Online novels have gradually become an important entertainment method for more and more young people to live. More and more young people yearn for the profession of online novel authors and have begun to explore and create their own online novels. Outlines are a guidepost on your creation road. A good outline can constantly guide and correct your direction and make you achieve twice the result when creating online novels. Next, the editor will introduce you to how to write a good outline for online novels.

What aspects should a good outline cover? Here are a few modules that I think are required for a good outline: 1. Plot outline [most basic] 2. Main line outline 3. Map outline 4. World situation (background) outline 5. Character relationship outline 6. Plot (chapter) outline 7. Main character outline [most important] The following editor will introduce these seven modules in a comprehensive manner.

1. Plot outline:

A rough description of what kind of story you are going to tell should include four elements: cause, passage, climax, and result.

Take "Journey to the West" as an example:

There is a naughty monkey in Huaguo Mountain, Aolai Country, Dongsheng Shenzhou. After learning the seventy-two transformations, he occupied the mountain and became king, calling himself the Great Sage of the Monkey King.

The Jade Emperor sent the Grand Lord to subdue the Great Sage. Unexpectedly, the monkey was unwilling to be bound and made a big fuss in the sky. He was imprisoned in the alchemy furnace for 49 days and practiced with a golden eye. He kicked the alchemy furnace and was out of control and was suppressed by Tathagata at the foot of the Five Fingers Mountain.

Five hundred years have passed, and a monk came from the Tang Dynasty in Dongtu. It was originally the reincarnation of Jin Chanzi. Guanyin chose him to go to the West to obtain scriptures and save all living beings. He passed through Wuzhi Mountain to rescue monkeys. Along the way, he collected Bajie, White Dragon Horse, Sha Monk, and four masters and disciples to subdue demons and embarked on a long journey to obtain scriptures.

The four masters and disciples went through 9981 kalpas, and finally met the Buddha in the West and obtained the true scriptures and returned to their roots.

2. Main line outline: Taking an upgraded fantasy novel as an example, upgrade is the main line. All plots must be designed around the main line of upgrading. For example: humiliation → oath → practice → change → valley bottom → rise → revenge → opening a new map. It should be noted that the main line outline does not need to be written too in detail. Just have a rough outline. Taking upgraded fantasy novel as an example, one of the sections with each large level as the main line, you can choose separately as a main line. After breaking through the level, it will become another main line and then open the new map.

Three, map outline:

Use the main line outline as the layout to outline the general activity path of the protagonist.

For example, if you want to write a businessman in the Western Regions, then the "Silk Road" involved is the outline of the map in your work.

The writing method is to use arrows to point out the corresponding place name: bj→jx→xj…

Each large location also involves many subdivided locations. Just draw a tree diagram along the main trunk above. This can be added slowly after you officially start creating.

4. Outline of the world situation (background):

As shown in the picture, refer to the "Three-Body Chronicle", first refer to the main line to write a general outline of changes in the world situation. You can wait until you write the plot outline mentioned later before slowly adding details.

Five, Outline of the Role Relationships Appeared in Volume:

Presented in the mind map mode, one is drawn in a volume at a time, as shown in the picture, and the radiation relationship diagram is drawn with the protagonist Gongziyu as the core, briefly summarize the relationship between the character and the protagonist, as well as its own forces, background or settings.

Six, plot (chapter) outline:

The plot outline is a supplement to the main line outline, and it is detailed to the layout of each chapter, including two parts: "outline" and "detail supplement". However, be careful not to write the outline too detailed, otherwise you will frame your ideas when you create, and try to compress it within 15-30 words to roughly state the plot you want to talk about.

Taking the story of "Xiaoli Xiao Zhang" as an example (the picture is a story), let’s write two paragraphs:

The details are supplemented in brackets

Plot 1:

Supplementary area: (Xiao Zhang's image: round face, well-educated, respecting the elderly, and ignoring me)

Summary: The family arranged a blind date and met Xiao Zhang for the first time, but there was no feeling

Supplementary area: (Start think about the future, in comparison, think of Xiaoli)

Plot 2:

Supplementary area: (After the meal breaks up) (Fake name) (Xiaoli image: focus on creating sexy figure)

Summary: The first time I went to prostitution, I met Xiaoli, but I still had a deep impression (Zhu Bajie ate ginseng fruit)

Supplementary area: (I think it's dirty, put on plastic bags, stand out, fallen girl) (flirting, siblings are compatible)

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