Now that you have set a goal of making money, you should know what can make money first.
Here, I’ll give a seemingly irresponsible answer first. Readers can only make money by reading it. Maybe some people will say that this is not bullshit? It is true that this sentence is nonsense in any way, but in fact, putting it another way will make the problem easier to analyze.
So what do readers like to see? Before answering this question, it must be clear that readers are limited to online readers, especially vip members, and many of them will certainly be very miserable, such as classes, but obviously this kind of readers is not that no one likes to watch it, and it also has a big market, but its small readership and prohibited words have led to its bleak popularity.
An editor, I should say that everyone should write this kind of novel with great market value, but it’s an unpopular theme. Let’s make this cake together, so it will be good for you … But in a private position, I have to secretly tell my friends to be selfish. Let’s leave this barren feat to others to do. We can write whatever is popular, and the title of pioneer is really glorious, but it’s more tempting and more realistic than boring and making a fortune.
Having said that, what exactly is the reader’s favorite? In fact, this is nothing more than two points: a lively and interesting story and a bizarre and tortuous plot; Second, let readers have a strong sense of substitution and feel refreshed, and the second point is more important and more dominant. This is actually the so-called psychosexuality yy for short.
Some people think that good looks can attract readers by letting the protagonist do what readers want to do but can’t do it. There is some truth, but it’s not over. For example, a protagonist surprised the students by taking the first place in the class, and such a plot will make me feel refreshed. But it’s not something that I can’t do when I took the first place in the exam, which doesn’t hinder my reading pleasure. I think the key of that sentence should be to let readers do what they want to do, which will have a certain influence but only a secondary position.
A good yy comes first with a strong sense of substitution. Only when readers regard the protagonist as themselves can they feel more breathless when the protagonist is humiliated, feel more refreshed when the protagonist is arrogant, and embody the yy spirit to maximize the readers’ pleasure in reading. On the contrary, although it seems that the protagonist is also lucky and his strength has soared, he just doesn’t feel that refreshing when reading. This is largely because the protagonist’s sense of substitution is not strong enough.
Nowadays, the decline of traditional martial arts novels is a good example. In this kind of novels, the protagonists are often handsome, with unique skills, beautiful women who can be attracted to anger and punish bullies. Generally speaking, the protagonists are not bad luck, and it is also common practice to upgrade … It is reasonable to say that there are so many yy elements, but the fact that the decline of traditional martial arts is well known. A big factor lies in the protagonist’s sense of substitution. This kind of protagonists are born in ancient times and are out of touch with modernity, so it is difficult for people to imagine themselves as the protagonist of the story. Therefore, no matter how cool the protagonist is in
So how can we enhance the sense of substitution? This requires some skills, and the simplest and easiest thing for newcomers is to avoid involvement, which will affect the sense of substitution. Don’t describe some subject details of the characters in too much detail, and try to blur them as much as possible. I once saw a post in the forum where the landlord asked what the height of the protagonist should be, and an old man replied that it was a classic-"One person is tall" at first glance, this is a nonsense answer, but in fact it is in line with yy’s essence. How high or short the protagonist is written will make another part read. The writer thinks that it is difficult to substitute himself, but a simple "one person is high" is a panacea. Readers can imagine the protagonist as themselves, no matter how high or low, and they can substitute well.
If you can’t understand this, then it can be more accurate to say that it is between 100 and 10 thousand! It is said that the mainstream readers are male students in their teens and twenties, especially students, so it is easier for newcomers to set the protagonist as a young student in modern society or a rookie looking for a job, and the gender must be male
If the female protagonist is a middle-aged uncle or a variety of strange things, such as kittens, puppies, saplings and small stones, the main reason is that the sense of substitution is not enough. The easiest way to solve this problem is to change the protagonist. If you want to write about a woman, then focus on her boyfriend to describe the story from his perspective. If you want to write about a kitten and puppy, then find a master and its master focus center to show the story.
If we must stick to the unpopular route and make these unpopular protagonists, then the only way to save them is to turn into heroines, so that she can have a chance to turn into men and write non-human protagonists, so that she can have a human body and pretend to be human temporarily, so that there may be a chance of survival, but in any case, it is king to directly set the protagonist as a male human.
