Nightwatcher

After reading this chapter yesterday, readers said that the protagonist did not have a goal, lacking internal power. I explained this, in fact, there are two ways to drive in the main line: one of which is a dominant main line. The so-called dominant main line is clearly told readers at first.

Let's take the most fire of the most fire now, the main line of the first volume is a notebook, and it is clearly written at the beginning. The protagonist has been working hard for a laptop looking for missing. The second volume, the protagonist resurrection, the hope of the revenge in Beckland. Third volume, in order to upgrade to sea adventure ...

You think about it, is this.

Another way to write is a hidden main line, not to talk to the reader, but all conflict points, all contradictions, all buried in advance. When the plots slowly launched, the reader will find that all this is natural, not awkward, and even feel this.

I will wish to think about it, the first volume of the Beijing Taguan, is there a massive volk?

Of course, some books are indeed no main line and think of what to write. But I am not.

The advantage of the implicit main line is that you never know what the follow-up story is, it may be comedy, it may be a knife. The disadvantage is that sometimes readers will feel there is no goal, because the plot has not arrived yet.

Just take the content of a more people's second volume, you don't know what it is, so I can't guess its end and process.

There is also an advantage that from the reading experience, it is the world in pushing the protagonist. It is a rolling flood in history.

And the viewing of the dominant main line, you have already known his endings in advance, and don't know the process.

This set of theory is my own, but I have already existed, and I will take four famous examples, the dominant main line: Journey to the West, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Invisible main line: Water Margin, Dream of Red Mansions.

Journey to the Three Kingdoms We all know his main line and know his ending. I don't know the process.

The water margin and the Red Mansions are hidden, Liangshan Han and Jiafu's ending, I didn't think of it.

Nowadays, most of them are dominant main lines.

Before opening a book, I have clearly think about this problem. After choosing the use of the implicit main line, I will stand in the perspective of the entire world view and desadcate the target.

Let the situation push the plot.