299. The Essence of Everyday Chinese(1/2)
"Scene?" Su Huaixiang asked.
"Yes, the scene." Jiang Miao nodded and continued, "I personally think that after determining the character, if you want to build a plot that suits the character to play a role, it is best to determine the scene where the plot takes place first."
"From a city to a classroom, love essays are usually daily essays and do not change maps very frequently. Therefore, you only need to determine the scenes of most plots, so you can basically frame the general plot."
"For example, when I wrote about my senior sister in this book, the early scenes were basically concentrated in the Finance Institute, and later, the indoor area of Jingjiangshan Mansion and the home in Linping District were added."
"After you determine these scenes, your plot can smoothly transfer and development with time between these two."
Su Huaizhou understood and nodded slightly, thinking about the main scene suitable for the development of the plot.
"Generally speaking, after determining a large-scale scenario, such as Hangzhou, and then further narrowing it to the three points of Finance, Jingjiangshan Prefecture, and Linping District, then continue to narrow the scope among these three points, and select a few places that you think are suitable for ambiguous interactions."
Jiang Miao is good at temptation and tries to cliché.
Su Huaizhu did not disappoint her expectations and began to think carefully. The pictures of the past appeared one by one in her mind, and every bit of her and her junior turned into the source of material:
"That is the classroom where you can have classes together, the cafeteria where you can have dinner together, the venue for the finals of the debate, the basketball court, their respective dormitories, the place to walk at night behind the dormitory building, and the grove of the school!"
"Yeah, it's very good." Jiang Miao recorded all this quietly, and then asked, "What about other places except the Finance Institute?"
"That must be our home, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen..." Su Huaizhou couldn't help but blush when she said this, feeling that the places reported were so inappropriate...
"Yes, okay." Jiang Miao continued to ask, "Where is the Linping District?"
"Over there..." Su Huaixiang frowned and thought, "My junior home, my family, Hengtang Village... um... there is also the rockery in Four Seasons Park! And there is also the fish pond in your family!"
"It's very good." Jiang Miao praised, "Look, once the scenes in which these plots are listed first, will the corresponding plots appear naturally?"
"After saying this, it's true." Su Huaizhou rolled his eyes and thought about it. As soon as he thought of these places, the corresponding sweet plots would automatically appear in his mind.
"But it is not enough to rely on the scene to naturally appear the plot." Jiang Miao continued, "and it also needs to fine-tune the plot based on the respective character designs of the male and female protagonists."
"To put it bluntly, the plot must conform to the character's character design. You cannot let the character do behaviors that are inconsistent with your own character design just because you have to write a plot."
"For example, if the male protagonist participates in a basketball game, if the female protagonist is a cold-skinned person, it is impossible to wear a small skirt and be a cheerleader in the audience, but to silently hand over a bottle of cold water while resting between the courts."
"If the male protagonist is a shy and sexy person, it is impossible to embrace the female protagonist. Instead, when he took the water, he accidentally gently stroked the back of the female protagonist's hand."
"The plots of playing basketball are similar, but the interaction details between the male and female protagonists will deduce completely different details due to the differences in their respective personalities."
"This is the essence of daily writing."
Speaking of this, Jiang Miao drank a sip of water to moisten his lips.
Su Huaizhu, who was standing beside him, seemed like a good student, reached out to help him put the water cup back in person, picked up the kettle and filled the water: "You continue talking."
"From the character design, to the scene, and then to the plot after fine-tuning according to the character design, the next step is to set the sequence of scene plots to arrange the development progress of the relationship line of the male and female protagonists." Jiang Miao finished drinking the water and then said.
"Development progress?" Su Huaixiang thought about the word and snapped her fingers, "I know this, it just makes readers' appetite."
"Don't say it so badly." Jiang Miao coughed, "It's arousing the readers' expectations."
"Ah~ It's so hypocritical~"
"This is an academic discussion, which is too colloquial and not rigorous enough." Jiang Miao said with a stern face, "In short, it is to set the development speed of the relationship between the male and female protagonists, not too fast or too slow."
"But this varies from person to person. Generally speaking, love stories cannot allow the male and female protagonists to form a romantic relationship too early, and often have to go through many twists and turns and misunderstandings."
"However, in the early days, there were too many books that had always attracted the appetite, and readers developed a rebellious mentality and wanted to see some male and female protagonists develop smoothly, naturally, and innocent and sweet love."
"This is also one of the reasons why love articles can gradually develop from a particularly niche field."
“So my advice is to open halfway.”
"Assuming that the total number of words is one million, then 500,000 words are written before love, and 500,000 words are written after love."
"But if you don't force this, it depends on the connection between the character and the plot. As long as it is not for the sake of delaying, it is basically OK."
Speaking of this, Jiang Miao stretched, "OK! Let's end here."
"Eh? It's over?" Su Huaizhou was stunned for a moment, "What about the career line? What should we do if the male and female protagonists develop their own careers?"
"That's another price." Jiang Miao yawned, "and I'm not doing well in this regard, so it's better not to show off my skills and mislead my children."
The career lines or upgrade lines he wrote are basically for the emotional lines, and rarely set up some exciting plots purely in career.
This is also one of the reasons why he believes that he has been unable to make a breakthrough in his previous results.
