URGENT!!! How can I write a good novel? Regardless of the various types of novels How to exercise good writing skills

In today's era of proliferation of novels, more and more novels are slowly ignoring the creative skills, blind pursuit of pleasure, venting, indiscriminate and other phenomena are also increasing.

The writing is better, the statement is more gorgeous, the plot is exaggerated, that is only the surface, as if a handsome, beautiful, this kind of novel may be very appealing at first, but then, can you keep that group of readers will depend on the author's real ability.

I think the article can not be separated from the human nature, as far as I know, today's hottest and most popular anime, often those who draw the level of general, but in the story of the fascinating works, especially in the human nature of the work of the molding of the success; and those who draw the level of level has reached the "master" level, because of story can not meet the requirements of the readers and was knocked out of the cold. On the other hand, there are many works that have reached the level of "master" in terms of drawing, but have been rejected because the story does not satisfy the readers' demands. For example, the relatively successful anime work "Gundam" mainly depicts the nature of war - is it because of great power that war is brought about or is it because of the need for peace that power is needed to maintain peace? Whether war is right or wrong has always been the question that everyone searches for. It describes war to the fullest extent, and even more so, it utilizes war to set off the multi-faceted phenomenon of human nature. That's why the Japanese anime series "Gundam" has been high on the list.

Now let's discuss the techniques of creating novels:

The plot of a novel has a sense of rhythm, it's like a piano piece, its melody has light, heavy, sharp and slow, the tune in the slow and gentle, or passionate, high time, all have to be thoughtfully designed to complete. A tune that has no melody will be very comfortable and moving to listen to. But if the tune is disorganized and discordant, it sounds harsh and uncomfortable, and you don't know what it's trying to say. The tune has a staccato rhythm, so does the structure of that story.

I. Portrayal of Character Personality

1. The elements of character expression are:

a, unique expressions

b, habitual movements

c, common dialogues

d, thoughts

y, intentions and desires

f, weaknesses and defects

g, character's good and bad Habits

2, the use of these elements:

All of the above elements can be used as a creative tool, these tools must be good at using, you can set these settings out of the bar, and then there is a performance of the part to make a mark, the more important part of the personality, it should be repeated over and over again to deepen the reader's impression of the character.

Two, the use of supporting characters and set off

There is so a joke, handsome girls always like to stay with people who are uglier or shorter than themselves, because then set off. Story creation is the same, also need this kind of foil, especially the supporting role of the foil, constantly using the supporting role to set off the protagonist, full of your protagonist will be molded into an idol. So all the supporting characters are set up to set off the protagonist.

1. Types of Supporting Characters:

Positive - Mentor, Adoring, Assisting

Uncertain - Mysterious, Competitive, Scandalous

Negative. - Framing type

2. Assisting type: appearing inseparably with the protagonist from time to time, the essential role of sharing the same difficulties and sharing the same riches.

Mentor type: to give the protagonist the correct knowledge and concepts of the supporting role of the adoring type: the protagonist of the object of desire, usually will also be (male) heroine, the protagonist of the state of mind a great impact, is to affect the entire plot changes in the important role.

Mysterious: will have a significant positive or negative impact on the protagonist, will never report his name by himself, and usually he is deified.

Competitive type: strength must not be the protagonist first advantage, but itself will be the protagonist of the hidden strength of excitement or fear, will not hinder the progress of the protagonist, but will promote the protagonist's growth, and become enough to compete with their own rivals.

Framing type: Usually in order to get something that the main character has, or for different reasons such as they don't like the main character, they often work against the main character, and they are also an indispensable character in the plot.

Joker: A character who often pulls people's leg and does stupid, ridiculous things for laughs.

3, each character has his necessary function, just like the online game, in your plot must constantly create a balance, and then break the balance, so the interaction between the characters is correspondingly important, when the positive force is too strong, it means that the sense of crisis is not enough; when the negative force is too strong, it means that the status of the protagonist is going to collapse. The climax is constantly created with such a stack.

Three, the bridge play and setting

1, contrast method bridge: in the positioning of the protagonist, arrange another bridge, and the protagonist's setting to do jealousy of the contrast contrast contrast, this way, it is easy to let the readers have a measure of standard, more highlight the protagonist's different.

For example: a desperate loser meets a penniless, but hopeful protagonist for the future, the two produce a great contrast, better set off the protagonist, shaping his image.

2, stacking method bridge: the layout of the bridge arranged in advance to a height, and then the protagonist will be stacked to this height, the protagonist will naturally arrive at the highest position without any effort.

