Chapter 522: postscript

Aaaah! Finished writing.

I have stumbled, floundered, and even limped my way through more than a million words. And then it was “finally” finished.

The first time I wrote these million words, I felt like a hooded teenager, naive and headlong into the jungle. I was too young and underestimated the difficulty of writing a novel. It’s the same as Qin Lu rushing into the jianghu with a sword and one hundred and three copper plates. So the process of writing, and often have the feeling of squeezing toothpaste, most of the time very painful.

The process was agonizing. But when I finally finished writing it, I was saddened, still felt unfulfilled, and still felt like there was a lot to write about. In fact, it was due to my lack of experience that I didn’t think of these things during the layout. When I finally wrapped up the story, I realized that a living character could have been given a better stage and a better story.

But why didn’t you continue writing?

One is that the world structure, story system, and cultivation system had fallen apart in the previous layout, and I couldn’t write anymore, bewildered;

The other is that I don’t like that kind of stacked box writing, one box stacked on top of the other, stacked to the back, endless, no matter what novels, the force value goes up, it’s all about what the great way, what the Lord of the Universe, what the long river of time, what the various universes are fighting for.

…… Of course, there’s also the fact that I don’t yet ??????????????? know how to stack boxes, after all, I crashed writing such a simple force system. So jealous.

Hahahahaha ……

When it comes to stacking boxes, there are a couple of novels that have stuck with me. When I read Lords of the Snowy Eagles many years ago, Tomato was just stacking boxes on top of each other, endlessly, and it made my brain hurt and my heart tired to read it.

At the same time to see the “perfect world”, is also the box, originally the perfect world of the lower part of the world can be called perfect (I personally think), is the upper world to go, a strong pursuit of the world view, a big and then big, the world view collapsed, the war power also collapsed. When Tatsuo Dong has a battle power description I am extremely impressed, “sweep down the stars”, appeared many times, I do not know how many stars in that world for them to sweep.

Meanwhile there’s a novel, Full Mage, which takes place right here at home, right on Earth, but Chaos is just written in a grand, epic way.

Compare this to Tatsudo’s God’s Tomb, which also doesn’t have stacked boxes and is also written in a grand, epic, and tragic manner.

You can see that you don’t need to stack boxes in order to write a grand narrative.

…… It’s also possible that I haven’t reached the heights they have and don’t understand stacking boxes yet.

I had thought I would be one of those Yu Hua types who leave the pain to the reader and the pleasure to themselves. Unfortunately, I’m not, and I’m not wrapping this up lightly, I have mixed emotions. Overall, I’m a slow, but rich, emotional person, and so it’s predictable that I’m going to have a hard time over the next few days.

It’s that question, I used to think I was a certain kind of person, but by writing this novel, I proved I wasn’t.

For example, I thought I was a thin-skinned person who could knife a character without frowning, but I wasn’t, and it was very hard for me to knife a character that I had spent so much time describing; or I thought I would be able to write a ruthless protagonist with ease, but I wasn’t, and I portrayed a “Madonna” Shiyin and a “lickspittle” Qin Ran. I created a “Madonna” and a “dog licker”, Qin Ran.

There should be a significant number of readers who will say, “This story has obviously only just begun! Why is it over?” “There’s so much more to write! Isn’t this a bad ending?” “I think the author didn’t want to write it.” “The story isn’t even clear!” “He digs one hole after another and doesn’t fill it! Pit than the author.” And so on.

Carrying on from above, allow me to weasel my way in here a bit more.

One line is, “This novel is not a beat-em-up novel from the start.” What I want to write is that the daily routines between master and disciple, and then interspersing the daily routines with major events, in which the relationship between master and disciple progresses. The so-called big events are: the Devouring Demon Willow, the clan competition, the Northern Chu Crisis, the Dao Jian Sect Crisis, and the “Edge” organization, and the corresponding progress of the relationship is: getting to know each other, getting to know each other, falling in love with each other, getting married, and giving birth to a child. A million words when said that “the main man and woman married when the end of the”, in fact, indeed, if I write when the brain did not draw, that time on the end, is a more pure daily novel.

And the reason that led to the novel not being finished at that point was:

Because it’s the first time I’ve written it, I didn’t count on the specifics of the chronology of events, the interplay of events and worlds; nor did I count on the fact that I’d have a flash of insight, or a brain fart, and skew the story line to one side as I wrote it.

To give two examples, one example is the Devouring Extreme Devil Willow, I simply did not think of such a ninth grade demonic beast, something that stretches for thousands of years, the specific impact on the world, so I did not think of the various clans, various countries to react to it, simply did not think about it, no concepts, so the section of the Devouring Extreme Devil Willow is written very ugly; an example is that the Xuanqin’s story line, here the brain pumping is more, it was originally a male and female protagonist to go downhill The original story is a man and woman down the mountain, very simple, but I suddenly thought of the Immortal Dynasty, suddenly thought of Zhao Zheng, suddenly thought of the male split aided, ah, the story instantly skewed. In fact, there is also the “edge” organization is also very crooked.

The other line is sophomoric, “It’s an everyday story.”

Look at the title, it’s all about the everyday! A friend told me, “Everyday means taking a part of the story out of a normal functioning world and writing about it. ??????????????? When you write that part of the story, the world is spinning as usual. The world doesn’t revolve around the main character.” Makes sense to me. That’s why I would prefer the writing style where the protagonist goes and triggers events, rather than the writing style where the story carries the protagonist around.

