Character setting and characterization

The two most important aspects of the novel's success are the plot and the characters.

Characters are the soul of novels, just like actors on the stage, which dominate the plot. At that time, all the eyes of the audience will focus on the actors, and the scenes and plots are all part of the actors. If an actor can't play well, even the best plot will be destroyed, so I will emphasize that you should pay attention to the characterization in your article. The author should express the style of words and deeds of the characters, or the emotional and interest disputes between people, which depends on the author's writing style.

Then the question comes, how to set and portray the characters in the novel?

First, the character setting

First of all, the protagonist in the novel must give readers a sense of identity. For example, I feel that I am very similar to this character, or to the people around me, such as the object I secretly love or imagine, so as to arouse the readers' * * * singing, which is often called empathy. When readers and the protagonist in the story have singing skills, readers will be very much looking forward to what the protagonist will experience in the next story.

There are some commonly used techniques to describe people's empathy, mainly in the following three ways:

The first is to focus on depicting the background of the characters.

The second is to emphasize some habits or hobbies of the characters.

The third is the appearance characteristics of the characters.

We generally call it background setting, personality setting and appearance feature setting. These three settings should be specific and detailed, and then enter the text before writing.

(1) background settings

The background setting includes the background of the protagonist. What's her family background? Which dynasty were you born in? What happened to her in the novel? (Note that this is the character background setting, not the story background setting)

Generally speaking, the background setting of the protagonist can be divided into three categories, one is traumatic, the other is warm and caring, and the last one is seeking for a sense of existence. In three kinds of background settings and normal role modes, you can also combine roles with different feelings.

For example, the traumatic type, the male owner was injured and dared not fall in love. For example, a literate man is very powerful, but he is scared when he comes into contact with girls.

The background setting can be cut from the character's personality and family environment. For example, what should a protagonist do when he crosses into a family without rice or food? He can only become strong, and business people must be witty, smart and able to settle accounts, but not too petty. By switching according to this background, he can intuitively observe the protagonist's personality and then set the role background for him.

(2) Personality setting

The purpose of setting the background is to let readers know more about the inner world of the characters. However, as the principle of dramatic conflict, the characters should have superficial personalities that are contrary to their hearts.

For example, if we decide that the character is a lonely and quiet person in essence, then her performance should be sunny and cheerful, so that when she can't help crying alone, she will feel nervous.

For example, there is a woman who has a very thick skin, no face and no skin, and wants to throw the man down all day.

However, suddenly I almost had sex with that man, and I was interrupted. When she saw it, hey, there was no blood on the sheets. It was obviously the first time, and then she shyly explained to the man that it was my first time and I went out to buy contraceptives.

But in fact, they never succeeded.

This story has a reversal, which makes the heroine's character setting interesting.

We can't use conflict to construct characters in the shaping of the protagonist, especially in campus texts. Due to the author's limited control ability, if the protagonist is regarded as a person with contradictory personality, it is likely that he will write neither fish nor fowl.

In addition, if you are a supporting role, you don't have to write like this. If there are too many supporting roles, depth and connotation, and one is too complicated to grasp, the sense of coolness may be reduced.

If what you write becomes too deep, it is not white.

Supporting roles can be shaped by facial makeup.

You often ask what a small white script is, and it also contains this element.

Many facebook characters don't have much profound things.

But in emotional stories, the conflict of characters' own personalities is indispensable.

On the contrary, in the characterization of the protagonist, the character setting often emphasizes the conflict of the protagonist's personality itself, because the dual personality is more likely to reflect the mystery, so the protagonist with a tragic past usually has a cheerful and lively face, as if everything around him is happy; And if a hero is indifferent, then his heart should be delicate and sensitive. (Of course, sometimes the opposite is true.)

In the process of personality setting, there are some common skills:

One skill is to highlight the obvious shortcomings of the role, which can enhance the affinity for shaping a more vivid role.

In addition, some details can also be set clearly, such as mantra, special hobbies, habitual actions and so on. It is not appropriate to set too many details, but too many details will blur the outline of the characters, and the details should be set in line with the overall artistic conception of the novel.

