Science fiction writing skills

How to write science fiction? This is an extremely difficult question to answer. If there is a fixed answer, wouldn’t it mean that everyone can write science fiction novels? Wouldn’t it mean that science fiction novels will never develop again? I don’t want to describe the techniques of writing science fiction in detail here. I just want to list some writers’ experiences for students’ reference. Let me first talk about two things that happened in the American Writing class. Once, at the beginning of the writing class, the students were sitting in the classroom. The teacher walked into the classroom, looked at the students from the podium, and the first sentence he said was: "Every story that can be written has been written. You can't." Write better stories!" Another time, it was also the first time I took a writing class. The teacher named the class "Writing for Fun and Profit." The first sentence he said was: "The story of "Cinderella" has been written 50,000 times and sold. This story can be written again - and sold again!" What do the two teachers mean? Press According to the first teacher, doesn’t it mean that we no longer need to learn writing? According to the second teacher, doesn’t it mean that all stories are repetitions or plagiarism? No! What they mean is that we must learn from our predecessors and learn from their predecessors’ writing. experience. They just say that for humor and to arouse students' interest. Now, let’s list some famous quotes from famous science fiction writers about their writing experience. 1. Regarding the structure of science fiction novels, Jack Williamson (who participated in the Chengdu Science Fiction Conference) said: Never let readers imagine that there are multiple basic premises...Keep the story coherent, everything in the novel must be in a logical order, echoing back and forth... …make the reader want to know what you are going to tell him. A. E. Fan Wang said: Consider some scenes of about 800 words...Each scene has a purpose, usually stated in the third paragraph, and this purpose may or may not be completed by the end of the scene...The scenes are not necessarily in final order. Write…write them down as they come to mind. 2. Regarding characters in science fiction novels, Jack Williamson said: Keep the characters logical... Villains are generally easier to write than heroes. John Brunner said: If anyone aspires to write science fiction, is extremely interested in the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire, but is indifferent to the people on the streets of his hometown, then I advise him to go home and write the following on his forehead with vitriol tagline: "Science fiction, like all fiction, is about people," so he could remind himself when he looked in the mirror. John Campbell said: First of all, science fiction is fiction about people. Even if a dog is the protagonist, we will project human qualities onto the dog and only pay attention to some of its human-like characteristics, regardless of whether it has four legs. If a thinking robot is the protagonist, then the robots are either human or enemies of the characters they support. 3. How to Learn from Others Ray Bradbury wrote: In 1940, I took apart each of Sturgeon's stories to find out its inner structure and see what made his stories compelling. I was 20 years old and had yet to publish a story, so I became passionate about discovering the secrets of successful writers. I secretly watched Sturgeon with painful jealousy...yet because he had the originality I sought, I still kept returning to his novels, disassembling, analyzing, and repeatedly examining the structure of the novels. John Campbell writes: It is often said that if you want to write, you have to study the work of experts. This does not mean that you just read their novels, but also pay attention to the way they write. Why do they use it that way? Why do they write it? Success? What is the difference between this success and the next? 4. On Scientific Accuracy Hal Clement wrote: You cannot make the story contradict the known facts of life, such as the legs of an animal that runs fast. Long, grass-eating animals do not have developed brains. Paul Anderson writes: John Campbell once cited a terrifying example of a planet orbiting a bluish-white sun with oxygen and fluorine. This is absolutely impossible chemically, because oxygen and fluorine combine explosively immediately under sunlight