The first volume has finally been written. The world is indeed a long way away. This journey has taken too long. Let me express my feelings first.
I didn't expect that this writing would be close to 600,000 words. The main reason is... I didn't write it well!
In fact, a long time ago, I decided that when I finished writing the first volume, I would carefully summarize the experience and lessons learned, because at that time, the writing was a bit messy and very confusing.
When I almost wrote the second plot after it was released, which is the story of Lady Feng Qi on the Qingjiang Lu boat, I encountered a problem.
Going down the mountain from Li Changyi, mainly because after returning to the world from Biluotian, Li Changyi and Xiao Qianjun traveled all the way eastward, experiencing the little girl of Xiaozhi in Thirty Miles Pavilion, the rivers and lakes of Qingsui Villa in Lingzhou, the Windy City in Burial Moon Valley, and then There are several incidents such as Feng Qiniangzi in Luchuan, Qingjiang, etc. If you watch too many small plots like this one after another, you will get tired.
The most important thing is that the main line seems weak and unattractive.
Someone pointed this out in the comments, and I felt it myself. After I finished writing the plot of Feng Qiniangzi, the self-confusion caused by the weak main line reached the extreme. In order to strengthen the main line and attractiveness, I arranged two plots. The plot of the continental competition is about to be a big event.
The Golden List of Midway Avenue has been updated, thousands of books have been read in advance, and the appearance of the girl fairy dragon, including following Axiao into the small underworld, are all arranged to solve the weakness of the main plot and the lack of highlights.
In fact, in my original plan, there was only the Youshen Club on Donghua Mountain, and there was no two-continent or three-continent competition. Li Qianyi would read thousands of books at the Youshen Club, and then step by step, he would be in the limelight and shocked. The world.
Attentive readers should also notice that after the plot of Feng Qiniangzi Lu Chuan, I have not arranged any similar independent plots. This is the reason.
After coming out of the Little Underworld, the next step is Donghua Mountain. Once here, the problem of the weak main plot is solved from a creative point of view (not to mention that the writing is very good), but then I encountered a bigger problem.
From a state of confusion and powerlessness, it turned into a state of extreme difficulty.
This difficult period is the plot of Donghua Mountain.
It’s still the same problem. Because of the lack of highlights earlier, I planned to create a big event on Donghua Mountain, so there was a competition between two continents, and later it turned into a competition between three continents.
But it is impossible for a person to step into the same river twice, but he may fall into the same pit twice.
I made a mistake I had made before - when I was in Turtle Town, I arranged for too many characters to appear. Fortunately, I got the comment reminder and I reflected on it in time. I made a lot of subtractions and wrote it down smoothly. ——This point has already been mentioned in the acceptance speech, and I was still a little proud at the time.
Perhaps it was precisely because I had gone through the difficulties that I became careless. In order to create a big scene on Donghua Mountain, I unconsciously arranged too many people. Two continents were not enough, so I made it three.
The top ten people on one continent's list and the top ten people's list add up to 20 people, and three continents add up to 60 people. Add in the "leading teacher", and it's almost as big as a vegetable market.
During this process, I also made a mistake, because I have watched it for many years and felt that it would be too cliche, too boring, and too long to just let the young geniuses from three continents compete one by one. So there was the Heavenly Demon Secret Realm, and they were thrown into the Long Night City.
But because there are too many characters and the status is too bad, I don’t know how to subtract them, so the current written text has become stinky and long (although it’s unpleasant to say this in the comments, but I must admit it).
From the chaos at the foot of Donghua Mountain to the dungeon of Evernight City, I had a very difficult time writing every day, but I couldn't change it, so I had to bite the bullet and keep writing.
Fortunately, I finally finished it.
When my state became bad and my creation became difficult, I began to think about why it happened like this. Why didn't I write better and better, but started to go up and down?
I was confused for a long time.
It wasn't until one sleepless night when I was lying in bed tossing and turning and suddenly sat up that I understood what the problem was.
From a subjective point of view, firstly, my first volume has no outline, only one main line: going to Donghua Mountain.
When we arrive at Donghua Mountain, we don’t know what will happen at the Youshen Festival and what will happen on the way. They are all imagined, so it is inevitable that the writing will be wrong.
Second, I didn’t save the manuscript, and I was used to typing at night. In order to update it before midnight, I was in a hurry and easily let myself go, and the content was out of shape.
Objectively speaking, it is because the content of this first volume is to go to Donghua Mountain, which limits the direction and time, and therefore also limits the creation.
From Hanshan Academy to Donghua Mountain, it is a line, so the plots on the way can only be connected one by one, which are the independent small plots in the front.
At the same time, because it was set to take more than two months to cover eight thousand miles (later revised to tens of thousands of miles), Li Chaoyi and Xiao Qianjun could only rush on the road and could not unfold the plot horizontally.
If you want him to stay in a certain place for a while, let him be more free and calm, and make the plot any deeper, you are not allowed to do so.
The root cause of this problem is that the settings were not done well. If two months were changed to half a year, or one year, it might be much better (but no one would give gifts and set off half a year or a year in advance, right? This is also true) The reason why it was originally set to two months).
Looking back, there were a lot of mistakes in the second half of the volume.
Fortunately, the first volume is finally finished, and the second volume will be a new beginning.
The second volume does not have the point of Donghua Mountain and is bound by the eastbound line. Li Chaoyi can freely walk around the nine continents, and I can create freely, which should avoid many mistakes.
And unlike the first volume, I have already thought about how to end the second volume, or even what the final scene will look like, so I won’t be confused anymore.
This is my first time writing a fairy tale. I really have no experience and it is inevitable to make mistakes.
After learning the lessons from this first volume, I believe that I will write better and better in the future, and write about the magnificent world in my heart where the three religions contend and gods, ghosts and demons coexist.
Next up is the second volume - "Dragon and Snake Rising from the Land".
Please give me some advice!
——The third update of the southern month
August 30, 2023.
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