I feel like this book is average in writing, but it’s nearing the end and I’ll continue working hard on the next book. Here are some reflections:
I think writing this is a bit like the homework our teachers gave us when we were in elementary school.
Look at a picture and then use your imagination to describe what is in the picture in words.
Don't underestimate the skill of "looking at pictures and talking". Many adults nowadays are unable to describe a picture in vivid words, let alone the storyline that flashes in their minds.
Most people lose this skill by the time they graduate from elementary school. It’s also difficult for me to describe the images I imagined in my mind.
I believe that the best description of scenes and plots is to create a picture in the reader's mind when reading the work.
This is what I mean by coming from the "picture" and returning to the "picture".
After extracting keywords from the picture, we will describe the scene and characters.
The description of the scene should be combined with the things in the scene, such as the things in the keywords we extracted above. To better display them, we can refer to the "mirror movement" technique during movie shooting.
The scene description can be from far to near, or from near to far, but be sure not to let your "lens" shake randomly.
In character description, it is necessary to combine the character's appearance, characteristics, and psychology to describe it, and integrate it with the scene at the moment.
Like most authors, I started writing out of interest. After reading many books, I felt that I could use words to describe the world, people and things I wanted to write about. Because there is no systematic learning and research on writing, the content is always like a running account. The world I want to write is a bit flat. The protagonist does not have colorful experiences and rich characters. Even the thinking logic will have some problems later in the writing. In fact, this is all because we have become interested but have not designed a long-term goal for the protagonist. It lacks the most central thing in the book, which is the outline and plot design.
This is all because we became interested but did not design a long-term goal for the protagonist. It lacks the most central thing in the book, which is the outline and plot design. Many things I want to write cannot be written.
My writing skills are obviously not good enough, and I am quite timid when describing the stories in my mind. This feeling is really scrambled and can easily kill the creator's creative enthusiasm. I feel less and less enthusiastic.
I have asked some experts and the way to break the situation is to write more, practice more, and read more. Even if I bite the bullet, I still have to write. If I really can’t write, I will change my writing until I can write longer. Even if the first book fails, there will be many insights later.
They told me that it was normal to feel that they were not good at writing or that they were good at writing. The process of writing is often a process of cleansing one's own soul. The content of the writing is more or less related to one's own life experience. Looking forward to beautiful things and writing pleasing sentences: experiencing a sad moment, recording the unbearable side, leaving behind Deep imprint. If you feel that the writing touches the depths of your soul, you feel that the writing is good. If you feel that the writing has not achieved a satisfactory effect, you feel that the writing is not good. If you really can't keep writing, put your manuscript down for a while and you will definitely feel that there is a lot of room for revision when you take it out again.
At the beginning, I felt that my literary thoughts were flowing like a fountain, my inspiration was bursting out, and the heart-stirring storylines were filling my mind one after another. I wished I could write ten or twenty thousand words a day. I was sitting in front of the computer typing, and my heart was already flying towards the year. The award podium for the best home...
Although we have a lot of inspiration in our minds, our writing style is too rusty... So many novice writers, especially after I have been writing for a while, feel that nothing is pleasing to my eyes when I look at the articles I have written. I came up with a particularly good idea. , but I couldn't express it, and I fell into distress and shock...
I choose to continue writing according to my old methods and routines, firmly believing that I can correct my writing problems with my powerful output day after day!
Result: I have been writing for two months, but my writing level has still not improved at all. I feel that my writing is getting worse and worse, and I have become less and less confident in writing.
Only then did I realize that I should actively learn writing skills and criticize and correct my own writing routines. Of course, hard practice is also indispensable.
When I first started writing, in order to show my huge "writing skills", I would write down a lot of characters at the beginning, and they all had their own names and family disputes. Who wouldn't be confused by this? There are many novice writers around me. Because they write so many characters, they forget who is who as they write, and they have to go back and straighten out the logic.
I already know that if I don’t have the ability to write about so many people’s lives and personalities thoroughly, I might as well subtract irrelevant characters, which will make the whole story much clearer and simpler.
