如何寫出一本好的奇幻小說?

[柳Ｊ 10]

小弟現在在創作奇幻小說，

可是腦裡卻沒有靈感，

有了靈感，

卻又不知該用什麼方式

才能把我心裡那個畫面呈現給讀者，:(

不然就是寫一寫詞窮，

故事寫完也會有種還沒過癮就結束的感覺，

人物對話加了動作，又加得很沒感覺= ='

劇情有時編一編也會矛盾和不順，

到底該怎麼樣才能寫出一篇好的奇幻小說!?= =""

[茵潔妮希雅 10]

沉浸在劇情裡是最好的方法,可以參考別人的寫法,實地取材,劇情一定要編大綱,

這是我的部落格:http://blog.yam.com/k7910042000

歡迎找我討論

[Uskglass 10]

我到是看過別人討論如何寫出格式化的奇幻小說

1. Create a main character.

Most of the people who read your book will be unconfident males. So make your main character a Loser. Aimless, shy, cowardly, guilty, ill, lazy, rural - any of these will do.

2. Create a Quest.

Out of the blue, the Loser must be suddenly told that the fate of the whole world – or some other world - rests in his incompetent hands. To save the world he must perform some task, confront some nameless foe, learn some mysterious skill etc.

3. Create a Motley Bunch of Companions.

The Loser/Hero must have a Motley Bunch of Companions drawn from different human species e.g. dwarf, elf, Rotarian etc. Each of these companions will have one particular skill such as sword fighting, lasso twirling etc which will come in handy at a particular part of the story.

4. Create a Wise but Useless Guide.

The Guide is wise adviser who knows all about the Quest, but never fully reveals it. He also appears to have immense powers but will not use them when they are most required.

(See Part 7: "Make it Long.")

5. Create the Land

The first thing the Motley Bunch must do is travel some phenomenal distance through an assortment of vastly different terrains and climates. All Fantasy Lands have every conceivable form of climate and landform - mountains, deserts, swamps, glaciers, forests - arranged randomly across the landscape contrary to any known principles of geography or ecology.

Note: All fantasy worlds are roughly square. i.e. the shape of the double page of a paperback.

6. Create the Enemy

Every Fantasy Land has a Dark Enemy, an almost omnipotent ArchVillain who is trying to utterly destroy it. It is not clear how the ArchVillain benefits from this. This Villain always has access to vast armies which require no food, payment or other provisioning and can travel thousands of mile and lay siege to cities without any need for a catering corps. For all this, the Enemy is completely dependant on some insignificant object such as a ring or a piece of rock for his power.

7. Make it long.

The important thing about an epic fantasy novel is that the reader must be exhausted at the end of it. They must feel that they have overcome as many obstacles in getting through the book as the heroes have in fulfilling the quest. So the book must be as difficult to read as possible. To do this:

(a) Tell the story in incredible detail. Describe every day of the journey, how far they walked, what they ate, the weather, where they slept, especially days where nothing happens.

(b) Fill every dramatic situation with lengthy introspection. At every moment of crisis the hero must minutely examine his feelings, perceptions, identity, whether he left the gas on etc.

© Never take the easy way out of a crisis. For example, if the Wizard Guide holds great power, he will never use it to solve a situation. To illustrate.

WRONG

Groll turned his grisly head and raised the black shaft to strike. ‘Use the Gnarlstone" cried Stephen. "No worries" said Gordian and the venerable wizard raised the orb and muttered the Arnic words "Hastalavista". A bright flash flared and the Troll King slumped into a pile of grey-green mush.

RIGHT.

Groll turned his grisly head and raised the black shaft to strike. ‘Use the Gnarlstone" cried Stephen. "No" said the wizard sagely. "If we use the Gnarlstone for harm we will only increase the power of the Enemy." Then the shaft struck and Gimlet the Dwarf fell cloven."

If Wizards and Lords actually used their magical powers they wouldn’t need the Loser/Hero to save them and the book will be over in a hundred pages. So, although wizards can bring trees to life, summon spirits from earth and sky, they have to use guile to defeat the stupidest troll.

At the same time you will need to find ways to:

8. Skip the hard parts.

Despite the need to keep the book long, some bits are just too hard to write. A thousand mile journey by foot is long, but easy to write. Battles on the other hand are hard because there’s a lot going on and you probably require some knowledge of military strategy. So if you’re writing a battle scene and it’s just getting too hard, simply have the hero suffer a wound and lapse into unconsciousness: e.g.