In addition, there is a small skill that can enhance the sense of substitution, that is, designing a bad hobby or a critical flaw for the tall protagonist and exaggerating it. For example, setting the protagonist as a road idiot will often get lost, which will not only help to lead to new stories, but also make the protagonist walk on the altar and look more approachable while maintaining his brilliance.
After solving the problem of substitution, it is necessary to look at the protagonist exhibition and the story to see if it can make readers feel refreshed. This is also the most critical place for the success or failure of the novel, because at this time, readers have regarded the protagonist as their own protagonist, and every move involves the reader’s heart. If the protagonist is a loser who suffers indignities everywhere, how can we expect readers to look at it and how can we expect readers to pay for it? There have been many disappointments in readers’ lives. Let’s just say temporary leisure and temporary spiritual pleasure. They sacrificed their precious spare time. It’s hard to find money to suffer.
I have to wake up here that the psychological endurance of readers has become extremely poor. They are quite fragile. If the protagonist suffers too much setbacks, it is inevitable for readers to rebound. If there is a plot in which the heroine’s virginity is taken away by others, it has been written to the end for a commercial novel. By this time, the readers will inevitably run away and the remaining half will be constantly shouting and cursing.
I said I shouldn’t want the plot, so what should be? What do readers like to watch? It’s very simple to think about your own wishes. Think about the wishes of your classmates, colleagues and friends around you. Those are the things that the protagonist should do. If you sum up, it’s not just adventure, upgrading, treasure hunting, picking up girls, making money, deceiving others and helping others.
Among them, the adventure is very simple, that is, to arrange special luck for the protagonist to get special benefits. This is material, such as the secret of falling off a cliff in the martial arts, but it is also intangible, such as meeting an old man with excellent skills after falling off a cliff …
Upgrade is to make the protagonist stronger and stronger, even if the strength of the protagonist doesn’t need to change. You can add a description of the protagonist’s acrobatics from time to time, and then say that the protagonist feels that his skill is a little more refined or his skills are more proficient. This description is actually nonsense and can be deleted from the text, but adding such a paragraph can somewhat enhance his appeal.
Treasure hunting is a bit similar to the adventure mentioned earlier, but it pays more attention to material gain and more conscious behavior, so that the protagonist can constantly get all kinds of exotic treasures and wealth. Don’t be afraid that the protagonist has more money and don’t think that the protagonist has more treasures. The more such things, the better, and after the protagonist has won the treasure, he can have the opportunity to show off his treasures and surprise others, or give some protagonists no secondary treasures to be thanked by others. These are all good yy points.
However, it is important to note that although the more treasures, the better, try not to let the protagonist get too much at a time, including the adventures mentioned above. Don’t let the protagonist get too many benefits at a time, because how many treasures the protagonist gets constitutes a yy point. At this time, whether the protagonist gets ten or a hundred treasures actually makes little difference in yy effect. If you write too many in one breath, yy point two will also cause a certain degree of confusion, giving readers an illusion that treasures are worthless and not rare.
There is a misunderstanding that many people believe that writing stallions is the only way to have a future, and that the protagonist must meet one another. This cognition is actually very different. This kind of stallion writing is just a means, and although the public performance is generally good, their subscriptions are actually not high. It seems that such readers are more willing to read chapters than pay for reading.
In fact, similarly, harem is more popular than stallion. The two look similar, but the difference is that in stallion, the protagonist sees one after another, while in harem, the protagonist sees one and receives another, but he never sleeps with them one by one. This way of writing will make the hard-drawn female characters more valuable, just like prostitutes in brothels will be higher if they are virgins. In novels, the beauty is the most valuable before the protagonist really gets her, which will make readers expect that they will guess when the protagonist can get this beauty to sleep with her, and this guess will generally turn into expectation.
In addition, to keep the protagonist and the beautiful woman ambiguous, it is not necessary for the protagonist to see each other, love each other, chase each other, but the beautiful woman likes the protagonist in turn, chasing the protagonist, or the beautiful woman and the protagonist don’t see each other, but fate eventually makes them encounter all kinds of embarrassing encounters … This will often have a better effect.
Wealth is similar to face treasure hunting, but it pays more attention to money to get more. There are some repetitions in the urban category, so I won’t say much here.
