If you haven't collected the new book yet, you can go back to the end of the last chapter, where the author says there is a new book portal.
This is the first time I have completed a five million word book, so I am quite happy.
In fact, due to the preparation of the new book in advance, the book "The Richest Man" has been written a few days in advance, so the excitement when I just finished it has gradually calmed down, and now I am in a relatively calm state overall.
Of course, this writing is not perfect, but for my level, it is quite satisfactory.
To sum it up briefly, I am personally most satisfied with the beginning, the end and the "Struggle" section.
The plot from the beginning to "Return to the Shore" has a very compact structure, with several anti-routine baggage thrown in just right, and there are many tricks. I found it quite interesting after watching it myself.
The ending is mainly about the content of the last cycle. It wraps up the story as a whole. In addition to the relaxed and happy atmosphere of the whole book, it also adds a little touching content and lifts the whole story up a bit.
In the urban background, it can barely bring out the coolness.
As for the "Struggle" section, I actually didn't think too much about it when I wrote it. After I finished it, I felt that the structure was well done, and it was part of the maturation of the entire anti-routine model.
In the middle period, there was a significant decline due to some confusion in the plot. The progress of the whole story was a bit stuck, but after some adjustments later, it picked up again.
As for why there was a decline in the mid-term, on the one hand, the ideas at the time were not very clear, my personal creative state was at a low point, my inspiration was exhausted, and there were some mistakes in plot planning. On the other hand, it was the subject matter itself, which led to the natural development of the story.
Hit a bottleneck.
Of course, these problems are what I will try to avoid in the future.
Regarding this ending, let me briefly explain two sentences.
There is no clear emotional line because I don’t really like writing this, and the structure of the whole book is not very supportive.
The core of counter-routine is to separate the protagonist's true image from the image seen by the outside world. The more separated and further apart these two images are, the better the contrast effect will be.
It is precisely because of the huge contrast between the real Pei Qian and Mr. Pei in everyone's eyes that there are various interesting program effects.
So if you look back at the whole book, "Pei Qian" and "Mr. Pei" are actually two different concepts. One is the real Pei Qian, and the other is Mr. Pei in the eyes of everyone. In all plots, these two words are the same.
are strictly distinguished.
Pei Qian is President Pei, but he is not President Pei. Because the image in the eyes of everyone is not consistent with the real him, some plots cannot happen.
Let Pei Qian fall in love as President Pei. I really can't write this kind of plot. Besides, I don't like to write emotional dramas. I am a very emotional person.
Of course, I also understand that many readers hope that Mr. Pei will have a happy life. I think Mr. Pei will certainly be happy, and I do not deny this.
On the contrary, I don't like tying Pei Qian to the company, to Mr. Pei's identity, or to a specific person.
Throughout the four years of the story, Pei Qian was actually a tool tied to the identity of President Pei. I hope that in the end he will be free to do whatever he wants to do.
So I want to leave an open ending in the end. Although Pei Qian is the monitor of the entire company, his future can also have countless possibilities.
Everyone is free to imagine what kind of person he will become, what kind of things he will do, or who he will be with. I will leave a blank here for everyone to imagine.
I think such an ending is the most suitable for the story pattern of this book. A very clear ending and a very certain fate is not good, so I wrote it like this.
As for the core of the story of this book and everyone's feelings, in fact, on the whole, what I want to express is basically what everyone can feel, because my current writing technique is still relatively simple, and some contents will be clearly expressed.
of.
In fact, the last part of this book, which contains more than a hundred chapters, basically did not read much feedback from readers, and completely followed my own ideas and wrote wherever I thought.
The main reason is that after I have decided to start the book seamlessly, I have to prepare the new book while updating the last part of the content, and save the manuscript to buy time for the new book. So basically I have more or less ten chapters in the manuscript, and I want to copy the book review.
It can't be copied either.
Some contents that look similar to book reviews are simply arranged in advance, guessed, or simply written together.
Overall, I think the story is almost done at this point.
There is no such thing as a feast that lasts forever. Although a new story may not be liked by others, people must continue to make progress and change. They cannot always rest on their past achievements. I really want to write this book to 10 to 20 million words.
, then my writing is probably useless.
So, past achievements are in the past, let’s return to the posture of a challenger.
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Let’s talk about the new book.
In fact, the general idea came up more than half a year ago, and the original intention was to solve the ceiling problem that could not be solved in the middle of writing the book "The Richest Man".
Urban themes can be exciting in the early stage, but they can also collapse quickly. You can't have both in the early stage and in the later stage.
