A friend asked me to write some reflections after finishing the book. Now that I have finished the book, I will just chat with everyone.
In fact, my first feeling was that I was relieved. It was really torture to write without an outline at all!
I have nothing to defend myself about procrastinating. It’s simply because I don’t know how to write, and the more I think about it, the more I can’t figure it out. Many times I just want to escape and not write for a while, so I often procrastinate for a long time.
When I write a book in the future, I will definitely write an outline, or at least the first third of the outline, otherwise I won’t be able to write it at all.
The initial motivation for writing this book was because many teams had a hard time fighting the Sunwell, so I simply wanted to start a serial on the NGA forum and tell a short story to popularize the skills and skills of the bosses in the Sunwell. Personal experience. So you can see that the first half of this book contains many game details.
So the original idea was to write a simple story like "a team of rookies, stepped on all the pitfalls in the Sunwell land reclamation, fought to the death, and finally succeeded." So there was no outline at all. What I thought at the time was very simple, just a group, a group of people, fighting 6 bosses, each boss killing a lot of enemies, just describe it in a straightforward manner. There is no need to write something as complicated as an outline!
I can also explain to you here that my original idea was to finish writing this trip to the Sunwell, so I disappointed many friends who were looking forward to Ulduar and Icecrown Citadel, but there is no way around it. Actually, I have never thought about it in this direction. If I try to write it, I probably won’t be able to write it.
In the same way, there are emotional scenes. In fact, I never thought about letting Wanwan and Chen Yu fall in love, so I wrote a middle-aged social worker in her 30s and a sophomore female student with such an age difference.
I can make the two of them ambiguous, just to satisfy you beasts, you bastards! Even the sophomore girls are not spared! Sure enough, men love young girls from birth to death. They are so loyal.
Later, more and more people read it, and the longer I wrote, the longer it became, and I digressed thousands of miles away from the topic.
As an aside, NGA's review mechanism is indeed not conducive to serialization. It often gets stuck in the review process, and when the content is modified, even if it is a big revision, the review process will be re-god every time the editor is edited, resulting in many chapters being stuck. It couldn't be posted, and everyone felt uncomfortable watching it, so it was moved to Qidian for serialization.
When I applied for a Qidian account, I chose my pen name casually. I suddenly thought of a poem, "A man with a coir raincoat hat alone in a boat, fishing alone in the snow on the cold river." If you remove the people, only the snow-falling boat will remain.
Okay, let me tell you about the creative process.
In fact, there are a lot of things I wanted to say to everyone during the writing process. Unfortunately, I kept procrastinating at that time and was speechless in front of Jiangdong's elders, so I gathered them here to talk about them together.
In fact, there were no Chen Yu and Wanwan at first.
My earliest idea was to write about a social rookie who mistakenly joins a land reclamation team due to his professional advantage. The president doesn’t know how to direct, so he gave up his job by giving orders, so this rookie took on the heavy responsibility of commanding and led the team. s story.
So the first character initially set was the warlock Meng Laosan.
My idea at the time was that he didn’t understand anything, but most Warlocks who played Destruction liked the skill Shadow Fury, but Sacrifice Destruction wouldn’t produce this talent, so he might cause a lot of trouble when he just joined the group. It's a joke, but after slowly understanding the boss's mechanism, and the one-click output mechanism of sacrifice and destruction is really simple, he can gain a foothold in the team. When he got to Mulu, because he likes Dark Wrath and takes the initiative to wash his talents, he can Stand out on the team.
This is the most basic idea of this novel.
But after writing the beginning, I feel that there is really nothing to write about from the warlock's perspective, especially for a boss like Bu Fat, who can't even add any drama to the protagonist. At this time, I started thinking about writing about the profession I am most familiar with, which is thieves. If I were to write about a junk equipment thief without a pair of swords who accidentally got into the Sunwell land reclamation group, and then found out that it was a prison group, then the twists and turns in the beginning would be very interesting.
