What is the beginning of a novel, and how to write it to attract readers?

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.