The second volume of "The Dark Side of the Moon" is finally complete.
First of all, thank you to everyone who subscribed, tipped, and voted. The list is very long, so I won’t list them one by one. But please believe that I am very familiar with each of your names. I can even tell them by just glancing at the fan list. I can tell which people are new friends and which old friends have been busy recently and have not read books.
I read every short review and chapter review you write. For me, the words you leave can make a sound, ringing in my ears, carrying various emotions.
I am a storyteller, and you seem to be sitting right next to me.
About this story.
I thought many times that I would write a short essay to brag about myself in the summary of the second volume. I would write it in the same tone as when I was appreciating the text in school. But when it came to this time, I found that I was not so thick-skinned. Haha, after all, , as long as you who listen to the story find the story interesting, that's enough.
Next, let’s talk about the part that makes me regretful.
In the first third of the second volume, I tried three POVs, that is, in the same event, the actions of characters from different viewpoints are interspersed and alternated, so that readers can see how the event progresses and leads to the final result from different angles.
In "Crisis", Li Liang's escape from the pet hospital is told from the perspectives of Li Liang and the psychic Wu Er.
In Chapters 159 to 169, the action trajectories of the three groups of characters, Li Liang, Dr. Xisen, House and Dro, finally intersect.
In the consecutive chapters of "When the Most Dangerous Moment Comes", several lines are intertwined and parallel. Li Liang, Cain, Mizuno, Andrea, etc., each group of characters experienced the decisive battle from their own perspective.
I hope that through this writing method, the text will present a visual style, as if after editing, the camera will keep jumping, and each group of important characters will move along their own trajectories. I hope readers will look forward to their upcoming "collision".
Many friends understand my thoughts. Here, I sincerely thank everyone for their patience and tolerance. However, there are also many readers whose reactions are completely opposite to my expectations.
POV is equivalent to showing readers most of the information about the incident, putting readers in an absolute God's perspective, and also giving some readers a sense of omniscience and omnipotence. They interpret Li Liang's confusion and uneasiness as "stupidity" and completely ignore the importance of Li Liang. , Xi'an represents an unattainable and terrifying power, and the entire world is unknown and vague, which also ignores the sense of security and belonging that Li Liang has always lacked in his heart.
Once you think this way, "prejudice" arises. In the eyes of these readers, every decision made by Li Liang is not the optimal solution and is proof of "stupidity". What makes me most sad is that one reader scolded him while reading, He continued to scold him for more than 200 chapters, and I dared not read the comments for a while, because his comments were extremely sarcastic and affected my state very much.
In addition, based on the same assumption, I almost clearly identified the ownership of "Xi'an" in the first chapter, which also deepened the readers' God's perspective. When these readers saw the confrontation between Li Liang and Zhuosi with prejudice, they thought Li Liang is engaging in some "childish and ridiculous" "conspiracies" with some unimportant sidekicks.
I can delete some of Li Shuang's lines in the first act to weaken this God's perspective, but there are already many readers' comments in the first chapter, and I am unwilling to delete the normal comments from readers to avoid my mistakes.
There are many such biased comments, which makes me very sad every time, and constantly reminds me that I must not make similar mistakes in my future writing.
I completely understand their thoughts. I have watched many readers leave. For them, explanations are meaningless. I can only express my apologies to them. To all my friends who have read this, I sincerely thank you for your patience. And for your tolerance, thank you for your willingness to spend a little energy in your busy life to think about Li Liang's situation from his perspective.
Another regret is the length.
In the original plan, including in the reader group, I have expressed that the second volume is divided into three parts, the earth, the moon, and the spiritual world. The length of these three parts is basically the same. However, when I finished writing the earth part At that time, I found that the length was too long. If the length of the next two parts was not compressed, it would make the readers very tired.
Therefore, you will also find that the lunar and spiritual world parts are very fast-paced. In the moon part, the two characters An Qiao and Jin Ji do not have much plot support and become paper-like. You may even forget who Jin Ji is now, while Cain, K, Dr. Xisen and Li Hao , Li's experience has also been reduced to a few fragments.