So at this time, I couldn't help but think about the problem along the lines of a novel. I think it is also for this reason that many friends in NGA have been chasing me for updates very early. This is also the motivation for me to continue writing. Thank you very much. Everyone.
Therefore, the content of this book is constantly expanding. I told people at the beginning that it would be enough to write 100,000 words! It won't be too long. When I first arrived at the starting point, I told people that writing 130,000 words would be enough! Later, it was 200,000 words, 300,000 words, 330,000 words, and finally settled on 420,000 words. I can only say that the length of this creation far exceeded my original expectations, and the writing difficulty was also far beyond my expectations. initial expectations.
If I had to do it over again, I would definitely write an outline first.
Okay, let’s talk about the conception process of several main characters.
Let’s talk about the protagonist first.
The protagonist is called Chen Yu. Why is he called this? In fact, I randomly pulled a name from a previous exercise and used it. I read a great novel called "Her Mountain, Her Sea" a long time ago, and the names in it are similar to this homophone. At that time, I thought the novel was well written, although the title was a little too good. So I imitated a paragraph, and the protagonist also used a similar homophony. Her name is Chen Yu, which is a homophone for Chen Yu, and she is a girl.
Later, when I was writing this story, I casually put the girl’s name on the male protagonist.
But when I was about to post, I suddenly felt that the name was too feminine, so I changed "Yu" to "Yu", implying that the update time was not fixed. Maybe from that time on, delaying updates was already doomed, hehe.
He is a good thief in terms of character design, and can be regarded as my ultimate plus version. I actually made quite a few mistakes in my game play, so I am very self-aware and do not join the racing group. In my settings, at the game level, he is my version with more knowledge, sharper thinking, and basically no mistakes in making mistakes. As for life, I can only say that it is a reflection of the time when I was hiding in Zhuji after resigning from my job in Shanghai.
When I was in Shanghai, the rent was 3,500 yuan a month. When I went to Zhuji and saw that I could rent a 150-square-meter three-bedroom apartment near the high-speed rail station for 900 yuan, I still remember my jaw dropping. By the way, I would like to recommend Zhuji. It is really a sacred place. The three major specialties are socks and pearls. The pace of life is slow and awesome.
Let’s talk about the heroine.
The heroine Wanwan is, yes, the Huanwan in the Tang Dynasty. She was randomly chosen and the character was changed. So her name is Tang Wanwan.
I usually just think of whatever comes to mind, and it just feels about right. Before the male protagonist was conceived, I thought that the female protagonist must be a guild president who doesn’t know how to command, so I needed to find a conductor so that there would be a chance for a newcomer to take over. Thinking along this line of thinking, I think she can be written as a vase, a beautiful girl, which can be more attractive.
So how can we make her vase setting natural and not annoying? So I set her up as a novice girl who forcibly takes over the guild, and she is a very young girl. This can prevent everyone from having too many emotional expectations for the male and female protagonists.
Well, I was too naive here, and I underestimated your level of beasts, so I basically followed the good in the future.
But I’m a stubborn person, so in the end I didn’t directly write about them being together. I just left a little ambiguity for everyone’s imagination!
Meng Laosan is actually the original protagonist, a fool.
But after turning him into a supporting role, out of compensatory psychology, I wanted to write him as a winner in life who is stupid and blessed. Later, I also wanted to write him as a person who looks stupid but actually lives a transparent life, so the characters before and after are somewhat different. Subtle changes.
I typed this name casually without any association, because at that time I thought of him as a minor supporting role, as an introduction for the protagonist to join the team, so I gave him a random name.
In order to round out the name, there was a relatively normal reason for giving it this ridiculous name, so a lot of things like the Internet cafe and the female boss were redesigned. It can be said that these Internet cafes and friends who cut down legends are essentially derivatives of the completely nonsensical name Meng Laosan.
I didn't want to write about everyone's real life or background story at first, so the early names were very random. When I moved to Qidian serialization, my mentality changed, and I became particularly special when I wanted to write about everyone's psychological activities and background stories. Disaster.
