Put pen to paper and write down the last word of the first volume "The Moon Is in the Sky".
I have tried to summarize the writing of this volume.
"Surveying the Sky with a Red Heart" is the first online work I created. For me, no matter where I write, my efforts and creative pursuit will not change.
Even because online serialization requires greater volume, I actually consume more energy.
Back to the Red Heart Patrol.
In the first chapter, I obviously made the mistake of a newcomer to the Internet. I did not advance the plot and show the protagonist immediately to attract readers who are accustomed to fast-paced Internet reading.
I used more than 7,000 words to describe in detail a high-level war that took place in Zhuang State, and in this war, the protagonist was just a spectator. (After many revisions, one or two hundred words were deleted each time, and now it has been difficult to delete to more than 6,000 words...)
The original intention is to show part of the combat system of this world first, so that readers can have a preliminary understanding of the power level of Chixin Xuntian. Also bury some wires that won't be used until a long time later.
The gray lines of grass snakes and the thousands of miles of veins are the structural techniques that I admire.
Huahua in the group is also the second ally in this book. She's very nice.
She helped me summarize some issues that should be paid attention to in online articles and made some suggestions.
For example, the beggar part in the first chapter can be deleted.
But everyone should know by the end of the volume that those beggars were originally the sacrifices of the Bone Path. From the first chapter, I had laid clues to the ending of the first volume.
As the author, I cannot directly tell her the reason before I finish writing this, because I do not want to affect her reading enjoyment as a reader.
But in fact, what she said was something that was in line with the online writing market.
Readers of online articles, how many clues and foreshadowings do you need to read hundreds of thousands of words before you use them?
There are many details like this.
So when Zhang Linchuan put on the mask, everyone suddenly realized that he was the Bone Messenger.
Does anyone remember the first time Miao Yu appeared in Huan Zhen Guan, where was the man who talked to her? Wear a handkerchief and have a mysophobia. Isn't it one of Zhang Linchuan's symbols?
When reading online articles, readers are used to skimming over them in a hurry and probably won't pay attention to such details.
But it doesn't matter, as long as even one reader notices this surprise, my hard work has not been in vain.
Some people criticize me and say that writing about the Internet is selling Internet literature, which is commodity literature. Wish I could see the reality.
I very much acknowledge the reality.
It’s just over 60 years ago, so what’s the reality that I’m not clear about?
Some readers warned me that pursuing your own literary pursuits on the Internet is something you do only after you become famous.
I fully understand the care for me in these words.
But for a book of the size of "My Heart on the Sky", it only takes a year or two to finish writing it.
How many two years do I have to try, and how many two years do I have to waste?
To me, if I just make two years of pure money, it would be a waste.
Because what I have always pursued is not to be a successful businessman.
If I want to make money, there are many ways.
If I want literature, there is only one way to go.
Of course, now that things have happened, this book cannot turn around.
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Back to the creation itself.
At the end of the first chapter, I let the protagonist appear. In the first chapter, a large amount of space is used to describe Zuo Guanglie, who may only appear this time.
As far as the creation of online serials is concerned, this is undoubtedly a huge mistake.
Now bad grades also punish me.
I can't justify my selfishness.
But I can talk about my selfishness.
——It’s entirely because of my love for the character Zuo Guanglie.
Zuo Guanglie is just a flash in the readers' eyes, to set off Li Yizhi's powerful existence, who was beheaded by a sword.
But in the world of Red Heart Patrol, the protagonist Jiang Wang will live under his light for a long time.
He is a talent that only emerges in hundreds of years. He is powerful, proud, compassionate and sincere.
He only appeared once, but he lit up the sky.
I can't bear to pass it by.
I have to admit this mistake, but I tried to correct it several times, but in the end I couldn't convince myself to get rid of this "mistake".
I was wrong, I will change it in the next book.
If there is another one.
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The second problem with the Sky Survey is its slow pace.
I spent a lot of pen and ink on the fireworks, details, and little people.
There is no such thing as a high-flying novel that focuses all the attention on the protagonist, and therefore it lost many readers.
When I wrote "My Heart on the Sky", I didn't just write a story. I hoped to build a relatively complete world.
Without those human fireworks, this world would not be real enough.
Without those plain and lovely years, it would not be enough to become a sad and painful past.
Without those knowing smiles, I couldn’t convince myself to shed tears.
Doesn't it take a process to build a relationship? To build trust, doesn’t it take some grinding?