E.g.: a legendary swordsman,, the sword is quite exquisite, there is no one is his enemy, some challenge him in three strokes were chopped to death. But strangely enough, he was defeated in a single blow against an unassuming middle-aged tramp, and when the crowd worshipped him a 17 or 18 year old boy appeared, whom the tramp called master.

Examples like this suggest that the teenager may be the more powerful character, and there may be a lot of imagination behind it, seeing as how we've already pulled this teenager's abilities and status level, using the power of others, to an extraordinary high.

3, the trap method bridge: the use of bridge will slowly force the protagonist to desperation, so that readers have been worried about the protagonist's crisis, and then a big shift, so that the protagonist's position positive and negative inversion, resulting in a great disparity, in order to highlight the protagonist's ability. The principle is to set up a bridge of continuous low tide, so that the transformation process quickly becomes a climax, so that the protagonist's ability to double the highlights.

For example, the original protagonist has been in the predicament of being bullied, and only in the end does the reader realize that the protagonist has been "wise as a fool," making the enemy suddenly in a disadvantageous position in the latter part of the story.

Four, make good use of the ambush

The ambush is the author in order to show an important section of the plot, in the previous will be set up related to the bridge or tips, to the story to a degree, and then will be the bridge or tips echoed out of the technique.

The ambush is like a hidden bomb, it makes more changes in the plot, it may only appear once in the way it is expressed in the picture, or it may be an unintentional bridge, or even a line of dialogue; ambush buried, do not be detached from the ambush echo for too long, so that the readers' memories may disappear, and the meaning of ambush is lost; ambush descriptions can also be a continuum of The description of the ambush can also be continuous, a fragment of the ambush buried in a paragraph, and finally in all together, so that the ambush embodied in this way can be extended backward in time.

1, ambush can not be separated from the theme of this is an invariable principle, the focus of the story is only one, all the factors are due to such a principle, ambush content and the theme of the content is not irrelevant, otherwise not only to achieve the effect, but also may weaken the power of the story.

2, do not use too much ambush too many different ambush, but will make the reader confused, lost the meaning of ambush, unless there is a coherent ambush, do continuity of the buried; excessive buy ambush, but also the theme of the story will become blurred.

3, become the power of transformation and the climax of the explosive point of the ambush design, the purpose is to surprise the reader, such a design, but also a way of transformation in the plot. The ambush is revealed and echoed, the point of time is quite important, which also involves the rhythm of the plot, if we can make good use of the ambush and explode at the climax point, which is the best way to show.

4, remember to close on the ambush of the buried, we must be quite clear, otherwise it will become a tiger's head, to the end of the sudden hours but no clear explanation; before the ambush of a few resurgence, to the end must echo each other a few ambushes, if our plot is too complex, it is advisable to make notes, and then in the process of scriptwriting to constantly remind themselves, so as to avoid the end of the plot is missing! .

Fifth, the rhythm of the plot

1, the roller coaster principle we say that the bland play, may not be able to raise the reader's interest, but are the climax of the play will also make the reader overstrained, become paralyzed; assuming that the plot of the high and low, like a curve of ups and downs, we can analyze the principle that is the high and low undulation the more the plot to achieve the effect of the more amazing, like an amusement park roller coaster, the greater the difference between high and low passages, the more miserable the sound of passengers screaming, the higher the process of stimulation. We can call such a principle the roller coaster principle.

2, the beat of the plot but here we have to add is the rhythm. If the high and low ups and downs are the Y-axis on the coordinates, then the X-axis part can be said to be the beat; music in a bar can be a beat, one-half of a beat, can also be as fast as one-eighth of a beat; the tempo of the fast and slow, the relative impact on the emotional ups and downs of the people, the slow beat, give a person the emotion of smoothness, and the faster the beat, then give a person tense emotions, so that the principle also applies in the structure of the plot.

Here, you should notice why it is said that art is the same principle, and this same rhythm can also be reflected in art works, calligraphy, colors and symbols, etc., which are all the same principle.

3, the use of fast and slow collocation to control the reader's emotions

a, smooth plot with a slow rhythm

b, impact plot with a fast pace

fifth, hanging the reader's appetite

a lot of newcomers to storytelling often make the mistake that is straight all the way to the end, want to say what they say, a lot of good ideas, there is no brewing process. process, just straight to the show. The purpose of the above is to increase the number of techniques we can use to make the point we want to make, and to brew it up until it's the perfect time to break it out. To be clear, the novel is like a battle of wits between the writer and the reader, when we arrange the plot, at the beginning of the reader already know the ending, the reader still want to read on?