"… then suddenly his head exploded and a mist enveloped him and he felt himself falling down into an ethereal tangible blackness. Badcolds’s sword, still swinging through the air, seemed caught, imprisoned in time. The sound of the battle was suddenly a long way away but just as he closed his eyes and the black cloud engulfed him he thought he heard someone crying from the grassy knoll, "The Toasters are coming. The Toasters are coming."

Voile. Next thing our hero wakes on a white alabaster slab in the Healing Room where the Pure Maiden Warrior (see "Characters" below) tells him that the battle is over and, Guess what? They won! Result: you've saved 50 pages of intricate military description.

For other difficult plot points such as Impassable Mountain Ranges see "Caves" below.

9. Lead up to a cataclysmic battle.

Although the Enemy’s powers are magical, for some reason he must always try to defeat the good guys with good old fashioned hand to hand combat. No matter how much magic power a wizard, king or queen has, they will always end up charging around a battlefield slashing away with a sword.

10. Kill almost everybody.

The Loser/Hero must achieve his goal, gain the power, discover the secret word or whatever only at the last possible moment when all seems lost. To do this it will be necessary to make him fall down and twist his ankle, have an identity crisis, become enchanted etc continually on his way to the goal. Most of the Motley Bunch must die in terrible pain and degradation before the Loser/Hero gets his act together. This is to keep us mad at the Enemy, thought it is basically the Loser/Hero's fault for being so slow and incompetent.

Okay. Now let’s look at some other key points.

Bad Expendables.

It will be necessary to create Bad Expendables. These are the orcs, goblins, trolls, dragons, wights or any other creatures that we are happy to kill in their thousands. They are usually black, hairy, sweaty or in some other way unacceptable by middle class Caucasian standards. Often they are deformed, based on the traditional belief that an ugly body reflects an ugly soul. It is our way of doing a service to the sick and disabled by reminding readers that people who are disfigured look that way because they’re evil.

Note that in Fantasy Lands the concept of reform or rehabilitation is unknown. All allies, minions, vassals and instruments of the Enemy must be summarily killed even if they served their master primarily out of fear.

Tough Old Warriors

All fantasy novels must have an elite brotherhood of highly trained, pathologically loyal, hereditary fighters. These are invariably sturdy, sullen and have livid scars, one eye missing, only one arm etc. Contrary to reality, the more injuries they bear, the greater their fighting skills.

Pure Maiden Warriors.

Losers are scared of or dependency in women, so women in fantasy novels are so powerful and pure they make Joan of Arc look like Pamela Anderson. They are strong, noble, loyal, brave, high-bred and usually die in the end – well what else are we going to with them? They’re too scary to marry .

Body Types.

Skinny people are wily and intelligent, big strong bear-like people are invariably dumb.

Character Names.

To make Character Names, just run some nonsense syllables together until it looks like a foreign language. If they are unpronounceable they will be seem even more authentic. "Y"s, "H"s and apostrophes add an exotic feeling. Words like "Dn’a’brht", "ynhazzmhn", "jbreheh’m" are all acceptable.

It is a good idea to throw in a few names which are just normal English words combined randomly: "Rusk Montana", "Heron Alibi" or "Ermine Dayglo".

Technology

Fantasy Worlds always have inexplicable gaps in their technology. They are ruled by councils of venerable sages who are the guardians of the accumulated learning of thousands of years and yet have never got around to inventing anything that might actually help them against wights, trolls and orcs - such as a .44 Magnum. Many Fantasy Worlds possess fine metal working, word-working and the ability to make crossbows, catapults and elaborate secret trapdoors but have no wheeled transport.

Note: Fantasy Worlds never have working economies. Very few people work, there is little agriculture and it is not clear where food comes from.

Magic

When wizards shoot blasts of magic at each other the Good Wizard's fire is always blue, and Bad Wizard' is always green or red.

Dwellings

There are three sorts of dwellings in fantasy novels – caves, huts and castles.

Caves are the fantasy writer’s best friend. They are the locations for hidden weapons, centres of wisdom, hide-outs of monsters etc. They require very little description and can be joined together to make a labyrinth. As in Hollywood, all caves have flat floors.

Caves are also useful if you find you have written yourself into a corner by creating an insuperable geographic obstacle such as an Impassable Mountain Range etc. This can be simply solved by taking the Motley Bunch of Companions underground. When they emerge from the tunnels- after days of walking in pitch darkness - they find themselves miraculously on the other side of the Impassable Mountains or whatever. The writer has also saved writing fifty pages of detailed description.