As for the character of the man and the woman, it is easier to grasp this aspect: if the man is a master like the president or Bai, create a cold, dark and cool. The hostess had better not have a strong cold feeling, which is not easy to shape. Novices can try to take a relaxed and lovely route, which is easier to grasp.

(3) Appearance setting (this part is also characterization)

The appearance of a character should grasp the main characteristics, but now most writers imagine a character (especially the protagonist) to be too perfect to have characteristics. They can only simply say that it is picturesque and exquisite, including the description of a character similar to ancient Chinese, which is wrong and unprofessional.

I want to ask Venus what beauty is. You certainly don't know it, but some people remember Venus.

Because her arm was broken, her shortcomings became beautiful and desirable. Therefore, writers should pay attention to the appropriate features of your characters' appearance (slender fingers, peach eyes and long eyelashes, etc.). And master Cao Xueqin is an expert in this field. You will think that most of the women in A Dream of Red Mansions are beautiful, but each has its own shortcomings, which makes people feel easy to identify.

In some articles, readers can't present the specific picture sense of the characters' appearance in their minds, which will make readers think that the female host and the female companion or the male host and the male companion are the same, indicating that they have no characteristics.

(4) In addition to the above three points, there is a comparison of the plot.

For example, why do you always set the heroine very low in writing? This is to highlight the growth and strength of the heroine in the development of a series of plots such as revenge and rebirth of the heroine, so that readers and your protagonist can grow together bit by bit and feel more brought in.

To put it more bluntly, for example, a woman mainly compares poems and songs with others. Is she better than a man without ink in his chest or a learned man? How can she show her knowledge?

When comparing poems, do you write that the woman has reached the peak of her life, or when she is left out in the cold and provoked?

In addition to the above information, you also need to master the character settings. There are three ways to set characters, one is simplification, the other is tabular, and the third is detail.

1. Simplify

Construct the number of characters according to your plot, and then simply write down the personal information of the characters. For example:

Shi Xiaonian: The hostess, with a little rebellion under her pure and weak appearance, is a girl cartoonist, a little curtilage, and loves to cook. She adopted a daughter at home and was rejected by her family. She always hoped to have a complete family. After being with Gong Ou, I thought I had found that person, but I broke up unreasonably. After being forced to be a mother by the palace family, I hated the palace family and was determined.

Gong Ou: Male owner, president of N.E., overbearing and arrogant, with extremely high IQ and extremely low EQ, suffering from paranoid personality disorder and not trusting anyone. He likes whatever he likes, her food, her advantages and her disadvantages. Knowing that the reason why he missed love may be because of his illness, he would rather choose not to treat it.

2. Form (more suitable for fantasy)

Role setting: positive role, negative role, intermediate role and miscellaneous occupation.

Name, gender, age, personality, language style, initial skills, post-learning skills.

3. Details (Wu Xie's personal information in the tomb robbery notes)

Name: Wu Xie.

Alias: innocent mistress innocent super Wu Xie Di Guan Gen Wu Boss Guan Teacher.

Personal background: antique shop owner, grave robber, writer, photographer.

Height: 18 1cm (set by the author)

Weight: 80kg (the weight mentioned in Tomb Raider 1 means 160kg falls on the deck, and the 90kg mentioned in Tomb Raider 4 means 80kg plus 10kg equipment).

Close friend: Fat Zhang Qiling (stuffy oil bottle)

Appearance characteristics: slender fingers, somewhat handsome, good-looking, occasionally wearing glasses, fresh and refined little husband, long eyelashes, more beautiful neck curve than women, somewhat white skin, weak body, wearing a brown jacket, slender young man, very friendly.

Personality characteristics: gentle and kind, careful, humorous, curious, loyal and emotional, sometimes nonsense, jumping thinking, imaginative, optimistic and calm. After coming back from Tibet with "Tibetan flowers", my temperament changed greatly, especially after being bitten by a black-haired snake. It seems that he inherited all the hatred of the three generations of ancestors of Jiumen, got rid of innocence and became ruthless. With his advantage over his predecessors-no worries, he set a shocking overall situation and led Jiumen to launch a Jedi counterattack.

