How to write a novel 1 (reprint)(6/6)
I think of the plot of the soap opera. This author insists on building a woman's love for the protagonist, but I think he is extremely failed. Well, these aspects show the author's superficial understanding of women. Even if he doesn't understand women, I advise you to skip over and not write about women, at least not mainly about women. Okay. If you want to write, then I can only give some objective opinions. There is a type of women who are strong women, spies, rich elites, strong women who are rich and powerful, princesses, etc.
These women are unlikely to fall in love with men. They will only approach men because of interests. Therefore, for such women, if the authors do not have enough reasons to fall in love with the protagonist, they might as well describe her approaching the protagonist because of interests and some purpose. (If you force your work will lose persuasion because of insufficient reasons, this is what an author fears the most) Another type of women does not love the protagonist at all, but they are forced to fight with the protagonist, and they even hate them.
The protagonist, for example: the female family wants the protagonist and uses their daughter as bargaining chips. (Political marriage) A kind of woman is around the protagonist because of the needs of her career. For them, the existence of the protagonist is optional. The most typical one is the Y ring and the female secret book. So! If it cannot be described, don’t force it and settle for the second best! Don’t think that all women will care about the protagonist’s life and death. Some women will not go to hell with the protagonist even if they fall in love with the protagonist. Only by writing this imperfection will the readers feel real. A work that loses the sense of reality is the author’s failure. Because a perfect world does not exist. Please write a woman like a woman. It is impossible for a woman to not be jealous, and jealousy is also their characteristic. Many authors say that when describing, it is impossible for a few women to serve a man together without being jealous. A woman’s jealousy is a thousand times stronger than a man! Two women may be able to live in peace, but three women cannot.
——Why do you know why I open this column when writing a comment? It’s not to teach you how to write, but to make a summary of what I understand. For me, writing is an interest, so I pursue progress, writing and thinking. As an author, when I like a comic and a movie, I will carefully analyze why the plot attracts me and then leave it deeply in my brain. Then one day, this plot becomes my inspiration for a moment. I will also seriously learn some writing techniques, metaphors and other things, and I have long forgotten it, but now I can only pick it up again. Many people who write university papers have a much better writing style than me, but they do not use their hearts to attract readers. It should be said that they don’t need to do this. But novels must attract readers. Making such writing summary will make me think that I am doing this.
Revisiting the skills that I forgot, and then stressing that I should not make such mistakes. This way my writing style will improve, so I suggest that you also publish your views on online articles if you have nothing to do. My advice is not perfect, but is aimed at new writers and some people who write spoofs. I am extremely disgusted with those irresponsible and unserious about writing. Such people are not worthy of my respect. It is better not to write spoofs! - On the theory of God and God! Authors have their own definition of God, but few authors can write successfully. Most of them like to write God based on the definition of human beings, which is a failure. Those who have read Huang Yi’s novels will know what his God is. In the present world, where does God’s humanity manifest itself? I see nothing except Christian doctrines, and it is still a question.
So what you said about God is human and the book makes readers disagree. If the author says it is written as a spoof, then it is better not to write it as his always-off view. If you want to write, write it carefully and try your best to be reasonable and logical. In Huang Yi's early works, he believed that God was just a vortex of energy, and described the mystery of this great power in his works. In the Bible, God is supreme, and its intelligence and behavior are beyond the reach of people. Therefore, when writing God on this scale, it is necessary to express the
A supreme existence appears, and the ants under the palace look down on the mediocre ants. Therefore, my "holy war" tries my best to describe God's supremacy and his unpredictable behavior. I will never be stupid enough to explain God's behavior, and I will not give it the reason for its behavior in the works. The reason lies in my heart, but I will never tell the readers. After all, guessing is also a pleasure. Some people think that the God on Earth is the result of alien intervention, while others think that the world is a huge electronic calculator, and time is
God, and this so-called God is just a management program that cannot be reversed. No matter what God looks like in your novel, it must be able to convince readers. For example, in the author of the Demon Thieves’ new work “The Demon Warrior”, his God is a human being, but a high-intelligent human being who abandons the flesh, and the earth is built by these people. There are two points, rationality and logic. If readers want to recognize your God in the text, they must convince readers, why do they use the God in the Bible in the Holy War?
