Things you need to know to become a best-selling author at GoodNovel

Continuous writing means you are an author. But how to become a best-selling author? There are some things you need to know in advance.

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1/ You need to learn: read the first 100,000 words of best-selling stories three or four times

Why? The purpose of this is not to read and memorize popular stories, of course. We are learning from it. We analyze the first 100,000 characters of other people. How did they create conflicts and contradictions? How to make readers feel good? What are the causes and consequences of major conflicts? How is the character portrayed?

Look at it. Learn from it. Three or four times.

Take notes. Success is not far away.

2/ You need to read: follow up the lists of popular novels

The style of online writing is always changing, and there will always be new themes emerging. For the author, reading books is like charging yourself. Without constant reading, it is easy to be eliminated by the market. Reading is keeping up with trends. As far as I know, best-selling authors always read. In an enormous amount.

3/ You need to choose: best-selling authors with strong personal styles are not your targets

When you follow up trendy popular stories and learn from their formation, you don’t want to end up like a bad parody of others. On one hand, there is a risk of plagiarism. On the other, you won’t be satisfied with being an imitation.

Best-selling authors with strong personal styles have a fixed audience of fans. Their audience can support their works, whether good or bad in your opinion, to become a hit. But if you are a newcomer, you don’t have that fan base.

So, if you want to learn, learn from the new and sharp authors! There will definitely be useful tips for you to gather.

4/ You need to analyse: what details do you need to pick up from popular stories?

(1) the main storyline: use a paragraph to summarize the general story of the first 20 chapters

(2) The protagonist’s character setting: Use one sentence to summarize the protagonist’s character image.

(3) Conflicts: After entering the plot, the various conflicts encountered by the protagonist and how he handled them.

(4) Hook: How to smoothly switch between events and conflicts.

(5) Summarize and summarize the story content of the first 20 chapters of the work. You don’t need to be too detailed, as long as you can understand the story written in this work.

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