postscript
It's finished. I expected it to be around 1.5 million words, but it ended up being 144.5? It's rare that the estimated word count is relatively accurate, it was always quite off before...-_-!
(I never understood why so many people like to ask how many words the author plans to write for each book. Which author's plan is consistent with the actual one? I've never been sure. What's the point of asking←_← Especially when they ask when the book will be finished early in the morning. Damn, how would I know? I don't even know what time I will finish writing this chapter that day)
My health is really bad now. Every time I finish writing a book, I feel tired and stiff. I feel exhausted and as if my brain has been shot dry...
I must exercise. If I continue like this it won't just be a matter of stopping or delaying the update. I'm afraid I'll become a dead person.
Although it seemed a bit difficult to write at the end, this book is the happiest one I have ever written. The content, background, characters, and relationships are comfortable. Many parts were written very easily, and there are very few nitpicks. My mental state is really comfortable. The most disgusting reports in the past did not have much to do to me, so I was in a good mood from beginning to end.
Especially in the first half, my wife often asked me, "Why are you smiling while writing?"... I think everyone should often read it and smile. This is the original intention of this book, and it has been achieved.
I am honored that this book can accompany you to spend a relaxing and happy time, shouting "Qiuqiu~my Qiuqiu", cursing a few words of Short Ge/Short Chicken, and closing the book with a slight smile under the warm sunset.
That's enough.
In order to complete the plot and write about the changes after Chu Ge's growth, I added some layout and so on. It was a bit tiring to write, and it may not be as easy to read as before. But I still had a lot of fun writing it. Watching the growth of the characters and the ending of the plot, I felt a sense of accomplishment.
I always think that being able to fill in all the holes and make the whole story complete is the author's greatest satisfaction.
As for Chu Ge after becoming the Heavenly Dao and Chu Ge as a mortal, some people think that their personalities are disconnected. In that case, I recommend "Douluo Dalu 5", in which the God King is reincarnated and still asks for blessings. His mortal nature remains unchanged and there is no disconnection at all.
Well, I must emphasize again that Chu Ge is really not the prototype of myself. He and Zhang Qiren are a combination of various outstanding attributes of the profession of online writers. The similarities between Chu Ge and me may only be the two elements of writing about harem and resigning. The rest are very different.
Why do I have to emphasize that it is not me? Because the reading perspective can be easily biased by this way of opening. Every sentence you read will be regarded as Ji Cha's self-narration. In fact, there is no such meaning. It is a professional article, expressing the overall situation of online writers - especially the situation during the period of failure.
The heroine running out is a dream. In the context of being discriminated against in real blind dates, the book has its own beauty. This strong contrast is a pure dream and fairy tale for a failed author, almost like the little match girl...
This fairy tale is gradually completed in the process of their love, and the next "Creation Fairy Tale" gradually becomes the theme.
Every book is a world, and even the most unsuccessful authors are all creators. “It would be great if they could come true,” Chu Ge said that this is his path. I think it should be the dream of 99% of authors.
If you truly invest your emotions into your writing, the characters you write about will come alive.
It’s not that I like writing about creation (in fact, I should have avoided this topic, after all, my first two books were about this), but if the author is the protagonist, he is indeed in the creation of the world, which cannot be avoided and should not be avoided.
Chu Ge’s strength is not gained through practice, nor is it upgraded step by step. It may lack a sense of reality... but taking "Creation" as an indicator, the whole text is about practice, and the theme remains unchanged.
In the end, both fairy tales were written, and this is the significance of this book.
I am very satisfied.
As for hard training and hard strength, I will slowly make up for it with Qiuqiu over the long time to come.