The story of Qin Ran and Shiyin is just a part of this world. I separated the story of “Qin Ran and Shiyin falling in love” for you to see, but this world is not affected. I didn’t separate out the story of Qin Ran and Shiyin’s love for each other, but the world is not affected by it. Similarly, Long Qiqi, Tushan Youyou, Tian Wenjin, and Lu Junxing had their own stories, but I didn’t continue to write them out. In the story, I buried one “pit” after another for them, but that’s not a pit, that’s an explanation for their follow-up. That’s not a pit, it’s an explanation for them. What will they be like after they are separated from the story of Qin Ran and Shiyin.

…… There’s also a reason I can’t write hit and miss yet.

The failure to continue the story was partly due to all of the above, and partly, obviously, a matter of competence.

I have a lot of incapacities that I’m sure we’re all looking at, so I’ll list a few myself here:

The first is, as is obvious in this book, the warring forces collapsing.

The reasons for this I thought hard about, and there are two.

One is that I didn’t have the battle power system straightened out. I have a little bit of my own understanding on the cultivation system, but I didn’t get the specific battle performance of the cultivation system right.

For example, what kind of battle power will Qi practicing have, Qi practicing to Jindan, what kind of battle power changes in Jindan, and what kind of battle power difference between YuanYing and Jindan, all these, I didn’t figure out.

Also, the specific differences between the various professions were not clearly written. This led to the fact that I originally wanted to write about many occupations and enrich the worldview, but ended up writing about sword cultivators and dan cultivators, and even qi cultivators and formation cultivators weren’t written clearly; it also led to the fact that Qin Ran’s hang-ups above the formations got bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.

The other is that I didn’t get the enemy right. People don’t project emotions on people they don’t know. To use the point of knifing people as an example, knifing a character no one cares about doesn’t work shit, only knifing a character that people like works. The same applies to fighting, people need to know the protagonist and have enough knowledge about the protagonist, and they need to know the enemy and have enough knowledge about the enemy, so that when they fight, they can feel something substantial. Otherwise, how about always saying that the villain is as important as the protagonist? That way, the protagonist or lose or win, the reason ah feeling ah will be clear. I didn’t get it clear, so the battle was ambiguous.

Example would be Shiyin’s first battle with YuanYing there, I was trying to express that Shiyin is good at fighting and fearless, the enemy is good at staying alive and not good at fighting, and that when they fight, Shiyin will win a round or two, but not ultimately. But I didn’t express that clearly, neither side did, and neither did the battle follow-up. So it created the illusion of a Tsukiji defeating a YuanYing.

I’ve thought of two solutions to the battle power problem, one is to go hard, mang it’s over, and write the battle power system after it’s sorted out; the other is to ditch the battle power system, and either stop writing battles or write superpowers like this.

The second problem is that of characterization.

The most, most regrettable, characterization problem in this book, bar none, is that I didn’t do a good job of portraying Shiyin and made so many people hate her that I felt sorry for her.

I envisioned Shiyin as a spunky, cute, cheerful, generous, brave, love-hate, (dare I say kind) girl, a girl who would never hate her, even if I didn’t like her. Unfortunately, I didn’t write it well.

I feel that many people did not notice that a sixteen year old girl, who followed Qin Ran up and down the mountain for four hours, did not cry out bitterly and tiredly; nor did they notice that a girl as beautiful as a flower, when Qin Ran told her to dig a mud pit, went to dig a mud pit in a big way, without complaining a bit. Still puzzled, the heroine general’s family origin, embodied in where?

And the characterization I’m most happy with is actually Chasing the Wind.

I feel like I’ve written about the changes in Tiger Cub from baby, to childhood, to teenager, to young adult. As a child, Tiger Bean was a tiger, and as an adult, he was witty and brave. Bravery needless to say, and wit, he carries ??????????????? Li An robbed the unicorn blood, the clan war time, all have his witty side.

But characterization, kernel of character, plus concrete expression, it’s a long way to go and needs to be figured out slowly.

The third problem is the pacing of the story.

There’s always a rush I feel when I write this story. Not the kind of rush that’s fast-paced, but the kind of rush that doesn’t make things clear.

In fact, it is the same problem with the battle system, things, characters written vaguely, not in-depth, resulting in the story chasing the outline, the story is not a story, but to complete the task as. If the story is unfolded to write, all sides of the characters, events laid out clearly, think it will be much better.

That’s what I think of myself in the grand scheme of things. But when I look at myself, I always subconsciously glorify it. And you guys, as readers, always see it better than I do.

And if you see my question, please don’t hesitate to ask.

If you see something good in me, tell me that too, and I’ll keep it up.

Help me grow so I can write better stories back to you guys. Hahaha …… (dog’s head)

Next up is crowdfunding time.

I’ve been asked what about the new book? When will the next book be released? You guys are missing the point, I don’t yet have the ability to write when I want to and what I want to write. I’m still in a novice stage and what I write depends on what the editor in charge says.

I’ve actually written four beginnings for the editor (one traditional fairy cultivation, one LOL homage, one campus sweet favorite, and one trickster fairy), but only the trickster fairy got the “write two chapters and then look at it” response.

So I’d like to ask you all if there’s anything you’d like to read, and think I happen to be able to write about, you can reply to me in this space.

Maybe one day I’ll become a god and write about the ideas you gave me? Hahaha …… (dog head *3)

(Serious face) I’ll take advantage of the Spring Festival to try to write the beginning, and with any luck, I’ll be able to release a new book after the New Year.

And predictably, I can definitely write a great next book. Because I feel myself to be an author on the upswing of my abilities (smug face). Worth a wave of your attention.

ok!

Rambles on and on and doesn’t seem to make sense, but here goes.

Finally, thank you all for your company and tolerance!

We’re far away from the jungle. I’ll see you again! (GROANS)

Happy New Year to you all!!! (saluting)