How to write at the beginning of the novel? .

Talking about how to write the beginning of a novel

"First, change the narrative order and promote the wonderful selling points behind. According to the general author's thinking, when writing, you should follow the chronological order of the story. For example, the protagonist was bullied as a child until he committed suicide, and then the protagonist got an adventure and finally returned to the world ... This old-fashioned work still has a certain audience, but the problem is that this kind of beginning will be boring and depressing, and it is difficult to attract readers. The solution is simple, that is, advance the following adventures or other selling points. For example, in the text, the protagonist got a magic weapon and learned magic. Then, the protagonist got excited, gradually lost in thought, and recalled the past bullying ... so that he could describe it step by step as before, just adding these words at the beginning to give the reader a hope. Similarly, you can not write about adventure, but start with what happened later, or even start with the ending. For example, at the beginning, you can write that the protagonist stepped on the flagship of the Armada and was full of ambition. At the same time, the protagonist also felt like a lifetime ago. After years of struggle, he finally rose from a soldier to the commander-in-chief of the human Coalition forces, thinking about that year ...

Second, the opening is to highlight the uniqueness of the protagonist and attract readers. Here is special, you can set the protagonist as a martial arts genius who can learn everything, or you can write that the protagonist has a special body, and one year of practicing martial arts is equal to ten years for others. This shows the great potential of the protagonist, and actually indicates the extraordinary of the protagonist, so that readers will be more willing to read on. In fact, the uniqueness here is not necessarily a good aspect. You don't have to write that the protagonist is particularly strong, smart and handsome, but the other way around. For example, writing the protagonist is particularly clumsy, and he learned to talk and walk at the age of seven, or his kung fu is particularly slow, and others can practice it in a few days. He hasn't practiced well for ten years. This setting seems to run counter to YY, but in this big environment, readers will expect something when they read this opening, because they know that the protagonist must be so stupid for a reason, otherwise there will be adventures later. This kind of opening is best written in combination with the third point.

Third, describe the vision of the protagonist when he was born. This is similar to the above, except that the focus is on the protagonist himself, while the emphasis here is on the external environment. For example, the oldest, when the protagonist was born, there was lightning and thunder, and the situation changed. Although this technique is vulgar, it is also quite effective, and readers can easily know that the protagonist must be extraordinary. Or, you can write that when the protagonist was born, it triggered a war between several strong people, or you can write that someone in heaven looked down on the world and shook his head and sighed, or you can write a fortune teller with a pinch of fingers and changed his face. ...

Fourth, add a brief introduction in front of the text. If it is difficult to show the selling point at the beginning of the work and it is not suitable for flashback, you can consider adding an introduction in front of the text. There are two types of works that are particularly suitable for this technique. One is a work that runs through the whole text with a special magic weapon or achievement method. For such works, you can use a brief introduction to describe how powerful an ancient man was after he got the magic weapon hundreds of years ago and tens of thousands of years ago. Then I changed a pen. Hundreds of years later, the text began. The protagonist was a nobody and accidentally got a strange thing ... At this time, the protagonist could not know that it was a magical treasure. Through description, it has generated the motivation to push readers to continue reading. Even if the protagonist doesn't explore the function of Baby for a while, readers will maintain their interest in reading for a period of time. Similarly, the secret of martial arts is the same. After the protagonist gets the secret, he doesn't have to learn it immediately, but he can also read it casually and even leave it at home at will. In this way, the reader's appetite will also be hung up.

Another kind of work suitable for this technique is the one with fantasy elements, but the opening of the work is inconvenient for the time being. The opening of such works may be a relatively dull real life, which is easy to drive away readers who are looking forward to seeing fantasy plots. At this time, you can add a small introduction for two strongmen to fight, or let a strongman show his superhuman skills. Only in this way can readers know the nature of this book, and the works will leave readers who really like this kind of works.

What needs to be noted here is that this introduction must be concise and clear, with as few words as possible. For example, it is enough to describe the fighting scene in one or two sentences. Don't think that fierce fighting can attract readers. If the plot of the work has begun and the characters are full, the fighting in which the popular protagonist participates may become a selling point, but at the beginning of Nothing, the characters are completely unfamiliar to the reader. It won't cause any * * * sound, and readers have seen many martial arts with thread, which is not unusual. Therefore, this introduction should not be too long. If you reveal one or two pieces of information like this, it will fulfill its mission.

The above four are ways that newcomers can consider to increase the attractiveness of the opening. In fact, there is another way to attract readers, that is, writing style, description close to life, sense of humor and so on. However, this kind of work requires the author's own writing skills and experience, which is not suitable for newcomers, so I won't say much here.

In fact, not all works need a straight opening that shows enough selling points at the beginning. For example, the works such as Crossing, Rebirth and Soul Shifting have their own particularity, and their selling points can be reflected outside the text of the works. A title or a brief introduction is enough to tell readers that this is an overhead historical novel that modern people crossed to a certain dynasty, or this is a work of life cycle reappearance. This information itself is already a selling point, letting readers know where the highlights of this book will be.

Similarly, there are also works with human beings, especially martial arts fans. Basically, this kind of work is similar to the above situation As long as the information of the same person's works is revealed in the title and other places, it will naturally attract readers of such works. In this way, it is not a wonderful beginning, although it is also a very bad thing, but it will not be sentenced to death because of this work.

In addition, there are some fantasy or urban power works. If the topic can reflect this special power, it can also alleviate the pressure of opening up to a certain extent. For example, the name Spider Superman will be associated with the movie Spider-Man at first sight, and readers will naturally think that it is a novel similar to urban power. In this way, even if the first chapter of the novel does not show any strength, the reader will still sit through one or two chapters.

Of course, all I have said above is to allow these works to have an ordinary opening, but it is not fatal. If you want to catch readers quickly and accumulate popularity in the early stage, it is better to make the opening of the work compact.

There is another kind of works, the situation is different from the above, but it is not in urgent need of a wonderful and intense beginning. This kind of works mainly focus on urban life and urban romance. They don't rely on the strength of the protagonist as a selling point, nor do they rely on the omnipotent protagonist to attract people. The beauty of this kind of works often lies in smooth writing, humorous language, close to life, complicated emotional entanglements and so on. These things often run through the whole text, especially the words and language, which can be reflected everywhere. Rather than relying on an element or a single plot to attract readers, this kind of work does not need a special beginning, as long as it is written normally and developed normally.

Finally, for newcomers, if the control is not good enough, it is better to let the protagonist appear first and let the protagonist's name appear in the book first, which is more acceptable to readers.