Huts are always in remote locations. Anyone who lives in a hut is simple and good.

Castles are always "hewn from the living rock" whatever that means. Rooms in castles are almost completely bare with a minimum of decoration.

The Enemy's Stronghold.

The Loser/Hero must eventually penetrate the Enemy's Stronghold. This is never particularly hard to do. Stronghold sentries are never alert and Loser/Heroes can always approach to within 20 feet of the most heavily guarded installation without being detected.

Even the most heavily fortified stronghold always has small unguarded side door where the garbage goes out. Once inside the Enemy's Castle there is only a smattering of people walking casually about. The Loser/Hero will be able to penetrate right into the Enemy's most inner sanctum without being detected.

Note: the Enemy's fatal flaw will always be that he is over-confident.

That's all you need to know.

So get writing and start your career as an Epic Fantasy Novelist today.

[紅樓笑笑生 10]

要寫奇幻小說很難

劇情大概是最重要的地方

其次是修辭以及描寫

現象　情景　人物要描寫得很傳神

絕對不是初學者在練的小說就是了

[Uskglass 10]

就想你要寫的是「小說」，而不是一直念著「奇幻」。奇幻小說總歸還是小說

多讀多嘗試吧！我猜

[kssk7997 10]

推二樓

建議大家可以好好看完整篇文章..

有些點還滿好笑的

[灰烏鴉 10]

2樓文章的地獄中文版

http://www.lucifer.tw/paper/misc/misc10.htm

[R.C.M 10]

我說，那篇文真是十大經典文啊，我極度懷疑某些雞肋作的作者就是當年誤把這篇當成認真文才會有今天的下場……

老實講啊，很多人講到奇幻總會侷限在架空奇幻，然後接著就會開始響搞一個架空世界，什麼地圖啦、歷史啦統統出籠，然後故事背景也都是什麼善惡末日戰之流的，說真的，這種西就算是專職寫作的創作老手也會被壓死，何況是『學生』『新手』？

從比較簡單的部分來吧，小說終究是小說，就像樓上所講的，一本小說的價值有很多層面，劇情、修辭、氣氛、背景……都是可以琢磨的地方，沒有哪一個最重要，有沒有哪一個最不好，其實講白了重點就是『讀者喜不喜歡？』這樣而已。

就像很多人都說重要的是創意創意，尤其倪匡科幻獎每年一大票被刷掉的作品理由都是創意不足，可是老實講首獎佳作那幾篇看來看去也是那種樣子啊……可是就是有人喜歡啊。

另外啊，雖然說這比較是編輯一類的工作，可是預設自己的讀者也是很重要的，這樣才能針對讀者寫出適合的東西，不是說要刻意討好讀者，而是要寫出能引起讀者共鳴的東西啊。

以上是一點點淺見。

[葑堂霧月 10]

我覺得

想寫篇小說，可能多唸點書會比較有幫助

別說讀書沒用，有些東西可以再創造XD

[billlee204 10]

寫小說就是寫小說

以我的經驗來看

小說是你的靈感經過你的修飾才出現的

所以說

是哪一類的小說

我通常是寫完才會去給他定義

甚至寫完才賞他一個題目喔

[阿曹ˇ綵擷 10]

摁摁

我們是同好喔！=目

我也有在創作小說！

寫小說，剛開始入門的時候，

只要照著自己的想法和方法去做就行了！

這階段我稱它為「我行我素」

後面比較熟悉了！

就可以嘗試去研究大眾喜愛的，然後自己想個創新的題材 =目

這階段要去寫大家喜歡的，聽起來沒有自己的風格，

但，把自己的題材「寫到」讓大眾喜歡也是很重要的！

這是我秉持的原則，有問題可以問我噢　=目

[大丹 10]

古文經典還是要多看，不然沒墨水。

[灰烏鴉 10]

神話、歷史、經典小說、古文甚至物理化學通通都可以是素材，請多充實

小說教戰也看個幾本，個人是覺得好評的小說教學看個兩到三本差不多，其實說來說去就那些，看個兩三本大概就抓得到了，偶爾拿起來複習一下

目前覺得最寶的大概就是中國的山海、聊齋、楚辭，搞架空的話，四書五經也可以考慮進去

[dorakaimon 10]

有的時候，問題會在這裡。

奇幻描寫的過多，反而忘記了故事原本想要表達的醍糊味。

反之，有時則是會不小心的把奇幻的主軸忘記了。

都應該盡量避免。