Some people said before that they couldn’t find the feeling of Spring and Autumn Annals, and they couldn’t find the feeling of Dao. Of course, because this book is about something completely different from the previous ones, and if it feels the same as before, then what is the point of writing it? The feeling of the old works should have nothing to do with this one… Unfortunately, my personal style is still strong, and I can’t get rid of it…
Actually, I didn’t know how to write daily life before… Emotional scenes and daily life are two different things. I used to focus on emotional scenes, and there were very few daily life scenes. This led to the feeling of “rushing the plot” in my previous works. There was rarely any other filler between the two things. For example, there was almost no description of the life between the male and female protagonists.
This book has brought me a lot of benefits. Home life, cooking and shopping can all become beautiful scenery.
Thank you for liking these, I had a lot of fun writing them.
Then, I tried to solve a major problem that the female protagonist hoped to solve, and gained a lot of good experience.
It is well known that I couldn't control the number of female protagonists in the past... I could never hold back. When I wrote a female supporting role, I would naturally give her some characterizations. If she was cute, I couldn't help but add more scenes, and ended up giving her ambiguity and had to give up. I used to say that I would limit the number of female protagonists to X in this book and X in that book, but I never achieved it once, and the number of female protagonists kept increasing.
The consequence of the expansion of the number of roles is that it is difficult to allocate the writing in the later stage. If everyone is given a role, it will be difficult to take care of it, and the characters will become similar or stereotyped; if they are not given a role, it will be that the "female protagonist disappears" or "has no sense of existence", which is a dilemma. If you force yourself to take care of both, the plot will be divided into pieces.
When I first decided to try single-woman sex, my biggest expectation was to be able to break through this point, and my biggest worry was that I wouldn't be able to control this point.
Fortunately, I managed to control it this time. Mengmeng is cute, Xuanji is cute, Ruoyan Fei'er is actually not bad... But if I control my ambiguous heart, they are just passers-by. Since they have nothing to do with the protagonist, there is no need to consider whether they have a role or whether they are missing. The most troublesome problem is no longer a problem.
The next book will have more female protagonists, and I hope that this feeling can be continued, with the number of female protagonists controlled a little, and more time and effort can be devoted to the characterization and plot of the existing characters.
This is very important. It is probably the most concentrated point of my writing bottleneck in all these years. I hope I can make progress in the next book. I also hope that everyone will not think "female lead +1" when they see a female character with a name. This is really a lose-lose situation. I can't handle it, and everyone will feel that it's useless.
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Having said so many good things, I will also mention some bad things. As a test field for the first attempt, this book is bound to have some shortcomings, and they are obvious.
I’ve mentioned the natural disadvantages of this type of writing a long time ago - everyday sweet writing is easy to get boring, it’s easy for people to lose interest after reading it for a while, and it can’t be written for long.
This is not a problem of the "single female lead" genre, but a problem of the "daily love sweet stories" category. In this category, the more representative authors are Hua Jie, Wen Zhu, and a few others, and most of their works are hundreds of thousands of words, and the most are only a few million.
Of course, it’s not impossible to write short, others can write well. But although I have always been short, I am not used to writing short words less than 1 million. We should at least have 10CM, not 5CM, right? Since I want to write, I want to think about whether I can stretch it to a relatively normal range of words.
That is to say, add elements such as superpowers to connect the main line, and use various plots inside and outside the book to expand and enrich the content.
But how should I put it...the ideal is good, but the actual operation is not right.
Because there is a sense of disconnection between the style of everyday romance and the style of supernatural combat, it is difficult to integrate the plain warmth with the tense ups and downs or suspense.
Many people should have this feeling. Once they enter the main plot, they will feel that the plain and warm feeling they liked before will seem watery at this time, because it cuts the expectation of the main plot into pieces.
However, if the plot is too compact, the warm and everyday tone that should be the main theme will be lost.
So it often happens that when writing about daily life, some people complain that the plot is rushed, and when writing about the main line, some people complain that it "lacks that flavor." This seesaw dispute goes on and on for dozens of chapters until the book is almost finished.
