Big Coffee Sharing Class 0 1 Leaving Jiu Si: Linear Advancement of Novel Creation

Theme: the "linear" advancement of novel creation

Sharer: From Jiu Si.

Time: 8 pm on May 28th.

Moderator: Let's welcome Mr. Jiu Si with warm applause. Everyone has heard of the legend of Jiu Si's "God", so I won't introduce it. First of all, please ask Mr. Jiu Si to talk about his own creation, mainly how to promote the "line" of the novel. Welcome everyone.

Leave Jiu Si: Thank you for coming to discuss writing with Charlie. (Note: Under the infection of Slag Nian, Slag Bird and Slag Luo, the teacher was nicknamed "Slag Fen". ) Please ask Mr. Zhuo to let everyone read "Shan Xin Bi Xue Drink Chang 'an" and "Assassin" first, so I'll ask you first, what are the similarities between these two articles?

Slag ball: ancient style

Slag bird: With a strong sense of history? Mainly based on romance?

From Jiu Si: Yes. The similarity between the two articles lies in that they are both ancient romance novels with overhead history. Shan Xin Bi Xue Drink Chang 'an is an overhead historical novel, which consists of a main line and a branch line. The Great Assassin is a semi-overhead historical novel with multi-point and multi-line advancement.

Let's take a look at what is an overhead historical novel. Overhead historical novels, as the name implies, are historical overhead novels. Overhead historical novels can be subdivided into overhead historical novels and semi-overhead historical novels. That is, full overhead and half overhead.

The background of overhead historical novels is similar to a dynasty that really existed in history, but it is actually just an allusion to emptiness. This is to create a fictional new historical world with some historical materials. Because it is a fictional historical background, we can avoid the limitations of real history to our thinking. The advantage is that these stories of different time and space can be grafted.

Slag bird: equivalent to fabricating a parallel space-time?

Zhaluo: Qin Shihuang vs Tang?

Slag dragon gave three thumbs up.

From Jiu Si: Yes. For example, Lin Ruo, the hero, is based on the story of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing in the Western Han Dynasty, and Qi Mian, the heroine, is based on Liu Xijun, the monarch of the Western Han Dynasty. Everyone is familiar with Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, but everyone is unfamiliar with Liu Xijun. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in order to fight against the Huns, Wu Qin named Liu Xijun as his wife and married Wusun, the arrogant wife of Wusun Wang. After the death of Lao Liejiao, Liu Xijun followed the custom of Wusunguo, married Liejiao Sun Jun, and died after giving birth to a daughter. After I grafted people from these two different eras, I increased the readability and conflict of the story. Princess royal in Anyang is the prototype of Princess Pingyang, Wei Qing's wife. Fermi and Ye Fei's prototype is the grandchild of Wusunguo, a proud hunter and invincible army. The Joy of Life, which everyone is familiar with, is empty.

Slag Luo, Slag Bird and Slag Guo put up three thumbs at the same time.

Far from Jiu Si: A historical novel in the air, in which virtual characters exist in real history. Judging from the content of the novel, it pays more attention to historical fastidiousness, is more rigorous than aerial novels, and is more playful than historical novels. In a sense, it can be used as a popular historical reading to arouse readers' interest in this period of history and make an in-depth discussion on it.

Zhaluo: The Legend of the White Snake?

From Jiu Si: It's a fairy tale or a folk story.

Slag rom let out a clear "oh-oh" sound.

From Jiu Si: In The Assassin, both Nie Zheng and Nie Rong are historical figures, and the ending and historical plot cannot be changed. Therefore, we can only put the virtual characters into the real history through crossing to increase readability. Well-known semi-aerial photography masterpieces include "Searching for Qin" and "Returning Ming to Jun".

Laura: Tantanik is probably semi-overhead?

From Jiu Si: Yes.

Zha Yun: I feel that I need to study history again.

Slag porridge: What if you haven't studied history?

