From January last year to now, in two years, I have finished writing this book.
Many readers have hoped that I can write more postscripts and other articles to talk about what will happen to the Ming Dynasty after Su Yonglin leaves, or similar changes hundreds or even thousands of years later, as well as the world situation and so on.
But I don't think this is necessary.
In my opinion, the future of the Ming Dynasty has opened up to countless possibilities with the progress of the world revolution and the advent of the industrial age, and it is no longer something I can describe clearly.
Moreover, I do not have the ability to define such a great future.
This future belongs to everyone in that world, not to me. I just need to finish writing this book.
Everyone is free to play and imagine what will happen in the future.
As for me, it’s about to usher in the holiday I’ve been dreaming of.
I published the book Qiming on the same day that The Legend of the Heroes was completed. At that time, I planned to have a seamless connection, and I also wanted to rely on the popularity of the completion of The Heroes of The Heroes to boost the popularity of the new book.
However, what happened later proved that it is still necessary to take a break and relax after finishing a long novel.
When I was writing "Hongxiongzhi", I could finish 12,000 to 3,000 words in a day. Sometimes I would burst out, and 20,000 words was not impossible. But when I was writing "Qiming", I felt more and more out of my depth as I went on. Later, I could finish 8,000 words a day. He is quite prolific in writing, and it is common to write five to six thousand words a day.
I feel like I can’t write anymore.
No matter how much I love something, there will always be a tiring day. Writing day after day will eventually put me in a state of high wear and tear, and the more I write, the more painful it becomes.
Originally there was a plan to continue writing this book, but as the pain increased, I also realized that continuing was not a good choice. I did not want to describe a great era with pain, so I chose to finish it as soon as possible. Then rest.
I feel that this book was not well written. It did not bring me as much enthusiasm as Xiongzhi did until the end. In addition to the well-known reasons, there are also reasons of my own.
tired.
Since I started writing the Zhenguan guide in 2014, I have been maintaining a high-output state with almost no good rest.
Since I started writing Wanli in 2017, I have been writing almost continuously, taking two or three days off a month, and non-stop writing throughout the year, even during the Chinese New Year.
And every time I ask for leave, I don’t ask for leave in a serious way. I say I want to play games for a day, but rarely do I actually play games for a day. Basically, I feel anxious and uneasy, so I start writing again.
It is said to be a rest, but in fact there is no rest. The days when I really don’t write a word all year round are not even a week.
It feels like the vacation anxiety disorder that Chinese people commonly suffer from. They feel uneasy and anxious when they take a break. They think that just one or two days of rest will make them fall far behind others and become a loser in society, so they must take a break. Work non-stop until you are exhausted.
I don't know how this concept of "rest is a waste of time" was formed in my mind, but now I realize that this is not a normal mentality. It will make people more tired, and in the end, half the result will be half the result, and the gain will not be worth the loss.
Writing is something that makes me happy and gives me a sense of accomplishment. It is also a career that I love. I don’t want to lose this career early because of fatigue.
So I seriously reflected on myself and decided to take a period of rest. After this chapter is completed, I plan to rest until December, and then start preparing a new book in December to give myself some breathing time.
I already have two plans for the next new book, one is the late Han Dynasty plan, and the other is the mid-Qing plan.
I plan to write about the Late Han Dynasty, which I am better at, to give myself some relief, but this time there is no Guo Peng, only Liu Bei.
In the past, many readers ridiculed me for setting Liu Bei to death right from the beginning and not giving Liu Bei room to develop. I deeply regret it.
In fact, the main reason is that I didn't like Liu Bei back then. I thought he was just a tough guy who couldn't be killed. He was a piece of brown sugar. He was very boring. He would cause a lot of trouble and I couldn't get rid of him. I might as well kill him from the beginning.
But after getting to know him more and more in the past few years, I feel more and more that I had a deep misunderstanding of Liu Bei. Liu Bei is really a strange man in the world, an amazing self-made hero, and a true brave man who strives throughout his life without giving up.
Such people are actually worth writing about.
Although he failed to realize the great achievements of his ancestor Liu Bang in the end, he did the best he could in that era, and I hope that the Liu Bei I wrote can do better.
At the same time, my understanding of the society in the late Eastern Han Dynasty has also increased a lot. Some things that have not been written thoroughly in "Xiao Xiongzhi" I also plan to write in depth this time, to get closer to that real era, and to restore a late Han Dynasty that is completely different from the public impression. The Three Kingdoms era.
I hope that this time I can bring you another wonderful trip to the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Everyone, I will rest first. I hope you can be tolerant to yourself, allow yourself more time to rest, and don't let yourself fall into a state of high wear and tear.
See you in December.
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