After careful consideration in the early stage, some of the planned urban fighting plots were cut or reduced to ensure the tone of daily sweet writing. This also led to a part of the split, that is, the story of Nanjiang was much simpler, and many settings such as the black house and Lin Wuyang's many presets were not used.
At the same time, there are many concerns about urban backgrounds, and people dare not expand them blindly - so many people who write about cities will set the background in Tokyo, which can indeed avoid a lot of trouble.
The urban superpowers can be simplified, at most you will be criticized a few times, but the plot in the book cannot be simplified. That is the main line that is inevitable for the setting of "the heroine ran out of the book". If there is no plot line in the book, this setting framework will be meaningless.
Therefore, in the middle and late stages, the plot of the book began to be expanded, and the urban background was moved to the entire world.
When the background of the struggle is set abroad and the fantasy overshadows the urban reality, the troubles are basically gone. Of course, this also leads many readers to think that the urban world has become fantasy... You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Although I think the plot of the book is well written and has received good feedback, I must admit that the problem of fragmentation still exists objectively.
Anyway, we can't blame it all on objective factors. I do lack the ability and can't perfectly realize the composition I have in mind. My level is just like that... What's more tragic is that after all the hard work, it seems that the problem of "easy to look at, but hard to pick up" was not solved at all.
Scratching head.
No wonder others would rather keep it short and not add these things. If I want to write this kind of thing again in the future, I will write a sweet one with hundreds of thousands of words, which should be more comfortable.
Another problem is the mistakes caused by my past habits.
Qiuqiu shouldn’t have pushed it so early.
Because if you don’t push it, there is still a natural sense of expectation in daily ambiguity, how to go further, how to make your heart beat faster, how to keep your appetite. But once you push it, there will be no such expectations, and the appetite will not be kept. The daily life of an old couple is naturally dominated by intimate scenes, and it can no longer be the blushing and heartbeating during the love period - and intimacy is often not regarded as daily life, it is classified as driving or even water writing.
I bet there are many people who feel bored after pushing it because “the only thing left is driving”.
This is a serious mistake caused by my long-term habit of "adopting girls directly" and "not keeping people hanging". Different types of works have different requirements.
Okay, no more summary.
Please forgive the desire of an author who is going through a major transformation for the first time to review his transformation works... Actually, these summaries are of little significance to readers. These are things from the author's perspective - of course, the author accounts for a large proportion of the readers of this book...
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In short, although there are many problems, it is still a success for the overall goal. I am very satisfied that I can write like this for the first transformation. If some readers are not satisfied, I would like to say sorry, because my ability is really limited.
The next book will be a story of a different feeling... Because I have fulfilled my dream of working for the great writer, I don’t have much demand for results anymore, and I have the urge to write something I like.
For example, I like martial arts very much but I know it’s easy to get killed... Of course, I haven’t thought about it carefully now, so I can only say it’s undecided. Let’s see when the time comes. Maybe I can even try Western fantasy... It’s impossible to make a final conclusion at this time.
The direction that can be predicted is that, as mentioned above, the proportion of female protagonists will be reduced, and more emphasis will be placed on the plot and the portrayal of the existing female protagonists. This will be the main direction of the next book. Maybe it will be closer to the early stage of "Ask the Way"?
This is the idea, but I don't know if it will achieve what I have in mind when I finish writing it. Just like this book which wants to combine superpowers but the coordination is not good, I don't know how it will turn out when the time comes, it may be super bad... so don't have any expectations.
I am old, my body is getting worse, and my mind is getting more rigid. Although I have always been ambitious and have been trying different themes to break through my own bottleneck, I am now really starting to feel a little overwhelmed. At least I don’t have the confidence that I had eight years ago when I first wrote Rampant: “I will definitely write better with this kind of subject matter.”
The book may be published very late, the earliest at the end of this year and the latest at the end of next year... Take a rest for a while and exercise your body first.
That's all, see you then brothers...
(End of this chapter)
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