brilliance. The character of the character must be simple. In this case, the characters are smart, profound and complicated, which is asking for a dead end. Don't say that readers don't like it, and the possibility that the author can finish it is pitiful.
After setting a character, it is best to think of a few words that can represent the character and say them often to deepen the salience of the character.
At the beginning of writing, don't set too many roles at once. It is best to limit the number of characters to a relatively small range at the beginning and write a big scene at the beginning. Many characters, readers and writers are tired of reading it.
The reading of online works is high-paced, especially in the early stage. The protagonist's appearance should be within three chapters as far as possible, and the climax of the protagonist's personality can be shown within one or two chapters. It's no longer the legendary swordsman's time. A supporting role can endure for a long time at the beginning of the book. Even if the author wants to drag the manuscript and click on it, it is best to do such a dangerous thing after 300 thousand words and your readers have some inertia. There are too many books to read now. Who's interested in watching you slowly let others hang out from the beginning?
After Datang Shuanglong, many newcomers like to write multi-protagonists. In general, it is not the fate of the author, but multiple protagonists that mean you are finished.