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The little witty ghost Tian Tian gained a great sense of accomplishment because he helped resolve the huge psychological barriers of cleaning the ashes. After that, he also dutifully reminded him every day, but the cleaning of the ashes did not start writing until Thursday.

At this time, Tian Tian became impatient: Although I know that you are very fast, you are still writing the outline. Can you finish the 1-word sample draft in one weekend?It's going to be a draft competition on Monday!crying cat.jpg

Washing the ashes sent him an emoji for the first time: tearful cat.jpg

Tian Tian realized from his act of stealing the picture that he should be in unprecedented chaos now, and he needs a call from the editor.

Tian Tian called him again: "Xiaohui Da, why haven't you written yet?"

"Well... Generally speaking, it doesn't matter how you write the opening chapter of a book... But now this is not only the opening chapter of the last one-line book, but also the end of the entire series... Has Sihai ever revealed his love for the characters? The final arrangement of fate?"

Tian Tian flicked his head: "Brother Lie Huo!!! Did Si Haida say the final ending of each character before his death?!"

Brother Liehuo picked up the phone: "Editor-in-chief, did Si Haida tell the final ending of each character before his death?"

Wu Lan: "Well... yes. I remember he said he locked the outline in a safe, and only the sequel writer knew the key code, and he didn't reveal where the safe is."

Brother Riehuo put down the phone: "No."

Tian Tian: "Washing the ashes~ Sihai didn't say anything!"

"Oh..." Ren Mingqing's face was covered with ashes, "It would be great if he had an outline... When Gao E continued to write Dream of the Red Chamber, the damned ones didn't die, and the undeserved ones died, and he messed up the mandarin ducks. The same is true of "Ji"..." Although he now has the right to dispose of the characters in this book, out of awe, he can't write at all.

"This is indeed a problem..." Tian Tian was pacing in the office, and he had an idea, "Eh? Then, is there anything like Cao Xueqin's juju in Four Seas, who laid a foreshadowing in the early stage and told readers the final ending of the characters? ?”

"There are many clues in an epic story like "The Vast Chronicle". He must have a general layout of the story frame before writing, and he can also infer the subsequent development according to the logic of the story." When Ren Mingqing talked about the content of the article, his articulate It became very clear, and the speech was not sloppy, which made Tian Tian a little unaccustomed for a while, "And Sihai wrote some related short stories as a side story of "The Great and Poor Ji", which can reverse the ending of the story." When he was in junior high school, I often guess the plot with Teacher An.

"Then, don't you have a way?!" Tian Tian felt cheated.

"No...Even if they can probably guess it, how did they get to that ending?" Ren Mingqing was about to cry, "There are at least seven clues in "The Grand Chronicle", seven..."

"Oh, then what?" Tian Tian didn't know what the concept was.

Ren Mingqing let out a huh, and finally said in frustration: "It's okay, I'll take care of it myself."

Putting down the phone, Tian Tian felt that he was superfluous.As an editor, he is supposed to be more professional than the authors, so that he can give them content guidance, but he finds that he doesn't even know what the authors are talking about, which frustrates him.This is not just a matter of hurting self-esteem, but when his author is sighing, but he can do nothing to help him, this makes him feel deeply powerless.

If Tian Tian has any good qualities, it is that he corrects his mistakes and never admits defeat.He immediately moved his own thick set of formula books, and then found a set of "The Great and Poor Chronicle" from the editor's office - the book published by himself is good, so you don't need to spend money to buy it - and looked through it.

The so-called clue, in the creation of novels, refers to the context that runs through the whole story and connects various events in series, specifically manifested as a pair of conflicts that always have tension.In general stories, there are three main lines: a superficial event line, that is, the various incidents that readers experience with the protagonist, which is a process of constantly unlocking the truth; one is the emotional line, that is, the protagonist always wants to fall in love; the last one It is the dark thread, that is, the vein of the villain's behavior that is buried deep under the surface and will not be completely coherent until the later stage.The event line and the dark line are the exterior and interior of each other.

"So why are there seven frankly in "The Grand Chronicle"?" Tian Tian's eyes widened. Where did the extra four come from?Is it "Game of Thrones" written by the four seas?That is indeed... quite complicated!

Tian Tian thought that multi-dimensional elements may also encounter this problem, and wanted to ask him how to solve it: "How is your outline doing?"

