Chapter 358

A few days later, Cao Xue finally came back. Lu Yang's daily life was finally taken care of. He could focus more on what he had to do every day. The number of manuscripts kept for "magic sword forever" gradually increased, and the outline of "dragon and snake landing" written during working hours was gradually completed. By the end of March, Lu Yang had begun to draft the detailed outline of "dragon and snake landing".

The outline is easy to write, but the detailed outline is the most test of people's patience. Every detail should be considered as much as possible. The cultivation level of Chinese martial arts should be divided according to Ming strength, dark strength and chemical strength according to Lu Yang's memory of the romance of dragons and snakes.

Above the strength, there is the way of sincerity. The way of sincerity can predict danger. If you can't practice the way of sincerity in one day, you don't have very life guarantee in the era of guns. No matter how high your Kung Fu is, you will die and die if surrounded by a group of gunmen.

Lu Yang read the romance of the dragon and snake too early. He read it in 2008 in his last life. It has been almost ten years. Ten years is enough for a person to forget all the contents of a book. If the romance of the dragon and snake is not classic enough, I'm afraid Lu Yang can't remember a bit now.

Lu Yang wrote all the settings he could remember, and then combined with the national art materials collected by Teng Hu to further fill in the settings of the male and female protagonists. The romance of the dragon and snake did a good job, and Lu Yang didn't plan to change it. The male protagonist is still a high school student with medium academic performance but good athletic talent, and the female protagonist, She is also still the female leader of the mysterious organization in the world - Tang Zichen.

The formulation of the detailed outline is destined not to be able to be completed in one day or two. Sometimes, you can draw up several detailed outline of the plot in one day. Sometimes, you can't decide how to draw up the detailed outline of the next plot for several consecutive days.

Lu Yang has never written Chinese martial arts works before. In order to write the immersive feeling of fighting, Lu Yang occasionally outlines various fighting scenes when two or several characters fight in the form of sketch.

Like when preparing the magic sword forever, Lu Yang also prepared the figure drawings for this new book. This time, he didn't ask the painter for help. All the figures were designed in the form of sketches.

Tang Zichen's white clothes are floating and dusty. He has a tall body, a quiet face and divine eyes. Lu Yang has only set up a figure painting for this role.

The hero Wang Chao and Lu Yang have designed more than a dozen figures. Tang Zichen's image is basically fixed, because when she appeared, she was already a master of strength and touched the threshold of the way of sincerity.

When the hero Wang Chao first appeared, he was just an ordinary high school student. Later, with his cultivation, his kung fu grew day by day, and his body shape and spirit naturally changed a little.

In order to highlight the changes of his own image in the process of his cultivation, when Lu Yang designed this figure, several of them were naked.

From the design drawings written by Lu Yang, it can be seen that the astringent smell on Wang Chao's body decreases a little, not only his face becomes firm and fierce, but also his muscles and skin color are gradually changing.

There are two of them. Lu Yang designed the image of Wang Chao when practicing kung fu. His muscles and blood vessels are convex, which is very obvious. He looks like a murderer.

In addition to the figure design drawings of Wang Chao and Tang Zichen, Lu Yang also wants to draw one or two pictures of all the important supporting roles in the book. As for the maps in the book, Lu Yang doesn't need to design them himself this time. He can directly go to the bookstore and buy more than a dozen maps.

There are mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States. As long as there are countries that may appear in the book, Lu Yang buys a map, and then conceives the plot direction of the story according to the map.

Because he can't recall the plot of the romance of dragons and snakes, Lu Yang designed the plot outline of the romance of dragons and snakes according to his own ideas.

After buying the map, Lu Yang began to draw lines on the map with a pencil.

A network novel with two or three million words must have one or even two main lines. How to design the main line often determines whether a book feels good or bad to readers!

Many readers often have a similar feeling, that is, many new books start with 200000 or 300000 words, which is very wonderful, but in the middle and late stage, everyone feels that they are not good-looking.

The reason is often only one - that is the main line!

In the early stage of a web article, there are only two or three big plots, and even some authors can write two or three hundred thousand words with a big plot. A plot is well conceived. Even if they don't write an outline and brew more time in their hearts, the effect of writing is often not bad.

