A new skill was opened up, and I could learn to write novels while watching a play

Last Sunday, I accidentally opened a drama "My Wonderful Boyfriend".

The heroine is Wu Qian, who previously acted in the NOVEL of the same name that should be adapted into the TV series "I Don't Like the World, I Only Like You" was circled by her strength.

The male protagonist is Kim Tae-hwan, a model in South Korea, with long legs and Oba, who looks ok.

I was thinking about watching it for a while, but I underestimated the attraction of the show and how self-controlled I was.

That's right, it took a whole day and I brushed it up.

To be honest, the meaning is still not exhausted.

The story, relatively simple, is about the second-line female star Tian Jingwei proposed to her boyfriend and was rejected, and unfortunately had a car accident with the truck transporting the male protagonist;

The blood of the female protagonist saved the male protagonist who had lived for more than 500 years and was known as an immortal.

The male protagonist was drained of blood by the enemy 100 years ago, lost part of his memory, and temporarily lived in the female protagonist's home in order to find the enemy;

After the plot, the enemy knows that the male protagonist has awakened and continues to hunt down and kill the male protagonist;

But the male protagonist must be an old monster who has lived for more than 500 years, the skill is quite high, the cornices go to the wall, the shape is transfigured, the key is that his blood can save people!

The enemy can only attack the people around the male protagonist, and the female protagonist has been tragically killed and saved by the male protagonist many times.

After many days of getting along, the two have feelings for each other and express their love, but the male and female protagonists are forced to separate.

It took me a day to transform the show.

Just a few days ago, I read a book about teaching people to write novels, "Write a Good Story Like This", and found that the story situation, character relationships, and development direction are exactly the same as the methods described in the book.

Although I also have the idea of trying to write a novel, I only know that the method is not enough, without a good idea, the characters and scenes are not enough.

This play is just a good example of a practical one, and it's very useful for building a novel.

"Write a Good Article This Way" first proposes the LOCK system: protagonist, goal, conflict, ending.

A complete novel must follow the four elements of the LOCK system, and one is indispensable.

Take "My Wonderful Boyfriend" as an example, let's disassemble how these four elements are embodied.

First, the protagonist

First of all, in the shaping of the protagonist, if a novel wants to substitute the reader into it, it must make the reader feel empathy for the characters in it;

It is an ordinary person, with some characteristics of ordinary people;

For example, ordinary but want to do a big thing, timid, imperfect and so on

For online novels, the male protagonist is the dream lover of all girls: good skin, strength, special functions, will make money, the key is to save themselves every time they encounter danger;

Having such a boyfriend, it is estimated that he will wake up laughing in his dreams.

But the heroine of this drama, an ordinary second-line female star, looks not particularly beautiful but very cute;

Acting is a mess, and the career is all dependent on the help of a girlfriend who is a first-line woman;

The biggest advantage of the heroine is that she is very sunny, very confident, and will be spoiled, but at the same time, she will be intimidating and her temper is also very large.

Although the portrayal of the heroine is not typical of silly white sweetness, it is very personal, and very kind, which is more consistent with the personality of most girls.

The article comes from life.

If it is a modern novel that can shape the character image more in line with the people around us, to be precise, it is completely possible to give different characters in the novel according to the personality of the people around us.

If you don't believe it, you can now think back to the family, friends, and colleagues around you, each with a different personality, and have their own hobbies and habits.

2. Objectives

Next, let's talk about goals

The goal of the male protagonist in this drama is to find the enemy and take revenge;

The plot of this drama is also to promote the male protagonist step by step to collect clues and evidence, and finally find the enemy;

The goal of the first season of the recent hit drama "Sword Line in the Snow" Xu Fengnian is to go to Wudi City to remove the sword box hanging on the city gate of Lao Huang and find the murderer who killed his mother;

In the end, Xu Fengnian got Lao Huang's swordsman and also killed Han Sable Temple, who was involved in the killing of his mother.

