The first thing to say about writing is:
Good articles are natural and handy.
The template is the summary and retention of the experience of predecessors. Writing with templates does allow writers to improve their writing level and productivity as quickly as possible, but the ceiling of this way is also obvious.
As the saying goes, "Wen Wu is the first wu wu no second", writing has always been a matter of opinion. It is not impossible to learn from the works and writing methods of others, but only by writing his own style and level can this writer truly become himself.
But I have to admit that when I first start writing, it is indeed a very cost-effective thing for beginners to use and borrow the framework to write.
Next, I will recommend two writing frameworks, one is the classic story creation framework, and the other is the mode that I often use in the process of writing unconventional stories, hoping to play a certain reference significance.
A framework for classic storytelling
It's a story creation structure that has been embraced as the Bible by Hollywood screenwriters for years, and it's just as useful to incorporate it into story writing.
To write a story, you must first have an attractive opening and background and character introduction, which is "construction".
The continuation of the story requires the appearance of the villain and the confrontation between good and evil, which is "plot point one".
A good story must have the protagonist's rapid progress in his own plot line and the fierce conflict confrontation process, which is "confrontation".
After the protagonist encounters setbacks, he will inevitably fall into the dark night of the soul and encounter his life trough, which is "plot point two".
The protagonist who falls into the trough of life has to catch up and finally win, which is the "ending".
It's worth noting that in my career as a screenwriter and writer, every story that I can read has to contain these five parts. Of course, there are also some unconventional story models that are eye-catching, but most of them have been "mutated" or "changed" in these five parts.
For example, a regular writer will open the story with a hot opening at the beginning of his story, because the hot opening is usually full of intense dramatic conflict and a lot of action scenes, which always attract people's attention. The action scenes in this are often not all fight scenes, and some nuanced action portrayals will also make people shine.
But in other stories, writers like to use cold openings as a prelude to the story. The cold opening scenes, emotions and even the emotions of the characters are relatively calm, and the writers also use calm narratives to allow readers to bring their emotions into the current environment faster, creating an "immersive" empathy.
The more advanced way to deal with it is to bury a fierce "conflict" in the cold opening, which can be the emotional opposition of the characters, the compulsion in the camp confrontation, and the difference with the "sense of mission", "family and country feelings" and other broader levels.
Of course, there's a lot more to dig into beyond the writing framework. After all, the framework is only part of the writing skills, and there are many kinds of writing skills, as long as you can use the few tricks you are good at, you can be like Cheng Biting Jin's three-plate axe, winning or losing in a moment.
Two of my commonly used unconventional story writing frameworks
The so-called "unconventional story writing" mentioned here is actually divided into two situations: I write the story I want to write, or I don't use the framework I use when writing a story.
In short, it's my favorite framework when I write the article I want to write.
And this framework is also very simple, that is, the high school Chinese class will teach:
Argumentative essay writing framework.
Is an argumentative essay difficult to write? Not difficult to write. But is it easy to write well? It's not easy either.
The core of argumentative essay writing is to convey ideas, and whether it is writing with the story as the main body or purely argumentative writing, it is not something that can be achieved in a short period of time. Although this framework is not difficult to learn, it still requires some skill to use.
And this framework is not difficult, the reason is that it only has the following points:
Make a general argument
Three sub-arguments are proposed and argued
Draw conclusions
Have you found that it is actually a pattern: to make a statement - argument - to draw conclusions.
Is it very similar to the structure of many new media articles?
In fact, this is the same as the classic story writing framework model I mentioned above, they are all saying something that has been proven by history: the most straightforward and simplest is often the best to use.
In the process of using the argumentative essay structure, the most difficult and difficult to use is that you need to keep the three sub-arguments tightly clasped, around the big core of the general argument, and try to connect the evidence you discuss as much as possible in the process of discussion.
Hooking up with each other is to make the reader associate; and association is the most effective way to deepen credibility.
These are two of my own commonly used writing frameworks, both of which have been used tirelessly in my career.
But as a writer, I am convinced of one thing: there is no best, only better, in this world. Only what suits you is better.