写好小说开头并非易事。你需要为你的故事做好铺垫,使其不显得哗众取宠,而是更具价值和戏剧性。每位作家都花费数月时间创作一部小说。然而,令人遗憾的是,如果开篇无法打动读者,那么你所有的努力都可能付诸东流。即使故事的后半部分引人入胜,也无济于事,因为大多数读者会在前两三章就放弃阅读。因此,以下列出了五种你绝对不应该用来开头的小说写作方式。
你永远不应该开始写小说的 5 种方式
块段落
绝对不行。千万不要用一大段零散的描述来开头。举个例子,《麦田里的守望者》——虽然我很喜欢这部小说,但它的开头段落实在太杂乱无章了。这种开头让人眼花缭乱,编辑和经纪人也不会满意你的剧本,因为缺乏对人物和故事的充分介绍。

小说开头并非一定要用一句话来引言。然而,你需要仔细斟酌故事开头的篇幅,判断多长才算合适。开头部分是否有什么引人入胜之处?或者仅仅是对主角或场景的简单描述?开篇几页的描写要谨慎,除非包含关键信息,否则避免使用冗长的段落。
起来
小说开头就让主人公从睡梦中醒来,这种套路已经用滥了。你需要用一个独特的画面来开启故事。它必须是某个瞬间、某个情境或某个想法,能够立刻抓住读者的注意力。小说《变形记》就曾以主人公醒来开篇,虽然这种手法看似简单易行,但正是这种奇特的场景吸引读者继续读下去。这种开篇方式或许简单易上手,但却难以打动读者。
开启梦想

Besides the main character waking from a night of sleep, another cliché is a dream. This is somewhat worse as well because after you are 完成 picturing your dream; you will eventually come back to the real world of the main character. And, you will most likely alienate the majority of the readers. The reader might be irked to know that it was all just a dream. You can certainly include dreams in your novel to make it more appealing to the readers, but avoid using them in the beginning.
动作场景的中间
这种情况在某些情况下可能有效; 但是,您必须非常小心这种开头。 是的,它似乎从一开始就吸引了您的读者。 但是,您的读者很可能会一直阅读到行动结束,不再阅读。 原因很简单——对场景和主要人物的描述很重要是有原因的。 它帮助读者对人物形成一定的感知,帮助他们在一个主要场景中对人物产生共鸣和感受某种情感。 这种开头之所以失败,是因为读者找不到与人物联系的线索。

很多对话
Beginning a novel with several dialogues is equivalent to starting the story in the middle of an action scene. It might sound vibrant. The dialogues and lines might sound memorable. It might also be able to make you laugh or feel a certain way. Nevertheless, it still lacks the 地都 since the readers are not well aware of the characters. You don’t want to throw your readers into the river of perplexity. How would the reader find a reference if three people are sharing a profound conversation at the very beginning? One example of such a beginning is The Satanic Verses. This Rushdie novel starts with two paragraphs mostly dialogue and the readers have no notion about the core of their discussion.
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