Chapter 153: Thoughts on writing novels for November 2020
Many interesting novels about cooking ended very prosaically. Instead of new dishes, learning new techniques. it all boiled down to the simple cultivation of body or spirit.
New worlds appeared, the lower world, the middle world, the high world, with new enemies. And then the main hero began to wander between the planets, galaxies ...
It is clear that the author thus wanted to diversify the world of his protagonist. Creating new enemies, describing new worlds.
But at the same time, many of the authors forgot the main plot of the novel, namely the cooking itself.
There were concepts of some kind of crafting, increasing the power of a weapon or a method of cultivation to cooking the best dishes, create new types of recipes.
Receive ingredients from some source - a well, a river, an underground cave, your unique world, a swamp, etc. But at some point, the authors forgot about this and discarded it. More to this source of replenishment of knowledge did not return.
When creating new arches, new characters were introduced. Some of the main characters got married to divorce their husbands or wives later. Throughout history, they never returned to these characters.
Probably this was also sent for something by the author? But for what? Maybe it was a filler so that readers would not get bored with the fact that the author cannot write the main chapters for one reason or another? Who knows?
For example, in my novels, I have introduced many characters. I was a newbie. But now I understand that the presence of many minor characters complicates the work of the author. While he is in the story itself, he remembers everything, but if he gets distracted from the story, the author can completely forget about his characters.
Only the author knows their characters. preferences, their inner world. Then it becomes difficult to remember about them.
Like the original idea of a novel in the middle of its writing, it can change. There will be new ideas, new characters.
The presence of an exact enumeration of something can then lead to the loss of this knowledge and the author will find it difficult to wriggle out in the future. Therefore, you need to write in general, not in particular.
The same for the value of items, you do not need to indicate the exact price. It will be difficult to remember everything in the future, as well as a large number of facts and figures, annoying the reader.
The modern reader is not ready to read a lot of analytical information, he just gets tired. He needs emotions, actions, and not just a static world and its description.
In this case, the text block should be moderate in dialogue and just a description of the actions. No need to overdo it too much, in my non-professional opinion.
For example, in my story about the magical farmer Dara, originally there was a simple idea:
1. Subject - a coin that can enhance primitive feelings, human intuition.
2. That allows him to increase his over-abilities for a short time
But then the idea came to add the ability to communicate with objects, to animate them. Add data on farming, as a magic item enhances water, soil, plants. That these properties can be partially obtained by the people who eat and drink water from this farm.
After I decided to combine all the novels, so that different stories are connected.
But it complicated the plot itself and made it difficult to write. It turns out to write. But slowly. As an author, I have not calculated my strength. Hoped to write 1,000,000 words this year. But in fact, I barely managed to write 340 thousand words.
That is, the author must be able to calculate his strength, tune in to write 3000 - 5000 words every day.
In reality, sometimes the breaks between writing chapters are from 10 days to 2-3 months.
To be continued
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