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Chapter 89 Summary and leave

It’s the summary part of each volume that many people are looking forward to again, uh, I am probably the only one looking forward to it.

Actually, this time is quite embarrassing. Write a few more chapters until December 31, so that you can merge the comments on the shelves and save trouble.

Of course, this is also good. It will be on the shelves on January 1st. The first part will be finished on December 31st. Would I dare to ask for leave?
Therefore, everything is pros and cons.

Going back to the first book itself, because the mystery itself is very heavy, the long night will continue this tone, which will not only appear to be repetitive, but also have no buffer and room for adjustment. In addition, my previous novels, except Little Meng, others There is a big similarity in personality and internality, but there are differences in certain aspects and some details.

Therefore, I want to challenge a protagonist who is completely different from before, breakthrough his own limitations.

Based on these two points, I said before, I plan to write a mentally ill protagonist. On the one hand, this is a new experience for me, on the other hand, it can also bring joy to a darker background. The sorrow under the surface of the water.

I am not a mental patient, laugh, I can’t really simulate the mentality of mental illness, this is the biggest obstacle before my real creation, after repeated thinking, I came up with a way, that is to give up most of the psychology Activities, use actions and words to shape characters.

After adopting this method, I was pleasantly surprised to find that this is very different from previous creations. I am no longer a person who pre-sets what personality this is, what his preferences are, and his minor shortcomings are What, where is the arc of his character, but gives his background, his past experience, and then, when he encounters different things, he starts from the background, experience, and character state to launch different reactions.

After writing like this, I realized that Shang Jianyao turned out to be such a person.

This may not make much sense to friends who read novels, because no matter what method is used, in the final analysis, they are shaping characters. There is no divided into high and low, but for writers, this kind of ship is new The feeling is particularly wonderful.

This is not to praise myself for writing well. This does not exist. There must be various problems when trying a technique for the first time, but it is a sense of accomplishment if I explore it a little bit and try it out.

This writing method is not without shortcomings and drawbacks, at least I have found several now:

First, without psychological activities, the most powerful weapon for creating a sense of substitution is missing. This is quite troublesome for an online novel, and without the sense of substitution, many plots cannot spread tension.

The second is that the initial shaping of the character will be very long. I was probably in Shuiwei Town, when Shang Jianyao separated the beef a little bit for the little girl, and I felt that the character’s feet really stood on the ground.

Third, it is impossible to use psychological activities to quickly label a new character, deepen the impression, and shape the image.

In combination with the first film, I used a similar writing method of travel notes and road films. Therefore, the progress of the whole story is difficult to stretch too much tension, and some supporting actors were not able to stand up quickly, so that it clearly happened. With many ups and downs, the plot seems slow.

This way of writing also has its own advantages:
When there is a lack of psychological activities, the character creation relies more on interaction, and once the interaction increases, the characters that appear frequently will naturally become bright and full.

In the first part, it is mainly the members of the old tune group.

I can boast a little bit about this, but the plot is still too small at present, and the arc of the characters is definitely not able to be brought out, I just hope that it can be done later.

After talking about the characters, let’s talk about the overall structure of the first part.

Because I wanted to present such a big environment first, I used the reflection of the old world, the gloominess of the New World and the absurdity of combining them, and made a big look first, and laid out the atmosphere and tone, so I adopted similar The writing of travel notes and road films does not set out the content of outbursts and climaxes, but focuses on experience.

In addition, the feeling of upgrading was also downplayed, which resulted in a very weak plot tension in the entire first part. After all, two powerful weapons were missing.

By the way, the title of the first part is “Prelude”, and the opening line is:

“At the moment of death, the solemn first note of the unknown song will sound. Life is just a series of preludes to this song.”

When many friends saw this, they thought they would die, but it is not. I wrote about a “civilized” life.

In the last two chapters, a song is one of the series of preludes before the death of the old age, it is nostalgia and mourning for the past civilization, and the song is a prelude to New World Sincerely look forward to it.

In the long night of civilization, there are still many fires.

Maybe one day, a surplus fire will start a prairie fire again, illuminating the world. This is closer to the meaning of Liszt’s “Prelude”. Humans and civilization are mortal, but we will make the prelude as long as possible, as magnificent as possible, and as brilliant as possible.

If you are reading the first part, when you hear the song of “remembering the past”, you will have feelings for the old world and the word civilization flashed in your mind, then I think The expression has already come out, enough.

Having said this, let’s talk about the problems in the first part:

One is that the second half of the process is too tiring to read. This is not a question of words, but a question of rhythm. Maybe it’s because I’m used to playing games. I always make a bunch of branch lines and then do the main line. So when I set up this way, I didn’t think there was a problem at all, but after I started to write, I found out that once I gave it, I went to Qifeng Town to send the chip. If you always deviate and delay the task for too long, the reader will be irritated and feel that the plot is too procrastinated and it will be tiring to read.

Playing games by yourself is really different from designing “games” for others, laugh.

The second is in the remains of the city. I hope that through the description of our common scenes and things, we can set off the atmosphere of wasteland and pave the way for nostalgia and mourning for the old world. Therefore, many places are very detailed, This is not a problem in itself, but I overlooked one point. At that time, the old tune group was not free and was controlled by Qiao Chu. Many friends would eagerly hope to get rid of this as soon as possible. This contradicts the peaceful mentality of reading a detailed description. This is indeed because I didn’t design it well and there was a problem with it.

The first part is mainly to outline the outline and try some new ways of writing at the same time. That’s almost it.

The old rule, I will take leave and rest next, and organize the outline. However, because the second part will be very short, only 20 sheets, which is a more important turning point, so only take a day and a half of leave, at noon the day after tomorrow, which is 31 The update will resume at 12:30 noon.

You don’t have to worry about being too short. It is estimated that the third, fourth, fifth and seventh parts will be long, about two hundred chapters.

The name of the second part is “Unfinished”

Actually, there are still a lot of things to say, but let’s leave it to the comments on the shelves, otherwise there are not that many things.

Thank you all.

(End of this chapter)