1, so that readers hooked

In fact, the author is the master of the story, you are God, you can decide the fate of any role in the play; the same, you can also decide your most exciting ideas, to appear at what time, as long as the reader is the most want to know the answer, you are sure to not be too early for the readers to know, but each process reveals a little snippet of information, so readers are anxious to know, and can not know, and then the readers can not know, and then the readers will not know, and then the reader can not know. But each process reveals a little piece of information, so that the reader is anxious to know, and can not know, and then slowly by your plot to lead the way.

2, the best time to reveal the mystery

And let the reader know the answer to the timing, like in fishing, pull the rod of the time point must be accurate, when the fish on the hook, too early to pull, the bait has not been into the mouth of the fish, the fish will run away; too late to pull the bait, the bait has been eaten, the fish will also run. Too early will be the answer, the reader of your needs have not been formed, the effect will be discounted; and too late will be the answer, the reader loses patience will also run away. Between the receipt and release must be mastered, if you do not have the confidence, may wish to let a few more friends to see, give some advice, as you amend the reference.

Seven, master the theme

The most important principle of the novel should be to master the theme. When we are creating, no matter what good ideas we have, we should not deviate from the theme as the highest principle.

The way of scriptwriting is to add whatever you think is good, and constantly suppose other ideas if you don't have any. I've seen a lot of novels deviate from the theme, often because of a sudden inspiration, or perhaps because there was no good idea, and I couldn't make it up, so I added a lot of things that didn't relate to the theme, and went against the theme.

1, how not to deviate from the theme

If it is able to add points of inspiration, it is begging to be added, must be added, if there is no any can be combined with the possibility of the idea, then, please store this idea, perhaps as the next work of creativity,. If you really can't come up with any ideas, we suggest you go back to the original point and look at your previous settings. As long as you have done enough work before, you can definitely find a direction from it, and you can also take a look at the completed plot to see if there is anything that you have forgotten to account for, or can be extended; from a reader's point of view, observing and looking for a direction that can be succeeded by repeatedly observing and searching for the direction of your work is also a method; or else, you can just Put down your pen, leave your work, do something else, and let yourself relax, because maybe you've gotten too far into the bull's-eye to get out of it.

2, the use of multi-line structure principles

Sometimes we also use the more difficult multi-line structure, such a screenwriting techniques need to be more skillful experience, for the big long storyline, multi-line structure has become necessary, because more and more characters appear, to explain the story will not be limited to a single story, the focus of attention of the multi-line structure is roughly as follows: a, before and after the echo: The main structure of the story is fixed, in the plot will appear in the plot of the branch, but remember, the branch plot must be in the end to the theme, otherwise it will become impossible to end.

b, the primary and secondary clear: that is, the theme in the emergence of branching structure, gradually replaced by branching structure, branching structure into the main structure, which is the theme of the offset, but also we are the most careful taboo. Therefore, we must distinguish between the main and the subordinate system of the structure, so as not to compile to the end of the anti-passenger to take the lead.

C, know how to love: Zhiqi that also mentioned, sometimes we have too many ideas back, can not wait to all squeeze into a work. In fact, when our plot is already quite solid, do not add to it, which will paralyze the reader, or side to be difficult to read. Too complex plot, usually not too easy to be accepted by the public, after all, the novel is a mass commodity, we have to comply with the object is also the general readers, therefore, sometimes cut the love is necessary to retain some good ideas, do flaws long to do the subject matter.

Eight, create a climax

Bland plot is not a form of performance, if you can say the story is very plain, but there are shaking people's hearts, that your power can be extraordinary; bland techniques in fact, also hidden climax, just buried very well not to be seen, for the creation of a newcomer to the plot of the climax of the ups and downs of the plot will be far more than the plot of the bland and easy to deal with, we must first learn how to create a climax, we must learn how to create a climax. We need to learn how to create a climax first, and then after we have more experience, we will slowly learn how to hide the climax in the plot.

Readers are always looking forward to your climax when they read your work, and your careful planning and lengthy operation is to show the most wonderful part of the plot, to touch the readers' hearts, and to make the readers cry for you and laugh for you. But if you don't perform well, the work is actually considered a failure.

1. Concentrate all the power for the climax: when the plot has progressed smoothly, we have to concentrate all the attention to create the climax of the plot, we should concentrate all the skills to explode in the key climax point, so that the plot will be y felt.

The so-called skills, such as: the flow of time, rhythm, appetite, creativity, the main line, characters, scenes, ambush, etc.

2, more than good: the climax of the plot should not be placed in the structure of the irrelevant place, in fact, is also equivalent to do not deviate from the main line, equivalent to the front of all the direction of the operation do not deviate from the theme, so that the effect will be presented in a solid manner.