To be honest, it’s really hard to come up with a random name. I’m stuck here. I’ve been stuck here for a long time. I want to give him an origin, but I really can’t think of anyone who would give him such a name, so I can’t write it down. .
In fact, the original character of Kongcheng was the same person as Lianyi. He was a player who played well but had no command. He was close friends with Naiqi. After failing to lead the group, I had a quarrel with the president and finally left the guild with my relatives and friends. Only then did Meng Laosan step forward and become the conductor. So initially there were many negative descriptions of Kongcheng. I wanted to make him annoying, but also a little helpless and pitiful.
But later my idea changed, and another group was introduced, namely Lao Ba and his group, so I could only bring Gong Cheng back to write about his growth, and let others take the place of Gong Cheng to fight among themselves.
By the way, I may say here that in my initial thoughts, people such as the old president and his wife, Lao Ba, and Camus should only appear in everyone's gossip, and would not appear in front of them. When I was writing this article, I did have the idea of using this writing pen to challenge my weaknesses.
So when I sent it to the starting point, what I wanted to write was a group portrait article that had never been written before that showed off skills. And it was well conceived. These people in the team appeared frontally, but through a lot of dialogue and indirect descriptions, Explain the entire background story clearly, and even portray people such as the old president, his wife, and Lao Ba.
But due to the need for plot extension, it was just like Zhang Yimou's one scene, so I gave up in the end, haha.
Kirbymon was actually unable to think of a bear tank name, so he happened to see the live broadcast of LOL top laner ZOOM, and suddenly remembered that he was called Kirbymon before, and thought that he should be a good bear tank. Name it.
Half a Liter of Purine was actually a passerby, set up as Wanwan's licking dog and a relative and friend in the empty city. Their names were both named together, both with four characters.
But later, due to plot requirements, in order to take away the tanks and give space for the tanks of the racing group, they were changed to relatives and friends of Kirby beasts.
I think the portrayal of this person is quite failed. It is too deliberate. In order to advance the plot, he often has to be forced to be the villain. Sin, sin, sin, he is just a passerby, but he is written as the most annoying person. In fact, from my personal point of view, I don’t want to write anyone into a very superficial and annoying image. I hope that he is a I really like Wanwan, but I’m very conflicted about it, so I didn’t write it well.
Hua Hua You was actually just a passer-by, but the way he was written was too frivolous. Many scenes of forcibly annihilating a group required Bao Zong to perform, so when I wanted to write the background, I couldn’t omit this person. What should we do? We need to give this person an excusable reason for being stupid, so we extended it to "her".
In fact, the prototype of the idea is an old janitor seen on the NGA forum who used to earn extra money in the early years of the nostalgic server.
Because Hug You is destined to be a male dwarf mage, and then I wanted to write him as a woman. I still put a lot of thought into it, and finally thought of the character Qingqiu with eyebrows. In fact, Meisuo Qingqiu was originally a rookie mage passerby who wanted to describe the old president and hug you, so he became Lao Li.
The grass is dry and the hawk's eyes are weak, and the snow is gone and the horse's hooves are light. These are two lines from a poem by Wang Wei that I like very much. I just thought of it casually. Anyway, there are not many scenes, and I didn't think of setting the background, so it was more casual.
Lao Ba is a very complicated character. I originally wanted him to only appear in everyone's conversations to show that he wanted to reform the guild. In the end, he had big differences with the old president and his wife on the guild management philosophy. , ultimately going elsewhere to prove his role. He is not a bad person, but he has his own ideas and concepts, which are completely different from the old president.
Some friends will find that Esaka and Laoba are actually quite similar in many aspects.
It can be said that Esaka is Lao Ba, and Lao Ba is Esaka. They are the same kind of people, but they are at two different stages.
The name was randomly chosen, but I thought about how it should be written for a long time. I had a lot of ideas that you didn't see. Unfortunately, I gave up in the end because I wanted to bring this group in. It's a pity, but I can't help it.