Multidimensional Elements: What Outline?Lao Tzu never writes an outline when he writes, he writes wherever he goes

A mouthful of salt: ...

One mouthful of salt: Next Monday, not only the sample draft will be reviewed, but also the outline will be reviewed!

Multidimensional Elements: Roll

Multidimensional elements: I am the worst, you will know when the time comes

After he finished speaking, he was dragged black.

Tian Tian: "..."

Why is this author always like this!Tian Tian vowed to worry about the multi-dimensional elements again, he is a dog!dog!

"Let's find a way to help wash the ashes and solve the outline problem!" Tian Tian left the multi-dimensional elements and money-making plans behind, and spent the whole night watching "The Great and Poor Chronicles".He has a background in the Chinese Department, and he is quite comfortable in deconstructing texts and disassembling clues. In addition, he stayed up all night to catch up with time and cultivated immortality. By the time he got off work on Friday, he had sorted out all the plots of the serial so far up.

At first he only found five clues, but later he discovered that there was another hidden thread and the corresponding event line, and he had to admire his solid foundation.You know, Xiehui is just an ordinary author without any professional training, Tian Tian is already surprised that he can analyze the outline, let alone speculate from a few foreshadowings that a certain plot is not caused by the main line, but by the plot. arising from another event.This shows that his logical reasoning ability is quite strong, and he is also very familiar with the general routine of the story.

Most people easily mistake the essence of a novel for writing, and think that novelists are "good at writing". In fact, the most basic determinant of whether a story is good or not is logic.Today's novels have higher and higher requirements for storytelling. Readers hope to read a good story, and the story is about logic. In this sense, every story can be regarded as a suspenseful reasoning.The beginning throws a suspense, and as the story develops, the truth is revealed, and the characters experience growth and changes in it, creating a so-called "arc light", and the behavior of the characters and the development of the plot must strictly conform to the Logic, like day must be followed by night, after night the sun will rise in the east.A story without logic is chaotic and difficult to swallow, and a character without behavioral logic is just a code name without flesh and blood.

It is precisely because a complete story must have logic to rely on that continuation becomes possible.

There was a heavy rain outside the window, and the whole city was shrouded in cloudy clouds, but because it was Friday, everyone's faces were filled with lightheartedness, and they easily forgave the bad weather.Others in the office were going to get off work, and even Brother Lie Huo carried his sports messenger bag, planning to visit the gym he hadn't seen for a long time.

Zhuang Mo looked at the time and asked Tian Tian, ​​"Go to Jinding tonight?" Ren Mingqing went to the library and didn't know when he would be home. Zhuang Mo had no place to eat, so he had to go to the Michelin restaurant downstairs to make do.

"I still have some things to do." Tian Tian carefully made a diagram of the relationship between the characters on the A4 paper.Compared with the outline, the character relationship is more like the skeleton supporting a novel.Generally speaking, conflicts and conflicts occur between characters. Just like the real society, characters always find their own position in the relationship with others, and then argue, betray, save, and grow.The novel just moves the relationship between the characters into a fictional world, but everything in human society is still staged there.

Zhuang Mo admired Tian Tian's habit of intermittently working overtime crazily. He didn't want to deprive others of their right to work, so he went to the Jinding downstairs of the hotel next door for dinner.During the time between serving dishes, he received a call from Ren Mingqing: "Mr. Zhuang...are you free now?"

Zhuang Mo looked at the table full of dishes, and said softly, "What's wrong?" He heard the frustration in Ren Mingqing's voice.

"I... I encountered a little difficulty, it was a difficulty in writing..."

"Come and talk to me."

"...I can't tell." Ren Mingqing sighed anxiously, "Mr. Zhuang, are you free now? May I go to you?"

He was very preoccupied and cautious, Zhuang Mo had no way to refuse his pleading, and put down his chopsticks: "It's raining heavily now, you stay at home and don't move, I'll pick you up."

"No, no, no! I'm not at home... I'm the one who troubled you, so I'll come to you!" Ren Mingqing's voice became clearer because he had obtained permission, and Zhuang Mo could see his sparkling eyes through the phone.

Zhuang Mo couldn't help laughing: "Well, that's fine. Where are you? I'll call you a car."