Ability: Doing business, reading words, appreciating treasures, tidying up, spitting, improvising, imitating handwriting, and beating a rake. Family genetic system can prevent ptomaine, and then gain the ability to prevent insects and tricks; I graduated from the Department of Architecture and have professional knowledge in this field. When you open the coffin, you will meet Zongzi, who has strong reasoning ability and sometimes acts as a tout (from the experience of several fights between Xisha and Genting Palace, and because Xiao Ge is not good at taking reasons, Wu Xie is the most common-sense person to analyze the situation and make a reasonable judgment). His skill is also improved in the adventure, and he is more agile and can easily climb over the wall (called "Wu Xie related" in "Tomb Raider Notes Ba").

The relationship between people: grandpa: Wu Laogou (the fifth master of dogs), father: Wu Yiqiong; Uncle: Wu Erbai (second uncle) and Wu Sansheng (third uncle); Brothers: Wang Pangzi, Zhang Qiling; Official cp: Zhang Qiling; Defender: Pan Zi; Xiaofa: Jieyuhua (Jieyuhua), JieZiyang (Lao Yang), Huo Xiuxiu; Master: black glasses; M: Wang Meng

Second, characterization.

After the character is set, it is necessary to arrange character shaping to enhance the impression of the character in the reader's mind, so how to portray the character?

1. First of all, determine the personality and iconic appearance.

For example, Chu Liuxiang, who loves to touch his nose, is lewd but not lewd, smart superman, Guo Jing, silly, Ouyang Ke, sexy, Yang Kang, a little bad, Huang Rong, very smart, old urchin and naughty.

The personalities of these characters are all iconic. In the book, their character or appearance is not described with a long speech, but simple and clear, and a sentence is drawn out through one action. However, many of our writers always like to engage in literary diseases when describing characters, and they like to describe looks in long paragraphs.

For example, her head is covered with gold and silver jewelry, showing luxury. Her face is red, like an apple, and she wants to be bitten. Her eyebrows are bent like willow leaves and crescent moon on the treetops, and her eyes are black and clear, as if telling something. Soft and full red lips, delicate and touching, petite and exquisite face, with beautiful, pure, quiet and elegant facial features, coupled with her beautiful and smooth cheeks and blowing pink face, is really a peerless beauty, and the ancients honestly did not deceive me.

This paragraph is not to say that the author's writing style is not good, but to ask the author who describes the appearance of the female host in a large space. Have you ever seen those cool articles on the website that use many adjectives to describe a person? Maybe, but other people's signs have been sold, and countless readers are chasing them. As a new author, can you compare with them?

When readers see the description of characters, they often remember the first salient feature of the characters, and others will be ignored.

Many authors like to use a long adjective to construct the appearance of characters in the first chapter, and then use hundreds of words to describe the environment. Basically, this book is over In today's internet trend, as long as one word is cool, it is useless for you to write so many words, which is simply to persuade readers to give up your book.

Secondly, the person who chooses the leading role must not be an ordinary person.

Why do many writers like to choose the identity of the hostess as an agent or some special roles, such as forensic medicine, police, and so on? This is a kind of particularity, because it is difficult for ordinary people to bring in that role immediately in ancient times, while special people can use their own skills to survive in ancient times. It's not easy to mold ordinary people, just like in TV series, ordinary people who behave themselves are just a big background, and the protagonist is either a cold president or a powerful emperor and monarch.

Similarly, the identity between the protagonist and the supporting role, the supporting role can be bigger than the protagonist, but it must be slightly inferior in specialty.

If you write a supporting role and a leading role in the same occupation, and the supporting role has a stronger identity background than the leading role and is stronger than the leading role in occupation, then your leading role will have no sense of substitution, which will distract readers' thinking and thus enter an empty and boring state.

3. Then, the characters should be special and unique.

Before, many authors wrote travel notes, even if the hostess crossed, the hostess and the man also crossed. There may be an unnecessary supporting role in the middle, which will lead to the fact that the hostess has no exclusive specificity in ancient times, such as the modern knowledge that the hostess knows and others know. At this time, the reader will be speechless and crying. Which technology will be stronger?