In the spiritual world part, the Prince of Mass and the High Priest of the Hidden Tower should also have more plots, but due to space limitations, they have been condensed.
The parts that cannot be shown can only be filled in in the following stories.
The last regret is about "love", which cannot be regarded as a regret. Here is a explanation.
The whole story is the story of Li Liang, not one Li Liang, but two. We saw another Li Liang’s love for Candy Putnanm. For the real protagonist Li Liang, it was a life that he had never experienced before. The girl who came into his life was Cain.
In fact, I haven’t written much about Cain so far. In the first half of the story, Cain has been on the Defiant, and in the last part of the story, Cain has been in a coma.
So, the story between them has actually just begun. Some friends said that my emotional scenes were rather embarrassing, haha, but this is not a romance story after all. The existence of Cain will not hinder Li Liang’s speed of drawing the sword. It's not his weakness. In my imagination, Cain is more like his partner, family, or his sharpest weapon.
Cain is the Lord of Mayflies, the executioner whose hands are stained with blood, and he is also the trembling Zhou Xiaomian hiding in the closet.
I hope that at some point in the future, everyone will think she is cute, and that will be enough.
at last.
If the story is a cake, the second volume is a knife that cuts the cake in half. You can see the "fillings" of each layer from the cross-section. You can see Li Liang's layer from the surface of the cake. Eating it layer by layer, each layer has a different taste, representing his changing understanding of the entire world.
He had wrong perceptions about magic, Taoism, and many things, including Tam, and Dododisar would also make mistakes. It can be said that every character in this story will suffer due to their limited knowledge and experience. They make wrong judgments, but they will also grow in the process of correcting their mistakes.
At the same time, since the enemy comes from "time", it is impossible to wait for Li Liang to discover step by step that from the moment Li Liang wakes up, the enemy is already beside him, and has already had countless fights with another Li Liang and the gods. Confrontation.
Therefore, I had to lay down a lot of foreshadowings in the first two volumes. These foreshadowings caused a lot of trouble in reading. Thank you again for your patience and tolerance for Taiyi.
last of the last.
The results of this book were not good, and work and family also put a lot of pressure on me. Especially since I am a husband and a father, I have a lot of responsibilities on my shoulders. When I reach middle age, I often feel resentful and helpless. Humanity and physical problems are becoming more and more apparent. However, every time I start writing a story, I seem to enter another world, a world without restraint.
Thank you for your subscriptions and tips. Your support makes me believe that this story is worth writing. More importantly, the hundreds of dollars in monthly royalties made my wife think, "Maybe he can make some money with this hobby." The "misunderstanding" prevented my computer from being thrown out of the house, hahahaha...
Next, volume three.
The first part presented is the infrastructure mania, and an adventure...or, travel?
All my inspirations come from images. I like words to be arranged like shots, and scenes to be as orderly as edited. I hope to show the pictures in your mind, but due to limited writing power, I can't do it well enough.
However, when it comes to making movies, some people are professionals.
They are ready.
Next volume, "Best Supporting Actor"
"Next, the best supporting actor of the 132nd season of "Hans and Friends" will be announced.
Of course, you guessed it right, it was him.
It's just that I can't think of an accurate word to call him. He is Hans' mentor and Andy's brother... Okay, okay, I heard it, someone is talking about Liang'an CP... Oh? Sorry, Yinliang CP’s voice is louder, haha...um...where did I say it? Oh, yes, he is also Aru's secret crush... Hahaha... ok, in addition to these, he has too many identities. He is the guardian, the supreme commander, the holy prophet, and the guardian guru. , is our belief and the light of our pride. He is a warrior and a leader. He does not like to stand above others. He always likes to stand among us. He is our friend and our family.
Perhaps, I will never be able to find a name to sum him up, but in those war-torn days, his perseverance and fearless courage will always be engraved in my heart until his death.
I think so are you.
Now, let us call out his name together, he - is - - - "