The protagonist's goals are very clear, and they are difficult to complete, and the whole play is also around the protagonist's goals;

The goal is something that the protagonist must accomplish,

If you don't do this, you may threaten the life of the protagonist, or the people around the protagonist will die;

It is related to the fate of a person in the second half of life, and it can also be the death of a career;

These are the missions that give the protagonist the task of completing the goal, and it is closely related to the life and death and interests of the protagonist or human beings in order to make the next thing inevitable.

Conflict

The protagonist and the goal have established the basic framework of the novel, and the conflict is the soul of the novel, that is, the content.

It determines whether the reader will continue to read your novel after reading it.

What is a conflict?

In the book Hero with a Thousand Faces, it is written that the hero's adventure mode follows the core mode described above: leaving the mortal world, entering some source of power, and then returning to the mortal world, life is enhanced.

Conflict is an opportunity to force people to leave or change their current lives, and to disrupt the unchanging life before a story occurs.

How can life change in everyday life?

For example, in my wonderful boyfriend drama, the heroine had a car accident and saved the male protagonist, so the male protagonist lived in the female protagonist's home, and the lives of both of them changed. (Limited to novels, girls should pay attention to protect themselves)

Another example is a person who suddenly loses his job, receives a call in the middle of the night, is transferred to another place, wins the lottery, his girlfriend breaks up with himself, and so on.

There's also the COVID-19 pandemic, the suspension of subways, and changes in commuting routes, which means you may have to get up early, forget to bring things in a hurry, wear the wrong clothes, follow these scenarios, and the good stories will come out.

The conflict at the beginning of the article opens the first door of the protagonist, how to go later, or continue to set the conflict, at this time the opponent will appear.

He can be a love enemy, or the protagonist's existence threatens his interests, and the protagonist stumbles upon an ulterior secret.

The opponent must establish a strong attachment relationship with the protagonist, which can be a survival relationship, and there must be enough reasons to prevent the protagonist from completing his goals.

For example, in the drama "My Wonderful Boyfriend", the blood of the male protagonist can save people, and the enemy must need the blood of the male protagonist to survive.

"Sword In the Snow" Zhao Kai chased and killed Shizi all the way because he wanted to cause chaos in the world, and as an illegitimate son of the royal family, he could only get the opportunity to get ahead by taking advantage of the chaos.

The imperial family wanted to kill Xu Fengnian because the power of the Northern Starling was too strong and had already threatened the imperial family.

Therefore, the setting of these opponents must be an extremely powerful relationship related to dependence, and the stronger the attachment relationship, the more natural the conflict will occur, and the whole story will have something to see.

4. Conclusion

There are nothing more than three endings:

1. The protagonist has completed the goal and is heading for the end

2, the reader does not know whether the protagonist has completed the goal, open-ended ending

3, the reader did not complete the goal, negative ending

Of the three endings, the positive ending is the most popular among readers, and everyone loves to watch the happy ending.

The bad thing about tragedy is that it is easy to leave a bad impression on the reader and ruin the reader's good feelings.

The second open-ended ending, the final ending, allows the reader to imagine for himself.

If used well, it is like the movie "Fame and Fame", the storyline is attractive, giving readers strong feelings, handling it properly, and causing discussion;

But if it is not used well, it will give the reader an abrupt stop. Ambiguous feeling.

However, if an ending wants to impress the reader and stir up the reader's heart, it is necessary to set up obstacles in the plot for the protagonist to complete the goal.

For example, there is a heavy price and sacrifice, and this sacrifice is to sacrifice one's own interests or lives for the benefit of the majority of the people.

"Write a Good Article Like This" writes: When someone has the public interest and gives up his own destiny, he will touch the deepest yearning in everyone's heart.

The spirit of dedication deserves everyone's respect.

The four elements of the basic novel are these, ordinary life, watching the drama should pay more attention to observation, think about why such a plot occurs, after learning the most important thing is to be diligent in writing, writing requires long-term practice and persistence, and will continue to update later.