End of the volume and conclusion
As the title says, although this volume is still a few chapters away from completion, the general idea has already been written, so I might as well summarize it in advance.
Actually, there were some problems with the writing of the previous chapter. It was supposed to be a dual narrative. While Helvinia played the final chapter to attract the attention of the Lord of Holy Sound, Bai Wei descended in the basement as a phantom to snatch the body, and then played the music himself to take away the ear. However, I was in a hurry to finish the rhythm of the previous chapter as soon as possible, so I wrote the final chapter of Helvinia in one go, causing Bai Wei to watch the show.
But it’s better this way, let Hevinia complete a solo, after all, she is the last "master".
First of all, as usual, let me talk about my own problems and shortcomings.
1. It is still the same problem as the previous volume, the writing is not strong enough. I still cannot achieve my most desired goal of "connecting the entire world view through one small and interesting story after another". Many stories and many characters are driven by the world view and settings. This is particularly obvious in the later part of this volume, especially the character of Anita, she should have more plots, so that the effect of her suicide at the last moment will be better.
2. The outline is too idealistic and empty. This volume does have an outline, and it was basically completed according to the outline. But the nodes set in the outline are not that detailed. For example, Molly is the female performer who had sex with Karen. At the beginning, I set her up as a pure and innocent girl who was coerced and infected with a virus and ruined her life. But when I wrote this, I found that the character setting was repeated in many ways in the first half of the first volume. It would be too boring to write it again, so I temporarily changed it to a green tea who would do anything to achieve her goal.
3. My mentality is too unstable. In fact, you should be able to see that I am the kind of writer who writes emotionally. When I feel something is very exciting, I am very motivated to write, and vice versa, I find it difficult to write, especially in the transitional plot, I will struggle when writing, this is most obvious when I go from the third hospital to the first hospital. Once I receive negative comments during this process, I will be affected more deeply, and then I will become more and more eager to finish it quickly (this is the case in the first two chapters. When I saw that everyone was scolding the heroine, I couldn't sit still and wanted to finish this plot quickly). This is probably my biggest problem.
4. The laying of foreshadowing. Sometimes I take it for granted that foreshadowing doesn’t need to be written so obviously, and readers can easily see it, so I often bury it too deep, so that when it is written, it seems like a temporary modification of the plot or outline, but it is not. For example, the way Helvinia played the finale, I gave steps for each step, and I thought everyone should be able to connect them together, so when the first chapter was written, everyone criticized the heroine for forcing the hero to fight the Lord of Holy Sound. I was very confused, and I don’t know why there was such a conclusion.
This was even more obvious in the previous volume, when Yongxin was Jellal's son, which everyone thought was abrupt. But from my perspective, this should have been obvious, because I described Yongxin as "young" more than once, and the only young person in Xiaoxing's team was Jellal's son. Of course, looking back now, I did take it for granted.
The above four points are beyond debate and are my own issues.
Next, let's talk about the heroine Helvinia. This is a rather divided character. Unlike the mediocre evaluation of Jellal in the previous volume, Helvinia in this volume is very obvious that there are both people who like her and those who hate her. She is very polarized.
In my opinion, the biggest reason is that Hevinia is not the protagonist's subordinate. She has her own clear purpose, and she is trying to use the protagonist. This makes many readers who are completely on the side of the protagonist feel that Hevinia is an ungrateful person who can never be tamed, but in my setting, it would be wrong if Hevinia, who was born like this, could be easily tamed by the protagonist. Even if the protagonist saved her life, the problem is that she herself doesn't want to die. She just wants to explode with Shengyin and wants to "kill" all the players. That's why she disagrees with the protagonist at the last moment, because she is very sure that she can't see the protagonist kill Shengyin (confirmed again and again), and then decides to do something on her deathbed.
As for her being both a person and a jerk, with no ability and jumping around, there is nothing wrong with that. She really only has this little ability, just like when she killed people in the early stage, she always blew herself up, blew herself up, and blew herself up. Her knowledge and cognition, in front of the entire Shengyin group and Bai Wei, are really nothing. If she wants to achieve her goal, she really needs to use all means, including Bai Wei.
Of course, this is due to my writing skills and some of the plots not being written so well, which led to people's perception of her declining. That is indeed my problem.
But the character of Hevinia was decided by me before I wrote the story, including the counterattack against Bai Wei.
At least personally, I like this character very much, but of course, I will never write such a character again in the future.
Because writing is indeed very tiring and thankless, especially her identity as a woman, which makes many of her actions more sensitive (I won't elaborate on this point).
Finally, let me mention this book.
As I said just now, Hevinia should be the last symbiotic "host" of this book. Because I found that there is a problem in this book that I can't solve, that is, according to my writing method, the host of each volume is actually more like the protagonist of this volume, which brings up a problem, that is, I can't guarantee that everyone will like the host of each volume.
Just like Hevinia, people who like her will find her interesting, but people who don't like her will find her annoying, which leads to a problem.
That is - I am screening readers with every volume.
This is really a serious problem, just like many infinite flow novels, but mine is more extreme, the protagonist's participation is even less, so the disadvantages of infinite flow will be magnified in my case. If the protagonist's participation is too high, then it will be difficult for the host to stand up, and it will be easy to become a puppet that can be hit wherever the protagonist says, which is very boring to write.
That’s why I gave the protagonist a barely usable body at the end of this volume. At least he can have some mobility. We’ll see what happens next.
However, this will greatly shorten the length of the book. My initial plan is to write about 1.5 to 2 million words, which means it will take about half a year?
Let's take a look at it and think about the next volume first. As my first book on Qidian and the first original book that has achieved results, I want to make more attempts on this book, and hope that each volume can bring you a different experience.
As for the advantages of this volume, I will not say more. Let's see what everyone thinks.
But I personally think I have improved in combat. From not being able to write at all to being able to write a little (during this period I completed five Soul Tours and Soul-like games in a row haha), so the writing style looks a bit like a game?
There are still a few chapters to finish this volume. I'll see if I should take another leave to rest when the time comes. I feel like writing this book is really tiring.
The second and third volumes are both about 400,000 words, but the next volume will be much shorter, probably about the same length as the first volume. I plan to write a small story to balance it out.
That's it.
(End of this chapter)
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