Before I knew it, I had finished writing another volume.
I have to say that this volume is a very bold attempt.
It is no longer the same "reward for completing the goal" cycle of the first volume, "three chapters with a climax, five chapters with a cool point" writing method, but more like the "beginning versus climax ending" of a three-act movie script.
To put it in the words of a friend, "You are seeking death."
What he said is right, online books follow a serialization model, and everyone is chasing books every day. If the chapters updated each time are not explosive, everyone will be disappointed, give up on updating, and subscribe to fewer books.
However, I personally feel that if you look at it from an overall perspective, the feeling of using a whole volume to foreshadow your emotions, and then letting your emotions explode at the end of the volume, is incomparable to the feeling of having no foreshadowing.
To be honest, the outline of this volume was revised several times during the creation process.
The earliest idea was to develop two lines at the same time, with believers farming and fighting for hegemony in the new dimension, and Allen upgrading and fighting monsters in the original plane, adopting a relaxed and daily cool writing style. In this way, not only will there be a constant flow of "cool points", but it will also be easy to
Water word count.
However, when I accidentally watched Nolan's movie "The Conjuring" one night, I changed my mind.
Regardless of the background setting, this movie has a very sophisticated plot structure with ubiquitous foreshadowing, symbols, metaphors, tense rhythms, echoes at the beginning and end, and an unexpected and reasonable ending. People can't help but be excited and admired. "
This is real art."
When I got excited at the time, I tore up the original outline, which seemed exciting but was actually boring, and re-wrote it.
As for the current plot, it draws on the writing methods of some suspense novels, using the perspective of others to experience the murderer's crime process, and finally uses the murderer's confession to reveal the truth.
Of course, the "murderer" of this volume is the protagonist (after all, the mastermind behind the scenes).
Another difficulty in the writing process is the need to describe the protagonist's change "from human nature to divinity".
This kind of thing related to the growth of characters is difficult to write. If you are not careful, you will write it as a stream of consciousness, which is pretentious and like a middle school disease (for example, when I was in junior high school, I wrote about the dark history that I couldn’t bear to look at).
At this time, I thought of a technique used by George Martin when he wrote "A Song of Ice and Fire"
When Martin wanted to write about Jon Snow's personality changes after he became Lord Commander, he wrote the same plot from Samwell's perspective and Jon's own perspective. In Samwell's perspective, Jon seemed to have become cold-blooded.
It's ruthless; but from Jon's own perspective, it reflects his inner fragility, hesitation and struggle.
So in this volume, I also tried a more desperate writing method
Except for the climax at the end, the perspective of each chapter in other parts is limited to a supporting character. There is no perspective of the protagonist throughout the story, and there is no psychological activity of the protagonist. Only the "murderer's confession" part at the end does the protagonist's thoughts appear.
I thought that with this desperate writing method, the follow-up order would definitely drop to single digits.
I didn’t expect that everyone was still so awesome.
Except for a drop in subscriptions when we just switched to Howard's perspective, the rest of the time it was quite stable.
Especially at the climax, the number of follow-up orders increased a lot.
Thank you all very much for your support during this time!
Without your daily subscriptions, tips, votes and comments, I might have doubted myself halfway through writing, and then went back to writing the original routine, never daring to try new techniques again.
At least so far, the attempt seems to be quite successful.
In the next volume, Allen will go to a new dimension to join the believers.
I should focus on developing my characterization skills (I have been criticized more than once for supporting supporting characters, qaq), and try to make up for this shortcoming.
At the same time, everyone is welcome to fill in the supporting roles in the book review area. There should be many new characters appearing in the next volume.
You are also welcome to join the book club to discuss the plot, play, and update (cross out): 299-958-817
Well... now that I have finished writing a volume, as usual... I will take a day off to sort out the details and find inspiration to prevent me from getting stuck later.
The next volume will be updated starting at 8:00 pm on Saturday.
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