After much deliberation, there is only one way, which is to change the subject matter. I have never seen an urban subject that does not hit the ceiling. Generally, one million words will show fatigue, and two million words will barely support it. I can write three million, five
Millions are rare.
(I am referring to serious urban themes such as entertainment, not spiritual revival ones.)
It is actually not easy to write this number of words for The Richest Man, but I still only partially solved this problem and did not fundamentally break through the limitations of the subject matter.
So in order to break through this ceiling, we need to make some risky attempts.
The beginning of the new book was actually not very smooth, with about 80,000 to 90,000 words of scrap draft written.
Although the content has been decided, a lot of design has been done to the world view for some content in the middle and later stages, which makes the whole world a bit too complicated. It is difficult to find the best entry point at the beginning. Every time I write a beginning, I find that there are many needs
The concept of explanation is very unfriendly to new readers, and then it is overturned and rewritten.
I overturned and rewrote it at least six or seven times before I finally found a beginning that I was relatively satisfied with.
It's better than some real seniors who may overturn when they open a new book. Of course, I don't have such absolute confidence. Logically speaking, I should have prepared for a few more months.
However, this kind of thing is not foolproof, and it does not mean that it will definitely succeed if it takes a long time to prepare.
The article was born in nature, and came to me by chance. In fact, the book "The Richest Man" was only prepared for a few days, and four or five beginnings were changed. I was still traveling during the new book period, and I only wrote three to five thousand words in a hotel in one day.
The result was inexplicable, and many of my books that took a long time to prepare were miserably lost.
Therefore, although the repeated revision of the new book makes me a little uneasy, I think there is no point in procrastinating it, so it is better to start quickly.
Just try to do your best within your ability, and that's fine.
I think as long as we support the two points of counter-routine and game production, it won’t be any worse.
The content of the new book "Virtual End" can be understood as an enhanced version of "Becoming a Rich Man with a Loss": one is that the level of science and technology has improved, and games and movies have become Mewtwo where consciousness is connected; the other is an imaginary different world ruled by large conglomerates.
The world, corporate wars and the deterioration of the external environment have made the entire world a crisis-ridden place.
Some people say that after Mr. Pei has done so many things, it is unreasonable that no one assassinated him. How do you put this? The background of the richest man is a society ruled by law. It is too strange that there is such a thing as an assassin. Without saying whether it is reasonable or not, the painting
The wind is not right.
However, this does reflect a very serious problem with urban themes: the excitement in the early stage is really fast and the pace is fast, but in the middle stage, when enough money is made and the goal is quickly achieved, the author does not know what else to write.
What's the matter? If something is a little out of line, it will look very wrong when written, and it will be boring for readers.
The plot of The Richest Man in the middle period was not tense, mainly because of the subject matter. I was confused when I wrote it. When I was conceiving the plot, I found that the back and forth was all about the company. At most, it was a business war or a public opinion war. It was more fun.
I can’t bring myself to mention it. I say I want to change the world, but no matter what, I will be limited by the entire world view.
For regular content, it is difficult to push it up.
Including why the richest man stopped writing about building cars, rockets, chips, houses, etc...
On the one hand, it’s because I really don’t know much about these contents, and I may not be able to find them online. On the other hand, it’s also because it’s really difficult to write in this context. Urban settings are only suitable for writing content closely related to daily life.
Once the plot is too high, the plot will definitely collapse, because it is not grounded, and the writing is still restrained, and it is easy to run the risk of hitting the line.
So I packaged all these contents and put them into the fictional world of the next book. I changed the background and wrote it in a more clever way.
The new book is intended to solve the problem of The Richest Man being a bit sluggish in the middle and unable to be promoted in the later stages. In order to solve these problems, a lot of background changes have been made, which may sacrifice a little bit in the early stage, but I think these are some necessary attempts.
If I write another book with an urban background, it will be impossible to escape the framework of the richest man, and it will only get worse and worse.
Maybe in another two years, I will have some new understanding and insights about conventional urban themes and I will write again, but it is unlikely in the short term.
The new book will write about future games, high-tech research and development, corporate wars, etc. The protagonist will really change the world on various levels.
In the gaming field, we will try to imagine what future games will look like and what design rules they will have. Business wars will become more intense and have no bottom line. By then, it will no longer be a false business war like online bickering.
It is a real business war that starts at the slightest disagreement.
The overall story framework may be similar to The Richest Man. It is still a light-hearted and humorous anti-routine story, with the same ideological core. It is just that the content inside has been completely changed, and the character settings, storyline, etc. have all been replaced, including
The motivation for counter-routine has also been completely changed.