That's because I don't need to explain the behavior of God at all. I don't need to explain it to you. Ah! Why did God choose the protagonist? Why did he help this land instead of the Mongolians? Maybe there is his own reason, but there is no need to explain it to you, a tiny human. Can you understand my intention? Most of the guys who have read the Bible will agree with their expression, right! I won't force me to explain the unreasonable aspects of God's behavior.
Novel Techniques Chapter 11: 1. What is a novel: Apart from the original material of a movie, apart from being a toy in a publisher's hand, is it still? When you have time to read Henry.; James's paper "The Art of Novels", which should have already explained this issue thoroughly - "Novels are an art, and it deserves all the honors and rewards retained for the successful industries of music, poetry, painting, and architecture so far." The novel has its own history, whether in China or abroad; the art of novels
Form has never lost its vitality for hundreds of years, even today when film and television is rampant. A country attaches great importance to novels as art forms, in fact, indirectly reflects the overall cultural cultivation of the people in this country. For many years, Chinese people have been muttering about the "Nobel Prize in Literature". In my opinion, the Nobel Prize in Literature is certainly a globally shared literary prize, but don't forget that it was awarded by a country called Sweden. The first thing in novel creation is: learn to explain the words clearly and make the meaning.
Express it clearly and use the perseverance of a dancer to practice qigong to train our feelings about words. 2. The subject matter of a novel: Generally speaking, before a novelist starts writing a novel, he needs to choose a subject that can be written. The so-called choice of "the subject matter of a novel", in simple terms, is "What do I want to write?" Then, from another perspective, it is "Is there anything worth writing?" Whether it is a novel or other art, before transforming invisible ideas into concrete visible works, it will face the selection of subject matter
Such a question. Vargas.; Llosa once said in his book "Chinese Box" about novel creation: "The novelist does not choose a subject, but is chosen by the subject. The reason why he writes certain things is because certain things appear in his mind." This is true. A novelist's life experience, education he received, his personality, interests, his personal history, family background, his interactions with people or groups, and his social environment all affects his selection of writing subjects.
Therefore, this seemingly proactive process of "choosing subjects" is often completed in the subconscious of the novelist. If a novelist is an excellent novelist, he will respect his personal interests and conscience and choose the subject of the novel he is about to write, or be chosen by those subjects that have permeated his personal thinking. On the contrary, a mediocre novelist often pays more attention to the needs of the current and local external environment when choosing a subject. A truly excellent novelist is the crystallization of a spiritual activity with an ideal color, which is inseparable from the novelist's stubborn exploration of human nature. More importantly, the choice of the subject should be an independent and personal respectful person by an excellent novelist.
The decision of the stern is the result of certain things he wants to say, he must say, he has to say, rather than judging the situation - what can be said, what cannot be said, what has been said, what has been said, what has been said, what has been said, what has been said, what has been said, what has been said, what has been said, what has been said, what has been said, what has been said, what has been said, because he loves what he has said…” 3. The fiction of the novel: There is
For a while, I always heard such words, "It was barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz." It is said that this is the famous saying of the German philosopher Theodore. Adorno. I don't think this sentence is so beautiful. Because I think this sentence itself is poetry. Using poetry to oppose writing poetry is just like people do not rely on other fulcrums and want to lift themselves from the earth with their own hands, which is artificial and ineffective. The "real life" that people often say is nothing more than work, eating, sleeping, shopping, studying, communicating, etc., and perhaps also reading books, watching TV, and watching movies. Then the reading part may also include reading novels. We can analyze the psychology of a person who reads novels. Why does he read novels?