Deception means that the protagonist knocks down the enemy and then steps on his foot. Here, the enemy is the most common roadside hooligan, but the strength of the protagonist is less than one billion times, and the strength of the universe creator is hundreds of millions of times that of the protagonist. These are all things, but one thing to pay attention to when describing the scene of deception is to portray the bullied object well.
This is a very important point, and it is also easy for many newcomers to ignore. Only when the bullied person is portrayed well, the reader will feel more refreshed when the protagonist knocks him down. Otherwise, depending on how the protagonist tortures him, the reader will feel that he is insane. There are two main directions to describe him. One is to portray the other person uglily, so that the reader will feel more refreshed when the protagonist ravages him. Second, describing the other person as powerful is more enjoyable than making readers feel that he is invincible, so that when the protagonist Wei defeats that person, readers will feel more enjoyable.
Helping others seems to run counter to the gist of yy, but in fact, not helping others actually means being appreciated by others, which means getting praise and gratitude from others. Imagine that a protagonist throws out some garbage, and someone else’s eldest brother, benefactor, and old man are crying and kneeling on the ground and saying that they want to go back and set up a memorial tablet for immortality … This yy is not necessarily weaker than the protagonist’s defeat of the enemy. This is something that newcomers are likely to ignore and it is easy to add to the middle school. It is also necessary to improve this technique if they want to sell more.
Generally speaking, it is difficult to sell tickets without yy, but there are a few special cases. It mainly appears in urban romance, history, military and paranormal, and occasionally comes out, but after all, it is not mainstream, so I won’t say much here, or you can refer to the corresponding category analysis in the article
Third, choose what theme to write.
It is said that it is a good overall feature, so specifically, what kind of theme can make more money and what kind of theme will change hands more? Section will analyze this problem in detail.
I think no matter what kind of theme, no matter what kind of strategy, it can be sold well, but the difficulty is absolutely different. If you write casually, you won’t be too miserable. If you have a theme, you need master skills to show your attraction. So what is more attractive? In my opinion, in the easy-to-write and easy-to-heat themes, it will be discussed in this paper to reasonably examine the level and characteristics of the readers and choose the theme that is most suitable for them.
Some people think that it is reasonable to write novel themes to attract people to become popular, but this is a mistake. Understanding novelty actually means that readers have seen it for the first time or rarely, which means that it takes a process to be accepted by readers and then be familiar with and liked by readers. Although it is likely to have great exhibitions and achievements, it will be difficult to write if it is too novel, which is not suitable for newcomers, and it is not easy to write a truly innovative film.
Now the number of libraries has exceeded 770 thousand. What kind of concept is this? If we watch an average of 170 thousand movies a day, we can watch them for 20 years; If an average print is two centimeters thick, then 70 thousand will be 1400 meters high when piled up; If everyone writes a history, then every year for 5,000 years, there will be fourteen descriptions …
What does this data say? Obviously, there are so many types, themes, characters that we can imagine, I can imagine the plot … Almost everything we can think of has been written by people. Think back in the past, when there were hundreds of times when almost every movie in the library made us feel refreshed and quite a lot of people were amazed. Today, there are nearly 70,000 books in the library telling old readers what we have written. We can almost find similar stories in a corner of our memory, which can bring forth new ideas, but they are still very few. In this case, many people lament that it is not without reason, so it is very helpful for newcomers or old people who are planning to start a new pit.
In fact, there are four situations: one is that the old bottled old wine has an old theme with an old story; Second, the old-fashioned theme and background of new wine in old bottles are different stories; Third, the old wine in the new bottle seems to be a novel theme, but it is still an old story, just wearing a brand-new coat; Finally, it is the fact that the new bottle and new wine are all innovative, and these four models are feasible
Old bottles of old wine look the most talkative, but if the person has profound skills, this kind of wine is the most likely to grow up, although it is cliche and old-fashioned. Vulgar these words are derogatory, but the actual vulgarity also represents popularization. Many things are written indiscriminately precisely because there is market demand and a considerable number of readers like it. This kind of vulgar things gradually show polarization. If the writer is strong enough, this kind of vulgar things can also become classics. If the same subject matter has surpassed the predecessors, it will be followed by more people many years later. But if the writer has limited ability and simply imitates the predecessors, he will not necessarily achieve satisfactory results in the end, which will make people sleepy.