Camus actually didn’t have that complicated character design at the beginning. He was just a two-dimensional otaku thief. Why he was called Camus was because I didn’t think much about it at the time. As a two-dimensional character, the name Camus has the widest range of applications. Yes, there are too many characters in Japanese comics and games whose Chinese translation is Camus, including Gundam Z, Saint Seiya, Uta no Prince-sama, and Fire Emblem. There is even a character named Camus in One Piece.
I didn't think about which one it was at the time, so I came up with this name so that I could round out the game's plot later and make foreshadowing, but it was a pity that I didn't use it.
But this person used it, so he changed from a rookie thief with an armor-piercing coverage rate of 85% to a high-end thief who deliberately kept the armor-piercing coverage rate at 85% and was angry with Ye Xue, but he had a big temper. So, sometimes the fate of a character is just the author thinking about it and suddenly remembering that there was an abandoned character that could be used.
The same goes for Senō Nazu-ryu. This is the male protagonist of "Kempfa". When fighting, he will turn into a blue-haired giant bear beauty. I also wanted to use this as a foreshadowing, but this person did not have any scenes written later. .
Oh shit, what have I seen?
As for the old president, the old president was originally called the old president, and I didn’t even think of giving him a name. Why, because I hope everyone will remember that he is called the old president, a man who has served as a soldier, not Fang Yuanzheng.
But that day when I was in Cavan, I ran to watch a video and saw a story introducing the families of veterans. I thought it was very touching at the time.
So I decided on this name.
However, a picky, vindictive book friend who likes to push for updates said that when he saw this name, he would think of Feng Yuanzheng. The name that had already been written could not be changed, which affected my logic in naming his son later.
In fact, I want to name his son Fang Wenxian.
Why is it called Fang Wenxian? Because in my setting, their family is in Weihai, and the streets in Weihai are full of figs. This is my first impression of Weihai. Figs are also called Wenxian fruit. Shen Jia liked to eat figs when she was pregnant, so Fang Yuanzheng named him this name.
However, due to the problem of the old president's own name, I felt that this name was very similar to Fang Wenshan, and I was afraid of causing misunderstandings about what it mapped to, so I abandoned it.
But after thinking for a long time, I couldn't think of a better name, so I started to carve it out like crazy. The location of this card is right after the chapter where Shen Jia meets her son in an Internet cafe. I've actually coded the next chapter, but I couldn't figure out the names of their two sons, and I was stuck for several days.
In the end, he gave up and picked up the famous instrument and randomly named him Fang Xiaozhou.
Hey, now that I think about it, I find it quite interesting, so I just want to tell you some of the stories behind these characters.
Because there is no outline in this article, it becomes increasingly difficult to deduce the plot as it unfolds. The more I write, the more complicated it becomes, so I basically can’t write anymore at the end of the article. I have to keep deducing it over and over again to avoid logical flaws.
For example, some friends may not have noticed that earlier I wrote that the old president transferred the guild to Wanwan, but later it was changed to that the old president’s wife transferred the guild to Wanwan.
This is because later in writing, I found out that the old president was hospitalized. How to transfer the guild? But it was written earlier that the old president spoke to Wanwan in a lot of earnest words, so I had no choice but to change the previous president to the old president’s wife.
It can be said that this book was written by me and everyone. Without everyone's support and reminders, I might have stopped writing it.
Because there was really no passion at the end of the writing, I was just tired and it gave me a headache just thinking about it, so I said it at the beginning. The moment I finished writing, I just felt a sense of relief. But the next day, I felt a little empty again.
Oh, no, it’s no longer fun to play games without me hanging on.
So I will still write the next book, but it will probably be about a vulgar and popular subject, and I will continue to challenge myself. It may not be popular, and many old readers may not like it, but I still thank you all for accompanying me all the way. I love you all. .
Snow falls on the boat
2023.12.11 1:21