3, the unexpected: in addition, the climax of the performance, I hope which is not too formulaic, the past has seen a variety of ways of expression is available for reference, but it is best that we can be more mind to change, virtual is real, real is false, in the process of the battle of wits with the readers, as far as possible, can be out of the crowd of people's expectations, will make the readers marveled at, in short, think a little bit more, it will be different.

4, sustained orgasm: sustained orgasm is a taboo? We want to be different, it is necessary to get out of the frame, sometimes, the use of taboo is also a very means to achieve the very effect, if we are in the early stages of the accumulated energy is enough to play to the second or even the third climax, then, we use the sustained orgasm and is not impossible.

But the use of continuous orgasm, must pay attention to the stimulation of the reader will produce paralysis, therefore, the time to close should be closed, stop.

Nine, human nature is the heart of the story

Here to comic as the subject to tell this truth.

There are a lot of works with super high drawing skills, but not the most popular works, while some popular works with mediocre drawing skills, the reason is actually simple, the picture is just to attract the reader's first impression of the elements. It's like when we see a handsome guy on the street, we usually unconsciously take a look at him, which can only be described as liking, but to really fall in love with him, even for a lifetime, then you will consider his inner self. If he is like a wooden man with a false sense of humor, you may feel obtrusive even if he is placed beside you for a week. Therefore, in addition to attracting readers at first glance, how to retain readers to read your work in its entirety without getting bored, is the key to victory, think of those tens of volumes of manga masterpieces, how to retain the hearts of readers for more than a decade of light and unchanged, and even more so for the wildly sought after.

(Writing here, I suddenly thought of a few years ago, that is, the comic work "the soul of the game" is very red during that period, China's Weiqi Association, I do not know what to call it, I forget the name, I only know that he enjoys a high degree of popularity in China's Weiqi community, in his new novel of Weiqi but a large number of plagiarized the "soul of the game" of this work, the result is that he was in Shanghai autograph session a large number of fans of the "soul of the game" scolding, but also some tears in front of his eyes, the "soul of the game" fans. As a result, he was scolded by a large number of fans of "The Soul of Go" at a book signing in Shanghai, and some people even tore up his novel with tears in their eyes. How saddening it was! Chinese celebrities plagiarize Japanese works, and as a fan of Chess Soul readers (including most manga fans), it's intolerable! As a result, his website forum was scolded more than 10,000 pages of posts, scolding posts close to 1,000 pages of digital growth every day.

Imagine the fascination it takes when it's a manga work that is embraced by so many people. I'd like to ask how many novels in China can achieve this effect.

There is also a "King of Thieves" manga, I see that the serialization at least have more than 12 years, support, support it, and how many fans for it and crazy comic ah! It's been at the top of the Japanese manga charts for several years, why? Why? Because it's an anime that can make you laugh and cry, with strong characters, incredible story development, and a strong focus on "humanity.")

The answer is simple: humanity! We must give the characters in the play unique personalities, and use these strong characters to express human nature in its entirety. We must be able to control the reader's emotions, trigger the reader's humanity, and make the reader cry wildly when they should cry, and laugh wildly when they should laugh, which is the unique charm of the play.

So when designing a selection, the characters also serve as quite an important part, and some good titles are actually successful even before the characters.

Remember that when you set up a selection, you also pre-determine the focus of the character and the expression of humanity. What catches the reader's eye in any work is not mere skill in drawing or florid phrasing, but a moving story, and a moving story is often expressed by human nature.

Ten, the same to seek differences

Many of the classic themes or successful works are worth absorbing for reference, the world has not been created theme seems to be very few, for our creation, will often find a lot of creative themes, may have been done a long time ago, or soon after the market appeared in the same theme, so that you are very sorry, this kind of collision is often the case. This kind of collision is often the case. Imagine, when your work is tolerated suspicion of plagiarism, you will not feel innocent?

How do we find our niche in an age of ever-expanding information and creativity, or discover new subjects within already successful ones. Even for classic subjects, due to the change of time and space, and the different environment in which the creators grew up, there are chances for different ways of expression and new connotations. Therefore, it is not difficult to find out the direction of good works by identifying the skeleton, the spirit, and the wonderful elements of successful works, and repackaging them by adding your own new ideas and personal characteristics.

Eleven, the pattern of creativity

I don't know if you have seen the movie some of the film and television analysis, we all say that Zhang Yimou's film is a big pattern, can do like Zhang Yimou as a big pattern of a small number of people.

1, point-type creativity: this type of creativity, usually used only for a small detail, not suitable for too long an extension, in the creation of the role of embellishment.

The point-type idea is an independent creative type, she can exist alone, can also be arbitrarily placed into the plot of the part needed.