This kind of article advises you not to try it easily.

Writing this kind of article makes it more difficult to distinguish the protagonist from other travelers.

4. Remember, when creating characters, don't explain them directly.

For example, he is the most handsome man in the world. She looks as beautiful as a fairy. He is the kindest person in the world, etc. Don't appear in such a sentence, otherwise it will lower the level of your whole article.

When you read these sentences, do you feel straightforward? Boring?

This is a common problem for beginners, and experienced authors will describe it like this:

If you say a woman is beautiful, you can describe her beauty in detail and highlight her highlights. Or in the words of onlookers, it is sideways.

His kindness can be illustrated by his story of helping others or a small matter.

We should write articles as concretely as possible so that readers can have an intuitive impression.

Some characters are vividly portrayed, and their conversations, actions and behaviors will lead to the ups and downs of the plot. There are cool points, tears, scenes, and finally an ending that impresses readers. This is a masterpiece.

Summarize the characterization of the hero in the novel;

1. The protagonist of the novel has to stand the test of setbacks and hardships; The protagonist of the novel must have suffered some big setbacks in the early stage and is in love; Family, etc. Because people rationally believe that only after experiencing great setbacks and hardships will they have more perseverance.

2. The protagonist of the novel should not be gaudy; There are many gaudy protagonists in the novels I read, which makes life very annoying.

3. The protagonist of the novel should have a goal, which can be ideal and ambition, revenge, conspiracy and life expectation. The protagonist of such a novel will not be lazy and can attract readers.

4. The helper of the novel protagonist, as the saying goes, a good hero has three gangs, so that the novel protagonist will not feel monotonous.

The protagonist of the novel should be unique, and every reader will like to see a unique protagonist.

Three: Precautions:

1. Taboo the perspective of God

This situation is more common in the novels of the first person "I". Due to the limitation of perspective, I only say what I participated in, what I saw and what I heard. This writing method has great limitations. Once the plot develops out of my sight, I have to stop writing. Therefore, mature novels rarely use the first-person narrative, and the most is the third-person narrative. Unless you are writing a suspense article, you can use the first person to increase your sense of substitution.

From God's perspective, I often see: I look in the mirror and laugh at him. I don't know how charming I am at the moment. (embarrassed)

The two armies also confronted each other. "I" can't understand the situation of the other camp at all, but the author is describing the detailed military secrets of the other side, and so on.

Step 2 avoid the shadow of the author

The author should not comment on the characters in the novel. When writing a novel, you should be objective, avoid adding your own subjective opinions, and give readers room to think.

Don't make readers dislike the hostess.

As we all know, the greatest reading knowledge of online texts is the sense of substitution. Once readers feel that the heroine's personality setting is incomprehensible, even a little annoying, and there is no way to replace it, then the novel page is not far from the "X".

Therefore, the female host's personality setting must be reasonable. If she does something unusual, then she must give a reasonable explanation quickly, which is not so deliberate in the following article.

The hostess can be vicious, such as Wu Zetian-style hostess in the harem text, but no matter how cruel the hostess has done, there must always be a reason for the reader to forgive. For example, in order to win back the feelings of the man and protect the people he loves.

4. Don't be an unreasonable bad guy.

No matter how bad it is, there must be a reason to forgive.

For example, a president, who looks handsome and rich, enjoys the feeling of beauty, doesn't mind women throwing themselves at each other, and will use it according to the background. For example, the daughter of XX director and the daughter of XX group director will all become his business assistants and underground lovers. Then he met a poor but innocent woman. At first he didn't love her, just because his competitors liked her. So he just wanted to use her. He helped her when she was in the worst situation, and then used her to get her to sleep with someone else ... here, we think this person is really enough. But if the author lets nature take its course from the beginning and admits that this man became an orphan because his father committed suicide after his mother abandoned his father, then he will understand why this man didn't attach so much importance to women and why he experienced many things and wanted to.

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