Some explanations about the style of this book and creative ideas
Make some complaints.
I always think that by now, when this book is written, everyone and I should have a tacit understanding.
That is, everyone knows what kind of story they expect to see, and I believe everyone is looking forward to it.
But now it’s 2.7 million words, and it’s been serialized for almost a year. I’ve also seen some people saying that there’s a lot of foreshadowing and the writing is slow… People who said this are you reading this book for the first time?
In order to pave the way for Hu Lai's professional football career, I wrote a full 700,000 words about campus football. In order to pave the way for his experience in the Chinese Super League, I wrote another 700,000 words about the Chinese Football League. In order to pave the way for him to go abroad to play football, I paved the way for a total of 2.2 million words...
It is my style and the style of this book to take the trouble to prepare and describe before important games.
You are still talking about the foreshadowing and the slow pace. Didn’t the more than two million words of foreshadowing and slow pace scare you away?
Before Hu Lai's first goal in the Premier League, I also spent a lot of pen and ink describing all aspects, and some people were impatient. But I insisted on writing because I knew it was necessary - I am the author of this book, I am the creator of this world, and I know which descriptions are necessary and which descriptions are unnecessary.
In fact, after a lot of preparation, the explosion and aftertaste of Hu Lai's Premier League debut became more attractive, and the effect was indeed very good, both in terms of quantity in this chapter and in terms of subscriptions.
So I know what's good and what's not.
To be honest, as an author who has written football novels for eighteen years, totaling more than 35 million words, I know how this book should be written:
This book has a slow pace and long foreshadowing style from the beginning. Use sufficiently delicate descriptions and brushstrokes to lead everyone and Hu Lai into a world that is different from the real football world. Therefore, unlike previous novels based on real-life football, I had no choice but to write about many things. I had to write them thoroughly. Because I am actually shaping a world.
Judging from Hu Lai's playing style, he is not the type who carries the ball everywhere and is everywhere, but a shadow killer. Naturally, we cannot focus all our words and perspectives on the protagonist. He must be divided into different parts. Give a lot of space to other characters.
For example, the previous chapter spent a lot of time describing the interaction between the club general managers on the rostrum. In fact, it can be said in one sentence: "At the same time, on the rostrum, general managers from various Chinese Super League clubs are also gathered together. "These general managers who have broken their heads in the league have never been so united as they are now."
Look, how many words can be saved to enter the competition...
But writing like this is not in line with the style of my book. Writing like this can only explain what happened on the rostrum, but it cannot take this opportunity to describe the personalities and ways of doing things of these people, and thus enrich the book. world. To me, this is an invalid description of real water.
In fact, when I wrote this paragraph, I was slower and more thoughtful, because I needed to completely construct such a stage in my mind, just like a movie scene, where everyone is, what they are saying, To whom, why did they say it, what is the meaning behind it...
Just like the beginning of the Godfather movie, through a wedding, the relationship between the characters is involved - I'm not saying that I wrote to the level of The Godfather, I just said that I hope that I try not to use that dry way when introducing the description. The explanatory text should be combined with the picture and have lens language.
Some characters need to be described many times before they can be successfully created, such as Hu Lai's father and Li Ziqiang.
Some characters I only need to describe one point of them. For example, the commentator who appeared when Zhang Qinghuan returned to Workers' Sports has no role in the show anymore, but he has become a part of this world.
These managers and narrators are just a few of the many characters I write about in my books, but they and countless others make up the world.
Only through the description of a large number of characters and plots other than the protagonist on and off the field can a believable and immersive world be formed.
This is why the book's initial performance was so poor. I felt very painful inside, but I still insisted on writing this book according to the established rhythm and planned pace.
Because if it were not written in this way, the book would be completely different and completely useless. Then I might as well write a simple and direct novice-style cool article from the beginning. Maybe the subscription score will be higher than this book...
But no.
Now that I have chosen to shape this book in my current style, I will stick to it consistently.
From the beginning to the end of this book, I will maintain this rhythm, tirelessly laying the groundwork before important games and events, and describing the people and things that make some people impatient.
If someone doesn't like this slow style, it's your right to remove it from the shelves and not read it. I can't and won't stop it, and I won't change it just to keep you. I spent 2.7 million on this book. A self-accumulated style.
This is my attitude and persistence as a creator.
Because I know that only in this way can the book "Fox in the Forbidden Zone" be written well, and Hu Lai's story and this world have a beginning and an end.
When this book is finished, in ten years, there will be people who are willing to read it over and over again and be moved by the people in the book and the stories that happened.
This is my ambition for this book. It has nothing to do with subscription results. I just want to give myself an explanation.
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The above is what I originally planned to say at the end of tomorrow's chapter update, but it turned out that there are too many words, almost 2,000 words. If I put it in the VIP chapter, it would be a scam. By then, many readers will probably shout: RNM Get your money back!
So I'll just open a separate chapter.
It just so happens that I haven't published a single chapter for a long time, so this is an opportunity to explain my thoughts and feelings in writing this book.
Anyway, that’s it. Whether you like it or not, I will stick to my style and rhythm to finish this book.
And I firmly believe that as long as I finish writing this story like this, the results will not be too bad.
Yes, I have this confidence.
I would like to add that this book is almost 3 million words long, and it is still so dynamic and vital that everyone is still looking forward to Hu Lai's future development. I think it is also the role of the slow-paced foreshadowing in the past. Otherwise, this book would have fallen into an infinite loop of "win the game, get slapped in the face and use the data".
What is the result of writing this way? The answer was already told to me in the later stage of my previous book "Greenery".
Finally, I wish you all a happy reading and a happy life. (End of chapter)