1 Play the "what if" game

At any moment in your life, you can try to ask yourself "What if?" Look for all the different possibilities and exercise your active thinking. You can record your thoughts, and when you are stuck in writing a novel, you can look through it for inspiration.

2 Listen to music

Music can bring us pictures and emotions. When writing, you can try to play a music that touches you and feel the picture produced by the music in your mind. If a picture really attracts your attention, you should spend five minutes writing it down.

Three dreams

Dreams are a good way to create materials. Put a small notebook beside your bed. Once you wake up from a dream, you can record the contents of the dream at any time. At least, when you get up in the morning, write a simple record.

4 film thinking

Do you feel that sometimes you will unconsciously play some pictures in your mind, just like showing a movie? What we need to do is not to stop playing these pictures, let them soar, and when you think the story in your head is getting more and more exciting, record it quickly.

5 book title

Starting with a cool title and then writing a story title that matches it can release our imagination and urge us to find new stories. There are many sources of book titles, such as poems, famous sayings, or randomly picking words from dictionaries.

6 list

We can write down the nouns that subconsciously come to mind and make a table. In fact, behind every noun in our minds, it represents a profound memory. Writing it can be the source of inspiration for our future novels.

7 Learn from the previous plot.

Throughout the excellent works, there are actually cases that draw lessons from predecessors. Appropriate reference is actually harmless. Take a small part of the previous story, then replace the roles and settings, and add your own content, but this method should grasp the scale and never copy it.

8 Collect hot topics

There are many controversial hot topics in life, which are excellent materials for writing. Especially the friends who write suspense articles can collect more hot topics and think about the true meaning of human nature behind them, and often a topic can extend into a complete novel.

9-color priority

The quickest way to come up with a plot is probably to create a three-dimensional character in our minds through the role, which can be a familiar person or a movie character, and then follow him forward. Try to throw the characters into a scene casually and see what happens. Ask yourself, what is the worst thing that can happen to him?

10 reversal type

Every story type will follow a certain rule, but we can try to break this rule. For example, we can put western stories into space and explore what new tricks will collide with them. Mixing different elements may produce many new ideas.

1 1 write the beginning first.

Sit in front of the computer and don't care about anything. Write a beginning first. Then, follow this beginning and let your thoughts stretch freely. Don't limit or make too many plans. Doing so can often bring unexpected storylines.

12 paranoia

Throughout many novels, there will be a paranoid character who will control the mood of the character and urge him to take action. For example, in Gone with the Wind, Rhett has a crush on Scarlett and Scarlett has a crush on Ashley. We can create a character, make him paranoid about something and see how he develops.

13 dictionary game

Just open a dictionary and press your finger on any page, no matter which word it is, it will always bring you some ideas. All you have to do is take two minutes to record your inner thoughts.

Write a preface

Throughout those fascinating novels, there are usually some surprises and mysteries in the preface, which makes readers want to finish the rest of the chapters. We can try to write a preface when writing is stagnant. A good preface can bring out a lot of ideas, and occasionally trying to write a preface can also be used as a practice pen to practice the ability to write best-selling novels.

15 Lenovo

Although correlation diagram is an ancient method, it is always a good way to create it. Associative diagrams are also my favorite way to conceive novels. You can take out a piece of paper and draw a connection network on it. For example, you can write down a character or an event in your novel in the middle of the white paper, and then start spreading contacts. Don't limit your imagination, write first and then filter.

16 touching ending

If we get stuck in the process of conceiving the plot, we can turn to conceiving the ending, which can bring you unexpected gains. For example, you can imagine a climax ending in your mind, try to add roles and themes in different ways, and when your ending has a rough prototype, you will also have new ideas about the middle plot.

17 occupation

Based on an attractive job, you can also come up with some story ideas. We can write down interesting works while reading books or watching plays as inspiration for subsequent writing.

18 Look at the pictures and write stories

When you don't know what to write, there is a good way to find pictures and draw inspiration from them. Every picture is a picture, and I can keep the habit of reading pictures and writing stories every day. Some of my novels are inspired by pictures.

19 despair

Many times, we sit in front of the computer and face a blank screen, and our brains are blank. It seems that we have exhausted all methods, but we just have no clue. In fact, this despair is normal, and many great writers will encounter this situation, but great writers are very good at using despair. When an American writer fell into a writing bottleneck, he began to write other things, such as writing a wall at home, which was related to other things. When he writes, he will have new ideas. These are all caused by despair, so don't doubt yourself too much when you can't write anything. Any emotion can make us.

Adapted from life

There is a saying that life is bloodier than any TV series. In fact, life is the best material library. Usually, you can pay more attention to what happens to people around you and record it consciously. When writing, it is high-quality material.