If the creativity is good, 200-300 thousand words in the early stage can often give readers a great sense of novelty and attract many readers. However, if the main line is not designed to be attractive enough, it will fall into the procrastination plot of the family in the middle and later stages, and gradually kill the readers' sense of expectation for the story. Finally, a new work with the momentum of fire will enter the ranks of the street.

The biggest gap between great God writers and street writers is often reflected in the middle and later stages of a book! The great God can write the story more and more wonderful. With the increase of the number of words, he can gather more and more readers, while the street writers write and write, but with the length of the number of words, the readers are less and less.

How to design the main line?

Different authors have different design methods. Lu Yang didn't have much personal understanding of the main line design before. He often wrote articles on the improvement of the protagonist's cultivation and emotional progress.

But today, with more and more words written and more experience, Lu Yang has finally had some new insights recently.

Lu Yang has adopted several ways to integrate with each other in formulating the story line this time. Which ways?

First, map!

Just these two words, many people may be confused. Can the map be integrated into the main line of the story?

The answer is yes. Lu Yang learned this inspiration from online games. Everyone who has played online games knows that when players first enter an online game, the first advanced is the novice village. When players reach a certain level, they will enter a small city, followed by big cities, capitals, holy places and so on.

Inspired by this, Lu Yang had a clear idea when he designed the main line of dragon and snake landing. At the beginning of the story, Wang Chao was in an ordinary inland city, where few people practiced martial arts. Here, because he met Tang Zichen, a master of Chinese martial arts, and stepped into the threshold of martial arts, his strength reached a certain level, Put him into Gd with a stronger wind of martial arts.

Step by step, the story is pushed to the peak step by step through the strong regional martial style and the number of experts. The different regions, the number of experts and the height of the master Kung Fu realm determine that the degree of danger Wang Chao can encounter will gradually increase.

In terms of region, setting the main line may have been done consciously or unconsciously by many authors.

Lu Yang draws a line on the map with a pen, which is drawing a main line.

When the story is written, look at the direction of the thin lines on the map to determine the direction of the story.

In addition, Lu Yang's second way of setting the main line is - National Art!

As a Chinese art novel, cultivation is essential!

Readers who have read the upgrade article know that in the early stage of the upgrade article, the main character's cultivation skills must be low-level. With the enhancement of strength, they will practice intermediate and advanced skills bit by bit.

The subjects of Chinese martial arts are destined to be difficult to distinguish so many levels between skills, but if there are few levels, it doesn't mean there is no level.

Even when practicing a skill, such as Taijiquan and Bajiquan, its moves are difficult and easy, and its power is different.

Even some martial arts that are not as famous as Taiji and Baji have exclusive stunts. The power of these stunts can not be underestimated if they are taken out alone or integrated with Taiji and Baji moves.

Therefore, Lu Yang spent more than a week to separate the moves of each skill and compare them with the power and difficulty of other skills. Finally, he also figured out a main line of upgrading.

This main line only exists in Lu Yang's outline, which is difficult for readers to see at a glance.

When dragon and snake land is written, it seems that it is not an upgraded text. In fact, the upgraded attribute is hidden in the plot.

In addition to the above two points, Lu Yang also pulled out two main lines and finally combined the four main lines into one.

These two main lines are emotion and reward!

In terms of emotion, it seems that the relationship between Wang Chao and Tang Zichen slowly heats up and finally comes together.

In fact, it's not. Lu Yang remembered that he had read a theory before. That theory is called demand hierarchy theory!

This theory was developed by American social psychologist Maslow. In this theory, people live in this world, there are five needs, from low to high, namely: survival needs, security needs, social needs, respect needs, and the need for the realization of self-worth!

This theory seems to have nothing to do with the dragon and snake landing prepared by Lu Yang, but in Lu Yang's view, it is also an upgraded system. As long as this system is also included in the main line of the story, the pleasure of the story will be stronger!

The reason why Wang Chao tried so hard to cultivate Chinese martial arts at the beginning is that in addition to his love for Chinese martial arts, a very important point is that he wants to get stronger, really enter the world of Tang Zichen, help her, protect her, and then be with her. In this respect, it can be regarded as the level of physiological needs.

When Wang Chao really enters the world of martial arts, he will find that there are many experts. He may be killed at any time, and then practice harder. This is a security requirement.

When the cultivation of other countries is higher and their own safety is safe, what they need to pursue is almost social needs and respect needs. In the end, when he was almost invincible, he wanted to explore the deepest path of martial arts, which was the need to realize his self-worth.