Slag bird: self-edited history, completely overhead. (The slag bird then throws a dog's head. )

Jiu Si: What's the difference between those two articles?

Zha Luo: Different structures?

Zhama: Time and space?

From Jiu Si: There are also different story lines. "Chanxin Bixue Drinking Changan" is a work jointly promoted by the main line and the branch line. The Great Assassin is a parallel multi-line narrative, or a multi-point and multi-line work.

From the perspective of Shan Xin's penology, it is important to promote the main line and the branch line. The main line is the main content that runs through the full text of the novel, that is, what kind of story the novel wants to tell. In traditional novels, it is only the theme or central idea, but in online novels, the concept of main line has gradually emerged. At first, the word "main line" came from the game, which we usually call the main line task of the game, and was later quoted into online novels. Because the length of online novels is getting longer and longer, there are millions of novels everywhere. In such a long span, a clear main line of the novel can help the author grasp the whole work, and a clear main line can also let readers read the novel itself better.

Slag Bird: Main Line = Story Core?

Stay away from Jiu Si: The branch line, also called the sub-line, is a branch plot and an episode of the main line of the novel, which only affects the outcome of a certain stage, but the branch line cannot affect the development of the main line plot. Side quests are usually set to improve your character's ability, so that you can better complete the main quests.

Slag porridge picked up a small notebook and began to remember the key points. Others also picked up a small notebook.

From Jiu Si: Simply put, it's like the Tang Priest in The Journey to the West. Learning from the scriptures is his main task, and finding some strange love on the road is a sideline! For another example, Bi Xue's attack on Dan Xin, Anyang's surrender of Ayang to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the subsequent court turmoil all took this as the main line. Just to give the protagonist more aura.

Sometimes, the more branches there are, the more exciting the plot will be, and it mainly depends on what effect your branch plot has on the protagonist. If the main line is not completed for a long time because there are too many branches, then many of these branches are useless.

For example, all kinds of monsters in Journey to the West and the story of "81 Difficult" are all aimed at highlighting the difficulty of learning from the scriptures.

Zhaluo: Branch lines can make a plain story look ups and downs, right?

From Jiu Si: To enrich the plot, it is more exciting to realize this main line.

Zha Luo: What's the point of the branch line? For example, if you want to show the ruthless character of the protagonist and write a sideline, but you get nothing, is that ok?

From Jiu Si: Then choose one that can express the protagonist's biting personality, otherwise this branch line will be meaningless.

Zha Luo: a branch line only shows one personality, will it feel very watery?

From Jiu Si: It depends on how long your novel is. Short stories cannot have too many branches. A little advice, if there are many characters and mixed clues in the short story, it will greatly affect the play, so it is better to start from a small place with so little space in the short story. There must be a space. The more short stories are written, the better the characters are, and the simpler the better. Not too many people, or it will be too full.

I'll keep talking. The assassin is a story with many clues and repeated crossing. So I use parallel multi-line narrative to promote narrative. This method generally uses two or three lines, usually more than two lines. Because the three lines may be controlled by the length of time, you need to tell stories at a higher level, otherwise it is easy to get out of control and cut them indiscriminately.

Zhaluo: Generally, it is less than 10,000 words, and it is more appropriate to mainly shape several characters.

Jiu Si: I think four or five is enough. The assassin wrote four people. I feel too full.

Slag years: Don't you just say it all?

Jiu Si: Yes, some things can be expressed in other ways. I don't want to state it, which makes everyone feel unfinished.

Zha Luo: I think blank space is what Mr. Zhuo often says, "come to an abrupt end."

Slag years: I'm used to everything.

Zha Yun: I just can't help being wordy.

Slag heart: I'm afraid I didn't make it clear.

Slag year: Although I know it is not good, I just can't help jumping out of everything.

Zha Yue: I can't wait to add a sentence that highlights the theme at the end.

From Jiu Si: Too many characters are too scattered to highlight their personalities. Because a branch line may not be able to highlight people, and if there are more than a dozen people, everyone is blurred.