So you can still understand it as an urban theme, which is just an urban theme with relatively advanced technology and relatively chaotic social order. This time I want to write a more complex and novel virtual world.
I have to say what the background is, maybe it’s cyberpunk, but in fact it’s just a bit similar, with just a small amount of settings, and I’m actually writing my own stuff.
I feel that on the basis of the book "The Richest Man", some skills and content can be further polished. Whether it is game design or counter-routine, I haven't written it to the top yet. There is still a lot of room for improvement, so I want to use this method.
Give it another shot.
The initial goal is still to make everyone happy and smile; in the middle and later stages, I hope to make steady progress, to be able to hold on to the fun points, and to write content that The Richest Man couldn't do due to subject matter restrictions.
Everyone can seamlessly connect to new books, but there is one special point to mention: I will write new books very quickly, so it is very important to follow them. You must not be too lazy, just keep reading.
The new book period is only 20 days. It will be on the shelves on the 1st of next month. The book will be updated with 30,000 words today. The new book period will basically keep updating with 10,000 words every day. After it is put on the shelves, it will increase depending on the situation. It may be maintained at 10,000 words per day after it is put on the shelves.
Two to fifteen thousand, which is a monthly update rate of about four hundred thousand.
Therefore, the update speed of new book issues is actually faster than that of some books after they are put on the shelves. There is no slow update to accumulate popularity like before. Everyone can just follow up and read it normally.
Don't keep it!
As for why we should choose the mode of seamless book opening + explosive updates.
In fact, since I started writing books, I have been torn between the two paths of "large quantity and sufficient control" and "careful craftsmanship".
Some authors just can't write fast, and they only write four or five thousand words in one day. Once too many words are added, the plot collapses, so they can only write slowly; while some authors write very fast, and even if they slow down, the plot will not be significantly improved, but will continue to break.
own ideas.
I'm quite confused. It seems that I can try both paths, but I haven't found which one is more suitable.
Moreover, sometimes I carefully write a piece of content, but the response is mediocre, and many people say it is bad. Sometimes I completely let myself go and write 12,300 words a day, and I think the plot is average, but the response is very good.
Okay, a big compliment.
So sometimes I am very confused. When I look back and think about the plot of "Struggle" and the last plot that I am most satisfied with, they are actually all done recklessly. Sometimes I don't think so much and just pile on the amount, but the plot I write is also messed up.
It's not bad, it's even better than the plot that has been crafted for a long time, which is quite hard to resist.
In short, it makes me feel that I have been working hard for a long time, but it is getting worse and worse.
Although I rack my brains every day to think about what readers like to read, it is always impossible to find an absolutely correct answer.
After thinking about it, whether the plot is good or not is actually a very subjective standard. Only the number of words per day and the number of plots per day are very objective standards. The more you write, the more you write.
In addition, the book "The Richest Man" has greatly improved my ability in plot structure. I can make the outline very detailed and accurate to the content of each chapter. When I update it, I basically don't worry about the plot collapsing or collapsing.
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Therefore, for this book, I decided to put aside the other issues for the time being, and focus on updating the volume first.
Of course, the update volume has been increased, but the quality will not be significantly reduced. The amount of information in each chapter will definitely remain the same as before, and it will not be superficial. The plot that originally took two days can now be written in one day.
I just want to say that some words and sentences may not be so sophisticated, and occasionally there are some innocuous errors such as typos or grammatical errors.
As a reader, I actually feel that two chapters a day with 6,000 words is not enough to read. Only updates of about 10,000 words can make it easier to read. But as an author, many times it’s not that I don’t want to write more, but my energy is limited.
Can't write it.
So this time I will try to update more, advance the plot quickly, and squeeze my creative state to the limit in the process, hoping to bring a different feeling to everyone.
This book has been praised by many friends. I really don’t have the energy to thank them one by one. In fact, I have added a lot of updates later, but I am too lazy to add updates for XXX book friends in every chapter. I would like to express my gratitude to you all here.
The boss who gave the reward said sorry.
So I’d better work hard to increase the amount of updates. More updates is the best thank you to all readers. If I maintain 12,000 a day for a few months, this is just a small thing, right?
I just want to be down-to-earth and write more and better content step by step. As long as I do this, everything will be possible.
Once again, I hope that everyone will not keep books and join me in seamless connection.
Old friends, until the new book is on the shelves, no one will be missing.
Although I can’t say that the new book will definitely be more exciting than The Richest Man, after all, some of the beauty of the first encounter is hard to replace, but I will definitely try my best to write different content.
If I can write everything I want, then in the middle and later stages of the new book, I will definitely be able to surpass the richest man.