Naturally, because novels have an attraction to him. Some of his dreams that cannot be realized in real life can be fulfilled by him; his life is too dull, and novels can provide him with spiritual and emotional support; or he can obtain some moral education from the novel and resonate with it; or he just wants to satisfy his private habits by reading novels. In short, everything described in the novel should be related to his real life, but it is not just a truthful copy of his real life. Novels must bring him thinking, dreams, emotions, spiritual strength, etc. Among his many purposes of reading novels, a very important point is that he wants to put something like wings on his real life and let him fly.
To put it in a famous saying of urban girls, it is "High". And such wing-like things are born from the novel's "fiction" of real life. That is to say, novels create another kind of life at the level of real life, perhaps this can be called "life in novels". It is precisely because of the existence of "fiction of novels" that novels appear to be valuable to people. The value of novels makes people's real life not always seem so valuable. - Although novels are false
But people's behavior of reading novels (reading books) is real and is part of people's real life. It can be said that everything fiction in novels and their impact on people's thoughts and emotions make people's real life richer and more interesting. Oscar Wilde said in his article "The Decay of Lies", "Life imitates art better than art imitating life", which is vaguely said. Speaking of this, we have to talk about "the truth of novels". Indeed, the fiction of novels is novels
Where is the life of the novel. However, the source of fiction of novels comes from a certain real life. If a novel wants to have an impact on readers, it must make readers believe in everything fiction of novels, and it must make readers think that the "fiction" in the novel is possible, sincere, and real. Otherwise, the reader's wings of fantasy will never be installed, and the fiction of novels will not be fiction, but hypocrisy or nonsense, and the novel will not be able to display its shocking magic because it seems unreal. Back to
The sentence "Writing poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric." According to my understanding, one of the meanings of this sentence is probably that the cruelty of human beings is far more cruel than that of artistic works. When you engage in artistic activities (such as writing novels), it is impossible to truly reflect the human situation and lose the necessity. The person who said this has a good starting point and intention. He reminds us to pay attention to the fiction in art, in the end, only by reaching a tacit understanding with human real life can it constitute a meaning for human survival.
Everything "fiction" in words, pigments, or other media can only be considered art if the light of "reality" is illuminated by the light of "reality". But he ignored one thing, that is, if the human spirit shrinks to no longer need the kind of sincere, heartfelt, excellent artistic works that cultivate and inspire his spiritual will in a fictional way, if humans no longer fantasize about a better life than the current life, then Auschwitz will come again. 4. Characters in novels: characters are a very important element in novel art. Of course, due to the diversity of novels, there are no characters in the works of some novelists, which is also possible. Perhaps some people will question this way: "Why do novels always write about people?" Yes, I don't
I thought that every novel must be written about people and must be characters in it; but after thinking about it, I still feel that no matter what kind of art is written about people or not, it ultimately expresses everything related to people. We cannot fiction something outside our (human) observation and thinking ability. For example, when we fictionalize the appearance of aliens, we often use our appearance as a reference. The reason why aliens or non-human things appear in literary works is due to the purpose of our human beings to explain and explore themselves. This also shows that it is normal for a large number of novels to directly use people as research objects, directly describe people's lives, and directly tell people's stories. The people in novels are the "characters" mentioned here.
In a novel with fiction as its main feature, the characters are of course fictional. Those characters we talk about, such as Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, are just characters fictionalized in Cao Xueqin's works. We can say that Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai's prototypes are XX and XX in Cao Xueqin's life, but Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai are not the same as their prototypes. They are always just characters living in "Dream of Red Mansions", leaving
After "Dream of Red Mansions", they are nothing. This is probably the unique power of the novelist - the novelist has the right to pick up many living prototypes from his life to shape the characters in his novels without being held accountable for fabrication and slander. If this is clear, I think there is no need to add a notice such as "This novel is purely fiction, please do not take the part in the character" in front of the novel. This seemingly unreasonable power
, is given to the novelist by the art form itself. Because the true source of the novel should be real life or things related to real life. To make the characters "live", the portrayal of the characters' actions, inner activities, dialogue (including monologues) and relationships with other characters is essential. These experienced novelists can probably do it. The question now is, what is the purpose of the novelist spending so much energy to portray characters? What kind of motivation is that the novelist uses to portray characters, not that type? What kind of view of life does he want to express through these fictional characters? These are determined by the novelist's own aspirations, hobbies, his thoughts, artistic views, etc. The number of novelists has as many characters. The number of novelists has as many destiny will have as many characters.