In just a few words, life and death are intertwined, and we will remain together until death. Can it really convince readers?
I am my own first reader and it failed to convince me at first.
I believe my ideas are correct, but perhaps I should put more effort into my pursuit.
How to use fewer words to express details more movingly. This frees up room and strengthens the rhythm.
This is the part I want to strengthen next.
At the end of the volume, I simply cut off many branches. Including the matchmaking part of the Youmai Realm in the Taixu Illusion Realm, the previous work of Fang Dabeard, the chief general of the City Guards, and so on.
This first step by Fang Beard can continue to enrich the details of the Fang family, and at the same time make his death in battle more touching. It would be a pity to cut it off.
But the other branches combined are not able to sustain the story of that period. Not exciting enough.
For the sake of overall rhythm, trade-offs had to be made.
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The third problem with the Chixin Sky Survey is that there are not enough cool spots and they are not dense enough.
This is an issue that many people criticize.
Does it feel any better? Of course there is.
Are you feeling so good? Natural and transparent.
But not enough, not dense enough. And the main character is so weak.
This is where many readers are disappointed.
And for me.
I can't convince myself that in a real world, there will be a steady stream of weak sidekicks to mindlessly torture the protagonist.
Let’s not talk about a world where extraordinary power has developed for countless years, let’s just talk about the real world.
When you were in high school, would it be those elementary school students who had conflicts with you?
They are often classmates who are taller and stronger than you, often your seniors, or even young people in society.
When you are weak, what usually happens is how to avoid conflicts with those powerful beings, how to leverage their strength, and how to strengthen yourself.
Only when you are strong can the story of pushing eight hundred miles alone happen.
It’s not that I can’t write a good feeling. In the Name of God is a short story that burns from beginning to end. In a long story like Journey to the West, every move of Sun Wukong is enough to burn.
Just looking at the sentence "I push eight hundred miles alone" is already very satisfying, isn't it?
It’s just that in the growth stage, that’s not real enough.
This is the reality of the world as I understand it.
Some people also say that regarding the realm of cultivation, writing about ninth grade, eighth grade, and seventh grade is too devoid of immortality and looks too much like an idiotic essay.
I……
I put a lot of thought into building a practice system, from Youmai, Zhoutian, Tongtian, Tenglong, Neifu, Outer Tower, Shenlin...
Along the way, each situation has a detailed description and a wonderful process. I believe it is logically self-consistent, and on this basis, I hope it is also magnificent and wonderful.
The reason why I use several grades and grades to explain before is just to facilitate readers to quickly understand the levels of practice.
In order to pursue reality, the level of spiritual practice is step by step based on the perspective of the protagonist. Before this, I am afraid that readers will not have an impression of these realms.
This may still not please the readers, but it at least shows that I did not rush into the Internet without any knowledge, as many people criticized me.
I have considered the feelings of online readers.
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outside of these issues.
I think the ending of the first volume is quite perfect, and I would give myself a nine out of ten.
The reason for giving it one less point is because there is not enough time to polish it carefully.
At the end, there were very intensive camera switching, and I pushed every shot to the limit within the time limit.
There were many, many characters appearing in a revolving door, but I expressed what I wanted to express.
Some clips cannot be separated and can only be broken up in the timeline. Some fragments must be coherent and can only bridge spatial lines.
With such complex characters, time lines, and space lines, I gathered them together and unfolded them in an orderly manner.
I did my best at this stage.
From the monk from the Criminal Division who committed suicide to deliver a message, the old gentleman who stood in front of the students, the Maplewood City soldier who collapsed and jumped into the ground... From these characters who didn't even have names, to characters with names, to the early stage characters. Important supporting role.
Each of them has his own flesh and blood and his own life.
Their spirit, will, love, hate, and choices are all clearly displayed to the readers.
I am very satisfied.
The last time I tried this was when I was writing about the Blue Bird scene in Dawn. Qinghou set up a trap to kill Duke Ying Li, and Chu Yu was tricked into liberating the real dragon.
Compared with that time, the "Chixin Sky Survey" has more characters, a wider field of view, and is even more difficult.
This kind of large-screen ensemble drama becomes much more difficult every time there is an additional character.
But I still finished it.
The improvement in my writing ability is what makes me most happy.
On the layout of the article.
The truth about the history of the Zhuang Kingdom, the history of the human race and the aquatic race, the Vein Opening Pill, the ferocious beasts, and the White Bone Path are all peeled off layer by layer.