I have too many words "say" and "think"
This is also one of the mistakes I made. Most of the film is composed of the dialogue and psychological activities of the protagonist, so how to elicit what I want to say and psychological activities is a problem. "xxx said", "xxx thought", it's okay if such statements appear a few times, but if they are like this in every sentence, it will be too revealing of the writing style.
There are too many things that I need to pay attention to. As I said above, if you change the word "say" and "think" in another way, there are many different ways.
I realized that there is no such thing as "the more you write, the worse you get". It's just that I don't know much about writing skills and knowledge. When I first started writing, because of my passion, it was easy to write long paragraphs. For long articles, when the "freshness" wears off, the inspiration is not as much as at the beginning, and various writing problems will gradually be exposed.
But my passion is still there. I write because of my interest. I like to write about things I want to write about. Write your own world.
And I am also making progress. With a book or a plot, from the early stage to the later stage, when I look back, I will find that there are still many problems in the early stage, but these problems are minor, but it proves that I am making progress.
I have also realized that writing so many pictures and trying to write out the pictures in my mind seems to be a waste of word count. There are only a few words in a chapter, but I am imagining the most difficult to conceive and achieve the worst results. The way. This also dampens the enthusiasm of readers.
I have realized my problem. The next book will use a new style, use concise and clear language, and focus more on narrative rather than pictures.
I will definitely correct it in the next book!
Write a little bit of your own experience below, to make up the number of words:
My biggest experience since writing is: when I can’t continue writing, I just have to write hard, make up the word count, and finish the day’s tasks. Never stop, never interrupt. Once you stop, it's very difficult to start again.
There will always be times when our thoughts are exhausted. At this time, we need to "act against human nature". The more we don't like to do things, the more we have to do them; the more we want to let go of things, the more we have to continue.
Although there is no interest in guiding at this time, things can still continue; although the typed words may not fully reflect your thoughts, your general idea is still there, and your plan to do this is still in progress. The quality is not that satisfactory, but you can make it gradually reach your satisfaction through subsequent adjustments and modifications.
And giving up will become a habit, causing pits one after another on your road, and making you produce half-finished products one after another. If things go on like this, there will be only one result: nothing will be achieved.
From the moment I started writing, I was either in Cavan or on the road to Cavan.
The most serious consequence of Kavin is not breaking the news, but a terrible mental breakdown and self-doubt.
When facing Cavan, you must maintain a good attitude. I got Cavan today. It’s okay. Find other things to do and put it aside for now. You must have a good mentality!
What writing skills, ten thousand updates a day, and a broken mentality are all nonsense. When writing, you must remember that mentality is the biggest factor.
You never know why you stopped writing. Do you think it’s a matter of poor writing skills, lack of money, or lack of skills?
Many authors shut down their writing because they couldn't stand the loneliness of single-player, couldn't stand the negative comments from readers, and doubted whether their writing was really rubbish.
These are the reasons why I gave up writing. Even depressed, I don’t have confidence in myself...
There is success in this world, but there is no quick fix.
I can learn how to write a story well, it just takes time, maybe one year, two years, five years, or even longer. Can I endure such loneliness?
I think I still have to endure it. There is no quick fix in this world. Even learning has a huge effect accumulated since childhood. This is true for learning, and so is work. Only by accumulating many foundations can we build high-rise buildings.
Persistence is the tempering of will and the accumulation of explosive power. You can break through the "net" with silent struggle, and melt the "ice" with invisible flames. Work hard in persistence, fight in persistence, let all pain fade in persistence, let all tears turn into smoke in persistence. Learn to persevere, learn to pursue through perseverance, and realize success through perseverance.
If you give up on anything halfway, you are destined to fail. But conversely, as long as you persist in doing anything, there is a possibility of success! Different people will have different interpretations of final success, and it depends on each person. Depends on the purpose. The main purpose of posting this article is also to encourage myself. By the way, I know two people who achieved success through unremitting persistence.
Those who walk a hundred steps are half ninety. I don’t know how long I will be walking, but as long as there are no force majeure factors, I will definitely stick to it. If I can’t hold on even if I write a few words, what else can I do?
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