Slag age: space is limited, so it is necessary to write something important.

From Jiu Si: Every character I write is not written for nothing, but has a purpose. To highlight the protagonist. In addition to the two protagonists (actually four people), there is also a supporting role in the big assassin. This supporting role was called Yan Zhongzi in ancient times and Teacher Yan in modern times. They are also the same supporting actors.

Jaro: So the supporting role in short stories is actually more like a tool person, who only needs to stand, and his personality and emotion can be weakened, similar to a tag person.

Leave Jiu Si: Because short stories are about telling a story, intercepting what you want to express and making it clear.

Slag Year: There is another silly question. The protagonist is not necessarily a good person, is it?

Jiu Si: Of course not. Good people and bad people are not important, as long as they are fresh people who can touch us. Human nature can be transformed in the environment. For example, a filial son is not necessarily a loyal husband. Human nature is never simple.

Zhaluo: Then can I understand it this way? Humanity is a specific choice made by a person in a specific environment.

Jiu Si: Of course.

Slag heart: there is no perfect person, and there is no absolutely heinous person.

From Jiu Si: It's human nature.

Slag year: I want to know, which one do you say should be decided first before construction? Or complement each other, in no particular order?

Li Jiu Jones: I usually do this, that is, I first conceive an outline according to the requirements of topic writing, and then think of some plots to support the main theme. My articles are all propositional compositions. Therefore, before we conceive the outline, we must always have the theme of the main line.

Slag years: Because they are all written in a random structure, they often don't know where to start.

From Jiu Si: Then you should set a tone first. What should you write? What do you want to express? I spend far more time thinking about the outline than writing.

Jaro: Can you make an unreasonable request and share your novel outline?

From Jiu Si: I'm just thinking.

Laura: It's all in my head.

From Jiu Si: Then I fished at the meeting and scribbled in my notebook. Next time, I will keep this sketch outline. It looks like a battle command map, just various arrow symbols.

Slag meow: I want to ask a question. How did Mr. Jiu Si settle down to write an article for three months?

From Jiu Si: Because I was inattentive and careless when I was young, I wrote for a while and then took a rest. Remember to write next time, or Bole will urge me to write again.

Slag year: Isn't that broken?

Jaro: I'm not afraid of the outline.

From Jiu Si: Sometimes I throw away battle command charts and forget them. So I started writing an outline again, kept thinking, and then continued to write.

Slag year: won't the previous writing be overturned?

Leaving Jiu Si: What has not been overthrown is called continuation, and what has been overthrown is called turning point and foreshadowing.

Slag Year: So this is the gap between me and the Great God.

From Jiu Si: For example, I have been writing Shan Xin Bi Xue for a long time, and I almost forgot what I wrote before. I'll look at the previous one again and then continue to write. My biggest feature is that I can connect seamlessly. I feel like a tailor.

Zha Miao: I also want to ask, how to do it without deleting the text?

Leave Jiu Si: Must be deleted. We can't settle for this. We must serve the leading role. At first, I wrote 1.5 thousand words, but later I deleted it to 9300 words. I like to read it many times to make sure that I can delete all the words. If I can make it clear in one sentence, I don't want two words. The assassin finished writing 20,000 words, but I deleted1.65,438+0,000 words and 9,000 words before sending them out.

Zhamiao: I have one more question. Every time I finish writing, I feel that I have doubts, but I can't say clearly. I don't know what to do.

Leave Jiu Si: Write down everything you think first, then read it through and delete it. Have a rest after writing, and then look back at this article, you will find the feeling. Articles are not afraid of writing, but they are afraid of deleting. Send you three words, malicious, accurate and steady to delete the redundant parts.

Moderator: OK. Nearly two hours have passed since we shared the meeting. It's late, and Mr Jiu Si is very tired. This is the end of today's sharing session. Mr. Jiu Si, thank you for your kind sharing.