Similar to a funny line of dialog or a funny gesture, this idea can also be converted into a character's catchphrase or habitual action.

Inside a good script, the idea of the point type is always present, because he is like the upholstery of a perfect piece of furniture, allowing the reader to experience the author's intentions at all times.

Such an idea is not scalable, we are in the idea stage, if it is a long story, it is necessary to record such an idea, without the need to put into the skeleton of the story, because the idea stage, filter out the focus is quite important, must be cut when such an idea does not matter.

2, the key type of creativity: this type of creativity belongs to the plot of an important bridge or turning point on the key, he will affect the extended development of the story and echo the ambush of the front, such creativity is also possible to form a short story key type of creativity is characterized by a single purpose for him to produce ideas, different from the typical creative, his framework is sufficient to play to a simple complete story.

The key idea can be an important part of a paragraph in a longer story, and several key ideas are enough to frame a longer story.

The focus of the idea is on an unexpected plot twist, designed to compel the reader's emotions for a short period of time, or to attract the reader's attention.

The key idea at the beginning of a long story is even more important, because the reader's reaction in the first few times determines the subsequent life of your work. If you don't use the key idea at the beginning to attract readers, the subsequent story may be futile.

3, structure-type ideas: that is, enough to support a long story or a unit of the main structure of the story ideas, such a structure is what we call the skeleton of the story, and the skeleton of the story depends on the good and bad structure-type ideas are strong enough.

About creativity, in addition to timely capture the sudden inspiration, the usual accumulation is also very important, with a certain accumulation, will be very helpful to the future creation.

When the above mentioned creative inspirations are fully assembled, it is possible to conceptualize an interesting and y moving storyline.

Twelve, think of creative methods

1, market analysis method: observe the current market popular material, if most of the existing material has been developed, you can use more than two kinds of popular material combined to become a new creative subject matter, this kind of techniques often appear in the creation of idol dramas. The same goes for novels, fantasy stories can be combined with martial arts, urban stories can be combined with fantasy and so on!

First of all, we must pay attention to the popularity of the information, you are interested in the subject matter, start to collect relevant information, do the basic homework, it is best to go to the relevant places to actually experience, and with the relevant characters to conduct interviews, will make the content of the creation of a more close to reality, of course, if the subject matter of the personal experience will be even better, because a lot of the details of the part of the description of the more active.

2, the trend of hair ideas: the future of the world has always been the direction of scientists trying to study, in the past, such imaginations can only be imagined from the imaginative head to dig out, fortunately now these predictions of the future we can easily learn in various media, and also very likely to be realized, so in addition to the current environment as a creative direction, we can also be more attention to the direction of future trends, the more the future of the trend of the direction, the more the future of the direction, the more the future of the trend of the direction, the more the future of the direction, the more the future of the direction. Therefore, in addition to using the current environment as a creative direction, we can also pay more attention to the direction of future trends, and the more distant the future, the more room for imagination.

3, reverse thinking method: the general thinking mode will rely on the self or previous experience or even books as the basis for information, and this direction is often let the creative by the limitations of the Shang if the problem and the answer in the same circle on the two points, and the two points are very close to each other, according to the experience, you have to go around the circle in order to get the answer, then go the other way around, may be the answer to the The answer may be close at hand.

Additionally, thinking in exactly the same way as a human being is tantamount to being uninspired and unexciting. If you go against the grain, you might just as easily find a whole new idea.

4, desire fulfillment method: in fact, many creations are in the fulfillment of people's unsatisfied with the real environment. People will have a lot of desires, but most of these desires are difficult to achieve in their lifetime, as small as hoping to know the answers to tomorrow's exams, hoping that which table nasty little fat don't bully me again: hoping to have a super handsome or beautiful when your opposite sex friends, and so on.

What real life can't achieve, people hope to fulfill themselves by fantasy.

Thirteen, the last to pay attention to

Always feel insufficient, in the creation of continuous correction.

As a creator, there should be a spirit of innovation, because the readers continue to grow, the market will continue to push the work, if there is no challenge to the mind, the work will become obsolete, and gradually detached from the market, you will slowly also recede into the background.

Remember to keep a mindset that is always feel inadequate, and only inadequate will want to progress, but also will continue to absorb the growth, you think of high how high, the end of the universe to the end? Human beings will always be small, and learning will never end. And in the creation, do not be complacent, always review their own work whether there is a better possibility, because the work is facing a variety of picky readers. New writers, in particular, can easily get carried away by some flowery comments, and can't help but think they've done a good job. The reviews we face, whether good or bad, must strive toward constant innovation, constant learning, and constant transcendence, which should also be the insistence of creators