In short, the threshold for getting started with online literature is still relatively low, but if you want to continue to cultivate it, you can still find out how deep the pits are here.
However, as a teaching course for love essays, the above content is enough for most newbies to digest.
If you can understand it a little bit, at least there will be no big problem in signing the contract.
Moreover, his purpose of obtaining materials this time has been achieved, so there is no need to continue.
Thinking of this, Jiang Miao's eyes fell on the scenes recorded before, touched his chin and thought for a moment, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Su Huaizhou, who was standing beside him, did not notice the change in his boyfriend's expression. He jokingly said, "After you taught this, I feel that I can do it again."
Su Huaizhou also tried to write online articles, but she started writing tens of thousands of words, and after she had no feedback from readers, she continued to draw in shame and never had the idea of writing books again.
But now that we have entered the comics field, we inevitably need this ability when thinking about the plot.
Fortunately, with Jiang Miao's guidance, she stood out smoothly and achieved her current achievements.
...
Before the evening, Jiang Miao summarized and sorted out the teaching contents of the afternoon materials and sent them to the editor-in-chief Guaji.
[Editor Guaji]: Yes, there is something (dog head)
Gu Feng
【Peach Jiang】: Then don’t look at who it is (proud)
[Editor Guaji]: No big problem, but have you written the extra?
[Peach Jiang]: I’m writing.
[Editor Guaji]: Haha, I will send it to me before the end of the month.
I naturally understood the author's countless Guji. What the author said was writing about what he meant.
However, every author of ten thousand orders is the editor's heart, let alone a writer like Jiang Miao, who is still in the rising period, may sign a contract with a great man in the future, so naturally it is impossible to say anything urging.
[Peach Jiang]: Don't worry, I have finished the materials, and now I have been thinking about it and can't stop.
[Editor Guaji]: Then I'll wait for good news for you.
[Mitaojiang]: By the way, I have recorded a video of this teaching content myself. Then, there will be no problem with me posting myself on the site?
[Editor Guaji]: No problem, this thing has not been signed, and the copyright belongs to you.
After chatting about work, Jiang Miao said goodbye and was called out of the bedroom for supper.
Su Huaizhu was eating slowly, and Jiang Miao went back to the bedroom after eating. When she returned to the room, she saw that Jiang Miao was not typing, but was watching two videos recorded in the afternoon.
One is a video of two people going shopping to buy clothes, and she dressed up as the leader of the Magic Cult, and the other is a video of helping him learn materials and teaching content after he came back in the afternoon.
The two paragraphs lasted for neither long. The former was about half an hour, while the latter was nearly an hour. After rough cutting, it only took about ten or twenty minutes.
After simplifying it later, delete the redundant parts and do not pursue any special effects emoticons or other effects, you can upload and publish them directly after you have finished the subtitles.
"You haven't typed today, are you in the mood to do this?" Su Huaixiang sat down next to him and asked.
"Today I will take the manuscript to hold on for a day." Jiang Miao said, touching his chin and quickly swept the two videos, saying, "I feel that the teaching content of recording videos like this is very convenient for me to review and refine my own writing framework."
In fact, there are many writing skills that you have figured out by yourself, which are relatively scattered.
Even before he taught Su Huaizhu in the afternoon, there was only one self-instinct and scattered skills in how to write a romantic article.
However, when teaching Su Huaizhu, he naturally integrated this part of his instincts and techniques, and connected them into a pattern and routine that can be followed, thus forming an effective solution.
To be honest, before he took the materials, he simply tried to trick some scenes that had a deep impression on his senior sister so as to prepare for the subsequent proposal.
Unexpectedly, there will be additional gains.
"Is there such a great effect?" Su Huaizhou was the one who was trained, and it felt less obvious than Jiang Miao. "You won't be planning to use video recording as an excuse to not write in the future, right?"
"Where is the joy of typing in recording videos?" Jiang Miaoyi said sternly, "Building his own writing framework is also for better typing."
"Then you send me the video." Su Huaixiang said after sitting down, "I'll help you edit the post and write for me."
Jiang Miao: "?"
"What's wrong? Isn't it okay?" Su Huaixiang asked with her head tilted, "I'm fine on weekends. It's just a live broadcast. It's not a waste of time to help you cut a video."
"If this is spread, I'm afraid I'll be beaten to death by your Yuanshen fans."
"If you don't say it, I won't say it, who knows?" Su Huaixiang gave him a blank look, "I'm not a full-time anchor. I'm a hobby broadcast if I want to broadcast it, and I don't rely on this to make a living."
Where is the important thing for fans?
Su Huaizhu still understands this principle.
"And I usually have to cut my own videos, so it doesn't matter if I help you cut them." Su Huaixiang added, "You haven't cut a few videos yourself, so don't waste your time writing."
Jiang Miao: "...Senior sister, you are really considerate."
"That's not." Su Huaixiang raised his chin and patted Jiang Miao's shoulder, "Mi Tao Jiang is a great writer now. If you write a chapter of 4,000 words, it will cost more than a thousand yuan to make the account. You can't lose the watermelon and pick up sesame seeds."
"That's sure, I'm also pointing at buying a house based on royalties and marrying my senior sister home."
To be continued...