Let me start by saying that this last chapter was actually written when I decided to scrap it and archive it. If I had not asked for leave, this update would have been at six o'clock that afternoon, and the third volume would have officially ended.
But later I readjusted my thinking, scrapped the beginning of volume four, and added a detailed description of the transfer at the end of volume three.
But no matter what, I kept this chapter, but made some modifications, deleted some parts that conflicted with the existing plot, and added brand new paragraphs.
I probably revised, added, and deleted about five or six times to this chapter alone—I was still revising it until I added automatic updates last night.
Although there are a lot of changes, they are just additions and deletions. I am still very satisfied with the structure and theme. Everything that needs to be explained has been explained here, and everything that needs to be restrained has also been restrained. There is still hope for things that should be hopeful.
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In the previous leave chapter, a friend said that my description of the reactions of all parties after winning the championship was insufficient, like a running account.
Why didn't I focus on describing the reactions of all parties after winning the championship?
Because I want to describe everyone's reaction in the last chapter... If I wrote it after winning the league, wouldn't it be repeated if I wrote it now?
What’s the point? One or two chapters just to get more water?
After winning the championship, this volume is not over yet, but it is not far away. There is no need to write the same thing twice in such a short space.
Originally, according to my original plan, this last chapter was supposed to be after I finished writing the move.
This volume starts with buying a new house, and ends with moving, which can be considered a perfect echo from beginning to end.
Unexpectedly, I had a problem with the choice of which team Hu Lai would go to in the end, and I had to overturn and rewrite the plot, so I added a transfer plot after the move.
Fortunately, I didn't add much, just three chapters, otherwise the emotions would be incoherent...
However, because the update is not fast enough, the experience will be slightly bad if you catch up with the update. But if you go back and watch it again, it should be much better.
Let’s talk about the entire third volume.
I finished writing the third volume. As usual, I used WORD to check the word count. It was 717,000 words.
The number of words is about the same as the first two volumes, and the number of chapters is also about the same.
I didn't expect such a coincidence myself.
I didn't deliberately control the word count or length, and the plot ended wherever it was written.
Looking back now, in fact, this volume of 700,000 words didn’t even cover a few things.
The big plot is the U23 Asian Cup plot at the beginning, with the beating of Wang Xianke in the middle, and then the Olympics plot, and after the Olympics comes the winning plot.
After writing about the championship game, everything that follows is actually the aftertaste. Including the transfer, it’s just a small plot.
There are only these four important storylines, and there are some small episodes in between.
According to the "not watery" writing method, it would probably be completed in 400,000 words.
After the story of the Olympic Games, some readers were already eager to read the story after the transfer to Europe, but I still followed the plan and completed the story of the league championship.
Because if we don’t write it this way, how can we express the expectations of those in the book world for Hu Lai to go to Europe?
How could he be at the airport and so many people come to see him off in the end?
After all, Hu Laike helped the team win the Chinese Super League championship this season. He also became the top scorer and broke the record set by Shi. Only with these achievements can he highlight his status in the current domestic football world.
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The emotions laid out in the entire volume are to bloom in the final finale, so it can't be too hasty.
Anyway, I like the ending of this volume very much. It not only concludes the third volume, but also summarizes the entire first three volumes.
The same is true for the last round of the league. I adopted the approach of describing two games in parallel. Many times I even made Hu Lai disappear from the description deliberately, just like his characteristics as a striker - most of the game you can
Can't see him, don't care about him, forget him, but at the last moment, at the most critical moment, he will definitely appear in the most critical position.
Someone said delay?
I don't think so.
Write two games together, from the kick-off whistle to the final whistle, a total of eight chapters, is it too late? This is the last game in this volume, the most important game, a game in which the fate of many people is intertwined.
I wrote 11 or 12 chapters on the Super Bowl in the early part of this volume.
In this final round of the league, there are many main characters that need to be represented, and I think I have been concise enough to write about them in only eight chapters.
Why did I mention the coaching change of the national team in just one chapter after winning the championship? I solved the coaching change process with a news announcement. I did not write about the confrontation between Wilson and the Football Association. Although it would save the word count, it would be damaging.
The final rhythm cools down the emotions that have been brewing since the last game. It makes the story fragmented and blurs the focus - the transfer plot I added later is a bit redundant. If I put the transfer at the end
If written before a league game, the emotional effect at the end of the chapter will be better and more focused.
It's a pity, this is the disadvantage of not having enough manuscripts saved... If I still have 300,000 words saved, then I may have completed self-adjustment and revision before everyone knows it.
Through this revision, I also want everyone to know the status of my writing and why I can’t save more articles...
Some people say that you only need to write two chapters, and one chapter takes an average of two hours. If you are given six hours, can you still not finish it?
I really can’t write it down.
Every day when I open the document, I first correct the typos I wrote yesterday. If there is something wrong in the description or wrong plot, I have to change it as well - this time the change is a major change, but there are always minor repairs.