The key to distinguishing the excellence of novelists is to judge whether a novelist is excellent in today's era of technological emphasis. In most novelists I have seen, they may focus more on the narrative method of novels than on the character portrayal in the novel. This is related to the novel style of novels in the 20th century. The continuous innovation of novel concepts has greatly damaged the novelists' interest in shaping the perfect character. While people talk about Faulkner and Joyce's "stream of consciousness", should we also care about the characters in the novels they have created, such as Quentin, Bloom, and other novels?
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The so-called stream of consciousness is the stream of consciousness of these novel characters. 5. The story and plot of the novel: the basic function of the novel lies in "narrative". If the "the subject matter of the novel" refers to the "things" in the novel, which is a static concept; then "the story of the novel" and "the plot of the novel" are two concepts in motion related to "narration". These three concepts (the subject matter, story and plot) are three different projections produced by using light to shoot at the "novel" from different angles. A novelist with a very passionate creation may not study the differences between these concepts in detail. He can write decent novels using his years of creative and reading experience. This is the instinct of a novelist. By instinct creation, he sucks his fingers with his children.
, like ants moving food, is a very natural process. If you care about the differences between the concepts of the novel, it will probably cause the novelist to lose the ability to create; just like the person who is in the idiom "Handan Learning to Walk" who has not learned the steps in the end and can only crawl home. If I were not writing articles to analyze novels, I would not have deliberately thought about the specific meaning of the vague concepts of the novel. Of course, I am defending myself. According to E.; M.; Foster, in the UK, this person has written novels such as "Travel to India" and published a famous speech "A Perspective of Novels" - as it is said, "Stories" refer to "narrative in chronological order", while "plot" refers to "emphasizing the causal relationship between events under the premise of narration in chronological order".
In layman's terms, "story" refers to the characters in the novel who experience one thing and then another. For example, in "Water Margin", first Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian commit adultery, then Pan Jinlian killed Wu Dalang, then Wu Song killed Pan Jinlian, and then Wu Song killed Ximen Qing. The "plot" seems to refer to why the characters in the novel experience another thing after experiencing one thing. Or, what is the inevitable or accidental connection between one thing and another? Why does Ximen Qing have
Affair with Pan Jinlian and become a traitor? Not to mention that Ximen Qing is a playboy, then Pan Jinlian is not a good person either. Why did Pan Jinlian kill Wu Dalang? Of course, Wu Dalang is not interested in it, and he is also stingy. Why did Wu Song kill Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing instead of escorting these two bad people to the government? It was because Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing killed his brother. Besides, Wu Song himself is also a man who is not afraid of heaven or earth. Besides, the government is not a good thing. People often say that a novel is very interesting. This sentence
The words probably mean that the novel's story is very novel, unique, tortuous and charming, and the plot of the novel is very vivid, intriguing, touching, and profound. Novels that overemphasize the novelty of the story and ignore the depth and credibility of the plot can be referred to as the martial arts novels of Jin Yong and others. Novels that ignore the structure of the story and blindly circle the logic of the plot can be referred to as some modernist novels with extreme views in the 20th century. Having said that, in fact, there is no ideal novel creation method and the most ideal novel creation method in the world.
Ideal, the most perfect novel. Because there are not only two people in the world: an author and a reader, between these two people, a best design plan for "story" and "plot". 6. Details of novels: The detailed description in novels is the fundamental reason for the formation of novels. Detail description usually refers to the description of visible things and the description of psychology. Visible things, including environment, natural scenery, social background, historical background, appearance of characters and their actions, dialogues, etc.
Chapter completed!