Completed.
It has taken ten months since it was put on the shelves in October last year, with a total of 1.5 million words.
Thank you all book friends for your support.
To summarize the lessons learned:
The role of the protagonist Zhan Liu was not well developed and he became a complete tool man.
There are many reasons.
On the one hand, the character design was not done well from the beginning. The character image is relatively thin, and there are no special habits or oral habits, and there is a lack of memory and recognition.
On the other hand, the characters have too few roles. The scenes between the main and supporting characters are completely unbalanced, and the main character often disappears.
The root cause is that the positioning of Zhanliu was not done well.
In the earliest outline, I wanted to write some destined stories in the Marvel world.
The fate of mutants, the fate of Captain America, the fate of Spider-Man, the fate of Asgard...
If there is a destiny, the general plot will not deviate from the original MCU film and television drama, and it will be easier to write. Just follow the timeline and kill it one by one.
Zhan Liu's position is that of a guide and promoter. He is a relatively detached existence and belongs to the position of the Marvel Martial Ancestor.
Those little people who are shrouded in the fate of superheroes and can neither mutate nor rely on technology can get a chance to make a comeback in the Ultimate Infinite Pavilion.
However, due to my limited writing power, I couldn't write the part about fate well. I couldn't write it well, and I lost hundreds of orders. So I quickly deleted the outline and some chapters.
Then the revised outline's positioning of Zhan Liu was rather erratic, and the original plot of the show was gone.
Moreover, in order to deliberately pursue Riwan during that time, I did not sort out the new outline well. As a result, in the deleted chapters, Zhan Liu had fewer and fewer opportunities to appear, because I myself did not arrange a good position for Zhan Liu.
In the volume "King of the Nine Realms", I actually wanted to bring back the perspective, so I took Zhan Liu as the core and went on a space journey, including Xandar, Sovereign, Asgard, the Earth... ...However, I still gave up in the end.
Twilight of the Gods can be written as Zhan Liuqian, and then Thor goes crazy for revenge, master and disciple kill each other and so on.
In fact, in all the volumes, if the lead character is replaced by Zhan Liu, the name is changed, and the plot does not even need to be changed. It can also create a story with the protagonist as the core and make people feel immersed in it.
For example, in the American Emperor volume, Zhan Liu is asked to collude with Hydra to run for president, lead the superheroes to resist the Chitauri, or simply do all the work by one person and destroy the aliens. The people were wiped out, and the Chitauri home planet was wiped out.
Or the crazy god scroll, let Zhan Liu take the lead in resisting the Zerg or something.
I know this is the right way to write, it will make me feel more engaged, and my subscriptions will be higher, but I still can't break through myself.
I can not do it!
The problem with amateur writers is that they are always unable to break through their own psychological constraints and always feel that writing in this way is unreasonable.
What the hell I wrote is, it’s all fake, it’s enough to feel good, but you also need some shitty rationality?
But it’s just like my fucking obsessive-compulsive disorder. When I see plot bugs, I can’t fucking keep writing, and I always want to revise it!
I regret now that I revised the outline for the sake of balance and messed up everything later. What I wrote is no longer what I wanted to write.
It's very painful to write what you don't want to write.
The most obvious thing is that there is no passion for writing.
When writing the first few volumes, before writing the chapters, some wonderful passages appeared in my mind like a movie, which was very visual, and then I only needed to record it in words.
But then, let alone the movie scenes, there were not even ppts!
The obvious result is that the written words are emotionless and dry, and the lines have no passion, and everyone must have felt this.
At the end of the seventh volume, I hesitated whether to just end it like this. Anyway, most of the holes dug before have been filled.
But I finally decided to finish the outline from beginning to end, and give Zhan Liu, Peter and others a complete ending.
As a new author, no matter whether the work is good or bad, at least there is a beginning, a process, and an ending. Having a complete creative experience will definitely be of great benefit to the next book.
In addition, in addition to the problem of the protagonist Zhan Liu, there is also the problem of the storyline itself.
There are also well-written group portraits, such as "Escape from Konoha". The protagonist often disappears, and no one is seen in dozens of chapters. However, they still have over 10,000 orders and 300,000 collections. One of the differences is that I The story of this book is not engaging enough.
There is really no solution to this problem. It can only be said that personal ability is insufficient.
Now that I'm looking at this book again, I feel that this book is neither fish nor fowl, sometimes focusing on Marvel, sometimes focusing on Haihu, swinging left and right, and it is inevitable to throw away the book.
Please pay attention to this lesson next time.
There is also the problem of dialogue. It seems that I narrate too much and dialogue too little.
There is a lack of dialogue to complete the character's personality, and it is also not conducive to the word count. It is a major failure and must be changed next time!
There are also descriptions of combat, which I really can’t do!
Especially since it's not a punch or kick, but a collision of energy that can destroy the world at every turn. With my limited vocabulary as an amateur writer, I really don't know how to write it.
I never want to write this kind of fighting scene again in my life!
Finally, I would like to thank readers again for your love and support.
The new book is original and light. The editor pre-ordered it last year. Because of this book, I have not signed the contract until now. I am saving the manuscript and will publish it when I have enough.
However, I have recently seen Qidian’s new policy to encourage male videos with female protagonists. I am considering whether to change the protagonist to a female. I have read the recommendations from both sides. They are all tool people anyway... Ah, by the way, I forgot to mention it. In the next book, the protagonist is still a tool man.
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