After revising what I wrote the day before, I think about today's content, how to break into it, how to start, where to end the chapter, what emotion to end with... these are all things that make me rack my brains.
Squid said that before he starts writing every day, he often has to sit in front of the computer for a long time before he can start writing.
He and I are similar, but he can write it out very smoothly once he thinks about it.
I'm not good at it. I often get stuck in the middle.
When a character says something, I have to think about it for a long time, how to say it, and in what form it would be better to say it... What will be the consequences of the character doing this kind of behavior in this place, and what impact will it have in the future? The foreshadowing needs to be
Don't you want to bury it here?
If you want to express a meaning, there is a ready-made way, but is there a better way to express it?
Just like when you play a game, when you choose A, the plot that will occur is completely different from the plot that will occur if you choose B. But is it better to choose A or B?
As an author, you have to keep doing similar multiple-choice questions.
The problem this time is that I chose A, and I wrote it according to the premise of option A. As I continued to write, I found something was wrong, so I had to overturn it, make a new choice, and choose B. The subsequent plot had to be readjusted according to option B.
All the content that I had prepared and written before can no longer be used. Scrapping four chapters of the manuscript is simply making the situation worse for my already poor family...
When it comes to writing itself, the author has a creative peak, but in fact, my creative peak has passed. Now if I want to write high-quality things, I must give up speed and spend more time in front of the computer.
Grind it bit by bit and compete with yourself.
And thinking about it... I really wish I had never been the kind of author who has both speed and quality.
When I was writing "We Are the Champions", I only updated two chapters a week, or even one chapter.
When I was writing "The Godfather of Champions", I updated it every day without fail - except when I took a leave of absence during the Wenchuan earthquake.
That is to say, I was faster when writing "The Hero of the Forbidden Zone" and "The Winner is King", but the styles are different and the writing methods are also different. Moreover, in terms of the quality of the text alone, I am definitely not the one who wrote "The Winner is King" the fastest.
The best of all works.
I have been writing football novels for almost 18 years, and have only dealt with one theme for so many years. I don’t know how many authors can be like me at the beginning. I also have to say that my creative career is indeed going downhill, and it will gradually
The quality and speed of writing cannot be improved, and the sense of empathy between business writing and readers is lost. I write one book after another, write another book after another, and then quit the industry completely and disappear...
If it weren't for the book "", I might really be like this.
This is nothing to be embarrassed to admit. From the last book, you can see that the creative passion is fading.
I have been writing football novels for so long. No matter how much I love football and love writing, there will be a day when my passion is exhausted and I am tired of aesthetics.
This is also the reason why every time I finish a book, I take a long break. In the past, I could only take a break for a month. How could I take a break for half a year?
People must obey old age and respect objective laws.
Fortunately, I have rediscovered my feelings through the book "". I can't say that my career has had a second spring, but at least now I still have a lot to say.
The desire to talk is crucial for an author.
I used to write "Do You Care If I Play Football" and "We Are Champions" when I was 21 to 23 years old, and I wrote "The Godfather of Champions" when I was 24 to 26 years old.
Let me listen to you.
Now I want to tell you about my accumulated experience from 26 to 40 years old.
Hence the book "". I believe you can definitely see a lot of my attitudes and ideas about life and football from it. These attitudes may be different from when I wrote "We Are the Champions" and "The Godfather of Champions"
Already.
For me now, at least writing this book well is far more important than breaking out - what I mean by writing well is to write a book that can stand the test of time and withstand repeated scrutiny. Not just a subscription
How high - I'm not saying that subscriptions are unimportant. Of course it's good to have high subscriptions, but if you ask me to put aside the burst of quality improvement to improve my subscription performance, then I really can't do it. Since I have more than enough ambition but not enough energy,
Then make a choice and prioritize quality.
I know that it is difficult to sell the IP of online novels, and it is even more difficult to obtain the IP of sports and football novels. I cannot decide the copyright adaptation. As an author, all I can do is to write the book.
In the days to come, I will write this book with this idea in mind - quality first, quantity second.
Having said this, although I have said it many times, I still have to say it again: If you feel that chasing updates is too painful, you can turn on the automatic subscription to keep it, for example, keep it during important games, and wait until the update is finished.
Look at the tone.
good for everyone.
Don't say anything like "It's obviously the climax but you have dragged it down without any passion."
It’s not that I’m procrastinating, it’s that I can only write so much every day, and my output is limited, and it’s possible that even if I write, it will be in vain—all of it will be invalidated.
In fact, if you go back and read the plot in one go, you will feel that it is not delayed at all, not a word is wasted, and every character who appears and what they say is meaningful.
Now that I’ve talked about myself, let’s talk about the novel itself.
In this volume, Hu Lai ends his entire journey in China and sets off for Europe, starting a long journey in his life.
I have been listening to Yin Wu's song since the chapter about Qin Lin's retirement. I listened to it repeatedly. I only listened to one song for many days. I finished writing the third volume and re-wrote the end of the third volume.