Old bottles and new wines need a little creativity and flexibility, but generally speaking, this kind of creativity is relatively easy to write. For example, the same crossing article "Searching for Qin" writes that modern people return to the Warring States Period, so we can write that modern people return to the Tang Dynasty or that Qin people travel to the modern times. If these are all written, we can continue to show them. It can be written that people in the Tang Dynasty can change their body crossing into soul possession, and they can also emphasize professional characteristics and change the military protagonist into a chef and a doctor. Carpenters either change the protagonist’s goal and change the hegemony to the rich side. Enjoying life … Of course, it doesn’t mean that it is a good theme to have a change and be innovative. After modifying the previous ideas to a certain extent, we have to think about whether such a situation is interesting or not. For example, after writing the urban power, we can compile several outlines to set a special power for the protagonist at will and then develop it on this basis. Imagine what the protagonist will get and what the power will do after getting it, and then we can continue to consider whether this power will be developed, whether it will upset the balance and whether it will be sufficient. Characteristic enough … If all these meet the requirements, then this theme can be written by hands. It is generally difficult to reach a very high height, but the servant street may be much smaller than other types.
New bottle of old wine is a tricky technique. In fact, it is a little similar to a kind of wine, but it needs a little innovation, but it doesn’t need too much creativity. The difference is that one kind is replaced by the core, while this kind is replaced by the coat. In the recent period, this analogy is more about wearing a coat of online games, martial arts, but when the story is put into the game, its popularity is changed immediately. In addition to this, some popular themes are packaged into popular types, and some of them are dressed up as unpopular types. This has the advantage of making readers more fresh and making the original foundation a higher level, which is also very
New bottles and new wines also need profound writing skills, not just whimsy. Of course, this kind of writing is inseparable from creativity. If there are not enough novel ideas and stories, then everything is discussed, but creativity is not enough. It is precisely because of this novelty that it brings extra difficulty to writing. Because this kind of description is a new world, it is a new model, but readers are familiar with those old-fashioned settings. It is not easy to let readers enter the world as soon as possible, and it is likely to lead a trend to become a classic in the future, but if the skills are not enough.
To sum up, I think that for a newcomer to decide what to write, he must first look at his own ability to see clearly and give himself a correct position. If he is full of creativity and profound writing skills, he might as well try a fourth mode to write a new story. If the writer has a certain skill but lacks creativity, he might as well sum up a current hot topic and honestly follow the trend and take the commercialization route completely; However, if the writer is not confident in his own writing strength, it is best to adopt the second or third mode, some clever methods, not to follow the crowd and avoid the old-fashioned route of dynasty hegemony, not to be too innovative and avoid the environment that is too new and unfamiliar for readers, and to try to show some distinctive stories in the background with wide acceptance, so that it is easier for newcomers to make their mark.
I will analyze various common types one by one.
1 fantasy class
This is the largest category and the most miscellaneous category. Most of them can be named as "fantasy". In some cases, saying that it is a fantasy type is equivalent to saying nothing because it is fantasy.
Such a huge amount means that fantasy has the largest readership, and it is also the easiest to be old-fashioned and submerged in the sea. For newcomers, it is a relatively easy-to-change category, but if you want to get ahead, you have to use your brains to get out of your own new ideas in the general direction of cliché s, that is, to the second mode.
Fantasy is a big category, but for newcomers, if they choose fantasy type, it is more appropriate to take a small route. Small abilities, small people, small stories and small fights are slightly new, which may not be able to make a big splash, but it is the easiest way for newcomers to take the first step. This is very mass-produced
Because there are great similarities between urban powers in fantasy category, the detailed conception method can refer to the description of urban powers in the article.
2 fantasy class
This is a unified category. A few years ago, fantasy was one of the biggest categories, which was equivalent to the current fantasy status. At that time, the fantasy mode was all swords. There were elves, dwarves and dragons in the magic world … Now fantasy types have gradually declined, although there are still a certain number of them, but they are often praised and not popular. Fantasy can perform well in business, and its status has been completely replaced by fantasy types.