In the end, Maple Grove City sank into the netherworld, and Jiang Wangyuan left for a foreign country. This ending was already foreshadowed in Huan Zhen Guanwai.
The planning of the Bone Path and the choices of Zhuang Ting as a national political power run through the entire volume.
It can be as large as a country or a family, or as small as one person in a city. In the context of a world of great strife, in the collision between ideals and reality, everyone needs to make their own choices.
All the holes were filled so tightly that the dead body could not be lifted up.
And I haven’t used up the foreshadowing laid out in the first chapter. The so-called journey of thousands of miles has only covered a few mountains.
In terms of shaping group portraits, I think I have made progress compared to the past.
But I still need readers to tell me what the result will be.
There are quite a few characters that impress me, but I don’t know which ones are more popular with readers.
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The last three words in the first chapter are Pulse Opening Pills.
Someone scolded me: "You wrote so much and worked so hard, and finally you just gave me a 'Pulse Opening Pill'?"
if not?
Two dragons are fighting in front of you, both are injured, and a magical weapon is revealed to you, okay?
I won’t give the protagonist too much gold. Although this is just a movie, it is also a world in my heart.
In a real world, you have to work hard to succeed!
As a thing, it doesn't seem precious enough.
But it is the beginning of Jiang Wang's spiritual path, the rise of human spiritual practice, and the beginning of this story.
I used 350,000 words to write the first volume, laying the foundation for surveying the world with my heart.
I am confident that I can build a magnificent world on this basis.
But I need readers to support me so that I don’t starve to death while building bricks and walls.
Many people may not know that when writing online articles at Qidian, you must also own the copyright of all short stories written by the author during the serialization period. This is nothing to others.
For me, it means that during the period when I was writing the book, I had no income other than this book.
Because my original job was to write commissions, columns, short stories, and scripts.
I wrote "Bare Heart Survey" with the determination not to make a penny for a whole year.
There is no other good news except that I am glad that I have broken up a long time ago and don't have to worry about my guilt towards my partner.
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One day I saw someone in the reader group saying——
"Today's authors are so impatient. When they recommend their books to tens of thousands of words, they say they have poor grades and should be cut off immediately. I really want to catch them and teach them to learn from them."
This topic is actually quite sad, because as of now, I only have 4,000 recommendations. The collection just exceeded 1,000. Both orders are worth over 60.
I wrote 350,000 words with guaranteed quality and quantity!
And I am still lighting the lamp and burning oil to write.
I used to write entities, only five days a week, and only two thousand words a day. Rest the rest of the time to nourish your brain.
Now I write at least 5,000 words every day, and I haven’t had a break for more than a month.
My mind is very excited and very tired.
I actually understand those authors very well.
If you think of writing as a simple job or business.
Actually this makes sense.
Because the only things that need to be considered are performance and income.
For online articles, if there is no achievement during the new book period, it will be very slim, because you will not have subsequent recommendations, and the sunk cost of writing further will be too high.
Cut it off, change the number, change the book. Then change the number, then change the book. Choose the one with the best results and write it down. This is how business should be done.
There is no need to wait until it reaches hundreds of thousands of words. The editor should have cut it the first time he recommended it to Liangmen.
but.
What if it wasn't just a job, what if writing wasn't just about making money, but it was truly your dream?
Sorry, I...can't cut it.
I said sorry to myself.
If you have a simple column to write, please give me the deposit in advance. There are simple hydrographs that I can write. As long as I give up this pen name, cover my head and pour water on it, I can publish it and get money directly. Not to mention those soft advertising articles that can be published in just a few clicks.
There were many easy ways for me to take, but I chose the hardest one.
I put myself in the most painful situation.
Just because of the simplest reason.
A reason that no one or many people would believe anymore.
because of love.
I love these characters I wrote, and I love the world I built.
Everything I do and all the distances I travel are for the love in my heart.
For this love.
I'm willing to put in the extra effort and wait.
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The title of the first volume is "The bright moon is in the sky."
The bright moon can be ideal, it can be love, it can be hometown.
"It's as bright as the moon, when can I shake it off?"
From Cao Cao's "Dan Ge Xing".
"The bright moon is bright and clear, when can I pick it up?"
Like Jiang Wang, I have my own pursuits and ideals, my own loves and hates, and my own hometown in my heart.
And the name of the next volume is——
"From now on I have no intention of loving a good night."