Part of it, I am still listening to it while writing this summary.
In fact, this song is not slobbery, and the melody is not catchy. But I just like it.
When I wrote about Qin Lin's retirement, I had already decided to use this song completely to the end of the last chapter, because the lyrics of this song are really suitable for what I want to express, and it is a perfect complement to this volume.
The summary at the end and the outlook for Hu Lai's future can serve as a link between the past and the next, just like the transition in a movie.
Hu Lai traveled far away with so many people's expectations on his back, wasn't it just to chase the dream in his heart?
But traveling for a dream is not only a beautiful thing, it also has difficulties and obstacles. This is not an outing with singing and dancing, but a arduous journey that requires courage and luck.
As the song goes:
"But in the distance there are also hot summers and cold winters, stormy nights, and muddy roads."
Similarly, despite so many difficulties and obstacles, those of us inside and outside the book will still hope that Hu Lai will have a safe journey, with more smooth roads, less twists and turns, more joy and less sorrow.
He is the "hope of the whole village" in the book.
They are also the children we watch grow up outside of books.
From a middle school student who was ridiculed and excluded, he grew step by step into a "genius star" who can carry everyone's hopes.
I spent 2.3 million words to show how he did all this and how he completed this transformation.
When it comes to my last book "Greenery", this word count is almost finished, and now I have only just stepped out of the domestic football world...
But I don’t think the pace is slow. I personally think I wrote the first three volumes very well.
That's how it should be, a person's growth cannot happen overnight, and a genius doesn't just pop out of the stone.
He should have a way to come, so that he can have a way to go.
In 2.3 million words, I wrote about his origin, and next I want to write about his whereabouts.
I don’t know how many words I will write, but I will definitely try my best to follow the feeling of the first three volumes and write it completely, thoroughly and convincingly, making people really feel that there is such a person or a group of people in that parallel time and space.
People, those things happen.
And I am just a camera with no emotion, faithfully recording everything and showing it to the audience in front of the TV.
This is a large-scale reality show, and everyone in it is a real person with flesh and blood, not an NPC.
Just like I repeatedly emphasized that Dong Wen must insist on asking European clubs to make an offer that he thinks is consistent with Hu Lai's worth, even if this approach is considered unnecessary by many fans in the book, involves great risks, and is unflattering.
like.
But I wrote it anyway.
Because I think Fatty Dong should be such a person. He has his own position and perspective on problems. He will insist on some things that he thinks should be insisted on, instead of becoming an NPC who blindly serves the protagonist. As long as it involves the protagonist, everything will be done.
It's "Okay, okay".
There is also Li Ziqiang. Some readers see Hu Lai now and feel that Hu Lai has a successful career and has proven himself. There is no need for Li Ziqiang to always look down on him.
But let me tell you, what he dislikes about Hu Lai is not his football career, but his daughter Li Qingqing. As a father who was widowed in his early years and raised his daughter alone, any man who tries to get close to his daughter will
He treats him as an enemy. No matter how outstanding this man is, even if he has a fortune, is as rich as the country, and is famous all over the world... As a father, he will still get angry when he should.
This unhappiness has nothing to do with right or wrong, it is a person's feelings.
And feelings are unreasonable.
Don't say "This is wrong" or "It shouldn't be this way".
There is no right or wrong, should or should not be done.
Maybe until the end, Li Ziqiang will not sincerely like Hu Lai and accept Hu Lai. But what does it matter? Isn't it bad to let a person maintain his independent personality and thoughts?
In short, this was my creative attitude when writing this book.
And I am also very happy to see that the performance of this book is always improving, even if the progress is very slow, it is indeed getting better.
Now the high order is over 9,000 and heading towards 10,000.
The average order has also exceeded 6,000, which is twice my original goal.
I think, as a purely fictional story that lacked a sense of substitution at the beginning, it can still achieve such results, which is enough for me to have the confidence to continue writing.
Thank you all for your support and tolerance.
I said from the beginning that this book was a willful work, and you still allow me to continue writing it as I please, which makes me feel extremely satisfied.
This book was very tiring to write, and I often wrote until late at night. I racked my brains and only managed to write two chapters a day.
But I am quite happy to see my results.
I would often turn over and re-read the plots I had written before, read everyone's comments on this chapter, and then have fun alone with my phone in hand.
I feel that the greatest happiness for a creator is that the things he has conceived and created can be understood by others.
Obviously, you and I have this kind of tacit understanding.
thank you all!
Grateful!
Please continue to look forward to and enjoy the scenery of Hu Lai's journey.
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PS, according to my own statistics, Hu Lai has scored a total of 121 goals in official games so far in his career, two and a half seasons of career, including the league, FA Cup, and national team.
The Olympic team scored 121 goals in various official games. Is this efficiency pretty good?
There is an Easter egg chapter at the back to show you how I made statistics in the process of writing the book.