How to Write a Novel - The Explanation of a Big Scene (Part 2)

Continuing from the previous article, in order to design these big scenes, we must first lay out the layout. Can’t all peerless masters appear out of nowhere? Is it a magic convention? As soon as he appears on the stage, he wants to create a momentum of unparalleled martial arts or a mysterious origin. And for novel writers, this kind of pretense is the most tiring. If there are ten masters to describe, it is to spend a lot of words one by one to slowly stack their heights. For example, seeing the key at a glance, or shocking the audience as soon as you make a move.

Because it's such a long description, it's better to skip to the back and write your favorite part first. For example, in the championship match between the protagonist and the second strongest enemy, as long as he wins, he is the champion of the competition, which is usually the most exciting part. Otherwise, it is written that after winning the championship easily, there will be other strong intruders to disrupt the venue and so on. This game will take the most effort for the author of the novel, but it is also the most bloody place, and the writing is the happiest. As far as the part-time Earth God is concerned, after Sasha's scene has passed, He Yuxian's scene is also a big scene, and it took a lot of space to deal with it, but she will pass after all. So you have to continue to design the next big scene to give yourself the motivation to move forward.

If you don't think about the next big scene, you will feel that you have lost the motivation to move forward. So figure it out as soon as possible, no matter how long it takes to happen. For example, there was a year-long gap between the second martial arts competition and the first. But there's no way that nothing happened in between, right? The protagonist also has to start new adventures and fight monsters to upgrade, otherwise what chips will be used for the next game? Next time the enemy will be stronger than now! Otherwise, will you get weaker and weaker? This will also reduce visibility a lot. Then we also need to arrange for the enemies who didn't shoot before, and they can shoot next time, because the level of the protagonist has also improved, and it just needs to be practiced.

The story must have ups and downs, but the author of the novel has limited pen power, and it is impossible to explain the big scene at once, and it must be done in sections. Gradually fill in the missing parts. For example, the protagonist was seriously injured and went to seek a famous doctor for treatment, and the famous doctor appeared. But how did it get hurt before? This is to explain. Therefore, it is not necessary to write in a way that the time axis advances slowly, but you can also skip writing and write everything you think is interesting first. It's like a mystery novel that first writes the moment when the murderer is exposed, and by the way brings out what the murderer's various layouts are, and writes all of them readily, because it is already in the puzzle-solving stage. Also like I mentioned earlier, after the protagonist won the championship of the martial arts competition, what did the second-ranked master do? You can also write it first. Moonlight feels that the most interesting part of writing a novel is that you can write the scenes you want to write, and then the characters will bring out the direction of the story by themselves. Although the previous layout was very tiring, when writing the big scene, the sense of accomplishment is indescribable!