Finished!
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.
Actually, 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 the whole book is a novel. a relatively calm state.
Of course, this writing is not perfect, but for my level, it is quite satisfactory.
To sum 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 counter-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 wraps up the whole story. Lifting it up a bit, I could barely lift it up against the urban background.
As for the "Struggle" section, I actually didn't think too much about it when I wrote it. After I finished writing 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 the reason for the decline in the mid-term, on the one hand, the idea at the time was not 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. As a result, the story naturally hit a bottleneck in its development.
Of course, these problems are what I will try to avoid in the future.
Let me briefly explain this ending.
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 the 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 when 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 , the two terms are strictly distinguished.
Pei Qian is President Pei, but he is not President Pei. Because the image in everyone's eyes is not consistent with the real him, some plots cannot happen.
I really can’t write a plot like this for Pei Qian to fall in love as President Pei. Besides, I don’t like writing emotional dramas. I’m a very emotional person.
WhenHowever, 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.
During the entire 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 mode of this book. A very clear ending and a very certain fate are 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 method is still relatively simple, and some content All will be expressed clearly.
In fact, the last part of this book, which contains more than a hundred chapters, basically didn’t pay much attention to readers’ feedback. I just followed my own ideas and wrote them 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 I basically have more than a dozen on hand. Chapter deposits the manuscript, but even if I want to copy the book review, I can’t.
Some content that looks similar to a book review is simply arranged in advance, guessed, or simply written together.
Generally speaking, 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, and cannot always rest on the past achievements. If I write 10 to 20 million words, I will probably be done with it.
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. 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 also collapse quickly. You cannot have both in the early stage and in the later stage.
After much deliberation, there was only one solution, which was to change the subject matter. For urban themes, I’ve never seen one that didn’t touch the ceiling. Generally speaking, fatigue shows after one million words, two million words is barely enough, and those who can write three million or five million words are rare.
(I am referring to serious urban themes such as entertainment, not spiritual recovery.)
It is actually not easy for the richest man to write this number of words., 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 must make some risky attempts.
The beginning of the new book was actually not very smooth, and I wrote about **0,000 words of scrap.
Although the content has been determined, a lot of design has been done to the worldview for some content in the middle and later stages, making 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 concepts that need to be explained, which is very unfriendly to new readers, and then I overturn and rewrite.
I overturned and rewrote it at least six or seven times before I finally found a beginning that I was relatively satisfied with.
It is even possible for some real seniors to overturn when they open a new book. Of course, I don’t have such absolute confidence. Logically speaking, I should prepare for a few more months.
However, this kind of thing is not foolproof. It does not mean that it will be successful if it takes a long time to prepare.
The article was written by chance, but the book "The Richest Man" was actually only prepared for a few days, and I changed four or five beginnings. I was still traveling during the new book issue, and I only spent one day in the hotel. I wrote three to five thousand words, but the result was inexplicable. On the contrary, many books that I took a long time to prepare failed miserably.
So, 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.
I think as long as the two points of counter-routine and game production are supported, no matter how bad it is, it won’t be much worse.
The content of the new book "Virtual End" can be understood as an enhanced version of "Losing Money and Becoming a Richest Man": one is that the level of technology has improved, and games and movies have become a super dream connected by consciousness; the other is that it is a fantasy In a different world where big chaebols rule the world, corporate wars and the deterioration of the external environment have made the entire world perilous.
Some people say that after Mr. Pei has done so many things, it is unreasonable that no one assassinated him. How should I put this? The richest man's background is in a society governed by the rule of law. It would be too strange for such a thing as an assassin to appear. Not to mention whether it is reasonable or not, the style of painting is not quite 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, enough money is made and the goal is quickly achieved. The author doesn't know what else to write. Anything that's a little out of line will look very wrong and make it 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, and at most it was a business war. Waging a war of public opinion is too exciting to mention. We say we want to change the world, but no matter what, we will be restricted by the entire worldview.
It is difficult to push up conventional content.
Including why the richest man will no longer continue to write, and will not writeCars, rockets, chips, houses, etc.
On the one hand, it’s because I really don’t know much about these contents, and you may not be able to find them online. On the other hand, it’s also because I don’t know much about them. It is really difficult to write in this context. The urban setting is only suitable for writing content closely related to daily life. Once it is set too high, the plot will definitely collapse, because it is not grounded, and the writing is still restrained, and it is easy to run into danger.
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 purpose of the new book is 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 changes have been made to the background, which may sacrifice a little bit in the early stage, but I think this These are all 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 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 game field, we will try to imagine what future games will look like and what design rules they will have. In terms of business war, it will become more intense and have no bottom line. By then, it will no longer be just a fight online. This is not a false business war, but 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 similar ideological core, but the content, character settings and storyline have been greatly changed. Everything has been changed, including the motivation for counter-routine.
So everyone can still understand it as an urban theme, but it is 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.
If I have to say what the background is, it may be considered cyberpunk, but in fact it is just a bit like it. I only use a small amount of settings. In fact, I still write my own stuff.
I think 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, it has not been written to the top, and there is still a lot of room for improvement. , so I wanted to use this method to give it another shot.
The initial goal is still to make everyone happy and smile knowingly; in the middle and later stages, I hope to make steady progress, to be able to firmly support the fun points, and to write about the rich man's life due to the limitation of the subject matter. less than the content.
Everyone can seamlessly connect to new books. 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 them.
The new book period is only 20 days. It will be on the shelves on the 1st of next month. If the book is released today, it will be updated with 30,000 words. The new book period will basically be guaranteed.Ten thousand words are updated every day, and more will be added depending on the situation after it is put on the shelves. It may be maintained at a rate of 12,000 to 15,000 per day after it is put on the shelves, which is a rate of about 400,000 per month.
So 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, and everyone can just follow up and read it normally.
Don’t raise 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 "fine craftsmanship".
Some authors just can’t write fast, and they only write four or five thousand words a 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 complete. There has been a significant improvement, but on the contrary, I have stopped thinking.
I am quite confused. It seems that I can try both paths, but I have never found which one is more suitable.
Moreover, sometimes I write a piece of content carefully, but the response is mediocre, and many people say nothing. Sometimes I completely let myself go and wrote a word count of 12,300 words in a day. I also think that the plot is average, but the response is very good and I am full of praise.
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, I found that they were all reckless. Sometimes I don't think so much and just pile on the amount. , on the contrary, the written plot is not bad, 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 on it 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 criterion. The only criterion is the number of words per day and the number of plots promoted every day. The more you write, the better you write. many.
In addition, the book "The Richest Man" has greatly improved my ability in plot structure. The outline can be very detailed and accurate to the content of each chapter, and there are basically no updates. Worried that the plot will fall apart or collapse.
So for this book, I decided that one of the roads on the road to large quantity and full control has gone dark, and I will leave everything else aside for the time being, and first mention the amount of updates.
Of course, even though the amount of updates has been increased, 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 hydrological. 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 smoother to read. But as an author, many times it is not that I don’t want to read too much. When it comes to writing, I really have limited energy and can’t write.
So this time I will try to update more and advance the plot quickly., and in this process, I also squeezed my creative state to the extreme, 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 XXX book friends in every chapter. Additional update, I would like to say sorry to all the big guys who gave rewards.
So let’s work hard to increase the amount of updates. More updates is the best thank you to all readers. If I maintain 12,000 per day for several months, this will be a small matter, 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.
Again, I hope everyone will stop raising books and join me in seamless connection.
Old friends, until the new book is on the shelves, no one can 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.
Everyone, see you in the new book!