From September 2015 to June 2016, in three quarters, I finished writing the eighth episode of 719. I finished coding the 7,000 words of 719 last night, and this morning I finished writing the preface for Taiwan Traditional Chinese Publishing. Let’s look back at the past few chapters.
Over the past few months, my life has undergone tremendous changes, and I am still adapting...but let's get back to the book first.
Whether writing a book or doing something, I have emphasized the concept several times, which is called "intention". Intention is the final goal, which determines the final height of a book. The eighth episode involves war. Some people are used to reading war literature.
Readers often say how war literature is written, how the army arranges its troops, and that you cannot write war literature and so on. Here is a unified reply.
Internet literature is often classified as genre writing, because there are many genre writings, and genre writing usually looks like this: a person works in a company, writes articles, writes about his experiences in the company, and intrigues to solve problems. After reading it, the reader feels as if
Experienced a life he has never experienced before. This is the purpose of genre writing. So, good fantasy writing allows people to experience a fantasy world, and good war writing allows people to experience a war, know knowledge that they did not know before, and know how to organize troops.
Array or something.
However, if you know how to arrange troops, what is the use? For example, if you are a bricklayer and you know how clerks work, it may be of some use. If you know how to arrange a ballista, what is the use?
Of course, entertainment itself is a use. It makes people feel that I know a lot of things that I didn't know before, which is also a use. But not all books in the world have to serve this purpose.
Lu Yao wrote "The Ordinary World" to show the brilliance that people show when overcoming hardships, and we can't help but learn from such a protagonist. Lu Xun wrote Ah Q, showing the shortcomings that many Chinese people have. In this form, let us
We will avoid and overcome this shortcoming in the future. Antoine's "The Little Prince" tells people the value of the initial persistence. Jonathan's "Gulliver's Travels" is to criticize corruption and war.
Bala, bala, bala, you will feel like you are back in class. In fact, this is just an introductory knowledge of literature.
What is the purpose of writing this book? At least I am not trying to teach readers about ancient military formations.
It's normal for people to have different focuses when reading books. What I say here is just to express. For this reason, I chose my writing method. Even though I have referred to some formations before writing, I have also gone through them in my mind.
Once again, when I was writing, I still wouldn’t explain it deliberately, because it didn’t make sense. There are also many war articles in the starting point, some of which I liked, but from beginning to end, I never felt pleasure from the formation of troops in any book.
, if you are a reader who comes here specifically for the feeling of "I know how to fight well", you will have to put this book down, because I really don't write about it.
The description of war is explained here.
The eighth episode is a link between the past and the next. The whole plot moves a bit quickly. The whole book may last about three episodes. I hope that each episode can take up to nine months, not too much.
I once said that so far, every book I have written is a practice of writing. The reason is that I can clearly see where the perfect high point is, I can clearly see my shortcomings, and see the next step.
Where to go, how to reach the final goal. Because of this, practicing writing will continue.
At the beginning of this book, I used a relatively complicated style of writing, a relatively complex and even bloated expression to write something as detailed as possible, which was for a purpose. In the last two episodes of "Alienation", I
I understood and mastered the role of transformation in emotional expression, and the role of many small emotions and hints. At the beginning, I began to dig deeper into emotional expression. Just like an emotion, for example, feel better, initially I could
When I write eight points, when I touch the depth of ten points, to reach it, I may need more than twice the description, and I need to repeatedly use different techniques to express it. Only through repeated excavation can these things be truly understood.
Eat thoroughly.
Therefore, after reading the beginning of ", some people say it is dull, but in fact it is not. The foreshadowings, hints, and things that are touching people's hearts and making people want to stop are buried in each chapter, which may be more than what many people have buried in more than ten chapters.
many.
This kind of training that doesn't care about the amount of words used and insists on achieving the depth of expression is basically complete by the end of the seventh episode.
In the eighth episode, we faced a new round of training goals and made some attempts. After this episode was completed, the goals were truly determined. Next, we can start pruning the details in the writing. In many previous expressions,
In order to grasp the fleeting inspiration and pursue the most vivid effect, I have the habit of not following formal grammar and capturing words purely based on first impression. Next, I also need to do some condensation. As for emotions, after the seventh episode, it seems that
It is no longer necessary to pursue a thorough excavation. In some places, you can start to leave a lasting impression.
This round of writing practice may last until the end of the entire book.
Of course, this is an adjustment I made in my own writing. It may not have much to do with the readers. I am just taking advantage of the summary to make a systematic summary. The plot direction will not get out of control due to writing practice. You can rest assured about this. It is very likely that everyone will also
You won't feel much difference.
Many people don't understand why I write slowly. Recently, I occasionally see questions similar to "Why does a chapter like this take so long?". Most of the old readers no longer ask. For new readers, I can tell you something new.
A traditional novel has a maximum of hundreds of thousands of words and a million words, and a pile of clues from beginning to end to the final summary is only a few hundred thousand words. An online novel has several million words, and when I first read it,
It seems that you can use tricks, but if you still pursue the smoothness of the beginning, the transition, and the natural unfolding of clues, by now, the workload is already several to ten times higher than that of traditional novels.
At the beginning of this novel, I can put down a line and write out a plot. I can just leave some impressions in my mind and put it away one day. However, after millions of words, every time I put out a line,
I have to clearly see how to wrap up the thread and how to intersect it with other clues. Every time I write a plot, I have to go through the ending of the story in my mind.
Online novels seem to be taking advantage at the beginning, but if the standard of "well-written" novels is really taken, no one will be able to take advantage of it in the end. It is better to have a good ending for an online novel than to write one.
In the beginning, it was dozens of times more difficult.
I regard this as the final advancement of online novels. If we can really achieve sublimation with another ending and put every line in place, then there will be only one thing left to complete the novel even in the traditional sense.
The details of the last three times have been edited, but the work of correcting typos is insignificant, so I can basically explain it here.
Write a plot and go through the ending in your head several times. The idea must be smooth and you can't take any chances. There are no shortcuts here. There are only three episodes left in this book, and Cavan may still be an ordinary thing, but...
If I don't write it well, what else can I do? I've been working on it for five years.
Even if the updates are unstable, of course I will still ask for monthly tickets when I am bored. Of course, the current starting point is different from before. The author can send red envelopes to collect monthly tickets, so I will not get too involved in this matter. Monthly tickets are just a game, and of course I also hope that my
If you have more, it will be more respectable, but if you are a reader who doesn’t have much money, you might as well vote for them monthly and take the starting coins to subscribe to my book. It is a great honor.
The eighth episode is sorted out, that is, these things.