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Metafiction-the interaction between creation itself and narrative text The protagonist of a novel who knows that he is living in a novel. Make the narrative process itself part of the narrative content. This form can be said to be rare in online articles. If you are interested, you can take a look.

Interactive creation that breaks the dimensional wall. Seems quite interesting...

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Innovative Writing Why do we write novels? To create reality. Set up a world, create some characters, tell a story, and make the audience believe for a moment that it's true. Using fantasy to depict reality and letting true feelings touch people's hearts, this may be the highest realm of novels. But it can only be written like this, and it can only let readers see this fictional "real world". Isn't it too absolute? Thus, "metafiction" was born. This is a peculiar narrative phenomenon that emerged from postmodernist novels, also known as "meta-narrative" or "meta-fiction." MetaFiction, this is the English meaning and source of the word. The "meta" (meta) is a Greek word, used as a prefix, indicating the order of "after...", With the meaning of ending, induction, and summary, and finally developed to mean "original", "law", and "system". Therefore, "metafiction" can probably be forcibly interpreted to mean "after the novel", "the end of the novel", and "the origin of the novel". And this type of works does have a similar meaning. If a novel in the conventional sense is to fictionalize a story and give readers a sense of reality as much as possible to believe and immerse themselves in the story, then metafiction is exactly the opposite. Write a novel about how to write a story, write the story of how the novel was created, and write the process of "writing" and the "author" itself into the book. This is metafiction. To put it bluntly, when writing metafiction, we must emphasize the fictional nature of the novel itself and let readers understand that what they are reading is a novel and that it is being written. What's more, it is necessary to let the characters in the book know that they are in the narrative of the novel, or let the author walk into the book and point out, and use this to start a "breaking frame" type of interaction. "Breaking frame" is the basic quality of metafiction. It can be said that as long as the book has the characteristics of "breaking the frame", "breaking the box" and "describing narrative", it can be called metafiction. This narrative technique seems to give the character an independent life, making the character escape from the author's control and become a brand new individual with self-awareness. For example, "Infinite Horror", the initial work of Infinite Flow, involves the "box theory" in the later period. The characters' discussion of their own existence and the idea of ​​​​breaking through to a higher level are a manifestation of "meta-fiction". Another example is a common ending (eunuch?) Method that was common several years ago (in fact, it is still available now) - letting the protagonist in the book travel into the real world and kill the author. This is also a kind of "meta-fiction". So, while this concept may sound foreign, we may have seen it before. Break the fourth wall and have the characters blatantly reveal the fictional nature of the work. Let fiction and reality intersect, let the characters "come alive" and let the author come to the forefront. This is "yuan". This is a metafiction. I'm done.