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Looking at this chapter yesterday, some readers said that the protagonist has no goals and lacks internal drive. Let me explain this. In fact, there are two ways to write the main line: one is the dominant main line. The so-called dominant main line is that the author clearly tells the reader from the beginning.

Let’s take the most popular master of mystery as an example. The main line of the first volume is the notebook, which was clearly written at the beginning. The protagonist has been working hard to find the missing notebook. In the second volume, after the protagonist is resurrected, the hope of divination, upgrade and revenge lies in Backlund. The third volume, in order to upgrade to the sea adventure... until the end, the main line author of each volume writes out and tells the reader straight at the beginning, and then starts the plot.

Think about it, is that right?

Another way of writing is the hidden main line, which will not tell the reader straightforwardly, but all the conflicts, all the contradictions, are foreshadowed in advance. When the plot unfolds slowly, readers will find that all of this is natural, unobtrusive, and even feel like it should be.

Maybe recall, the first volume of Jingcha Fengyun, is there a lot of foreshadowing?

Of course, some books really don’t have a main line. But I am not.

The advantage of the hidden thread is that you never know what the follow-up plot will be. It may be a comedy or a knife. The disadvantage is that sometimes the reader will feel that there is no goal, because the plot has not yet arrived.

Take the content of the second volume of Dagong Ren as an example. You don't know what its main line is, so you can't guess its ending and process.

Another advantage is that, from the reading experience, the world is pushing the protagonist, and the torrent of history is advancing.

As for the writing of the dominant main line, you have known his ending in advance, but what you don't know is the process.

This set of theory is my own guesswork, but the writing method has long existed. Take the four famous works as examples, the dominant main line: Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Invisible main line: Water Margin, Dream of Red Mansions.

We all know his main line and the ending of Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. What is not known is the process.

The Outlaws of the Marsh and the Dream of Red Mansions are hidden. The ending of the Liangshan hero and Jia's Mansion is something I never thought of.

Most of today's web articles are dominant lines.

Before I opened the book, I had clearly thought about this issue. After choosing to use the implicit main line writing method, I wrote from the perspective of the whole world view and played down the protagonist’s goal.

Let the situation drive the plot.